Multiview and Layouts

This page covers how you watch and arrange Studio: the Preview and Program monitors, Multiview, showing a picture on a display, the dock of panels and the layouts you can save.

Preview and Program monitors

Preview shows what you will take next, and Program shows what is on air. Each monitor has a title bar in its tally colour: green for Preview and red for Program. The same colours frame input tiles and Multiview cells, and the word is always shown too, so colour is never the only signal.

Multiview

Multiview is one picture that shows Preview and Program side by side on the top half and your inputs in rack order below. Each cell has the input number and name, a tally frame (green Preview, red Program) and an audio meter. It is made for a second monitor, a projector or an NDI receiver, so a crew can see everything without looking at the Studio window.

Pick how many input cells you want: 2 Inputs, 8 Inputs or 14 Inputs (Windows: 2 inputs, 8 inputs, 14 inputs). Multiview only renders while something shows it: the panel, a Multiview window, a display or its NDI output.

NDI needs the NDI runtime. Without it (not installed, or Windows on Arm, which has no NDI), Windows leaves NDI output out of the Multiview panel menu and dims Send as NDI in the Multiview window, with the reason as its tooltip. On macOS Send as NDI in the window's Send menu is dimmed. See Outputs.

The Multiview NDI source is named Cliqer Multiview. Showing Multiview on a display or sending it over NDI needs the Studio multiview output feature, see Plans and limits. Looking at the Multiview panel does not.

Multiview shown on a virtual screen is visible to a screen input or room share of that virtual screen. On a real display, the Multiview window stays out of every capture.

Multiview in its own window

Besides the panel and a display, a Multiview can be a window of its own. Multiview Window opens this numbered Multiview window with its own toolbar; Open in Window in the panel's header menu instead moves the Multiview panel itself into a window (see Panel windows). You can move the Multiview window to another display, resize it as large as you like, and it remembers where you left it on this computer. Cliqer opens it again with Studio if you left it open.

Several multiviews

Add as many as you need (up to eight). Multiviews in the window's toolbar has Add Multiview (Windows: Add multiview), Open Multiview and Open Multiview n for each one, and Remove Multiview n... (Multiview 1 always stays). Each has its own layout and cells, and its own window. Numbers never move: removing Multiview 3 leaves 2 and 4. Removing one asks you to confirm, and the core refuses while an output still shows it.

Cells lists each cell of the layout with the input it shows: Blank, or any input. Rack Order (Windows: Rack order) goes back to the inputs in the order of the input grid, which is the default.

Guides

Safe Areas (Windows: Safe areas) draws two rectangles over the picture: action safe (3.5% in from each edge) and graphics safe (5%), as in EBU R 95. Centre Cross marks the middle. They show on the Program and Preview monitors, the Multiview panel and every Multiview window, and they are never in an output. Switch them from the monitor menus or the Multiview window's toolbar; the setting is shared, so one switch covers all of them.

Scopes

Choose Waveform (brightness by picture column) or Vectorscope (colour) in a Multiview window to see a scope of Program beside the picture. Scopes are on the Studio and Enterprise plans; without them the scope pane says so (macOS: Scopes are not in your plan, so none is drawn. Windows: Scopes are not in your plan) and nothing is drawn. Sending a Multiview out (NDI or a display) needs the Studio multiview output feature too (Ultra, Studio and Enterprise plans and the free trial), and the controls are dimmed with a note when your plan lacks it. See Plans and limits.

Full screen on a display

Send a picture to any connected display, for example a projector or a confidence monitor. You can send Program, Preview, Multiview or a single input. Each one is a Display output: a row in the Outputs window, so it has a name, a source and an on switch like any other output.

Showing Multiview on a display needs the Studio multiview output feature; Program and Preview need nothing extra. See Plans and limits.

Meters

On macOS, level meters run from -60 to 0 dBFS. Green is below -18, amber from -18 to -6 and red above -6. The meter falls back at 26 dB per second and a thin line holds the peak for 1.5 seconds. A clip light latches for 2 seconds when the signal reaches full scale, and a click on a mixer meter clears it. Input tile meters are stereo and have no clip light. See Audio mixer.

Arranging the Studio window

The Studio window is a dock of panels. Move them, resize them, close the ones you do not need and save the arrangement as a layout.

Layouts

A layout stores which panels are open, where they are, which panels sit in their own windows and where those windows are, which panels are folded, the tile size and the order and width of the mixer strips. The last arrangement comes back the next time you open Studio, even if you never saved it.

Panel windows

Every panel can leave the Studio window and become a window of its own, for example to put the mixer on a second display. The bottom bar groups (macOS), the Outputs bar and Tools bar (Windows) and the Screens strip can too, and on macOS so can the Inspector. Windows has no inspector column, so there is no inspector to move there. A panel in a window keeps working: the mixer meters move and Multiview keeps showing.

• Tear out: drag the panel's header grip and let go outside the Studio window. The window opens where you let go, at the panel's docked size. Letting go inside the Studio window away from a drop target, or holding Escape while you let go, changes nothing.
• From a menu: Open in Window in the panel's header menu (... on macOS), or the panel's name in Window > Panel Windows, opens it as a window beside Studio. Panel Windows lists every panel, checked while it is in a window.

Bring a panel back in any of these ways:

• Drag its window's header grip onto an edge of a Studio panel. The usual drop preview shows where it lands.
• Double-click its header.
• Click the window's close button. Closing a panel window never hides the panel; use Close in its header menu for that.
• Dock in Studio in its header menu.
• Its name in Window > Panel Windows (it is checked while in a window).
• Window > Dock All Panels brings every window back at once.

The last panel docked in Studio always stays there, so the Studio window is never empty: tearing it out or opening it in a window leaves it docked.

Panel windows are part of the layout. Quitting keeps them as windows, and the next launch opens them where you left them. Save Layout As saves them with the layout, switching to Classic docks them, and switching back opens them again.

Fold panels

Fold a panel to make room for its neighbours. Click the fold chevron in its header: in a row the panel becomes a thin strip with its name reading bottom to top; in a column it becomes a header bar. The panels beside it take the space. Click the strip or double-click the header to unfold it. A folded panel window shrinks to its header and unfolding brings back its full size. The grip on a folded strip still drags the panel, out of the window too.

• Option-click (macOS) or Alt-click (Windows) a chevron to fold every panel, and again to unfold them all.
• Window > Collapse All Panels and Expand All Panels do the same, and are off when there is nothing to change.
• Collapse Panel and Expand Panel in a panel's header menu fold or unfold that panel.

Folds are saved with the layout and come back after a relaunch, for docked panels and panel windows alike.

Basic view

A smaller Studio for simple shows.

Lock

Lock freezes the controls that change what is on air, so a stray click or key cannot change the show.

• Frozen: Preview, Program, Cut, Quick Play, the transition buttons, the T-bar, Fade to Black, GO, stingers, overlays, loop, live pause and Pause Inputs. Pressing one shows a short "Locked" note.
• Still working: the audio mixer and everything that is not a take.
• On macOS, keyboard shortcuts bound in External Control are ignored while locked.

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