ViewSonic MultiView User manual

Feature-Rich Digital Signage
Creation Software
MultiView is a fully featured software application
that lets you create and manage content for
impactful video walls. MultiView supports all picture
formats,most video formats, texts, web pages, PDF
documents, Flash animations, PowerPoint les,
and TV broadcasts. With ViewSonic MultiView, a
professional digital signage presentation is quickly
and easily composed, scheduled, and delivered
for the dynamic playback. The software allows you
to split your screen into multiple zones; each having
different content, set transition effects for pages and
individual objects, add music and much more.
Video Walls Made Easy.
ViewSonic®
MultiView
Get a complete, easy to use video wall
solution with a wide range of possibilities.
A single multimedia source to build
a video wall up to 5x5 (25 monitors).
Save implementation and
maintenance costs.
Easy-to-use icon (drag-and-drop)
development tools.
Grab your audience attention by
high-quality digital signage content
ranging from plane text to Flash
animations and TV broadcasts.
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THE BEST PRICE/PERFORMANCE
RATIO ON THE MARKET
There is no need to connect
monitors to multiple sources,
the price of the complete
solution is signicantly reduced.
>THE SMALLEST EFFORT AND THE SHORTEST
LEARNING CURVE ON THE MARKET
Owing to the use of the most popular media formats
and a very intuitive MS Ofce-like user interface, ViewSonic
MultiView requires less IT, programming, and designer efforts
in comparison with competitors’ software packages.
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THE BEST PLAYBACK QUALITY FOR A WIDE SET OF POPULAR FILES FORMATS
ViewSonic MultiView is the only software package on the market which offers high quality
playback for many combinations of various le formats. This distinguishes it from many
competitor products, where the number and combinations of supported formats have to
be reduced to reach an acceptable playback quality.
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Feature-Rich Digital Signage Creation Software
MEDIA FORMATS
Pictures – All picture formats, including
formats with transparent background and
animated picture formats.
Videos – playback of WMV, MPEG1, MPEG2,
DIVX, MPEG4, MP4, MOV videos as well as
streaming and HD videos.
Microsoft PowerPoint – support of Microsoft
PowerPoint presentations created with
2000-2007 versions of Microsoft PowerPoint.
The player is able to playback multiple
PowerPoint presentations simultaneously
Adobe Flash – support of Flash animations
with transparent background and online
placed Flash les.
Adobe PDF – PDF documents are scrolled
automatically based on a schedule.
RSS and Text – texts and RSS feeds are
supported as slider or ticker. Tickers can
be designed using different fonts as well
as pictures. Tickers can run over video
background.
Web – certain web page regions can be
selected and dynamically displayed on
the screens.
TV – analog and digital (ATSC, DVB-T, DVB-S,
DVB-C, NTSC) television.
>FEATURES
Easy Conguration of the Video Wall – set
the number of displays in the video wall and
display resolution with a few mouse clicks.
Video Wall Conguration Preview – an
overview of display matrix with page regions.
Display Grid in the Page Designer – there is
an option to display grid, so the user can
see the borders of the screens in the video
wall when designing a page.
A Variety of Deployment Scenarios – network,
USB, removable media.
ATSC TV Standard Support – the software
provides support for ATSC TV standard as well
as the European standards.
Split Page into Regions – the user may split
each page to be displayed on the video
wall into multiple regions and add a
separate content to each one.
PLAYBACK
Performance – a special technology
manages seamless playback of media
objects without visual and loading effects.
24/7 Operation – the player software has
been developed for 24x7 playback.
DISTRIBUTION & MONITORING
Player Monitoring – the video wall is
monitored around the clock. In case
of failure, the playback immediately
starts again.
Visual Control – screenshots from displays
are sent live to the server and are available
for visual control.
Intelligent Content Distribution – media
projects are downloaded and transferred
incrementally and directly to the video wall
with time validation.
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CONTENT MANAGMENT & SCHEDULING
A Modern User Friendly Interface – the
user interface was developed according to
Microsoft guidelines; therefore it signicantly
reduces the learning curve.
Timeline – display time of media objects
is indicated as a chart and can be easily
customized using the mouse.
Dynamic Sequences – the software mixes
the playlists automatically using repeat rate
and time ranges during which spots should
be displayed.
Scheduler – content sequences can be
assigned to certain times of the day or
special events via calendar similar to
Microsoft Outlook.
Media Search Service – search service for
the media on the DVD or on the corporate
network.
Backgrounds – it is possible to use colors,
color transitions or pictures as a background.
Background Sound – music or audio effects
can be assigned to separate media
elements.
Visual Effects – it is possible to assign sliding or
fading effects to the whole pages or
separate media objects.
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ViewSonic®MultiView
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1MultiView Single Zone Design Template
2MultiView 3x3 Screen Format Design Template
3MultiView Dash Board with Content Ready for Publishing
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