# ShowMotion training demo

The demo uses only procedural gradients and text; it needs no video, image or audio files. Open `ShowMotion-Training-Demo.smproj` through ShowMotion's project-open command. Import the companion `ShowMotion-Training-Grid.grid` and `ShowMotion-Training-Opening.smtl` through the Media file picker. After importing the Grid, open the Grid workspace, choose the **Grids** library tab, click **Refresh**, and select **Training — Event Looks**. Double-clicking the Grid in Media opens a generic preview and is not the editor workflow. For the Timeline use the Timeline workspace and its refreshed document list.

## Included

- Main Stage at 1920 × 1080 / 60 fps.
- Program: cyan/navy ShowMotion title composition.
- Preview: purple next-speaker composition.
- Original demonstration Stage geometry with its virtual-output mapping IDs retained.
- Event Grid: three generator layers, four columns and one group.
- Opening Timeline: three tracks, 30 seconds, marker at start and presenter pause at 20 seconds.

## Output state

The project contains virtual outputs only. All stored lighting universes are disabled and addressed to loopback. Redundancy and automatic AirPlay startup are disabled in the project.

ShowMotion stores physical and network output configurations globally: loading a project preserves those existing outputs. Before opening this training project on a show computer, stop or disable the existing live outputs in the application. The file does not claim to override global hardware configuration.

The training media documents are separate because .smproj files currently bundle settings and switcher presets rather than Timeline/Grid media documents. No private file paths or private network destinations are included. Original files were not changed.

## Typography revision

Text generators use independently sized text canvases. Their layers have aspect lock disabled and Fill mapping, so the generated texture is not incorrectly remapped using the background’s 16:9 ratio. If an older import looks horizontally compressed, reopen the updated project and reimport/refresh the companion documents.

## Optional conversion practice video

`media/Training-Test-Pattern.mp4` is a separate short test-pattern video for the conversion exercise. The project, Grid and Timeline do not require it. Import it through Media, follow the integrated conversion procedure in the manual, then compare the original with the suffixed converted file. Keep the result in a training folder and test it before using converted production media.