MultiScreen Designer

Easily create a playback that displays multiple screens on different outputs. This feature requires a multi-head VGA card capable of stretching the Windows Desktop across all the heads. For system requirements see Custom Resolutions, and consult your VGA card documentation for instructions.

Design a Multi-Head Screen

When you create a multi-head desktop, your new desktop is a multiple of a single head desktop. All heads must be the same resolution.

• You can create one very long screen that spans 4 different displays; or

• You can display 4 different screens on each of the 4 outputs (or any variation, for example, 2 extra long screens on 2 each of the 4 outputs, etc).

For example, you can create two 1024x768 resolution heads to form a 2048x768 desktop. Or you can create four 1280x768 resolution heads to form a 5120x768 desktop.

You can create zones that are either entirely contained on one head, or span multiple heads. This is great for creating ‘menu board’ type displays. Because it is one large screen, you can even target pages from one head to another. And with the multi-target capabilities, you can target multiple zones across separate heads simultaneously from a single source zone.

How to Create a MultiScreen playback

To create your playback from scratch follow the normal procedures detailed in Create a playback from Scratch and then create the screens.

To create a playback based on existing screens, use the MultiScreen Designer to select the screens and their placements. Note that all screens must have the same resolution.

1.Go to Tools > MultiScreen Designer.

2.Display your existing screens. On the left, sort your screens by their Resolution, or by playback name.

3.Select the first screen you want displayed then press the > button.

4.Repeat for each screen, then give the playback a name, and press Create.

5.When the playback is created, press Close.

When viewing your screen in Audience, select the screen in the tree and then zoom in or out for more details (View > Zoom).

Important: The screens used in a MultiScreen playback are linked to the original screens; this means that any change in content or zone size and placement will be reflected in the original screens as well, and vice versa.