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Z-Positions, Zone Messages

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Stefan
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I've tried various things to do the following, but it just won't work:

ZONE1: Fullscreen Video & Images Zone (Z-position: back), plays videos and sends out a zone message after a view videos, There is another Zone message after all videos in Zone 1 to make Zones 2-4 disappear again.

ZONE2: Fullscreen Image Zone, contains a fully transparent PNG and waits for the zone message then it switches to an image file (I am using this zone  to get a image-transition, which won't be able with the live-text item in zone 3)

ZONE3: Fullscreen Image Zone, contains a fully transparent PNG and waits for the zone message then it switches to another fully transparent PNG, waits for 2 seconds and switches to a live text item containing a RSS feed. (I added the 2 second "pause" to be sure that the image in zone 2 is fully loaded)

ZONE4: Small video & image zone, overlaying all the other Zones (Z-position: front), contains a fully transparent PNG and waits for the zone message then it switches to another fully transparen PNG, waits 5 seconds (to make sure its the last loaded item) and plays various video files.

 

So what should happen is: When two videos in zone 1 have played the image in Zone 2 should slide up from the bottom, 2 seconds later the RSS data should appear, another few seconds later the small video should appear on top of all other zones. After two other videos in zone 1 have played, Zone 2-4 should disappear and Zone 1 should start playing from the start.

 

What happens is: Zone 1 is playing as it should, but all other Zones don't appeat at all or are "underneath" zone1.

 

I though that Z-position would now feasible with the new releases, isn'r it? I attached the project to this post. I am using a XD1030 the newest Firmware and newest version of BA. In the final project the videos in zone1 will come from a MRSS feed.




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    Alex

    You can't put a video on top of an image zone in BrightAuthor. If you have an XD, you can make your image into a video and put one video on top of the other.

    Or, you can make the image a PNG with the part you want the video to show through transparent. Then you can put the image zone over the video and the video will show through the transparent regions. Images currently always go above a video.

    The front/back only apply to the video in those zones.

    Please export your project and send it to us, so we can see how it's built:

    1. Create a new folder on your computer.
    2. Open your presentation in BrightAuthor.
    3. Click on the Edit tab.
    4. Go to File - Export <your presentation name>.
    5. Browse to a newly created folder on your computer.
    6. Press OK. BrightAuthor will export the project.
    7. Close BrightAuthor, zip this folder and send a link to download.

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    Stefan

    I tried both ways, the one with the transparent PNG won't work for my project, so I made a video out of my still.

    Zone1 (video / images) plays Video-A, sends Zone Message, plays Video-B, Video-C

    Zone2 (video/ images) waits for Zone Message, plays Image File (Transition from fully transparent PNG to image), 2 second pause (to make sure the transition to the image file has finished), plays Video-D (the image I turned into a video)

    Zone3 (images) waits for Zone Message, plays fully transparent PNG, 4 second pause (to make sure Zone2 already plays the video file), plays live-text

     

    Unfortunately it doesn't work that way. In Zone2: After the image transition from the fully-transparent PNG to the Image-File (moves up from bottom), the image file dissapears, after a  few seconds the video-file (Video-D) appears.  The Live-Text in Zone3, which should be on top of the Video-File in Zone2 doesn't show up at all.

     

    Here's a link to the exported presentation: https://www.dropbox.com/s/mo626xilo2tqkf0/project.zip

     

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    Stefan

    Ok the LiveText shows up, I lost Internet connection. It works now. But I still got the problem with the image transition,

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    Alex

    I replaced the png files in two zones with the event handlers. See how playback looks like: https://www.brightsignnetwork.com/download/projects-customers/Forum/21856844.mp4

    Is this what you expect?

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    Stefan

    This is exactly what I expected. I replaced the png files in the zones with event handlers just as you did and it worked just in the video you captured. Then I replaced the video files in Zone1 with MRSS Feeds (they only contain videos), added the same zone messages as before, but it doesn't work correctly anymore. The Zones, doesn't appear and disappear as before.

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    Alex

    You should let the unit to download all video files from media rss feed to sd card.

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    Stefan

    All video files have been downloaded, but still the same problem, I exported and reuploaded the project and uploaded it: https://www.dropbox.com/s/cd2q8mds4sav3gc/PROJECT1.zip

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    Stefan

    I have to say that there are some more zones on that newer version of the project, but those shouldn't have to do anything with the problem.

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    Stefan

    After restarting my player a few times, I figured out that the overlaying Zones appear as they should when they appear for the first time, but they don't disappear (return to event handler) as they should, what I think causes the wrong behaviour that follows.

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    Alex

    Double click on the event handler and tick "Stop Playback".

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    Stefan

    Thanks. Now it works as it should :)

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