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ShadowSonic asked a question in Tightrope Media Systems on April 15, 2009 16:57:

Got a couple of questions to ask about Carousel

What is the difference between the 2 options in the Field Style area in the Template editor? All I know is that Editfield won't let you do line breaks.

What's the difference in choosing the different sizes for a block? Small, Medium, and Large don't seem to do anything.

And what does Track Impression Count do? If it creates a log somewhere, where is it located?

ShadowSonic shared an idea in Tightrope Media Systems on March 25, 2009 17:51:

Bulk image bulletin uploader idea

I think it would be awesome if there was a bulk picture bulletin feature. It would be like uploading a single new bulletin as a picture but where you go to select your picture, there are multiple boxes (maybe up to 10?) where you can select images. The different images represent different bulletins. After selecting as many as need, you would continue like normal and be brought to the schedule screen. From there, you select your schedule dates and they would be programmed to the other picture bulletins as well. Same goes for Timing and Transitions. When you hit finish, all the picture bulletins will be grouped together with the same scheduling/timing/transitions. And from the Manage Bulletins tab, you could simply ungroup them.

ShadowSonic replied on March 24, 2009 17:23 to the idea "Fade to black or white before videos" in Tightrope Media Systems:

You can easily add a white fade in Windows Movie Maker to the video (if you know how, it's fairly simple)

ShadowSonic started following the idea "Fade to black or white before videos" in Tightrope Media Systems.

ShadowSonic asked a question in Tightrope Media Systems on March 19, 2009 20:02:

Can Carousel display 2 different Channels at once on 2 different monitors?

I have a solo-220 and wondering if Carousel can display separate channels on separate monitors. As in, one monitor has one channel being displayed and the other monitor has the other channel being displayed using one Solo-220.

ShadowSonic replied on March 19, 2009 15:52 to the idea "Please add line-break function to text blocks!" in Tightrope Media Systems:

Actually, I'm pretty sure the problem lies with the Field Style option. In the template editor, right under where you can name a block, there's an area called Field Style. Change it from EditField to TextArea and your line breaks will appear.

ShadowSonic replied on March 13, 2009 16:01 to the question "Video sometimes won't play in a bulletin" in Tightrope Media Systems:

Actually, I found a workaround for this problem. I remember someone saying something about Carousel using Windows Media Player to play the videos...or maybe I'm just imagining things. Anyway, I took a chance on thinking: "hey, if it uses WMP, maybe if I have it video playing and looping and then run the display engine, maybe it will work!"

And to my surprise, it's actually playing every time now. Now this isn't a fix but more of a temporary solution for anyone else having issues.

ShadowSonic replied on March 13, 2009 15:48 to the question "Always have templates/backgrounds available?" in Tightrope Media Systems:

Well I guess I'd like to suggest that maybe for a suggestion, that maybe Carousel can have a feature where you upload templates/backgrounds in a media library somewhere and whenever you make a new zone, the templates/backgrounds will be resized to that zone automatically.

ShadowSonic asked a question in Tightrope Media Systems on March 12, 2009 21:33:

Video sometimes won't play in a bulletin

I have a video clip in a bulletin (not uploaded as a bulletin) and it won't play, it's just displays a black rectangle. Once in a long while it will play. It's a .wmv format and it plays just fine in Windows Media Player. Any idea what's causing this? I think I made a topic about this before but disgarded it.

ShadowSonic replied on March 11, 2009 18:07 to the question "Crawl/Flash?" in Tightrope Media Systems:

I believe having a flash video uploaded as a bulletin will always stretch to the size of the zone. I don't think a crawl can resize the video, unless I missed something.

ShadowSonic asked a question in Tightrope Media Systems on March 11, 2009 18:05:

Always have templates/backgrounds available?

So I got the new templates and backgrounds, nice work. Anyway to have templates and backgrounds always available when making new zones? When I make new zones and go to templates, it always says none are available and I need to reupload them every time.

ShadowSonic shared an idea in Tightrope Media Systems on March 10, 2009 18:58:

When will a full background/layers idea be implemented?

I'm pretty sure everyone would want this and just wondering when we would be able to have a full background for a channel and not slice up images from a background to have it in each zone so it will make up the background.

While on a similar subject, will there ever be layers for zones? If there we're an order for layers, we could make one whole zone a background and have the other zones on top of that. And I'm sure other people can think of many ways for layers as well.

ShadowSonic asked a question in Tightrope Media Systems on January 05, 2009 22:14:

training

Is the Dealer Training video sessions available to our clients for Tightrope/Carousel?

ShadowSonic asked a question in Tightrope Media Systems on December 12, 2008 21:03:

RSS Feed Commercial Application

For commercial applications regarding RSS feeds, is there a cost assoiciated with displaying them.

ShadowSonic replied on December 04, 2008 04:09 to the idea "Show how long a bulletin goes in the Manage Bulletins section" in Tightrope Media Systems:

Yes I know, I'm just suggesting that, as shown on Grayson's picture of the 2 bulletins, I'm suggesting that it would be awesome if it also displayed how long each bulletin plays for.

ShadowSonic replied on December 02, 2008 23:56 to the idea "Show how long a bulletin goes in the Manage Bulletins section" in Tightrope Media Systems:

I didn't mean by how long it will go by schedule, I guess I meant to say how long it plays for. Like 7 seconds then it'll switch to another bulletin.

ShadowSonic shared an idea in Tightrope Media Systems on November 26, 2008 22:37:

Show how long a bulletin goes in the Manage Bulletins section

I see Owner, Active, Type, and Transition for each bulletin but it'd be really nice if it also displayed how long that bulletin plays for.

ShadowSonic reported a problem in Tightrope Media Systems on November 26, 2008 22:35:

Possible bug with ordering bulletins?

I was first in the My Bulletins tab and I went to do some reordering and I dragged one of my bulletins up to the top and realized I can't do this in the My Bulletins tab so I just grouped it near the one wear I wanted it. Then I went to the All Bulletins tab. Then ungrouped those 2 bulletins and geez-la-weez, it just scrambled all my bulletins in a random order!

This a bug or did I do something wrong?

ShadowSonic asked a question in Tightrope Media Systems on November 26, 2008 19:36:

Is there a step by step tutorial for Carousel?

Is there any step by step tutorials for Carousel? As in, for example, a tutorial that walks you through how to set up a simple channel, going through all the bulletins and zone work. Is there any out there? My boss suggested that if we get more people to work with Carousel, that I should write a tutorial to give them the basics of how Carousel works. And once they've done the tutorial, they can hopefully apply the knowledge that they've learned into creating their own channels and whatnot. I guess it would basically be some kind of basic training I suppose.

So is there any guides, walkthroughs, tutorials out there? I know there are training videos but what if there's no internet? =P

ShadowSonic replied on November 25, 2008 04:31 to the problem "Bulletin Packages are bugged!!!" in Tightrope Media Systems:

Well the cloning issue has been solved, and I see no need to use the Bulletin Packages at the moment, but the topic about the Bulletin Packages still needs to be looked at. I was told by a TRMS Support person in the chat room that saving my bulletins in a package will also save the schedule dates and transitions. Which obviously turned out false. Now either he might not been 100% sure or my memory is a bit fuzzy. Either way, shouldn't putting bulletins in a package keep all that stuff? Or atleast keep it in the same order =/