• Introduction
• Quick start for audience
• Quick start for players
• UpStage
• About the project
• Team
• Get Involved
• Technical information
• About this manual
• Audience
• The role of the Audience
• Join a live cyberformance
• Chat
• Player
• Becoming a player
• Manage your Profile
• Backstage
• Create your own Stage
• Manage your Stage
• Customise your Stage
• Manage your Stage: Media
• Manage your Stage: Chat and Replays
• Manage your Stage : Scenes
• Enter your Stage
• How does the audience see your stage?
• Invite audience
• Media management
• Media in UpStage
• The Studio
• Creating Graphics for UpStage
• Creating Audio for UpStage
• Upload Media
• Modify Media
• Assign Media to your Stage
• Delete Media
• Player : Live Stage
• Enter a live Stage
• Quick overview of tools
• Who is here?
• Chat with the Audience
• Player Chat
• Player: Live Stage Tools
• Audio tool
• Backdrop tool
• Avatar tool
• Avatar Speech and Voices
• Avatar Animation
• Props tool
• Stream tool
• Live Drawing tool
• Object Drawing tool
• Text tool
• Depth tool
• Curtain
• Scenes
• Stage Settings
• Clickable links on stage
• Streaming
• Introduction to streaming
• Sending a stream
• Assign a stream to a stage
• Recording and Statistics
• Statistics
• Chat logs
• Replays
• Screen Recordings
• Admin
• UpStage administration
• Customise your Foyer
• Appendices
• Glossary
• Troubleshooting

Introduction

Welcome to the user manual for the new UpStage, rebuilt and relaunched in October 2021!

This manual is intended for anyone who wishes to create and present cyberformances (live online performances) using UpStage. There is also information for audiences, to help you have the best possible experience.

The first section, UpStage, provides a background to the platform, its history and community. There is some general technical information, and you can learn about the team and how to get involved in the UpStage community.

Tips for Audience are included in the next section; this is also useful for Players (artists, creators) to know what tools and possibilities the audience has in UpStage, and how your audience will experience your cyberformance.

UpStage users are known as Players, and this section explains how to create an account, manage your profile, and create your own live Stage.

The Media Management section describes how to upload and manage media including graphics, animations and audio files which can then be assigned to your stage to use in performances.

The Live Stage is where performances are created and presented; the first Live Stage section gives an overview of how the Stage functions, and the second Live Stage section explains the on-stage tools that allow real-time manipulation of your uploaded media as well as live drawing, live text and audio-visual streams.

There is a section dedicated to streaming, which explains how to optimise your stream and further explore the creative use of live streams.

Recording and Statistics explains how to record performances in UpStage, and the statistical information that is available during live performances.

The Admin section explains tools that are available to players with admin status, to manage other players and the configuration of the UpStage instance.

Lastly, the Appendices include a Glossary of terms and a Troubleshooting section.