Daktronics Venus 1500 Ver 2.x - Manual (Page 32)

The Venus 1500 Message Studio 5-4
Message
On the toolbar above the Message Studio editing
area, four buttons are used to add and delete frames.
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Delete Frame” will remove the current frame from the message.
The lower right corner of the frame
editing area lists the current frame
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To move from one frame to the next, click on the
appropriate button. “First Frame” will move to
Frame 1 of the message. “Last Frame” will move to
Alternately, you can jump directly to a specifi
of the screen.
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he length of time a frame remains on the display, once all of the entry effects have been
ompleted, is set in the Frame Duration (Sec) box. Increasing the number will hold the frame
sing the number will cause the message to move to the next frame at a faster
oing to the next frame.
· When copied, the new frame’s duration is the same as the original frame.
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messages cannot be less than 0.5 seconds. Lower frame durations
Clear F
o remove all text and graphics from a frame, select Clear from the Frame pull-down menu.
Adding & Removing Frames from a
he copy immediately after it.
If either a new graphic frame or new text frame is
added, the frame is placed at the end of the message.
“Insert Copy” duplicates the current frame and plac
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Moving Between Frames
number out of the total numbe
frames that are in the message
(represented as a fraction, shown at
right).
the final frame.
c frame by clicking on its thumbnail at the right side
Frame Durat
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longer, while decrea
rate. Values must be between 0.0 and 99.9.
The frame duration is measured in tenths of seconds. For example, if a frame’s duration is set to
2.2, the frame will hold 2.2 seconds before g
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Note: A separate number can be set for each frame in a message. When frames are added or
copied, the hold time for each new frame behaves as follows:
· When added, the new frame’s duration takes the default from the Editor defaults box
(refer to Section 5.14).
· Due to the mechanical nature of the Glow Cube displays (the cubes actually flip over),
frame duration for their
may result in irreparable damage.
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