Sony Bznp-D1 User Manual

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Playlist Preparations
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Playlist Preparations
To play back the desired contents on an NSP-1, you need 
to prepare “playlists” that specify the order and 
combinations of materials and “schedules” that identify 
the time and date when a playlist will be used, together 
with the materials, such as video and text files.
The “schedules” contain both “daily schedules” and 
“periodic schedules.”
What is a Playlist?
The NSP-1 has six layers, and the six types of material that 
the BZNP-D1 software manages are played on the 
designated layers, respectively.
The “playlists” describe the order of material to be played 
on each layer. An NSP-1 automatically plays materials on 
the respective layers, according to the playlist.
Materials that appear on the same line of the playlist will 
be played simultaneously on the NSP-1. The positions and 
sizes of these materials are designated as “layout” and 
saved in the playlist.
Playout order
The following figure shows an example of a playlist.
The leftmost Start Time column displays the start time of 
each line. This is counted from the start time of the playlist.
Then, there are columns corresponding to the NSP-1 
layers, and the events (material) that will be played on the 
layer are specified in the cells. An event is a piece of 
material specified in a cell on the playlist. The color of a 
cell in which an event is specified is light blue.
Events specified on the same line will be started 
simultaneously at the time specified in the Start Time 
column.
Layout settings
“Layout” designates the positions and sizes, on the display, 
of the contents of the events that are listed on the same line.
The following table shows the NSP-1 layers and the 
materials to be played on the respective layers.
Note that graphics material can be played on any of the 
background, graphics, or logo layers, and that web page 
and Flash movie materials are played on the graphics layer.
Upon playout, the layers (except for the audio layer) are 
overlaid in the order shown in the following figure.
The layout settings (the sizes and positions of the layers) 
can be adjusted by using the Layout Settings command 
that is shown when you right-click a line (except for the 
Audio layer column) of the playlist.
The order of overlay cannot be changed.
Playout order
Start time
Layers on an NSP-1
Layout settings
Layer
Materials played
Background
Graphics
Graphics
Graphics, URL (Web pages), Flash movies:
displayed under the video layer.
Video
Video, MPEG4 streaming video, video signal 
input via the NSP-1 VIDEO IN connector 
(with accompanying audio input via the 
AUDIO IN connector)
Logo
Graphics:
displayed in front of the video layer.
Text
Text
Audio
Audio
Note
Graphics (2)
Logo (4)
Video (3)
Text (5)
Background (1)