AMX Digital Signage Solutions: Programming Guide for Inspired Signage XPress

Inspired Signage XPress Programming

Inspired Signage XPress Programming

Introduction

The Inspired Signage XPress media content developer (referred to hereafter as “XPress”) allows users of the IS-SPX-1000 and IS-SPX-1300 IS-SPX Players to manage media elements in a digital signage application. Its purpose is to combine and customize media elements created in different applications in order to build digital signage content of professional quality.

What Can You Do With XPress?

Combine an image background with text, videos, animations, and graphics.

Interactively customize imported media elements, such as controlling positions in the scene, font properties, color, opacity and transparency.

Interactively add and edit text with sophisticated layout.

Change the relative order of each media element in the scene to create depth effects. Apply animation effects on most media appearance properties.

Create ordered playlists of media elements of different nature.

Due to the size of the internal storage space in the IS-SPX Player, the IS-SPX Player cannot display files larger than 2 gigabytes in size if these are loaded into the device’s memory. However, larger files and projects may be displayed if these are stored in an attached USB storage device, such as a portable hard drive or USB thumb drive.

When to use XPress Authoring Features?

You are managing the digital signage of a restaurant. You already have the pictures of your special menus, your logo and a few advertising video clips. XPress lets you import and position all of these media on the same slide. You can then type your menu list, customizing fonts and colors. In a few clicks, you have created or updated your menu of the day.

You are managing the digital signage of a pharmacy. You already have the pictures of your products and the corresponding advertising clips. XPress lets you import and position these media on the same slide. It lets you also create a playlist of all the products you want to highlight.

You are managing the digital signage of a hotel resort. You already have advertising videos and images of your establishment and your services. You have created power point presentations welcoming special guests or presenting the upcoming events organized in your resort, and you have high quality images of the major city spots. XPress lets you import all of these individual media and order them into a single playlist. It is very easy to further reinforce your graphical identity by adding your logo, your slogan, a background, or a graphical layout on each slide of the playlist. In a few clicks and without special graphics skills, you can author your personalized and updated content and you can schedule its distribution on the right display and at the right time.

You are a graphical professional, and you are using a particular software solution to author new media files. These can be exported as images, videos, vector graphics content, or animations. You will be able to import them later in XPress, combine them with additional elements and customize the final canvas for a specific application.

Installation

Installing Inspired Signage XPress for the First Time

The 30-day trial of Inspired Signage XPress is available from www.amx.com. A license for the full version of either XPress Standard or XPress Pro may be purchased from AMX at any time before or after the expiration of the trial version.

XPress Standard allows control of up to 10 IS-SPX Players at one time.

XPress Pro is intended to allow control of up to 100 IS-SPX Players at one time.

If you need control of more than 100 IS-SPX Players at one time, please contact AMX for more information.

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