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Menu Bar

This is the Menu Bar in Audience.foundation. Each Menu Item's options are described by selecting the menu item below.

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Refresh playbacks

Refreshes the Audience.foundation User Interface playback list after a new scheme is added via ScreenWizard

Import

Quickly import an entire folder of graphics directly into a magazine, using the template of your choice. Audience.foundation automatically creates a page for each graphic. Import can also be used to import PowerPoint Presentations.

Audience Settings

Select the simplified or advanced CorelDraw toolbar, select an encoding profile for Audience.web videos, change the program location for MediaScreen or manage Playback keywords.

Audience.web Settings

Choose between fullscreen and browser modes, set a default Audience.web playback, select the refresh rate, and the zone menu width among other settings. See Configure Audience.web Settings for details.

Advanced on air playback Settings

These settings are for special configurations and troubleshooting and should not be modified.

Exit

Exit Audience.foundation and stop all on air playback.
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This menu is context-sensitive, and will only display those items that are relevant to the current selection in the tree. The following is a list of all items in this menu.

New

Create a new playback, screen, zone or magazine.

Add Reference

Link to an existing screen, zone, or magazine. Changes made in the new (linked) item affect the original item, and vice-versa.

Duplicate

Duplicate a playback, screen or zone. The resulting duplicate is a completely independent copy of the original.

Duplicate & Link

This function duplicates the playback, screen or zone and links to all existing magazines in the original playback. It also automatically creates a new (unlinked) magazine in each zone.

Duplicate & Rescale

Use this to duplicate an existing playback and change its resolution.

Remove

Remove a screen, zone or magazine, depending on the selection in the tree. This does not delete the item; it merely removes it as a reference.

Delete

Use this to delete a playback. Playbacks are actually deleted, rather than removed. However, all the content in the playback (screens, zones, magazines, pages) are still available on the system, and can be re-associated into new playbacks using the 'Add Reference' function.
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Zone Layers

Opens the Zone Layers box, where zones may be hidden or displayed in the navigator. This is used for overlapping zones, when one zone might be hiding a zone behind it.

Zoom

While in Screen Manager View (when a screen is selected in the tree) select View > Zoom to apply a zoom factor to the screen. This is particularly useful when designing multi-head screens, or large resolution screens.

Playlist Follow

See which page is currently on-air for a particular zone. Select the zone in the tree, then View > Playlist Follow. Right-click to view a list or thumbnails.
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ScreenWizard

Exits Audience.foundation and opens ScreenWizard, where you can backup your current playback, create a scheme from your current playback, load a new scheme, or restore a backup. See Manage Schemes and Backups with Screenwizard for details.

MultiScreen Designer

Allows you to create a Multi-Screen display using existing screens. See MultiScreen Designer for details.

Re-render all Pages

This can be used to re-render pages after you have already said ‘no’ to the re-render pages prompt when changing a screen background.

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Contents and Index

The main help file.

Tutorial 1–Basic

The Tutorial takes you through the steps of creating a show.

Tutorial 2–Advanced

An advanced tutorial for Audience.playback.tv or Audience.playback.sign systems.

Tutorial 3–3D

An advanced tutorial focussing on creating a complex playback using 3-D effects.

About

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