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Daktronics Show Control System
Table of Contents
About this Handbook ......................................................................................................................................... i
Getting to know your Show Control System ................................................................................................. 1
Your User Station .................................................................................................................................................................................. 1
Your Control Rack ................................................................................................................................................................................ 1
Digital Media Players .......................................................................................................................................................... 2
Video/Image Processors ................................................................................................................................................... 2
Navigating the Show Control software .......................................................................................................... 3
How do I open Display Studio? ...................................................................................................................................................... 3
Display Studio’s Interface .................................................................................................................................................................. 3
Opening Content Studio ................................................................................................................................................................... 5
Some Content Studio Terminology............................................................................................................................................... 6
Content Studio’s Interface ................................................................................................................................................................ 7
Interface Components ....................................................................................................................................................... 7
Content Studio Ribbon ...................................................................................................................................................... 8
Content Studio Plug-Ins .................................................................................................................................................... 9
Creating a presentation: Part 1 ......................................................................................................................11
Create a new presentation ............................................................................................................................................................. 11
Open an Existing Presentation ..................................................................................................................................................... 13
Adding and deleting layouts ........................................................................................................................................................ 14
Adding a layout ................................................................................................................................................................. 14
Inserting a layout .............................................................................................................................................................. 15
Deleting a layout ............................................................................................................................................................... 15
Adding images and video to a presentation .......................................................................................................................... 15
Image Import ...................................................................................................................................................................... 17
Video Import ....................................................................................................................................................................... 19
Adding text elements....................................................................................................................................................................... 22
Create a text box ............................................................................................................................................................... 22
Formatting text .................................................................................................................................................................. 23
Formatting paragraphs ................................................................................................................................................... 26
Add Scrolling Text ............................................................................................................................................................ 28
Adding Real-Time Data (RTD) fields .......................................................................................................................................... 30
Locating the correct RTD field ..................................................................................................................................... 31
Adding an RTD field to your presentation .............................................................................................................. 32
Changing the length of an RTD field ........................................................................................................................ 32
Adding Media RTD to your presentation ................................................................................................................ 33
Adding Color RTD to your presentation .................................................................................................................. 35
Creating a presentation: Part 2 ......................................................................................................................36
Adding element effects ................................................................................................................................................................... 36
