Specifications

12 Chapter 1 Introduction
SOFTWARE OVERVIEW This section gives a brief introduction to the WATCHOUT production software.
Stage Window The Stage window allows you to organize the displays (screen areas) to reflect
their expected placement. It also provides a preview of the end result, and
allows you to manipulate the placement and movement of images.
Timeline Media files are dragged from your hard disk into a timeline window, where
they appear as cues. Each cue features a thumbnail icon of the media. You
determine timing and duration by adjusting the position and length of these
cues. The horizontal layers in the timeline window represent the order of over-
lapping images, back-to-front.
Media As media is added, thumbnails representing the media files also appear in the
Media window. This acts as a central repository for all media used in your
presentation. It provides information about each media file, and allows the file
to be easily accessed for editing or other purposes.
Cues and Tween Tracks The cues in the timeline window can be enhanced by applying tween tracks.
Tween tracks control the dynamic behavior of media on stage, such as posi-
tion, size or transparency.
System Management As you make changes to the presentation, those changes can be transferred to
all the display computers by a single keystroke. This automatically transfers
any media you have added, or modified, to the relevant display computers
and shows the result on screen. As the media files and cues are cached locally
on each display computer, the show is ready to run at any time by simply
pressing the spacebar.