Creating and managing a Ticker project

Ticker projects work by reading the information from .txt files ( including Unicode encoding ) and displaying the contents by crawling across the screen We will start this example by making a new Ticker project by selecting New->Ticker Project

Then choose a name for the project

Then select a folder that contains the text files that contains the information to be displayed by that Ticker

In the Item’s window there is a Ticker item , basically a 2D Text item that has the property Crawl enabled. A Ticker item can be edited in the same way a 2D Text item can be edited

You can change the starting location of the Crawl by changing the Y position. You can use the Draw Area to restrict the display of the Crawl to a part of the screen.

In order to improve the visibility of the Ticker a Rectangle item is usually added behind the Ticker. The rectangle keyframe must be set on “Infinite Loop” in order to be stay on screen indefinitely.

Some other properties of the Ticker project are listed on Properties page that can be displayed by right-clicking on the project name and selecting "Properties".

You can select whether the text files will be deleted after being displayed or will be recycled. The separator between messages can be modified

By clicking on Refresh , the modifications will be sent On Air and to the Live Manager application. To put the project OnAir just click the IN button. To stop the project from being displayed OnAir click on the OUT button. The Live Manager offers you the possibility to change the speed on the fly. In “Pause” the ticker will stop displaying and when the “Resume” will occur it will display starting with the last message that has not displayed completely.