Media categories

Media management menus for both Playlists and Scenes include a number of Media categories. Some categories are common between both Playlists and Scenes, but some other ones are unique.

Common categories

Playlist specific categories

Scenes specific categories

Common categories

Media

Media includes anything you can show on screens — images, videos, and PDF presentations. These assets can be played directly on a screen or added into playlists/scenes for scheduled playback.

Apps

Apps are widgets that allow you to integrate additional content into your playlists or scenes to customize it further.

Playlists

Is handy to play more media files in a loop or to schedule the playback time of media files. With this you can create quite complex layout in just a few clicks.

Playlist specific categories

Scenes

Scenes allow you to design complex visuals, dynamic content and set up intricate multi-zone and multi layer layouts for your screens.

Scenes specific categories

Text

Allows you to create headers and text boxes and change text settings inside both. Click on Add heading and/or Add a body text and new boxes will appear on the right side of the screen.

After you click on the text box1 an editing menu2 will appear on the left side of the screen (instead of the Create buttons).

Text editor allows you to:

• Change text color
• Change text formatting (bold, italic, etc.)
• Change text alignment (to the left of the screen, in the middle middle, to the right)
• Change text font size. Use numerical values or the slider to adjust.
• Add and edit tables. Once you click on Tables, an extra set of settings will appear. They allow you to change border width and color, edit padding, add and remove rows and columns. Use numerical values or the slider to adjust.

Timing and position editor allows you to change how the text will be displayed relative to percentage and to aspect ratio. You can adjust X, Y, Width and Height using the corresponding boxes.

Shapes

Allow you to create Rectangles and Circles and change settings for both. Click on Add rectangle or Add circle and corresponding shapes will appear on the right side of the screen.

After you click on a shape1 an editing menu2 will appear on the left side of the screen (instead of Create buttons).

Background color allows you to:

• Choose Background type (Gradient or Fill)
• Change color of the shape and modify its gradient type.

Border settings editor allows you to change the size of the shape and change the shape of its borders using sliders.

Timing and position editor allows you to change how the text will be displayed relative to percentage and to aspect ratio. You can adjust X, Y, Width and Height using the corresponding boxes.

Layers

List all items in your scene and allows you to select and manage their placement in a scene, when Media files are on top of each other.

From the left panel1 you can also manage additional settings tied to a media (in order):

• Bring forward - this item will be displayed atop of all other items.
• Send to back - this item will be hidden/covered by all other items.
• Edit the item and open this item’s settings.
• Delete this item and all its contents.

Important note

Every Media layer (Media box) has an additional smaller menu atop of it. It lets you (in order):

• Change box's position -drag and drop the box to change its position.
• Duplicate the box and all its formatting.
• Delete the box and all its contents.
• Bring forward - this box will be displayed atop of all other boxes.
• Send to back - this box will be hidden/covered by all other boxes.