Disguise Designer vs Grid Studio

Disguise Designer creates a digital replica of a production environment for planning, visualising, sequencing, and controlling content. It supports pitch creation, camera fly-throughs, content validation, technical setup testing, and experience design. Its real-time 3D visualiser can represent productions in different codecs, resolutions, and colour spaces. Content mapping covers shaped LED screens, projectors, UV mapping, dynamic blends, and large projection canvases. Playback supports formats including NotchLC, ProRes, HAP, uncompressed codecs, image sequences, and local or remote HTML5 content. RenderStream integrates with Unreal Engine, Notch, Unity, TouchDesigner, and Volinga NeRFs. Multi-Edit enables simultaneous project editing, while Multi-Transport can run multiple timelines in response to external cues. Control options include DMX, SMPTE timecode, MIDI, OSC, FreeD, and named tracking systems. A free Starter plan supports learning, training, testing, and project development without connecting to Disguise servers; Pro costs $159/month. The user guide specifies 64-bit Windows 10 or 11 and DirectX 11.

Grid Studio is Stage Precision's technical programming GUI and low-code toolkit for building projects in the SP Grid ecosystem. Its visual node board links events, actions, logic, and dependencies; users can also work with GUI tools, visual scripting, and Python. A widget editor supports custom dashboards, using reusable widgets and built-in or custom assets, icons, images, and fonts. Stage Precision describes hundreds of supported device and protocol connections, with Python extensions available for connecting APIs or adding devices and functions. Example integrations include Dante Domain Manager, RossTalk Controller, Google Sheets, and Crestron DM NVX. Grid Studio can also be used to plan cameras and sensors in a 3D scene before hardware is mounted. The maker highlights automation, spatial tracking, virtual production, broadcast, and augmented reality workflows, alongside camera tracking, LED-stage, and greenscreen workflows. Projects can be built and tested for free, but deployment requires enough credits to clear data watermarks. Credit licenses are offered for three months, one year, or perpetually; perpetual credits include one year of updates and support. A credits license can be assigned to only one instance.