Venus Control Suite Onboarding
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FrameWrx Onboarding
Creating Display Ready Content
FrameWrx Business & Community Subscription enables anyone, anywhere to design graphics and animations for digital boards and ideal for business and community content creation. This annual subscription gives two users access to this online software where they can create and export content. Choose from a variety of professionally designed templates, edit the text, and personalize with your business’s colors, fonts, photos, and logo. Or, design content from scratch! This version is perfect for maximizing the power of digital displays and social communication to amplify advertising and influence customer decisions.
What can I do with FrameWrx?
Students and staff of any ability can create digital content from Daktronics-designed templates. These templates are specifically designed with your display layout in mind. Graphics such as player profiles, feature entitlements, announcements, sponsor recognition and much more can easily be created in this program.
Each template creates a branded visual connection with fans as they arrive at your facility. Strategic designs enhance the overall live-event experience and are made for the versatility of video displays, social media or print. It's easier than ever before on any zone to entertain fans, promote school successes, showcase sponsors and engage students all within your video display.
Create Brand and Best Practices
Brands give the ability to categorize and apply design elements to accounts and templates in Framewrx.
You can use Brands to make elements available to designers creating Templates and the end users creating Projects from existing Templates. Brand Assets including photos, fonts, school colors, team logos, and videos can be added under the Brands tab. The Admin/Instructor should upload the Brand Assets into FrameWrx so the designers can use them in their content. This will ensure that the content looks cohesive and aligns with the school's own brand.
Add Brand Assets
Under each Brand you can store photos, fonts, colors, and logos. Photos must be PNG or JPEG files and can be tagged for easy filtering. Fonts must be .ttf, .otf, or .woff files. You can add fonts for specific styles and set defaults. Colors will render as each palette that you have made per Brand. They can preview as either CMYK/SPOT or RGB. Logos must be an SVG file. You can upload design elements for simple placement onto a design.
Projects and Templates
FrameWrx has ready-made templates tailored to reflect your unique brand identity and specifically designed with your display layout in mind.
Create New Project from Templates
Templates are Admin/Instructor approved designs that are available for Users/Students to customize. In order for a design template to be available for your Users/Students, it first needs to be published.
How do I create and export display ready content from a Template?
Using Brand Assets
Designers and Admins are able to use Brand Assets directly in the Templates they are creating for users. Each type of asset can be leveraged in a unique way.
Leveraging Brand Assets as an Admin
Photos
When selecting images, you will see a Brand Photo button. It goes to the Brand Photo gallery, where you can add photos or select Brand images while masking images into shapes, SVGs, or setting backgrounds.
Fonts
While setting your font for a text field there is a section directly above System Fonts where you can choose a Brand (if not already chosen) and the fonts specific to that Brand will populate here for use.
Colors
When selecting a color, there is a dropdown above the color section to select a Brand if not already selected. Once selected, your Brand palette will render and you can toggle between any other palettes that have been added to that Brand.
Logos
When selecting images, you will see a Brand Photo button. It goes to the Brand Photo gallery, where you can add photos or select Brand images while masking images into shapes, SVGs, or setting backgrounds.
Leveraging Brand Assets as an End User
Users can also leverage their Brand assets while creating Projects from Templates assigned to them. Admins can choose to leave unlocked the buttons on any element within the design. Users will have the ability to access their own Photos, Logos, Fonts, and Colors if left unlocked on a template.
Uploading Non Brand-Specific Assets
Editor Tools
The Framewrx editor allows you to edit text, add stock images and videos, full motion editing, audio, remove background, and more!
Stock Images and File Types
FrameWrx offers free, paid, and custom media galleries that can be plugged directly into the editor. These can be used by both admins while creating Templates and by Users/Students while customizing their own Projects. Search within FrameWrx for the asset needed and simply place the photo, icon or video. Click the Images Tile to get started with uploading media, using brand photos or a variety of stock images and icons.
Easy Background Removal
Photo editing features make it easy to design professional-level content. One of these features is the Background Removal Tool, which quickly deletes unwanted imagery that distracts from the subject of your photo.
Using Shapes
Images can be nested inside any shape. If you add a circle to your canvas and want it to be replaced with a headshot, the headshot would be masked inside of that circle. Masking requires that the image or video takes up the entire space of the shape.
Video Editing
The Editor allows for multiple video files to be uploaded and stitched together to create a Video Project. Videos can be imported from other Projects in Framewrx or from an external file.
How to Create New Templates
Templates are admin-approved designs that are available for your end users to customize. In order for a design template to be available for your users, it first needs to be published.
Once a Template is published, you will not be able to make any changes to it. The only way to edit a Template would be to find and edit the source Project, re-publish the Template, and delete the existing Template.
Create and Export Projects
How to Create a Blank Project
When creating a new Project, you will have the option to start from scratch or from an existing Template. You can create a new project from two locations, the Create tab or the Projects tab. You can also delete a Project from the Projects tab by clicking on the ellipses and selecting the delete option.
How to Export Projects
Once your content is crafted, it's time to export and put it on your display... or share it across social media and any other channels you choose for utilizing these content pieces.
How do I create and export display ready content from a Template?