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January 2008Third editionLanguage: English

AV-ManagerManual

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Any abuse shall be punished by law.

The information in this manual is subject to changes without notice.

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1.1 Introduction ........................................................................................................ 71.2 AV-Manager management software ................................................................. 81.3 Control panel ..................................................................................................... 91.4 Video playing .................................................................................................... 91.5 Video controls ................................................................................................. 10

1.5.1 Open button ....................................................................................................101.5.2 Save button .....................................................................................................121.5.3 Tools button .....................................................................................................121.5.4 Play list button .................................................................................................181.5.5 Table button.....................................................................................................18

1.6 Active video area ............................................................................................ 201.7 Programme schedule operating status ........................................................... 211.8 AV-Manager on PC ......................................................................................... 22

1.8.1 Settings RESET ..............................................................................................221.9 LOG File ........................................................................................................ 231.10 Code number to block/unblock the software (Key Code) ............................. 241.11 AV-Manager re-installation ............................................................................. 25

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1.1 Introduction

AV-Manager is a management software for full-colour screens, capable of displaying the programme schedule (or session) on the screen. This session is ideal for sport and cinema events, exhibitions, advertisement and any other application requiring a megascreen. This software supports:- avi non compressed- avi cinepack radius- avi divX 5.2, depending on the codecs installed- wmv 7,8,9 depending on the MediaPlayer installed- mpg 1 with codecs installed by the AV-Manager (MainConcepts)- mpg 2 with codecs installed by the AV-Manager (MainConcepts)- SWF, with a colored form as background.

The software full name is: “Advertisin’n’Video Manager”

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1.2 AV-Manager management software

This software manages what is being displayed on the screen, as well as diagnostics features. The image below shows a demo of the desktop, as it appears when using AV-Manager:

- A) The main program management window;- B) The video window of the session 1;- C) The window containing the list of files that must be displayed in session

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Since window B is for display purpose only, it shall not be dealt with anymore in the following description.

After the initialisation, AV-Manager shows up the programme schedule (if it is set in autorun mode), or, if it is not, the control consolle only will be displayed; in “autorun” mode, the software loads the last configuration that has been saved and resumes the visualisation of the Play-List or the Time Table (if associated) closest to the start-up time.

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State of the videoPlay-Off

VideoPositions

VideoDimensions

Play listvisualized

File of Play listvisualized

File of Play listvisualizing time

Close Play Pause Stop Autorun Log File

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1.3 Control panel

The AV-Manager window is divided into four sections:- Buttons for video playing 01;- Session controls 02;- Active video bar 03;- Displaying of programme schedule 04 with full report of the data related to the

visualisation.

1.4 Video playing

The first four buttons are similar to the typical controls of a video recorder (play, stop, eject); the last button activates the autorun mode.

Play Click on the icon with the left mouse button to play the highlighted video:

Stop Click on the icon with the left mouse button to interrupt the video playing.

Autorun Click on the icon with the left mouse button to enable or disable the autorun mode; if this button is enabled, the next time AV-Manager is started again, the last active project will be opened and displayed. When the «autoplay» button is enabled, it is green-coloured.

Log File Through the main menu, it is possible to visualise the files containing all the functioning information about the software (files *.log) or explore the folder where they have been stored (see paragraph 1.9).

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1.5.1 Open button

To perform the following operations: A) Last project: to open a saved project (Save button); B) SoundTrack: to create a soundtrack for the video that are being

visualised; C) Play list: quick access to visualise the play list of the selected

session.

A) Last project: This function allows opening a previously saved project (a series of display windows with relevant controls and time tables).

B) SoundTrack: this option is enabled only when one or more videos are active. It is possible to create only one Sound Track for all the videos that are being visualised. When you press the key Play both the previously created videos and the soundtrack start simultaneously.Of course it is not possible to create a soundtrack if no video windows are open.The window that appears is the one characterised by a red rectangle:

The window supports the drag and drop command and the keys in the lower part of the window are

- the keys add and rem that add or remove a file from the play list

- the key list including three options: - New (to create a new play list) - Load (to upload a previously saved play list ) - Save (to save the running play list).

1.5 Video controls

These buttons allow managing the whole programme schedule.

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C) Play list: This window lists the files to display; the window supports the drag and drop command; click with the right mouse button to access the drop-down menu.

- Play (to play files); - Remove (to delete a selected file from the list). On the

keyboard, press “Del”; - Up (to move a selected file one position upwards ). On

the keyboard, press “Shift + arrow up”; - Down (moves the selected file one position downwards).

On the keyboard, press “Shift + arrow down”; The add and rem buttons on the left bottom side of the

window add or remove a file to/from the play list The list button has three options: - New (to create a new play list) - Load (to load a previously saved play list) - Save (to save the running play list). - Time Images to set how long in seconds the images will

be displayed for. - Add MediaFile by clicking on it, it is possible to add files

to the play list.

Files that can be inserted in the play list: static images (*.bmp, *.jpg) and movies (*.avi, *.mpg, *.mpeg).

NOTE: the Play list is cyclical, i.e. when the visualisation of the last object in the list is finished, it starts again from the first object.

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1.5.2 Save button

To save a new project. Remember that a project is a series of display windows with relevant play lists, position settings, time tables and brightness time settings properly filled in.

1.5.3 Tools button

To access some display parameter control and setting tools. Press this button to access the sub-menu:

A) Color Adjust: NOT ENABLED;B) Create text: to create scrolling texts over a picture or on mono-

chromatic background;

A) Color adjust: NOT ENABLED.

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B) Create text: Through this tool it is possible to insert texts (permanent or scrolling) during the picture visualisation (with format supported by AV-Manager). The main windows of this tool are:

NOTE: the window MONITOR has the same size (in pixels) as the one of the programme schedule display window; if more than one windows are open, the size will be the same as the one of the selected video.

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Monitor Main window of the tool Create text. In this window you can write down the texts that you need to display together with a picture with visible (characterised by a selected colour) or transparent (overimpression on pictures that have been inserted in the play list) background.

Also this window presents the usual File menu where the options belonging to the target section “Open” (to open a saved text), “Save” (to save a previously created text), “Save as” (save text as) and “Insert into Playlist (insert the previously created object in the Playlist) are all contained.

By clicking on the menu Windows, you can activate the

windows: - Tools to set the features of the text (effects, size, cha-

racter type, etc...); - Scroll list to create a play list of pictures where the text

will appear overimpressed (by selecting transparent).

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Scroll UpScroll Down

Scroll LeftScroll Right

No Scroll

Scroll Stop Time Date Temp

Back ColorText Font

Transparent

Stop Anim

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Tools: Effect: on the text it is possible to apply different scrolling effects; scroll UP, scroll Down, scroll Left, scroll Right, No scroll. It is possible to set the speed of the effect through the parameter Speed. Scroll Stop stops the scrolling of the text when the effect is finished (not availa-ble with No Scroll); by setting the para-meter Sec it is possible to keep the text steady and visible for a certain number of seconds.

In the part “Aligment” text alignment (left, centered and right) depending on the window features is available.

It is possible to insert a previously created text through the keys Time and Date; the text, with various formats, is obviously the time and date. The key Temp displays the reported temperature (if necessary devi-ces have been supplied by Tecnovision S.p.a.).

It is possible to define the text font (Text Font) and the colour of the backgound (Back Color), and to activate the text ove-rimpression (by pressing on the keyTra-sparent) on a selected picture.

The key Stop Anim stops the visualisation

of the created object; it works both when the visualisation is on preview mode and when the visualisation window is effecti-vely shown.

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Scroll: This window allows matching the previou-sly created text with one or more pictu-res in background. Through the key Add Image, you can add a picture (selectable with the Windows selection window) to a text, whereas through Remove Image you can take it out from the list; through Remove all, you can delete all the pictu-res inserted in the list.

The option Delay sets how many seconds the pictures will be displayed for; if you set 0, you have a duration according to the corresponding effect, whereas if more pictures are simultaneously present the effect will be repeated for each of them under the same time schedule. Ex.: delay 3: the two pictures will be displayed alter-natively for 3 seconds each, until the effect is finished.

Delay 0: the picture will be displayed until the effect is finished, after that this is repeated for the second picture

Monitor two keys are present for the simulation of what has been created; particularly:

Play on preview displays the preview in the window Monitor itself;

Play on Sign displays the simulation on the screen directly. In this case any image that is being visualised is stopped until the visualisation of the created object has been completely carried out.

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Target: This option allows the object created.

An object created through Create text is presented here below- in the window Scroll two pictures that are visible during the text visuali-sation are inserted;- in the window Monitor the text to visualise with the corresponding back-ground (in this case blue) is placed;- in the window Tools all the effects acting on the text are displayed; down scrolling, speed 20, steady with 3 seconds duration, centered alignment , transparent text

The final result of these parameters is shown below.

It is important to remember that the picture must have the same size as the display window, otherwise it will not cover all the available space or it will be cut starting from the upper left angle (Create Text does not carry out the stretch and resize of the picture).

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1.5.4 Play list button

This button opens the play list window of the selected video (already described before).

1.5.5 Table button

This button opens the Time table window to organise the programme schedule, by setting the «play list» and displaying on a fixed day at a fixed time.

To add a previously saved play list to the time table, double-click with the mouse on the first line of the «Play list name» column.

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The first column on the left in the window shows the status (ON or OFF) of all the lists included in the time table.

The second column shows the name of the play lists in the time table, while the third and the fourth column show the display day and time for each play list.

Each field has a drop-down menu (that can be opened by clicking with the right mouse button) with the following options:

- Load: to load a previously saved time table; - Save: to save a previously filled time table; - Remove Item: to delete a play list from the list; - Clear List: to clear all play lists from the list; - Shut Down Sign: to set the date and time to shut down any visuali-- Shut Down Sign: to set the date and time to shut down any visuali- to set the date and time to shut down any visuali-set the date and time to shut down any visuali-

sation of the selected video.

To set the date corresponding to the play list, double-click on the date field and set it. Follow the same procedure to set the time. In this way, a play list is cyclically played until the date and time of the following play list.

Two or more Play lists can be loaded in the same replay cycle: 1) Assign a date and time to the first Play list; 2) Assign no date and time to the other Play lists following the first

one that you want to include in the same replay cycle. If no date and time is set for a further play list, they will be replayed

up to the date and time of the following play list.

NOTE: it is possible to match a time table with any previously created display window.

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1.6 Active video area

Click on «Video» with the right mouse button to display a drop-down menu with the following options:

On Front to set the selected video on top;Play to play the selected video;Stop to stop the selected video playing;Window by selecting one of the two options, you can open

the corresponding window (video setting, Play list, time table and all).

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1.7 Programme schedule operating status

To view all active display window with relevant features:

- Video column: number of active display areas;- State column: operating status of each video display area, in Playing status and in Off status;- Top and Left columns, showing the value in pixels of the distance of video display area from the top left corner;- Width and Height columns, showing the size in pixels of the video display area;- List name column, showing the name which the Play list of video display area has been saved as;-File name columnn, showing which file is being visualised in the video display area.- Len column, where the duration of a picture (corresponding to the delay in the play list) or animation (real duration) is displayed .

Click on «Video» with the right mouse button to display a drop-down menu with the following options:

On Front to set the selected video on top;Play to play the selected video;Stop to stop the selected video playing;Window to select one of the four options to open the cor-to select one of the four options to open the cor-

responding window (video setting, Play list, time table and all).

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1.8 AV-Manager on PC

For an immediate access, the icon of the software is available in the “System tray” of Windows; inside all the tools necessary for the software correct functioning (explai-ned in the previous pages) are placed.

1.8.1 Settings RESET

On the icon of the software in the “System Tray” there is the option to RESET the AV-Manager settings. Select this option to zeroing all the Av-Manager variables; this action set the AV-Manager window in the top left corner of the monitor with any visua-lization window opened.

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1.9 LOG File

As we mentioned in the paragraph 1.4, it is possible to make AV-Manager create a file summarising the objects visualised by the software and then edit it; this file is called LOG file. As soon as the 0.00 hour of each day is passed by, a new file is created, so it is possible to keep under control what AV-Manager has done day by day. The file is of *.txt type and can be exported to Excel format or any other Word Processor as tables. By clicking on the Log File key, it is possible to choose two options:

- to open the Log File of the current day; - to open the folder where all the previously created log files have

been stored.

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1.10 Code number to block/unblock the software (Key Code)

The software foresees a trial version that can be renewed or stopped (the software will not have any expiry date) through the insertion of a code number provided by TecnoVISION S.p.a.; 15 days before the expiry of the current code number, the software warns the operator about the expiry date. Anyhow it is always possible to check the expiry date by acceding the menu Key Code in AV-Manager; by clicking with the right mouse button, the menu here below will appear.

By selecting KEY CODE the following window will appear:

card code code number to communicate to TecnoVISION S.p.a. if you are interested in renewing the AV-Manager use licence;

key code space for the insertion of the new code number provided by TecnoVISION S.p.a.;

ok key that must be clicked on after the code number inser-tion; if the code is not correct, the key will not have any effect;

remaining days number of remaining days before the expiry date; UNLIMITED, use licence unlimited.

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1.11 AV-Manager re-installation

If you need to re-install the software on the PC, it is necessary to carry out a quick procedure.

Start SETUP on Tecnovision CD-ROM, then wait until the software asks for the inser-tion of the code number printed on the CD cover.

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