Designer Licensing Comparison
The tables below summarise Designer licensing limitations across the two release types, Starter and Full, and the three license types, Pro, X Series and server.
Refer to the table that matches the hardware you are running on.
Designer Starter and Designer Pro on your own hardware
Section titled “Designer Starter and Designer Pro on your own hardware”Designer Starter is for learning and exploring Designer. Designer Pro is for programming and pre-visualising projects that will run on a Disguise server. On your own hardware, both join a session as an Editor only.
| Capability | Designer Starter | Designer Full (Pro) |
|---|---|---|
| Can be a Director1 | ❌ | ❌ |
| Can be an Actor1 | ❌ | ❌ |
| Can be an Understudy1 | ❌ | ❌ |
| Can be an Editor1 | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Feed outputs are not watermarked | ❌ | ❌ |
| DMX outputs are not watermarked | ❌ | ❌ |
| Feed movies are not watermarked | ❌ | ❌ |
| Stage movies are not watermarked | ❌ | ✔️ |
| Feed movies max resolution | 2K (2160×2160) | 4K DCI (4096×2160) |
| Stage movies max resolution | 2K (2160×2160) | 4K DCI (4096×2160) |
| Get Designer | Download Starter | Purchase Pro |
Designer on a Disguise media server
Section titled “Designer on a Disguise media server”| Capability | Designer Starter (on media server) | Designer Full (issued with Server) |
|---|---|---|
| Can be a Director1 | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Can be an Actor1 | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Can be an Understudy1 | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Can be an Editor1 | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Feed outputs are not watermarked | ❌ | ✔️3 |
| DMX outputs are not watermarked | ❌ | ✔️ |
| Feed movies are not watermarked | ❌ | ✔️ |
| Stage movies are not watermarked | ❌ | ✔️ |
| Feed movies max resolution | 2K (2160×2160) | 4K DCI (4096×2160) |
| Stage movies max resolution | 2K (2160×2160) | 4K DCI (4096×2160) |
| Get Designer | Download Starter | Download Full |
Disguise X Series on your own hardware
Section titled “Disguise X Series on your own hardware”The X Series licenses differ in the number of video outputs and the input bandwidth they support, in the Designer version that introduced them, and in which of them can understudy each other.
For the full detail see Disguise X Series Licensing Features.
| Capability | X1 | X2 | X3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Can be a Director1 | ✔️2 | ✔️2 | ✔️2 |
| Can be an Actor1 | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Can be an Understudy1 | ✔️2 | ✔️2 | ✔️2 |
| Can be an Editor1 | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Feed outputs are not watermarked | ✔️3 | ✔️3 | ✔️3 |
| DMX outputs are not watermarked | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Feed movies are not watermarked | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Stage movies are not watermarked | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Feed movies max resolution | 4K DCI (4096×2160) | 4K DCI (4096×2160) | 4K DCI (4096×2160) |
| Stage movies max resolution | 4K DCI (4096×2160) | 4K DCI (4096×2160) | 4K DCI (4096×2160) |
| Max video outputs | 1× 4K DCI | 2× 4K DCI | 3× 4K DCI |
| Max video input bandwidth | 12 Gbps | 24 Gbps | 36 Gbps |
| Introduced in Designer version | r30.8 | r33.1 | r33.1 |
| Understudy must be | X1, X2 or X3 | X2 or X3 | X3 only |
| Get Designer | Download Full | Download Full | Download Full |