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1. Calendar was Four zones in schedule view opinetiX SA Rue des Terreaux 17 CH 1003 Lausanne Switzerland T 41 21 341 15 50 F 41 21 311 19 56 info spinetix com www spinetix com 16 a Add events to a schedule To add an event to a schedule e Open your schedule e Select the day or week view from the Management zone e Drag and drop the object you want to schedule into the editing zone of your calendar e Anew event will be added where the media was dropped e You can change the start and the duration of the event interactively by moving its position in the calendar e Clicking on an object makes it active and the management zone will reflect its contents e Dragging the handles on the top bottom of your event allows you to change its duration Event zone lets you fine tune the recurrence properties of your event if needed Any type of media animation video or image can be used in a calendar If you select multiple files in the browsing panel then all the files will be added one after when they are dropped 19 Deger 4 demo am calendar_default svg example ics media avi Inserting an object into a schedule Modify the scheduling properties of an event You can edit the properties of an event using the Event zone The following properties can be edited e URI of the event Link to the object This is filled automatically when you drop an object on to the ca
2. When authoring scalable content always pay attention to the aspect ratio the ratio between the horizontal and vertical size of the display To avoid aspect ratio distortions or black borders you should always author all content with the same aspect ratio of the target display Digital displays may offer different aspect ratios the most common are 4 3 and 16 9 To simplify the authoring with the right aspect ratio HMD comes with sets of templates for various commonly used aspect ratios You can always select custom and choose any aspect ratio When possible choose the aspect ratio corresponding to your displays or the content will look badly proportioned opinetiX SA Rue des Terreaux 17 CH 1003 Lausanne Switzerland T 41 21 341 15 50 F 41 21 311 19 56 info spinetix com www spinetix com 19 ED If the same content will be displayed on monitors with different aspect ratios the output will be adjusted to preserve the aspect ratio Using 16 9 templates on a 4 3 screen The content is displayed using black borders on top and bottom 12890 z 72b BH Vil w e Using 4 3 templates on a 16 9 screen The content will be displayed using black border on left and right i024 x 768 E IT Um MP If you use fit templates the content will be scaled to fit the whole screen regardless of its aspect ratio This will introduce distortions that may be noticed according to the content nature e
3. 0 For more complex rules expand the Advanced section of the dialog O Occurence number is sunday oP ok A Cancel SpinetiX SA Rue des Terreaux 17 CH 1003 Lausanne Switzerland T 41 21 341 15 50 F 41 21 311 19 56 info spinetix com www spinetix com 18 a Preview scheduled content HMD allows the user to preview scheduled content at a specific date or time This is useful to check in advance what will be displayed in future To preview scheduled content at a specific date or time use the clock and calendar above the preview panel Kim gt 8 Fa 0 00 05 0 00 06 4 583 o 3 10 ae 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 e When the date or time is modified the locked clock icon is toggled indicating that the document currently shown in the preview area is not using the local time e This is a persistent setting and will remain toggled across other documents you open e Click the locked time icon again to change back the time to the local time as per the PC clock ocalable content and aspect ratio of your display The HMP natively supports the SVG language SVG is scalable so the graphics are rendered on the fly according to the resolution supported by the display This guarantees perfect rendering for text and graphics whatever the resolution of the display Note that raster images and video which are not SVG objects will also be scaled but the quality will change accordingly
4. Device ID j001d50100888 IP Address 192 168 3 1 Type HMP200 amp Password protected User name content Password ok AX Cancel Dialog Manual device add Check the status of the devices HMD will re check the status of the devices available in My Devices each time the refresh button is pressed e device has been discovered automatically by the Bonjour protocol it is then available It will be shown with one of three icons o Normal mode A green tick is displayed over the icon o Safe mode A warning symbol is displayed over the icon o Recovery mode A first aid cross is shown on top of the unit WebDAV server is reachable a green tick is shown over the icon lf a WebDAV server cannot be reached the red cross is shown E LS II T m ast v i ER D01d5000001 x 001d500000fa 001450000146 00195000003 001 850000039 Icons left to right auto discovered safe mode recovery mode manually added and unreachable To get more feedbacks about an HMP use its HTTP management interface Right click on an HMP icon and select Manage from the right click menu this will directly open your preferred web browser at the device s HTTP page Ue Devices rm Open show Device e Manage 3 Show Content G Delete Demoserver publis Rename Update metadata My Devices context menu SpinetiX SA Rue des Terreaux 17 CH 1003 Lausanne Switzerlan
5. Revision November 201 1 Hyper Media Director welcome to SpinetiX Switzerland 09 08 31 ay February 13 2009 Frid Disclaimer THE SPECIFICATIONS AND INFORMATION REGARDING THE PRODUCTS IN THIS MANUAL ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE ALL STATEMENTS INFORMATION AND RECOMMENDATIONS IN THIS MANUAL ARE BELIEVED TO BE ACCURATE BUT ARE PRESENTED WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND EXPRESS OR IMPLIED USERS MUST TAKE FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEIR APPLICATION OF ANY PRODUCTS THE SOFTWARE LICENSE AND LIMITED WARRANTY FOR THE ACCOMPANYING PRODUCT ARE SET FORTH IN THE INFORMATION PACKET THAT IS SHIPPED WITH THE PRODUCT AND ARE INCORPORATED HEREIN BY THIS REFERENCE IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO LOCATE THE SOFTWARE LICENSE OR LIMITED WARRANTY CONTACT YOUR SPINETIX REPRESENTATIVE FOR A COPY NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER WARRANTY HEREIN ALL DOCUMENT FILES AND SOFTWARE OF THESE SUPPLIERS ARE PROVIDED AS IS WITH ALL FAULTS SPINETIX DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION THOSE OF MERCHANTABILITY FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT OR ARISING FROM A COURSE OF DEALING USAGE OR TRADE PRACTICE IN NO EVENT SHALL SPINETIX OR ITS SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT SPECIAL CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION LOST PROFITS OR LOSS OR DAMAGE TO DATA ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THIS MANUAL EVEN IF SPINETIX OR ITS SUPPLIERS HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE
6. m 0 00 02 hy EEOOOOEm m m m 1 7 1 Custom text Multi layer document opinetiX SA Rue des Terreaux 17 CH 1003 Lausanne Switzerland T 41 21 341 15 50 F 41 21 311 19 56 info spinetix com www spinetix com 29 Playlist template Multi layer SVG documents are useful for spatial layout of objects Sometimes it is necessary to play objects one after another in a slideshow style for this a playlist template is provided The simplest way to create a new playlist is by right clicking the browsing panel and selecting New Playlist The playlist template allows you to arrange a sequence of objects video images texts multi layer documents Each media will be played one after the other in the order determined by the user the arrangement being temporal rather than spatial Composing a playlist SVG document in 5 steps 1 Right click in the browsing area and select New Playlist Open the file 2 Inthe Properties tab you can customize some basic settings of the playlist such as maximum slide duration document size and transition time between slides 3 compose your playlist open the Playlist tab and drag and drop single files or groups of files from the browsing area into the Playlist tab The files will be added and shown in the Playlist tab 4
7. sssseen nennen 7 Hyper Media Director Usage SCEMAMOS sseseasaxasaxa ta visa as aa vasa ada gra aa E TAURI FER CR LG LA EVA REA dA 7 FV BG VGC POG 8 UU UU Um 9 PORN multimedia 5 atenta dtd de rd dtt one ettet vette et 9 Creating and Editing SVG NN 10 Editan existing SVG CO WN GN 10 Layers dnd PT VILSPEOD seis aeS ae AEAT ENTAMAR TARE ANRE Eai 11 ECG i 13 Editing Media elements 13 mis OPI A A E eee 14 zt Eo EEE EE EEE EEEE T T T FT T E 15 S DITS PTT E ERE E AE PEE A EEE 15 Quick steps to creating a schedule for media ssseennnnn nmn nnne nennen nennen 15 Se ERE US NE 16 Ada venie 17 Modify the scheduling properties of an 17 Define default events and recurrences eeesssssssssssseseseeeeeeneeeeennnnmnnnnnnnnnnnnrnnrrrrrrrrrr nnn nnne nnne 18 Preview scheduled Sa SEIETESZTEISTFSAYEETYYTYYZYYYATYYTYIaTEEEbERUbwPNREF RE da Ga a a Rena GU HR a Ra 19 scalable content and aspec
8. The Layers tab allows you to add or remove layers of media in your document The following operations are possible e Add a new media layer drag and drop any object from the browsing panel to the Layer tab of the editing panel The new media will be linked automatically to your document e Add a new text layer using the ir icon in the preview panel or the right click menu e Delete an existing layer using the right click menu or delete key e Change order of the layers Use shortcuts Ctrl up Ctrl down or manually drag and drop e Position scale skew and rotate the new media in the preview panel Each layer position and size can be edited on the Preview panel as described in Interactive editing Multimedia effects can be added to any object as described in Multimedia effects Example A typical document will be composed of a background image the first layer and a combination of objects to create the complete scene For instance the following example is composed of four layers e A background image e video on the left of the preview e Some text on the bottom e An audio file not shown on the preview 1329512 17 03 2009 PE e Ye 0 00 04 Save Revert Close Layers image pg 4 image jpeg IHk FzA 225 54 PLI Id LIE BCU TIE md a i THi 23D UM EZ TURIS audio mpeg 0 02 00 Custom text Text Le
9. 21 341 1550 F 41 21 311 19 56 info spinetix com www spinetix com 14 EB Replacing a current object can be avoided by keeping the CTRL key pressed This will instead add the new object with fresh properties The mouse cursor will also change to indicate this Editing Text Text content can be edited directly in the preview window by double clicking the object a cursor will appear and the menu above the preview panel will change to allow modification of font style color and size Arial A B I ABAZ Font Color Bald Caps Grow Shrink 1 Ca Sample Text i Doubleclick to edit or use 7 the properties tab the right r t Text elements being edited individually within a single layer ocheduling Hyper Media Players natively support the iCalendar scheduling format to control when content is to be displayed Hyper Media Director allows you to place any object into an intuitive calendar interface and apply simple and complex schedules The scheduling interface is similar to those commonly used by tools such as Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes Each event added has a URI pointing to an object that can be either local or remote Events can be recurring rules for example to schedule particular images to be displayed twice per week on Monday and Friday between 9 00AM and 10 00AM exactly HMD saves the schedule into a standard iCalendar file This file has the extension ics and can be nested into a project just lik
10. Customize your playlist by changing the order of the files in the Playlist tab and by changing the duration of individual media using the icon Apply your changes to preview them in the Preview area The playlist template allows similar properties for each playlist item as there are properties for each layer in a multilayer document 5 Save the final playlist How to customize a playlist SVG document The playlist template has built in options accessible via the Properties tab e Background Fill specifies the color of the background Can be set to none to indicate a transparent background e Slide Duration specifies the maximum duration of one playlist item If an item is longer than this duration it will be stopped before the end e Default Slide Duration specifies the default duration of one playlist item if the object doesn t have a built in duration e g images e Enable Looping specifies whether the playlist should loop when the last item has been played e Slide Duration specifies the interval between objects If set to a value different than zero the background will be shown during this amount of time after each playlist item e Default Transition o Type of transition between the slides The following transitions can be selected none no transition between each media This is equivalent to a scene cut fade the new slide fades in while the old slide fades out fly the new slide flies in wh
11. POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES SpinetiX and HMP Hyper Media Player are registered trademarks and all logo and graphic designs are trademarks of SpinetiX S A Other product and company names appearing in SpinetiX S A products and materials are used for identification purposes only and may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies Registered and unregistered trademarks used in any SpinetiX S A products and materials are the exclusive property of their respective owners End User Software License Agreement and Hardware Limited Warranty Agreement The SpinetiX End User Software License Agreement and Hardware Limited Warranty Agreement can be found under http www spinetix com lega SpinetiX SA Rue des Terreaux 17 CH 1003 Lausanne Switzerland T 41 21 341 15 50 F 41 21 311 19 56 info spinetix com www spinetix com 2 Table of Contents IGP OCG HOW e 4 RECS MERIT 4 Support Wiki au EE 5 How to get Hyper Media DIFGCIOE iissessvviseviserninveirivnn ien eren rr FPIEPE PIE EP e etd docldeadccdendecdadecdandecden decided 5 Introduction to the Graphical User Interface sssssee nnne nennen nnne 5 ES E 1 igale Te e NR ER A ROREM 7 What can you do with Hyper Media Director authoring features
12. bref moda defaulticon svg fie playlest php index svg HMP Device Properties SpinetiX SA Rue des Terreaux 17 CH 1003 Lausanne Switzerland T 41 21 341 1550 41 21 311 19 56 info spinetix com www spinetix com 36 Previewing Preview your Hyper Media Project as it will be played on the HMP To explore and preview a specific hyper media project open the My Projects folder and simply double click its icon This will open a new view tab in the browsing area of HMD The name of the view is the name of the project You can preview the selected hyper media project directly with HMD by opening the index svg file The content will start playing in the Preview area of HMD You can pause the presentation at any time and interactively navigate with the timeline In addition to the index svg file media elements scripts etc can exist in child folders of the project The index file is used as a root reference for all these media elements and to schedule when they will be played You can also individually open the other media elements The preview and editing panel will change according to the document you have opened In the image below the project Demo 20p has been opened in the browsing panel and HMD has created a new view tab Demo 20p ap project Demo 0p Y mi My Projects 20 i a DarkKnight Rolex spinetix Index svg slides svqx New project tab opinetiX
13. media e Dur duration of the effect e Color Some effects have a configurable color which can be controlled using this parameter selecting an effect and pressing the trashcan icon will remove the effect opinetiX SA Rue des Terreaux 17 CH 1003 Lausanne Switzerland T 41 21 341 1550 F 41 21 311 19 56 info spinetix com www spinetix com 31 a Publishing Publishing as simple as a drag and drop To publish manually a project to a device do the following e Open My Devices in a first tab Identify the HMP on which you want to publish e Open My Projects in a second tab e Drag and drop the project you want to copy to the device you want to update Hovering over the My Devices tab while the mouse button is held down will cause the tab to be opened This publish action will copy an entire new project to an HMP or reconcile an existing project Any modified files will be updated with newer version new files will be added and existing files on the HMP that are no longer in the project will be deleted Note that publishing might take some time depending on the size of your project and the speed of the network 4 Spx a My Projects ce Devices gH v Mew collection Biuag O01 50000026 v x 001 450000033 001450000066 4 Server Drag and drop publishing Using quick publish Once a project has been published manually to device it can be published again us
14. text and animations on the same scene Composing a scene in 4 steps 1 Right click in the browsing area and select New SVG to create a new file and set its basic properties Double click on the file to open it with HMD Add objects or text to your scene using one of the following options o Drag and drop the object into the Layers tab of the Editing panel o Drag and drop the object into the Preview panel If the cursor doesn t show the sign hold the CTRL key while dropping the media o Press the Tr icon on top of the Preview panel to create a new text layer Modify the object o Modify the depth position moving up or down the media in the list of media appearing in the Layers tab Use shortcuts Ctrl up Ctri down o Use the Preview panel to interactively position scale skew and rotate the new object see Interactive Editing for more details o Add entry and exit effects to objects see Multimedia effects for more details save your document Close New document 16 9 Default Aspect Ratio xMidYMid Properties Layers XML Tree WebDAV Typical multi layer properties tab For information on these options check the Support Wiki opinetiX SA Rue des Terreaux 17 CH 1003 Lausanne Switzerland T 41 21 341 1550 F 41 21 311 19 56 info spinetix com www spinetix com 22 In addition to the properties tab the multi layer document also implements Layers tab in the editing Support Wiki keyword panel HMD Templates
15. An example of content with a real aspect ratio of 16 9 which is fitted to a 4 3 display ET HN opinetiX SA Rue des Terreaux 17 CH 1003 Lausanne Switzerland T 41 21 341 15 50 F 41 21 311 19 56 info spinetix com www spinetix com 20 tu Gi MI e An example of content with a real aspect ratio of 4 3 which is fitted to a 16 9 display ET D Note that in may change aspect ratio of the preview panel by sliding its horizontal and vertical dimensions When previewing SVG content HMD will behave in the same way as an HMP in terms of aspect ratio adjustments opinetiX SA Rue des Terreaux 17 CH 1003 Lausanne Switzerland T 41 21 341 1550 F 41 21 311 19 56 info spinetix com www spinetix com 21 a Templates HMD comes with a set of prepared templates in order to get you started faster User can edit or adapt these templates according to their needs Multi layer SVG templates By default each time you create a new SVG document by right clicking the browsing panel selecting New SVG and the aspect ratio creates a new file based on the multi layer SVG template The Multi layer SVG template simplifies the task of composing a scene using HMD With this document you can interactively add position scale skew and rotate multiple objects including video clips images
16. SA Rue des Terreaux 17 CH 1003 Lausanne Switzerland T 41 21 341 15 50 F 41 21 311 19 56 info spinetix com www spinetix com 37 Previewing Hyper Media content The Hyper Media content previewed in HMD will look exactly the same as when displayed on an HMP The preview feature of HMD can thus be used as a Sandbox to check the look of your project before publishing on the device One slight difference between HMD and an HMP is the display background A transparent background will be represented by a checkerboard on HMD whereas an HMP will show transparency as black The Coffee clipart as shown on HMD The Coffee clipart as shown on an HMP opinetiX SA Rue des Terreaux 17 CH 1003 Lausanne Switzerland T 41 21 341 1550 41 21 311 19 56 info spinetix com www spinetix com 30
17. This section discusses templates designed to retrieve RSS content We call these templates news templates RSS is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries news headlines and podcasts RSS documents are XML documents with specific structure and tags which can be retrieved from the Internet or other network locations The news templates instruct the HMP unit to extract data from remote RSS files and map the data to a specific layout in the project Fonts and styles can also be applied Note that the news templates can also use XML Text CSV or iCalendar files as data sources Few examples of templates are suggested that display the text on the screen according to predefined graphical layouts All the templates can be found under the My Templates folder after HMD installation News templates Template name gt Description Display news from RSS XML Text CSV or iCalendar in a formatted manner news sv dun J Supports single or multiple items per page news ticker svg Display news text in a scrolling banner left right or top bottom news crawler svg iso formatted news using scrolling left right or top bottom also displays The following templates can be used in conjunction with the above new templates to help order and position text more neatly Helper name Description bouncing text svg Text too large to be displayed will bounce left to right or top to bottom fit t
18. Windows explorer via a standard drag and drop When HMD imports a file it makes a copy in the project folder It will also check the file for compatibility and either convert scale or reject the file If it is rejected e g a video which is out of spec for the target HMP then HMD will give an explanation of the incompatibility Whenever possible use the above procedures when building your Hyper Media Project Bypassing the Support Wiki keyword checks made by HMD could result in unpredictable behavior when the file s are published to the HMP File Import opinetiX SA Rue des Terreaux 17 CH 1003 Lausanne Switzerland T 41 21 341 15 50 F 41 21 311 19 56 info spinetix com www spinetix com 9 a Creating and Editing SVG files To create a new SVG document right click the browsing panel and click New SVG file HMD will ask for the name of the new document and the aspect ratio Choosing custom will enable the fields to enter a specific resolution Note that resolution is only important for positioning Because HMD builds content using Scalable Vector Graphics content will always be scaled appropriately The aspect ratio is important and difficult to change later without having to redesign some areas of your project New SVG File Format 16 9 New SVG file dialog HMD provides a set of pre defined SVG documents called templates You can find these templates under the Collection My Templates in the default Work
19. XML knowledge being required opinetiX SA Rue des Terreaux 17 CH 1003 Lausanne Switzerland T 41 21 341 15 50 F 41 21 311 19 56 info spinetix com www spinetix com 10 e g Jo X Close Title News Description Click on the edit mode button to op PELA MM MM ac LEST ee E EE a m ceca EE E E EE BK EE innu dM M IE EE We comes Mi cer ur cr a ET IAN a ee b Multiple items Properties Layers Inline RSS XML Tree WebDAV The properties tab Layers and Playlist tab In addition to the Properties tab templates may implement other tabs Layers present in all multilayer SVG templates shows the objects referenced in the SVG file and their order of stacking in the preview window Playlist used in SVG templates which show objects one after another in a slideshow Inline RSS Present in any news templates used for adding source data to be displayed Other template specific tabs may also be shown Each Layers or Playlist item displays a common set of properties Either a local URI e g video avi or an absolute URI if the resource is on a remote server Text layers do not have a URI as the text is specified directly in the layer properties The MIME type of the object e g image svg xml Total duration the object should be shown A looping symbol is added to the layer or playlist item if the repeat count is 1 or higher The begin time is shown only if t
20. ain layers You may decide to remove the existing layers and leave the ics layer only or decide to combine your schedule with a background image or other layer index svg This would result in the background image being displayed all the time and only the scheduled content only at the appropriate times The scheduler can be dropped into a multilayer document or a playlist as with any other object New Project _ E New SVG index svg New ics New Playlist New Schedule New Collection Upload Create new Schedule Open a schedule Double click the schedule document ics to open the Calendar view in the editing panel Note that the Calendar view uses the local time settings of your PC The Calendar view is organized into 4 zones shown in the next graphic e Management zone red Change the time frame displayed in the Editing zone You can choose between day week month and year From this zone you can also create a new empty event e Calendar zone green Select the exact day or other period to be shown e Event zone blue Precisely control the start and duration of an event and its recurrence e Editing zone yellow View and edit the events in your schedule Different time scales can be selected from the Management zone Use the month and year view to have an overview of your schedule lodi n isa ics ii e E HH v x Close Dwcembw tam Mon Ter Wiad Thu Fr Suh
21. an automatically scan for devices installed on your network and monitor their individual status Scheduling Hyper Media projects Hyper Media Director offers a familiar intuitive interface to schedule the occasions when content is to be played Content can be scheduled at an exact time or with certain recurrence Support for multiple time zones is natively integrated so that you can schedule content across the world Previewing Hyper Media content Hyper Media Director integrates a real time hyper media rendering engine featuring support for the SVG tiny 1 2 standard SMIL and most video and image formats The hyper media content can be interactively previewed to validate each authoring change before publication on an HMP opinetiX SA Rue des Terreaux 17 CH 1003 Lausanne Switzerland T 41 21 341 15 50 F 41 21 311 19 56 info spinetix com www spinetix com 4 a support Wiki keywords Information which is likely to change regularly is published and updated on our Support Wiki at Support Wiki keyword http support spinetix com If a particular section has more information on the Support Wiki it is Keyword illustrated by a banner and a keyword to find the content How to get Hyper Media Director The latest version of Hyper Media Director is always available for download http www spinetix com go hmd Once downloaded on your PC running Windows XP Vista or Windows 7 all components are installed Support Wiki keyword with a
22. atically ada devices 33 Manually add devices to 0 cece 34 Be eue EMEN ETE o rom 35 BURTON 36 iL E zl MN EAEE 37 PREVIEWING Hyper Media 38 opinetiX SA Rue des Terreaux 17 1003 Lausanne Switzerland T 41 21 341 15 50 F 41 21 311 19 56 info spinetix com www spinetix com 3 EB Introduction Hyper Media Director HMD is a software application developed by SpinetiX to simplify the implementation and daily management of digital signage projects on the HMP range of devices It allows for authoring previewing scheduling and publishing of hypermedia content Designed for use across a range of market verticals and digital signage settings including advertising information displays way finding emergency systems and video walls Hyper Media Director provides a simple drag and drop interface to manage content whether on a single HMP device or a large distributed network of several players This manual focuses on five main features of Hyper Media Director each is identified by a special icon that will help you navigate this document Each feature is described by a set of chapters that focus on specific subjects This manual is updated regularly but for up to the minute news and information about improved features check the SpinetiX website at http www spinetix com and for detailed technical informatio
23. d T 41 21 341 15 50 F 41 21 311 19 56 info spinetix com www spinetix com 39 Open a device Double clicking a device or a WebDAV server opens a new tab displaying its contents Device properties will also be shown in the right hand panel Do not modify this information as it is required for HMD to communicate properly with the device By pressing the camera preview icon above the preview window you can view a snapshot of the current screen output of the HMP The preview is automatically updated every 30s and is the same image as shown in the snapshot page of the web interface You can also directly edit the content on the device using HMD and manipulate files and folders however we recommended using the Publish feature to ensure the local and remote copies of content are mirrored Fa i TTT ye O E EE aa E E En n n no lt lt 1 4 1444 lt 1 D a cc Fe Settings Meip 1 12 105 Hn t J x OT Os 0 00 01 1 Close day getetag dav retourcetype dav getlastmodited src hel Mttp spx hmp 001d5000018b local 81 vena 001250000 10b toe mimetype spx device spip spx hmp 001d5000018b lo c al sox device type EMBEDDED PLAYER sex device model MMP100 sguc rmwa 2 2 3 1 0 13932 tex shagshot hreef http spx hmp 001d500001tb local snapshot snapshot php spx manage href http spx hmp 001d5000018b local tex prewew
24. d by the beginning of the multimedia file They are located My Templates effects in e Exit effects are trigged by the end of the multimedia file They are located in My Templates effects out These effects are based on features built into SVG and can be customized freely Within some knowledge of SVG syntax you can design new set of effects Configuring effects Once effects have been added to an object the properties dialog for the item will look like this Media description URI Alaska Begin 0 00 Duration 5s Opacity 11 00 gt b Mare Effect Trigger Offset Dur Color Fade in begin Us 1s Enlarge out end 1s 1s ok Cancel Item Layer properties showing effects The Effect list allows you to remove or to customize effects It is possible to modify the following parameters e Effect The name of the effect cannot be modified this dialog opinetiX SA Rue des Terreaux 17 CH 1003 Lausanne Switzerland T 41 21 341 1550 F 41 21 311 19 56 info spinetix com www spinetix com 30 a e Trigger Whether the effect takes place at the beginning or at the end of the object s duration This parameter is automatically set by HMD when dropping an effect file unto a media element e Offset delay between the beginning end of the media and the beginning of the effect For exit effects the offset is generally equal to the negative value of the effect duration so that the effect finishes with the
25. e expand the More item e MIME type The type of the object This should be detected correctly by HMD and normally not need to be modified e Preserve aspect ratio Controls if the aspect ratio of the object should be preserved when manipulated in the preview windows e Lock mouse editing when selected the interactive editing for this layer is disabled This is useful when working with many layers e Tag for accounting When enabled the opening and closing time of this object will be logged in the dedicated accounting log files e visibility When enabled the first frame of the object will be visible but not animated before beginning any animation Freeze last frame When enabled the object will be visible but freeze after the last frame is played e Repeat To display the object more than once enable this option o Count The number of times the object should be repeated o Maxdur The duration of the repetition in seconds e Size Specify the dimensions of the object H Media description EJ Gs ppa ONY Begin 0 00 00 Duration indefinite Opacity 1 00 More Mime type auo 1 amp Preserve aspect ratio Lock mouse editing O Tag for accounting O Initial visibility Freeze last frame Repeat lo width Hegh Cancel Layer properties with expanded Note e f want your media to repeat forever you should enable Repeat wit
26. e any SVG file or other object This allows for a flexible combination of full screen content with one schedule but specific elements in the scene having their own independent schedule Quick steps to creating a schedule for media Any Hyper Media project See Authoring section created in HMD will include a master file named index svg The following steps show how to create scheduled content for display on an HMP at a specific time and insert it into the master index svg file e ocreate a new schedule document in your project right click the browsing area in your project and select New Schedule e Open the new ics file HMD will display in the Editing panel a calendar view where you can select the current day week month See Open a new schedule e Drag and drop from the browsing panel of your Hyper Media project the object s you want to schedule into the calendar view in the Editing panel As with any schedule appointment define the start duration of each object and its recurrence See Add events to a schedule e Repeatthe previous step for each object you want to schedule and save your changes opinetiX SA Rue des Terreaux 17 CH 1003 Lausanne Switzerland T 41 21 341 1550 F 41 21 311 19 56 info spinetix com www spinetix com 15 a e Open the index svg file of your Hyper Media project Drag and drop the new ics file as a new layer into your index svg file Save your changes Note that index svg may already cont
27. e g Adobe Illustrator as well as comprehensive open source solutions such as InkScape which is available for free These are ideal tools for the authoring of the graphical assets of your application templates layout masks custom animations etc For graphical i e non vector content Adobe Photoshop JASC Paint Shop Pro and similar applications will save natively into formats that can be imported into HMD Hyper Media Director is not designed to replace these dedicated tools Instead HMD is a simple application geared towards digital signage specific uses and sits as middleware between your existing design workflow and your network of Hyper Media Players What can you do with Hyper Media Director authoring features e Combine an image background with text videos animations and images e Customize imported media elements control their position in the scene font properties color opacity and transparency e Add and edit text areas with background colors and borders e Change the order of scene layers to progressively build a project from multiple overlapping objects e Apply animations effects e Create ordered playlists of mixed media types Hyper Media Director usage scenarios e You are managing the digital signage of a restaurant You already have the pictures of your special menus your logo and few advertising video clips Use Hyper Media Director to import and position your media assets on the same slide Next type your menu
28. e timeline and date time simulator here allow you to shuttle through your content and preview in advance e Browsing panel is used to browse local or remote locations much like Windows Explorer By default it opens the Workspace view containing the following three folders o My Devices Access the Hyper Media Players installed on your network HMD uses a separate service to automatically detect devices described in more detail later o My Projects Organize and open the projects that you will publish on HMPs By right clicking project folders you can access standard file actions such as rename and delete o Templates Various Hyper Media templates are included with HMD to help you get started with creating projects They can be imported into your project and customized to apply animations connect RSSs control peripherals and much more e Editing panel This panel changes according to the content currently opened It uses a familiar layer based layout calendar or ordered slideshow to arrange objects within SVG files e Status Bar Shows progress information about pending actions The window size can be adapted to the size of your monitor However a minimum size is required to guarantee the interface works correctly The size of the three panels in the interface can be adapted use the handles between the sections to drag their relative dimension You can enforce a predefined aspect ratio for the preview window or select a vertical la
29. ext svg Text in this template will adapt to the area available date time svg Display the date time with various formatting options switch svg Display a different object depending on the content of some of the source data Composing a live news document e Copy anew news template from My Templates News into your project by dragging and dropping e Open the new copy of the template On the properties tab add your desired news source using the RSS Feed Source entry type the URL of the RSS news to use an external news feed e Customizing the display of your news source is slightly different when using a news template over working with normal text layers You must switch into edit mode to see the placeholders for the layout of the news fields o Press the editing button above the preview window o You can move resize existing text media box in the preview panel in the normal manner o Editing the text box content The SPX title and SPX description fields are placeholders and will be replaced by the content of the RSS news opinetiX SA Rue des Terreaux 17 CH 1003 Lausanne Switzerland T 41 21 341 15 50 F 41 21 311 19 56 info spinetix com www spinetix com 27 a e Customize the settings of your news source using the Properties tab o Feed Type should be set according to the encoding of the source XML RSS CSV etc o Update Policy controls when the feeds should be updated Support Wiki keyword Data feeds Customizing
30. f there is no booking The switch template can be used to highlight the free room opinetiX SA Rue des Terreaux 17 CH 1003 Lausanne Switzerland T 41 21 341 15 50 F 41 21 311 19 56 info spinetix com www spinetix com 29 Multimedia effects Adding effects HMD comes with a number of effects templates that you can find under My Templates Effects These effects can be applied to objects such as images text or video Effects will animate either how the media appears in the scene entry effects or how it disappears exit effects HMD makes it easy to apply effects to existing objects e Open a document that contains an object such as a multi layer SVG containing a photo e Drag and drop one of the effects file from My Templates Effects directly into the object on the preview panel in the same way you would if you were replacing the object with a new object e You can also drop the effect onto the item in the editing panel Be careful to drop the effect over the item and not above or below Once an effect has been added to an object it can be configured using the media editing dialog The editing panel will show a star icon next to the button of the media property to indicate that one or more effects have been added to the object To remove the effect use the right click menu on the object in the preview window and select Remove Effect at End At Begin There are two types of effects e Entry effects are trigge
31. g Properties Layers inbne RSS XML Tree WebDAV Drag and drop new content into Preview Area bouncing text svg If the text is too large to be displayed in the text box area then the text will oscillate from left to right or top to bottom depending on the configuration When using the top to bottom you can configure the number of displayed lines fit text svg The text size will be automatically adapted to the text box area ensuring that all the text is always displayed date time svg This template can be used to display any date and time with custom formatting You can configure the source for the date using the Date source entry for example use the pubDate variable to pull the publish date from the news feed You can also use any language for printing the day and month titles by entering the custom names under the Names section By default English French Spanish Italian and German examples are provided into the template Note this template is not meant to display the current time This is possible with the templates in the Clocks folder switch svg The switch template is a powerful template that changes what is displayed depending on the value of one of the source fields For example an RSS with stock ticker information which provides the text UP or DOWN in one field can display a corresponding up or down arrow Or you maybe have a local XML source with room booking information where the Title field is blank i
32. h a Count of 0 and Max dur set to indefinite e If both a Count and a Max dur are specified the media will repeat until the first value expires opinetiX SA Rue des Terreaux 17 CH 1003 Lausanne Switzerland T 41 21 341 1550 F 41 21 311 19 56 info spinetix com www spinetix com 12 a Interactive editing The preview panel has two main functionalities e Preview Hyper Media content and multimedia content The preview panel emulates in software the display capabilities of an HMP Moreover it offers the user the possibility to interactively pause and seek the content using the timeline at the top of the preview panel itself e Interactively edit Hyper Media content Hyper Media content is described with the SVG language see W3C specification SVG language follows the XML document structure and thus can be easily edited by hand or by other software To simplify the editing task HMD offers an intuitive graphical user interface directly through the Preview panel The user can manipulate media elements in the scene by changing position size rotation etc HMD transparently changes the corresponding SVG document to reflect the changes in real time Editing Media elements layout Media elements can be declared as transformable in SVG templates If an object is transformable then its layout can be edited directly in the preview area Such elements appear in the preview panel highlighted by a black and yellow border Simply move your mouse c
33. he object is set to not display immediately when the SVG doc is opened A yellow star indicates one or more multimedia effects are applied to the object The properties of an object can be edited using the button at the bottom right of the Layer or Playlist item This will open the media description dialog and change the parameters shown above plus others URI The URI of the object You can type a relative URI for referencing objects contained in the project or an absolute URI for objects located on remote servers Begin The begin time of the object relative to the beginning the opening of the current SVG document By default all objects begin playing as soon as the SVG is opened Duration The duration of the object You can choose either to enter an absolute duration in the form hours minutes seconds or select or type Media to force the player to use the duration of the object itself You can also select or type indefinite to force opinetiX SA Rue des Terreaux 17 CH 1003 Lausanne Switzerland T 41 21 341 1550 F 41 21 311 19 56 info spinetix com www spinetix com 11 a EB the object to play for an indefinite time If HMD is able to compute the duration this field will be filled with a value automatically e Opacity The opacity of the object A value equal to 1 means that the object is opaque A value equal to 0 means it is completely transparent By default the following parameters are not shown To make them visibl
34. ile to old slide flies out according to the direction set by the user Wipe the new slide is wiped on top of the old slide according to the direction set by the user random Select a different transition at random for each slide o Direction For the fly and wipe transition select the effect direction o Duration The duration of the transition opinetiX SA Rue des Terreaux 17 CH 1003 Lausanne Switzerland T 41 21 341 1550 F 41 21 311 19 56 info spinetix com www spinetix com 24 J X Save Revert Apply Close Background Fill Max Slide Duration 36005 Enable Looping on Inter Slide Duration 0s RRRRAARRARRARRARRARRRRRAHARERARAMARRRAHARRARRARRARARRARRARRARARRARARRRAHARRARRRARARRAREARRARRRAMHARARRHARARARARRARRARRARRARARRARARAMARARSARAMAARRAMHARRARAARRARARRARRARRSARARHAMARARAMARRRAHAHEARAASASRAAEARRARRARAR H Ay Direction left Duration 1 Properties Playlist XML Tree WebDAV Typical playlist properties tab The Playlist tab is similar in function to the Layers tab in a multi layer document except the stack of items represents a time based rather than layout based ordering The following operations are possible in the Playlist tab e Add anew object using one of these methods o Drag and drop the new object to the Playlist tab of the editing panel If the new object is dropped over an existing object it will replace it o Right click and choose Insert This will insert an empty ite
35. ing the quick publish button The quick publish is located on the address bar and is activated whenever a project is open This avoids needing to use drag and drop lerject Dema720p T m To use quick publish e Open your project e the quick publish button opinetiX SA Rue des Terreaux 17 CH 1003 Lausanne Switzerland T 41 21 341 1550 F 41 21 311 19 56 info spinetix com www spinetix com 32 a 20 Monitoring Keep an eye on your network of HMPs HMD keeps a list of the compatible devices available on the network using the My Devices folder in the workspace view The My Devices view allows you to e Monitor the devices connected to your network e Automatically scan devices connected to your network e Provide details on the status of each device e Open a device to browse its content e Manually add a device for monitoring It is possible to arrange devices into folders collections in order to organize them A single project can be published to a collection of devices in the same way as a single device It is also possible to rename individual HMPs to identify them in a more human readable manner This name will appear in HMD My Devices 001d50000194 amp E E Nm 1 0019500000 00195000019 001d500006b 001d5000239 e 4 m E i 1 Reception Remote DAV Hmp200 1 My devices tab showing WebDAV servers HMD Professional Automatically add devices to HMD HMD uses
36. lendar similar to adding a new item to a playlist or layer to a multilayer SVG document e Summary Title for the event By default it is equal to the filename of the media but can be modified to any suitable name e From To The start and end dates of the event e Priority In case two events occur at the same time the event with the higher priority will be displayed e Repeat and Pattern Allows you to specify repeating patterns for the event e ime zone Choose the time zone for your event You can leave this blank and the time will be the local time of the HMP displaying the content e Category Color used for improving the visual interface of the Schedule Has no impact on the displayed content URI Summary Amceimag 0 Friority gg From 15032007 16 pof o Repeat 15030007 E so Timezone Zurich Category ini Scheduler event zone SpinetiX SA Rue des Terreaux 17 CH 1003 Lausanne Switzerland T 41 21 341 15 50 F 41 21 311 19 56 info spinetix com www spinetix com 17 Define default events and recurrences Define a default animation You may specify a default object to be displayed when no events have been scheduled on a given date hour In such a case the player will attempt to open calendar default svg If the file is available then it will be displayed To create a default calendar default svg e Create a new document using the right click pop up menu on the previe
37. list customizing fonts and colors e You are managing the digital signage of a pharmacy You already have the pictures of your products and the corresponding advertising clips Use Hyper Media Director to import and position the assets on a slide Create a playlists which cycles through the various images e You are managing the digital signage of a Hotel resort You already have advertising videos and images of your establishment and information about your services You have existing PowerPoint presentations welcoming special guests or presenting events You have high quality images of major local attractions Hyper Media Director can be used to import all assets and order them into a single playlist Branding logo devices and backgrounds are then added to each slide of the playlist Your PowerPoint presentation is converted to video to be used alongside other content e You are a design professional and you are using your software solution to author new graphical assets which you export as images videos vector graphics content and animations Use Hyper Media Director to import the assets combine them with additional elements native to HMD and customize the final canvas for a specific application opinetiX SA Rue des Terreaux 17 CH 1003 Lausanne Switzerland T 41 21 341 15 50 F 41 21 311 19 56 info spinetix com www spinetix com 7 Hyper Media Projects HMD uses projects to author and preview content to be published later
38. m at the selected position The object can then be edited using the at the bottom right of the line and specifying a URI relative or absolute e Delete existing objects using the right click menu or delete key e Change the order of the media Using the right click menu or ctrl up down while the item is selected Playlists can mix text items and other objects or consist solely of text items Similar properties are shown for each item as with multilayer documents duration repeat icon shown if repeat count is 1 or more URI and MIME type The effect icon and the start time do not apply for playlist items opinetiX SA Rue des Terreaux 17 CH 1003 Lausanne Switzerland T 41 21 341 1550 F 41 21 311 19 56 info spinetix com www spinetix com 25 i J X Back Save Revert Apply Close Media cnn main svg A B image svg xml 0 01 40 co ee 3ylist XML Tree WebDAV Playlist appearance in the Editing panel opinetiX SA Rue des Terreaux 17 CH 1003 Lausanne Switzerland T 41 21 341 15 50 F 41 21 311 19 56 info spinetix com www spinetix com 26 a special News templates To simplify the creation of dynamic content Hyper Media Director includes a set of active templates that can be customized by the user and perform specific actions The active templates use Javascript to dynamically create SVG documents with specific dynamic content that can be pulled from remote servers
39. n the SpinetiX Support Wiki at http support spinetix com Feature guide Authoring Hyper Media content This is a major feature of HMD that allows the end user to quickly learn how to compose a scene by combining backgrounds logos texts images and video clips Scenes can then be combined with existing projects or placed into playlists HMD includes many templates to allow you to start authoring straight away Also included are effects which can be applied to each element to make the final presentation more attention grabbing Most authoring features are provided graphically and are very easy to learn via the user interface for more advanced editing you can still edit the SVG document structure for a maximum control Hyper Media Director is not required in order to create content for an HMP Professional graphic designers can continue using their preferred authoring software to create vector graphics and original assets such as icons slides graphics animations images and video Hyper Media Director can be used to simplify the combination of assets onto the final canvas and presentation Publishing Hyper Media projects Hyper Media Director simplifies the publishing of media content on any number of HMPs Players can be grouped at multiple levels allowing you to update a large network of players both local and remote Monitoring Hyper Media Players Hyper Media Director simplifies the remote management of large networks of HMPs You c
40. news templates All the templates SVG files in the My Templates News folder can be customized to varying degrees news svg This template should be used when you want to display one or multiple news items on a single page Each item is cycled through consecutively The following features can be configured Effects can be applied to the individual layers and will show for each new news items being displays e Multiple items can be displayed per page o item Duration The duration of each page o Multiple items per page The number of items per page and the location of each new item You can also add offset between the display of the news on the same page to give an effect of news items gradually appearing news ticker svg This template should be used when you want to display scrolling text coming from an external source The size of the text will automatically adapt to the size of the template within another SVG document The following features can be configured e Layout of the text Use the SPX title and SPX description placeholders to display the title and the description from the source e Direction Whether the scrolling is horizontal or vertical e speed Speed of the ticker animation e Smooth speeds only Round up or down the speed to the nearest which can be achieved by shifting one or more pixels e Spacing Gap between two news items e Background Background color and opacity e Advanced o Number of Lines Number of line
41. ng Create a project offline preview and continue to modify without affecting the actual presentations displayed by the HMP When the project is finalized publish it to the target device e Backup The user can apply conventional backup systems the My Projects folder to reduce the risk of losing data e Multi target publishing A single project can be published on a single unit or multiple units at the same time 4 Spx project C My Projects i r backup examples HD 2p 00 opinetiX SA Rue des Terreaux 17 1003 Lausanne Switzerland T 41 21 341 15 50 F 41 21 311 19 56 info spinetix com www spinetix com 8 um EB Browsing panel The browsing panel provides some basic file operations through a pop up menu that appears after right clicking the mouse The available options depend on the type of folder in which the right click is performed Right clicking in the whitespace of a project folder results in the following options make sure that no file or folder is currently selected e New SVG file Create a new SVG multilayer file You can select the aspect ratio of the new document to be 4 3 16 9 16 10 9 16 vertical or custom You should always ensure the aspect ratio of your project is set correctly before composing content e New Playlist Create a new Playlist file e New Schedule Create a new schedule file with extension ics e New Collection Create a new folder e Upload Upl
42. oad a document from your PC can also be done conveniently by a drag and drop of a file directly from Windows Explorer Into the HMD project Right clicking a specific file or the browsing panel while a file has been selected the following options appear e Open Open the file in the preview panel e Delete Delete the file without confirmation keyboard shortcut shift delete e Rename Rename the file e Update metadata Update the thumbnail icon of the file according to its content Right clicking any type of folder in the My Projects tree will show a Set type menu This menu allows you to label the folder as either a Collection of Projects or a Project targeted to a specific model of HMP The browsing panel allows copying files and folders with drag and drop or copy and paste operations A copy operation could be as follows e Open a browsing view where your original file is located to locate the original file you can navigate the directory path from an existing view or directly type the URI in the address area of the browsing panel e Open anew browsing view Workspace where your copy destination is located e Drag and drop the file from the original position to the new view Hover over a tab to switch to that tab without releasing the mouse button Pressing shift during the copy will move the element instead of copying it Importing multi media files HMD accepts imports of many types of media file into a Hyper Media Project directly from
43. on HMP devices Understanding the concept of a project is important before continuing A project is a special folder that contains a master file index svg and any media elements e g video clips images texts animations scripts that are composed together to create the Hyper Media presentation Note that not all media elements need to exist locally within a project the HMP can be instructed to access remote locations and retrieve content on the fly This role of the index svg within a project is similar to a website s index html file By default HMD places all projects under My Projects a folder automatically created on your PC while installing HMD This folder is within the SpinetiX folder created in My Documents Windows XP or the Documents library in Vista and Windows 7 The folder My Projects appears in the browsing area when you select the default Workspace view Note that you can open multiple views and navigate inside each of them each view will be displayed as a different tab When you open the My Projects folder you can right click the browsing area to access various commands e Create new project e Create new Collection of Projects folders so as to organize your projects in functional groups These are normal Windows folders with a tag added so HMD can recognize them as being project collections Using HMD Projects instead of directly editing files on the device has several advantages In particular e Sandbox authori
44. s of text shown simultaneously in the case of vertical scrolling o Baseline Vertical position of the characters news crawler svg This template should be used when you want to display a scrolling text and include an image or when you want to have more control over the layout of the displayed news than with the simple ticker template above This template combines the features of the news svg and the news ticker svg templates Note that effects cannot be used in this template Templates for assisting with layout These templates assist when using new items which do not always have the same fixed length The bouncing text and fit text templates are used within the news templates Drag and drop them onto the layers tab of a news template in the normal fashion To display the dynamic content e Change the Text to SPX title or SPX description to display respectively the title or the description of your news e Press Apply or Save to see the result opinetiX SA Rue des Terreaux 17 CH 1003 Lausanne Switzerland T 41 21 341 15 50 F 41 21 311 19 56 info spinetix com www spinetix com 20 p M File Settmgs Help 9 m 17 03 2008 0 0018 E SPX bouncing Text 1 svg n oss eae ssa oss ile 2555 F moo u a a Tenangno EFH fit texi lq u laa descripaon image svgexmi gro title bourg text ie
45. space view The provided templates include e Multilayer templates for common aspect ratios e Playlist templates e Animated clock templates analog and digital e RSS data feed templates e Templates for sending commands to peripherals SerialPort folder e Royalty free clip art including icons and backgrounds To create a new SVG document based on one of these templates simply drag and drop from the My Templates collection to your target project Edit an existing SVG document Open any SVG file by browsing to it and double clicking or right click and click Open HMD will attempt to start playing back the content of the document in the Preview panel and the M support Wiki keyword Editing panel will reflect the content of the document Files created using HMD templates may include XML Tree View special fields for use in the HMD GUI without having to alter the code directly When opening other SVG files then the editing panel will show only the XML Tree and WebDAV tabs You can still edit the document content using the interface XML Tree If the document you have opened was designed in HMD or otherwise uses the HMD extensions to add special fields for changing options then the additional Properties tab will appear The properties tab gives quick access to a number of parameters that can be customized directly translating the values entered to corresponding code in the underlying XML Tree structure of the document without any SVG
46. standard installer wizard The first time you execute HMD you will be requested to activate the Activation software a You simply wish to evaluate the product click the 30 day trial button to benefit from HMD for 30 days b You have a valid license key to activate the software click the Enter product key to register the software Introduction to the Graphical User Interface Hyper Media Director is designed to offer a simple graphical interface that provides easy access to all the supported key features e Content authoring previewing scheduling and publishing e Device monitoring and management When opening HMD you are presented with the Graphical User Interface GUI default view SpinetiX Hyper Media Director ca File Settings Help K joe Ot 2 8 0 00 04 0 00 06 a 17 20 03 03 2009 v Editing panel 4 spx workspace M md M Workspace i La m DN XC My Devices My Projects My Templates Browsing panel Ready The default HMD layout showing the three main panels SpinetiX SA Rue des Terreaux 17 CH 1003 Lausanne Switzerland T 41 21 341 15 50 F 41 21 311 19 56 info spinetix com www spinetix com 5 um e The Application menu gives access to various dialogs and settings Many items in the menu are duplicated by context options within the interface e Preview panel displays the current hyper media content as it will appear on the HMP Th
47. t 0 7 New Collection E a Discover devices com d m gn 001d500006b 001d500006c 00195000072 p d 7 e d Lm 4r Up v v fe 00195000077 001450000893 00195000100 JUU TU C 1 2 Manually add devices to HMD To manually add a device to the My Devices list follow these steps e Open My Devices in the workspace view e Right click on the browsing panel and select New Device A dialog box appears for various details o Serial Number Device ID This value does not need to match the name configured in the player itself but a non matching name will result in the auto discover service showing the player in addition to the manually added entry o IP address enter the IP address or hostname of the device This field is mandatory and must be correct o Type The model of the device If this field is inaccurate HMD will not be able to accurately check that all media in the project is compatible with the model of the target device o Security Add the login credentials set in the HMP here By default the HMP content area is open If these values are left blank HMD will ask for authentication each time you publish content e The new device is added to the current folder Once added you may change the name of the new device from the browsing panel at any time opinetiX SA Rue des Terreaux 17 CH 1003 Lausanne Switzerland T 41 21 341 1550 F 41 21 311 19 56 info spinetix com www spinetix com 34 Serial Number
48. t ratio of your 19 22 Multi layer SVG uds 22 Composing scene I4 SECIS css tad iban Ec ad rH d AERE REX EROR RI RR RU 22 Sog t 23 ISTIC MIAN RERO UE 24 Composing a playlist SVG document in 5 steps sssssss nnnm nnne nennen nnne nnns 24 How to customize a playlist SVG document sssseeen nnne nennen nennen nnne nen nnns 24 EE EE nee eat 27 MISSIS HI SMS TOT Tem 27 COMPOSING live news 21 Customizing ATENTO 28 Templates for assisting With TBVOUL sesescreiet rere HYRVEUEEHUEVEUFUHYEVEUFUIEUFUEUIAEUIUEEIATUDIRIAEUIDRTIdAUATqI nra FE andre anne aea cantan 28 Multimedia 30 AUS ecciesie iudatatatessd Ec RR RR RV ORUM R URNAM T 30 Ae TU TU RESISTE RITE TE 30 xD E EHT 32 BHBI SIE ssec etn RR RRPU RSS UR ERU MIS UM Md UND LE nd LI nd LIP ne EP ne E med PME E mE mE d md MUN s 32 diui Mee 33 Autom
49. the Bonjour protocol to automatically discover devices on your network When opening the Support Wiki keyword My Devices folder available devices will be listed Devices automatically discovered using this process will include a small A on top of the green check mark Device Discovery Previously discovered devices that are no longer available can be manually deleted with the right click menu HMD Professional also supports adding WebDAV servers which can be published to directly Devices can be added to collections To create a group of devices right click on the browsing panel and create a New Collection Drag and drop devices into the collection or use copy and paste via the right click menu SpinetiX SA Rue des Terreaux 17 CH 1003 Lausanne Switzerland T 41 21 341 1550 F 41 21 311 19 56 info spinetix com www spinetix com 33 a am e Devices can exist in multiple collections useful in controlling publication lists e Discover devices on the right click menu is a legacy option for HMPs running older firmware The Refresh option should be used e default the name of a device is its serial number This can be changed in the player s Control Center web interface New 00195000001 00145000002 00195000019 T 4 EM New Device BE New Server 001d500001f1 001d5000030 00195000066 New Shared Projec
50. ursor over an object to check if it can be transformed D P 14 mg 22 DS E mapaz tar poco Beers EI The 14 Po oe EC Myanmar ussassinated Tak rg yi tem viEraat ple I T PU ee minim N hk EN Traveller Border highlight of items When the mouse moves over an object in the preview window four handles appear on to indicate it can be resized The mouse cursor will change at the edges to indicate where you can click and drag to move the object Enable Full transform editing from the Setting menu to make other changes e Resize Resizing now changes the dimensions of the object without maintaining the aspect ratio hold CTRL to keep the aspect ratio This is referred to as Zooming e Rotate Click once on the object Drag the corner handles to rotate the object e Skew Click once on the element Drag the side arrows to skew the element Resize will either change the shape of the object or increase decrease the space available for the content inside the object Text area Normal resizing will modify the text area Space resizing when Full Transform Editing is enabled will zoom the actual size of the characters e Media image video animation Normal resize will change the size of the media area preserving the aspect ratio of the object Zooming will change the dimensions without preserving the ratio SpinetiX SA Rue des Terreaux 17 CH 1003 Lausanne Swit
51. w panel e Rename itto calendar default svg e Open it e Drag and drop you default media video animation or image into the preview panel Define recurring events Event can be scheduled as a one time occurrence or repeating To transform an event into repeating event enable the Repeat option in the Event zone By default the event will repeat every day forever To edit a repeating event s schedule press the Pattern button This opens the rule recurrence dialog which allows you to create fairly complicated recurrence 2 Edit recurrence rule Basic recurrences e g daily every some hours at a set time every week can be set simply by selecting the repeat period and the end date em Forever For an event repeating every day select Pattern repeats every 1 e Until 19 12 2007 Y Day End after h H e For an event repeating every Monday select Pattern repeats every 1 gt Event occurs when Week but make sure your initial event was occurring on a Monday OMnteis e For an event repeating the first day of every month select Pattern GHouris 0 repeats every 1 Month Make sure your initial event occurs on the x first day of a given month e Foran event repeating certain week days select Pattern repeat every 1 Week and select Weekday is Then select all the days from Monday to Friday e Foran event repeating at 10 00 and 15 00 every day select Pattern repeats every 1 Day and Hour is 10 15
52. yout using the Settings menu P file atis Heip Proxy settings XY LES diei g Enable network 4o 53 n i oy Capture streaming packets 00 00 7 T Capture streaming packets lt lt lt 0 00 00 0 00 07 Show developer consola 9 Muta aidin Full transform Enable template editing Viewer Backend Viewer import Quality Onanrtatian Preview Aspect Ratio Time Zone Preven Asqpect Tene Zane 8164 Laruguaqe 15 10 Farget all caved passwords 4 1 Change locaton of projects folder 1 Language Forget saved passwords Change location of projects fold z zu pd B d project J testimport aJ gn 4 My Projects 10 lenp My Projects testimport E My Projects 1080 loop Projects tesbmpot Mi w b Fi i Changing the layout of the panels projectutestimpart In the following sections we will refer to the elements of this GUI to illustrate how to use HMD to complete specific tasks opinetiX SA Rue des Terreaux 17 CH 1003 Lausanne Switzerland T 41 21 341 15 50 F 41 21 311 19 56 info spinetix com www spinetix com 6 Authoring Introduction There are many well known commercial software solutions available to produce professional native SVG media content
53. zerland T 41 21 341 15 50 F 41 21 311 19 56 info spinetix com www spinetix com 49 a m The image below shows an example of the difference between the effects of the Resize and Zoom i e when Full Transform Editing is enabled j a 1402 2005 Y a 00133 Right clicking an object opens a popup menu with the following shortcuts e Full Screen Zoom the element so that it occupies the entire document e Rotate Right Rotate the element by 90 degree clockwise e Rotate Left Rotate the element by 90 degree counter clockwise e Flip Vertical Flip the element upside down e Flip Horizontal Flip the element left right e Reset Transform Remove all zoom rotation and skew on the element Replacing objects When a media from the browsing panel is dragged to the preview panel replaceable objects are highlighted in green and a magnet icon is shown on top of the media When the new object is dragged over one of these areas the highlight changes to red Dropping a file from the browsing area over another object while in this state will replace the existing object with the new one preserving the characteristics of the existing object dimensions positioning and any other layer properties like duration 28 Km a 18042005 070 M 0 00 35 0 00 50 news fade 1 swgx Traveller Object highlighting to show replace and add opinetiX SA Rue des Terreaux 17 CH 1003 Lausanne Switzerland T 41

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