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In V5, changing the Red, Green, Blue values of a colour did not affect the colours of items that had already been assigned to that colour.
In V6, adjusting the colours affects every item that has been asigned that colour and every colour can be given an opacity value (transparency) This makes it possible to rebrand NTB layouts into new coropate colours very quickly.
Because every new layout gets colours created for it automatically, it is possible to end up with a confusing collection of colours.
Create a set of corporate colours for use in preference to auto-generated colours and delete unused colours.
In V5 it was not possible to make moving text have a properly transparent background or make it appear to fade away at the end.
V6 can support alpha blending. Colours can be made transparent by setting opacity to zero. Text can be made to move under a small zone that has a fade from transparent to solid to make the scroll appear to fade away.
Alpha blending currently uses significant CPU power and may cause scrolling text to slow down.
If so then it can be disabled: go to Setup | Screen and disable "Compositing"
In V5 the Schedule ran on a weekly rotation. It was not possible to schedule a layout more than seven days in advance.
V6 can have more than one schedule. There is always a default schedule which behaves exactly as the schedule did in V5. Additional schedules can be added but they must have a start date. Besides having a start date, they are configured just like the default schedule: they need a default layout and can had additional layouts added to them. They will kick in and take over from the default schedule on thae given date. This allows you to schedule layouts weeks in advance.
Users familiar with V5 should be aware of the subtle change the the Schedules page.
Click the "Edit" button to get to the default schedule page that you were familiar with.
In V5, each text item in a playlist had to have the same style (font, colour, etc).
In V6, parts of each text item can be given different styles using the new rich text editor.
Avoid copying and pasting from web pages and Word documents as this will put things like images and hidden tags
into the text box and the text may fail to appear on the screen.
In V5, updating the software was a manual process.
V6 NTBs can be configured to update themselves automatically, see the new feature in the "Setup | Updates" page.
In V5 the entire video filled the zone.
V6 zones can "zoom" or "window" in onto a part of a video in the same way that this could be done in V5 HTML zones. This makes it possible to show 16x9 TV in a 4x3 zone - cropping off the left and right edges. To make this feature available, go to "Options" and change your user level to "Detailed".
In V5, ad-hoc folder play items had a default content folder created inside the folder. If the main folder was empty, the contents of the default folder were played instead. Ad-hoc users could, therefore, access the default content.
In V6, there is a new top level folder called "ad-hoc_media". Folders added to playlists and made ad-hoc get a matching folder created in the ad-hoc_media branch. If the ad-hoc folder has any content added to it then this content will play instead of the content in the main folder. Ad-hoc users can be given access higher levels of the ad-hoc_media to manage more than one folder.
V6 NTBs can subscribe to V5 channels and install V5 layout packages but the reverse is not true. If upgrading the NTBs in a channel to V6, do the publisher last.
You can simply type in the output resolution of your screen into the Setup | Screen page and it should just work if your screen is VESA CVT compliant.
V6 NTBs show a thumbnail image of the output on every page and playlist pages have a blue marker to indicate which item is currently playing.