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Material Preparations

The BZNP-D1 software accepts the following materials as playout contents:

Materials created with other application software

•Video clips (including announce (SDP) files of MPEG4 streaming video clips)

•Graphics (still images)

•Flash files

•Audio files

Register such files in the BZNP-D1 as materials to use them.

For details on specifications and limitations on files to be used as materials, see the supplied SpecsE.htm file.

Material created with the BZNP-D1 software

• Text (captions)

Create text material by specifying the color, font, text size, and entering text with the BZNP-D1 software. You can also import text files instead of typing them.

Hint

Bitmap files can also be registered as text material instead of typing the text itself. This feature is useful when you would like to use a caption with special effects.

Other materials

•Web pages

•Control commands

Register the URL of each web page you want to display using the NSP-1.

For control commands, the BZNP-D1 software provides some control commands for the NSP-1 and for some of the plasma displays, whose operations in combination with the NSP-1 have been confirmed. You can also add other commands.

Registering Video, Graphics, Flash and Audio Files

This section explains how to register material files that have been created with other application software in the BZNP-D1 software.

Note

The following procedure registers the place where a material file (actual file) is stored, together with the title and type data of that material.

Never move, delete, or edit the actual file after registration. If you do so, the BZNP-D1 software may not be able to send the corresponding material to the NSP-1 and this will result in playout failure.

And, to register material files recorded on a CD or DVD, it is recommended that you copy those files to the hard disk of the PC before registering them. Directly registering files on a CD or DVD may cause a read error, depending on the drive you use, and result in a failure when sending materials.

1 Select [Tools] > [Run Explorer] on the menu bar to start the Windows Explorer, if this has not yet been done.

2 In the Explorer window, locate the folder where the files you want to register are stored.

3 In the BZNP-D1 Content Management window, select the tab corresponding to the category of the material to be registered.

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