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Putting the
“Dynamic” into Dynamic Visual Messaging (DVM)
 At TEi, we talk a lot
about Dynamic Visual Messaging or DVM technologies. We guide our
customers toward “dynamic” communications because the more interesting
your messages are, the more successful your digital signage efforts will
be.
Three easy ways to add
punch to your communications are:
► Creating Text Crawls with Color
► Using Cell Animation
► Including Graphic Links
Each of these features
of our AxisTV software allow you to be more creative in your visual
communications without having specialized graphics knowledge or
external software.
Creating Text Crawls
with Color
Text crawls are popular
with AxisTV users for delivering up-to-date news, weather and stock
information, as well as simple text messages. Get creative with your crawls by
adding color to the crawl text and/or background.
Use colors for emphasis
or to alert viewers to specific subject matter categories. For
example, change your crawl background to red and text to yellow for
alert notices, with black and white as the default for standard
communications.
The user-friendly AxisTV
GUI menu guides you through the process in just
a few seconds. Three
simple clicks allow you to set text color and/or background colors: Menu
– System | Content Settings | Crawlists.
Using Cell Animation
AxisTV users can add
animation without special skills or added software.
Using the basic “Create
Text Bulletin”
tools, you can create a series of bulletins to give
the illusion of animation. More advanced animation can be simulated by
creating bulletins in the Free Form section.
Graphic artists can have
fun with this feature, but you don’t have to have any special training
to animate your messages. The
ease of AxisTV menus allow cell animations to be created, scheduled and
displayed within minutes.
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Select
a common background and create your first bulletin
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Once
finished, click the “Group” button
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Select
the same background for each of the subsequent bulletins, but change
the text in each
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Select “Group” after each
bulletin is completed
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Click “Next” after you
create the last bulletin
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Schedule and deliver your
animation
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The
visual effect during playback creates the illusion of animated
(changing) text on the same background
Graphic Links
Automatically fetch new
images every hour, every minute or anything in between with the AxisTV
optional graphic link plug-in. Popular applications include weather
charts, traffic updates and stock price indicators.
Grab images from any of
the following:
The plug-in supports
common image formats and gives you the option to preserve your graphic's
native aspect ratio and select backgrounds as mattes (or else black bars may appear) .
Creating and scheduling
a graphic link is just as easy as a simple text bulletin – just create,
schedule and deliver along with your other communications. The menu path
is simple: Menu – Bulletins | Create External Graphic.
Utilizing these and
other user-friendly features of AxisTV, you can be creative without
adding much time or training to burden your communications staff.
What is
Dynamic Visual Messaging (DVM)?
Click for more information.
For more details on
AxisTV and our new options,
click here.
Copyright 2006. Tech Electronics, Inc. (TEi). All rights reserved.
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