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Tightrope Media’s Digital-Signage Software Update

Published

14 years ago

January 20, 2010

Susan Conner Signs of the Times January 2010 Issue

Tightrope Media Systems (St. Paul, MN) has released Carousel 6.0, a software update to the Carousel Digital Signage System. The software update includes improvements to the Template Editor used in the bulletin-creation process, the utility of Alert Bulletins and the functionality of the Remote Data Adapter.
The Template Editor in Carousel 6.0 has been completely rewritten to increase its utility and ease of use. Editing is now a drag-and-drop process; text blocks are simply dragged into position, into shape and into size. Blocks can be easily duplicated, rotated, ordered, and also positioned within the template using the new "snap-to" guides, which allow the user to align the blocks relative to one another. Tightrope has also added basic HTML formatting for text blocks, block shadow, block gradient and block reflection enabling users to quickly create highly stylized bulletins.
Additional content creation enhancements in Carousel 6.0 include the ability to preview the content you are working on "full screen" during the creation process. Tightrope also added the ability to automatically create seamless backgrounds with Carousel 6.0. A user can import a background from a graphics program such as Adobe Photoshop, onto a multi-zone channel layout, and Carousel will automatically break up the image in accordance with the pre-established zones.
Carousel s Remote Data Adapter (RDA) enables bulletins to be called and/or generated by XML data strings thereby opening virtually unlimited application possibilities. In Carousel 6.0, player status can be polled with the RDA, bulletins can now be selected via pre-defined tags, and bulletins can also be assigned to multiple zones by name or tag. In Carousel 6.0, the triggering of alert bulletins has been reduced to milliseconds, and any bulletin can be moved or copied into the full screen alert zone.
Founded in 1997, Tightrope Media Systems is the pioneer of web-centric digital signage and audiovisual head-end automation systems. It provides station automation, video servers, internet video on demand, live streaming, the Carousel Digital Signage system, and Zeplay, a multi-channel instant replay machine for stadiums and arenas
(866) 866-4118; www.trms

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