Specifications

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Add Composition Add a Composition to the Media window. A composition allows you to group
images together (including their tween tracks) in a way that can subsequently
be used as a media item on other timelines. See Chapter 6 “Using Composi-
tions” for some examples.
See “Composition Settings” on page 154 for a description of the fields in the
dialog box shown by this command.
Add Computer Screen This feature allows you to incorporate a live image of a computer screen into
WATCHOUT. This can be used to show Excel graphics, Powerpoint slides, a
Web browser, or similar software applications, as part of your presentation.
The image displayed on the source computer’s screen is sent continuously via
the network to the WATCHOUT display computers, where WATCHOUT
composites it with other media. For example, you can put a plain Powerpoint
presentation on top of a large, high-resolution background, thereby enhancing
it with all the high-quality presentation capabilities of WATCHOUT.
To incorporate such a computer screen into your presentation, follow these
steps:
• Install, activate and configure VNC server software on the remote computer
(see “VNC Server Software” on page 20).
• Add a Computer Screen media item to the Media list using this command
on the Media menu. Configure it as described below.
• Drag the computer screen object from the Media list onto the Stage, and
program it using cues as any other image element.
The same capabilities apply to computer screen images as any other images.
For instance, you can program its position, scale and opacity. Since the