> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.verge.aero/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://docs.verge.aero/drone-show-software/verge-web-portal/shows.md).

# Shows

The **Shows** workspace is the heart of the Verge Web Portal. Every drone-show production gets its own Show, broken into one or more **Performances** (the individual flights), and tracked through a single canonical record that every collaborator — producers, designers, pilots, pyro coordinators, venue contacts, customers — can work against.

Because each Show has a [shareable public link](/drone-show-software/verge-web-portal/shows/storyboarding-and-previewing.md#sharing-a-show), coordination is genuinely cross-organizational: vendors and customers without a Verge account can open the show, comment on storyboards, watch the rendered preview, and complete the deadlines you've assigned to them — all without chasing email threads or shared drives.

This section is organised around the three phases of a production:

1. [**Creating and Rendering**](/drone-show-software/verge-web-portal/shows/creating-and-rendering.md) — how to spin up a new show, upload a `.packedshow`, and download the resulting `.vbake`, VVIZ, or Depence files.
2. [**Logistics, Collaboration, and Coordination**](/drone-show-software/verge-web-portal/shows/logistics-collaboration-and-coordination.md) — show metadata, venue, personnel, deadlines, file/link/contact management, and the cross-organisation workflows the portal automates around them.
3. [**Storyboarding and Previewing**](/drone-show-software/verge-web-portal/shows/storyboarding-and-previewing.md) — the storyboarding tool, share dialog, and shareable render previews that close the loop with customers and partners.

<figure><img src="/files/78xrsCMBY8qwRt6e1vqc" alt=""><figcaption><p>A Show's landing tab — the Show Details panel. From here every other surface (Venue, Personnel, Resources, each Performance) is one click away.</p></figcaption></figure>


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