AMX IS-SPX-1000/1300 manual Application Examples, Multiscreen Displays

Synchronized Content

Synchronized Content

Overview

A video wall is a set of screens accurately placed to create a single display. Screens may be one next to the other to compose a larger regular area, or they may have irregular positions to create a non-conventional pattern. In all of these cases, a perfect synchronization of the content displayed is required to provide a sense of uniformity, no matter how the screens are placed. The IS-SPX Player lets you control accurately when each item is displayed, enabling a very flexible solution for managing any type of video wall applications

Application Examples

In public transportation, multiple displays are deployed along escalators. The content on the displays follows the user moving from one display to the next. This special effect increases the impact of the message to the user.

In retails shops, hotels and bars, multiple displays are deployed in the same hall to create an ambiance or a “leitmotif”: animations can be created to move from one display to the next one creating global effects.

Two or three small size display can be grouped together to create a larger size display with higher impact to the audience.

Multiscreen Displays

IS-SPX Player’s clocks are precisely time synchronized, letting the user control exactly when an item should be displayed. This feature can be used to schedule content to be displayed at a certain time of the day, or to synchronize the display of two or more IS-SPX Players. This enables the usage of the IS-SPX Player in multiscreen displays.

XPress offers an intuitive way of managing multiscreen projects, through the definition of a multiscreen project and the possibility to create virtual devices for the publication process. In this case the same project will be used on all the devices composing the multiscreen display, but each individual IS-SPX Player will display only one part of the project. This lets the user manage multiscreen displays in the same way as single-screen displays.

To display content on multiple screens using XPress, you need to perform the following operations:

Create a project based on the multiscreen option. The multiscreen template is available from www.amx.com, and must be added to the My Templates tab under XPress.

Create a virtual device to be able to publish your project on all the IS-SPX Players composing your multiscreen display.

Configure each IS-SPX Player so that it knows its position in the multiscreen layout. It might also be necessary to configure the synchronization server for all of the devices.

Ensure each device has it's multiscreen Id setup within the web.config pages. Publish your project on the virtual device.

Before proceeding, you will have to download and install the Multiscreen template folder to your computer if you have not already done so. For more information on installing the folder, please refer to Adding Additional Templates to Inspired Signage XPress on page 100.

Designing Basic Projects for Multiscreen Layouts

To create a basic multiscreen layout, with configurable screens, you will need to: Create the basic Multiscreen Project.

Edit the index properties of your project to reflect your screen setup. Start working on your project.

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