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Authoring to Both Legacy and Current BrightSign Units

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Scowart
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I work for a large museum that has utilized BrightSign players for years, so I end up authoring content from HD110 units to 4k1042 units.

I use BrightAuthor 4.4.0.15 to keep the newer players current, but it does not author content for my Legacy players.  I tried to install BrightAuthor 3.8 alongside 4.4 but it would not allow that.

So my question is, apart from installing BrightAuthor 3.8 on a separate PC, is there any way to author content for both generations of players?

Thanks for your time!

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    Brandon

    You can have multiple BrightAuthor versions
    http://support.brightsign.biz/entries/43886934-Can-I-install-more-than-one-BrightAuthor-version-on-my-computer-

    Just keep in mind that only one instance of BrightAuthor can be running at a time, and be careful not to save over an old project with a newer version if you need to open it in an older version of BrightAuthor. We recommend using Save _project_ As rather than just saving over if you don't keep the HDx10 units to BrightAuthor 3.8 or lower as recommended below.

    I recommend keeping the HDx10 projects in BrightAuthor 3.8 or earlier and using BrightAuthor 4.x for anything else.
    BrightAuthor 4.x won't open a presentation targeting an HDx10 series player and BrightAuthor 3.8/earlier won't open a BrightAuthor 4.x presentation.
    So as long as you target your presentations accordingly, there should be little chance of accidentally upgrading a presentation.

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