SpotMagic’s SpotComposer software is the development tool for building Spots. A Spot is like an intelligent media player that can be endowed with a playlist of different media, and instructions for how those media should behave. Spots are used as the building blocks for interactive, multiple-media applications.
The SpotComposer allows you to combine any number of Spots into Scenes (layouts of screen display and progressions of time) letting you create in a new, higher level of production above individual assets or media types.
Create a Spot. Drop a media asset into it. Set the properties for its playback or display. Tell it what you want it to do, and when you want it to do it. Combine all of the elements with a drag and drop, and then digitally distribute them the way that you want. Spot will sort them all out and put them back together with the exact timing, and in the exact way that you, the Producer, defined, everytime.
Use SpotComposer to create custom user interfaces or add interactive graphics and web links to your audio CDs. The possibilities are endless, without ever writing one line of code.
For more information, check out the SpotComposer Developers Guide after you have installed the SpotTuner.
SpotMagic's SpotComposer Suite is the development environment, asset manager, and playout control room of the SpotMedia system. The SpotComposer enables the creation, configuration, scheduling, and control of Spots and SpotMedia.
SpotComposer Features:
- Networked/Groupware development environment
- Multiple document interface
- Single dockable toolbar, clean uncluttered interface
- Scene Editor
- Rapid development environment for creating and arranging Spots into a presentation unit, or application component
- Standard desktop publishing layout mechanisms including: cut, copy, paste, group, alignment tools, layer controls, sizing tools, grid tools
- Layout and dialog view spot properties editing
- “Plug in” live media (video, web sites. Etc.) in the layout environment
- Import/Export individual spots, or groups of spots as Scenes
- Print/Print Preview current viewable state and contents inventories
- User customizable editor defaults
- Scene file locking at three levels: read access, editor access, and author access
- Source META info properties (subject, author, copyright, etc.) for the Scene
- JScript and VB Script addition to a scene, and Download/Open file action in Spot is disabled in the Lite version of the Scene Editor interface
- Single code key will unlock JScript and VB Script, and enable Download/Open file action in Spot
- Scene Preview
- Preview Offset time setting
- Edit ‘raw’ and ‘published’ scenes
- Scene Contents Browser
- “Explorer” style Tree View scene/spot property editing
- Multiple scene view
- Drag and Drop Spot duplication and layer manipulation
- Drag and Drop Media Step duplication and order management
- IDVMedia File Utility – Asset compression Tools
- Multiple compression types: Lossless, Lossy (with user variable compression ratios)
- Source META info properties (subject, author, copyright, etc.) saved with compressed asset
- Full Size “after compression” preview
- Re-Pathing Tools
- Re-path individual or grouped spots, or the entire scene
- Path contextual replacement (path “mid string” replacement)
- Asset aggregation to the new path (file copying)
- Scene Publisher
- Wizard assisted utility for packaging SpotMagic Scenes into Shows
- Aggregates base scene and all linked scenes into working directories for posting to a server
- Handles server specific URL pathing of all linked scenes and assets
- Aggregates and walks through compression of all linked assets
- Enables alternate transport paths
- Import “Tuner button” show graphic
- Import Windows icon for SpotTuner branding
- Enable synchronized external media or devices (e.g. VCR, Cdaudio)
- Sequence Editor
- Sequence naming
- Iconic/Thumbnail tree view of imported scenes
- “Drag in” or network browsing for importing scenes
- Creates “passive viewing” sequences of SpotMagic scenes
- Sets relative start time per scene
- Input of Scene “Read Access” key per scene
- Shows all linked scenes within, and referenced by, the passive sequence
- Doubleclick scene icons to open in the Scene editor
- Sequence Preview
- Preview offset time setting
- Sequence Publisher
- Wizard assisted utility for packaging SpotMagic Sequence of Scenes into a Show
- Aggregates all linked scenes into working directories for posting to a server
- Handles server specific URL pathing of all linked scenes and assets
- Aggregates and walks through compression of all linked assets
- Enables alternate transport paths
- Import “Tuner button” show graphic
- Import Windows icon for SpotTuner branding
- Enable synchronized external media or devices (e.g. VCR, Cdaudio)
- Enable synchronized “show-level” streaming media
- Adds “Splash” scene functionality
- Variable start synchronization and show looping settings
- Broadcast Scheduler
- Real-time scheduling of SpotMedia Sequences
- Playlist Templates
- Manage unlimited individual "channels"
Spot Features:
- Named, fully Windows compliant COM object and ActiveX control
- Multimedia player supporting: .BMP, .DIB, .EPS, .JPG, .PCD, .PCX, .PNG, .PSD, .TGA, .TIF, .WMF, .RTF, .TXT, .ASF, .AVI, .MOV, .MPG, .WMV, .AU, .MID, .MP3, .RMI, .SND, .WAV, .WMA, .SMT, .ASP, .JSP, .HTML, .HTM, ActiveX controls (such as: Macromedia’s Flash, REAL Network’s REAL player, etc.), MCI devices (CD player, video capture, TV/radio tuners), and SpotMagic Scene (.SMF, a SpotMagic Scene is a collection of Spots), and SpotMagic Shows (.SMS, a SpotMagic Show is a collection of SpotMagic Scenes)
- Visibility control (a Spot can be instantiated but not visible, for example)
- User selectable border styles
- Media display styles: centered, tiled, stretched to fit, stretched maintaining aspect ratio, scrolling, not scrolling, rotation, mirroring
- Media playback parameters: device id, track or channel, volume, start time, end time, number of times to play
- Background color
- Key color transparency and Window region support
- Multi-lined text captioning
- Built in Mouse-over property change per media
- Menu driven interaction scripting for “When Clicked”, “When Done Playing”, and “When time Passes”
- Built-in interaction behaviors: Progress list, Jump to in list, Hyperlink, Hide object, Show object, Change Display Layer, Move/Resize Object Absolute, Move/Resize Object Relative, Send Click to Object, Download/Open file, Invoke Email, Change Object Property, Invoke 3rd Party Property/Method
- Unlimited play lists (steps) of media and interactions per Spot
- Scriptable with JScript or VB Script
- Use an unlimited number of Spots together as a SpotMagic scene
- Source META info properties (subject, author, copyright, etc.)
- Multiple media acquisition transports, including: FAT/NTFS, NetBios, CD:, http:, ftp:, and local cached
SpotPalette Features:
- Media asset thumbnailing and type aggregation
- User definable directory subsets
- Works with local and network sourced assets
- User definable thumbnail size
- Doubleclick to open assets in associated software
- Drag and drop assets into Spots
- Login to Media Service Provider
- Manual or scheduled refresh of remote lists
- Asset auto-acquire
SpotConductor:
- Login to Remote Management Service Provider
- VNC remote client access
- Remote Management of SpotKiosks through partnered service provider
