Slides are the building blocks for your playlists, this is where you add all your content
Slides in Digital Signage are the building blocks for your playlists. Slides can contain a single image, or you can combine several images, videos, and plugins on a single slide. Slides can be interpreted as pages, just like in PowerPoint. Slides in Digital Signage are a part of your playlist, meaning any playlist has one or more slides with content.
You can access the slide options by pressing the pencil icon in the slide thumbnail.
What do the indicators mean?
Slide Transitions offer a smooth transition between two slides.
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Open the slide settings (Click the pencil on the slide preview).
In Entering transition choose a transition effect for the slide. You can choose between Random, Fade to black, Ken Burns, Bounce in, and a bunch of other cool transitions.
In Transition duration you choose how long the transition should last (0.3 – 7 seconds). The slide duration must always exceed the transition duration by 1 second. If your transition duration is 3 seconds, that means the slide has to be at least 4 seconds.
If the transitions are not smooth, there are 3 key factors that play a role when a transition is rendered:
Slide stash can be used to store your slides for later use.
Learn moreIf you already have image files you want to create slides from (say you uploaded a PowerPoint or PDF file), creating the slides one by one is very tedious.
Learn moreIn the editor, each object is represented as a layer in the layers tab. You can grab individual objects and drag them higher to bring them in front of other objects. Due to how the underlying technologies work, layering for a certain type of plugin can't be changed. For example, a website plugin renders on top of the canvas, as it is actually a separate window positioned above the canvas at specific coordinates.
It's also possible to lock or unlock individual objects in the layers tab. Read more on the locking support page.
Check out these articles to add background music in your playlist or individual slides, Background Music (Music from your library), and Live Streaming Radio.
Slide conditions are an advanced functionality to display individual slides at a specific time of day, within a time range, or on one or more specific players.
Learn moreBulk editing makes it easier to edit multiple slides in one action. For example, if you have multiple slides, where you want to change the slide duration, bulk edit is your tool.
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In the pop-up, you'll see a couple of actions
Note that the changes you make will affect all the selected slides
When you made your changes, click Save
In your profile, you have the option of setting default values for slide duration when adding a new slide, slide background color, and much more.
Learn moreSome objects are not part of the canvas when playing the slide in the player – often this is because of how web standards work, but in the case of a video and ticker plugin, it’s for performance optimization reasons. All the plugins: video, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, website, ticker, playlist, and MediaRSS are actually external applications that are positioned exactly over our application. For some plugins like video and tickers, you can actually update the setting “Always on top” to “No” if you want to position some elements above them, but beware that performance will likely suffer.
It’s possible to lose objects if you move them off the canvas and release the drag. If you see an exclamation mark next to an element in the editor, that means the element has been moved off the canvas. You can fix it by pressing the blue Center object button.
Animating elements requires rendering the canvas 24 times per second, as opposed to just 1 time per slide. The specifics come down to your player’s hardware acceleration support, but there are still a few things you can do to improve the playback. In general sliding animations (slide in left/right/top/bottom) require more resources than zooming, spinning, and fading animations. Therefore try experimenting with different animations and also increasing the animation duration will give the player more time to play the animation, thus making it smoother. Since the device needs to render the entire canvas for each frame of the animations, other items in the slide can also contribute to the slowness. If possible, try keeping the item count and complexity low, so the player has an easier time rendering other elements on the slide.
If your animations are still sluggish, then you can also consider creating the slides with animations in external software and exporting them as a movie file. For example, keynote on OSX supports exporting a presentation with animations as a video file.
If none of the tips work, and animations are a must for you, then you should look into upgrading to a mid-tier player device.
Computers will slow themselves down when they get hot in order not to overheat, therefore if you see the animation performance degrade, make sure that your device does not overheat!
If your slide is set to ‘Play forever’, then you can only set entrance animation effects as the slide will never end and exit.
Check out these articles to add background music in your playlist or individual slides, Background Music (Music from your library), and Live Streaming Radio.
Check out this articles to add Live Streaming Radio in your playlist or individual slides, Live Streaming Radio.
Yes, you can add a condition saying start at xx and stop at xx every day, and then add the screens you want the specific slide to play on.
Yes, check it out here; Bulk Edit
Most people think designing content for digital signage is super difficult, but if you can use Powerpoint, you can also create and design your own content in our editor.
