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Content Studio: How do I configure custom time out indicators via sport media RTD

Topic

  • How do you create MediaRTD for Time Outs in Content Studio?
  • I want to use dashes or some other graphics to represent the timeouts.
  • Media RTD fields are fields that display images for real time data fields, instead of alphanumerical data. 
This article is meant to show you how to put Media RTD into use. Refer to Show Control System: How do I create content with sport media RTD fields?

Environment

  • Product: Content Studio
  • Components: All Sport 5000
  • Control System: Show Control System

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Steps

Saving media

DMP-8000 Supported File Types:  VMPL, VMPF, AVI, BMP, JPG, JPEG, PNG, MPG, MPEG, and SWF
  • Images must stored in the MediaRTD folder, located under C:\Program Data\Daktronics\VNET4\Content\MediaRTD

DMP-7000, see Venus 7000: How to display bitmaps based on data fields?

Naming media

  • Images must match the same name as the RTD field it will be linked to.
  • Time Outs come into the Daktronics system identically as the numbers 1, 2, 3. For example when there are 3 timeouts entered, the data field is the number 3. Therefore, the files for time outs should be named 1.png, 2.png, 3.png.
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Import the RTD field

  1. Drag & drop the data element into your presentation. Game In Progress: Football
  2. Check the "Is media RTD" checkbox.  
  3. A popup window will open. Browse to the image you wish to associate with the RTD Field.
  4. When you select a file, you are not necessarily selecting the image that will always appear, rather a place holder that will allow you to properly place where you want the Media RTD to appear. The content that appears will depend on the naming of the files and the corresponding data.


What content studio RTD field to use

  • Game In Progress: Football - (Home/Guest) Time Outs Left - Total (For this example, we are using football)
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  • The source of timeout data will come from the All Sport.

Considerations

  • Typically, brightly colored dashes or shapes are used as the indicators for time outs on top of solid-colored backgrounds. Often times, place holders for used time outs will be slightly grayed out or darkened to indicate where they will go.
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  • The number of time outs will update automatically as the numbers are entered into the All Sport.

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