Viz Channel Branding User Guide
Version 5.2 | Published June 05, 2024 ©
Page Editor
The Page Editor allows editing of secondary events such as graphics and graphics with embedded video clips. The content for each page field can be manually set directly with a value using editor or dynamically set by Page Content Filling.
Note: Page Editor can only be opened when the local Viz Engine is successfully connected.
This section covers the following topics:
Scene Preview Player
The Preview Player presents a representation of the graphics and video clips. In addition, it shows the defined title and safe area and the bounding boxes. Bounding boxes are related to the graphics scene's editable elements (see Page Fields List below).
Preview window buttons
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Continues or pauses the scene animation currently loaded if it contains any stop points. |
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Steps back one millisecond. |
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Steps next one millisecond. |
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Shows or hides the Title Area in the Preview Player. |
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Shows or hides the Safe Area in the Preview Player. |
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Shows or hides the Bounding Box for the page field currently selected in the Preview Player. |
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Preview RGB version of the graphics with a default background color (black). Preview the Key version of the graphics. Preview the graphics keyed on top of a still image (if the Viz Engine is so configured). |
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Refreshes the scene in the Preview Player. |
Page Fields List
The lower-left panel of the Page Editor presents available Page Fields (editable elements of the graphics) for the currently loaded Page or Template.
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Click on a page field to display the available options.
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Title: Name of the field.
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Type: Field characteristic, like text, rich-text, image, video, clock, etc.
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Content: The final content of the field.
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Dynamic query: The Page Content Filling status.
Clicking the Trashcan icon will remove the Page Content Filling mapping done for this field. It is necessary to press Save afterwards to save the page. -
Query String: Shows the query string grabbing data from playlist metadata, or database query string.
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Page Fields Editors
The panel on the right of the Page Editor presents various editors, corresponding to the type of the selected page field.
Text Editor
The Text Editor allows typing in the text input box and the content for the corresponding element of the graphics is updated.
Image Editor
The Image Editor presents three different browsers for selecting an image. The image path or URL is presented in the Image textbox when an image is set.
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Graphic Hub Browser: Select an image from Graphic Hub. Graphic Hub needs to be configured in Global Settings first.
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Viz One Browser: Select an image from Viz One. Viz One needs to be enabled in Global Settings first.
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File Browser: Select an image from a local directory.
It is possible to adjust the position or scaling of an image, and the adjustment can be verified in the Scene Preview Player. There are three options when adjusting scaling of an image:
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Linked: x and y values update at the same time, with the same value.
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Proportional: x and y values update at the same time, with the initial proportion.
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Single: only x or y value are updated.
Video Editor
The Video Editor allows selecting a video from the Viz One browser. Viz One needs to be enabled in Global Settings first.
This is the only browser available for this editor.
Once a video is selected, Title and House Id can be verified in the textboxes below.
Clock Editor
The Clock Editor is used to create a timer. It is possible to set the start and halt time for the timer, or let the timer count indefinitely. The timer can be set to count up or count down.
Integer Editor
The Integer Editor allows typing an integer in the number input box and the content for the corresponding element of the graphics is updated.
Float Editor
The Float Editor allows typing a float in the number input box and the content for the corresponding element of the graphics is updated.
General Actions
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Clear all dynamic queries: Removes all Page Content Filling mapping done for each page field.
Note: Click Save after your actions, to save the page.
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Cancel: Closes Page Editor without saving changes.
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Save as: Saves all the changes to a new page. A pop up a dialog window is presented to submit a new page name. This option is only available for Pages opened from the Template or Page Pool.
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Save: Saves all the changes in the current page. This button is only available for Pages opened from the Page Pool or from a Playlist.
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