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Playlist Preparations
Chapter 4 Routine Operations
Playlist Preparations
To play back the desired contents on an NSP-1, you need
to prepare “playlists” that specify the order and
combinations of materials and “schedules” that identify
the time and date when a playlist will be used, together
with the materials, such as video and text files.
The “schedules” contain both “daily schedules” and
“periodic schedules.”
What is a Playlist?
The NSP-1 has six layers, and the six types of material that
the BZNP-D1 software manages are played on the
designated layers, respectively.
The “playlists” describe the order of material to be played
on each layer. An NSP-1 automatically plays materials on
the respective layers, according to the playlist.
Materials that appear on the same line of the playlist will
be played simultaneously on the NSP-1. The positions and
sizes of these materials are designated as “layout” and
saved in the playlist.
Playout order
The following figure shows an example of a playlist.
The leftmost Start Time column displays the start time of
each line. This is counted from the start time of the playlist.
Then, there are columns corresponding to the NSP-1
layers, and the events (material) that will be played on the
layer are specified in the cells. An event is a piece of
material specified in a cell on the playlist. The color of a
cell in which an event is specified is light blue.
Events specified on the same line will be started
simultaneously at the time specified in the Start Time
column.
Layout settings
“Layout” designates the positions and sizes, on the display,
of the contents of the events that are listed on the same line.
The following table shows the NSP-1 layers and the
materials to be played on the respective layers.
Note that graphics material can be played on any of the
background, graphics, or logo layers, and that web page
and Flash movie materials are played on the graphics layer.
Upon playout, the layers (except for the audio layer) are
overlaid in the order shown in the following figure.
The layout settings (the sizes and positions of the layers)
can be adjusted by using the Layout Settings command
that is shown when you right-click a line (except for the
Audio layer column) of the playlist.
The order of overlay cannot be changed.
Playout order
Start time Layers on an NSP-1
Layout settings
Layer
Materials played
Background Graphics
Graphics Graphics, URL (Web pages), Flash movies:
displayed under the video layer.
Video Video, MPEG4 streaming video, video signal
input via the NSP-1 VIDEO IN connector
(with accompanying audio input via the
AUDIO IN connector)
Logo Graphics:
displayed in front of the video layer.
Text Text
Audio Audio
Note
Graphics (2) Logo (4) Video (3)
Text (5)
Background (1)