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Overview

To synchronize videos across players in BrightAuthor:connected, you must ensure that both the presentation video zones and the player clocks are synchronized (these principles are the same BrightAuthor).

To make videos synchronize inside a BrightSign player, you must create a Link Synchronize message in a video zone and create an event to listen for that message. Once this is established, the synchronization message can be received by the video zones that are listening for that message in the Synchronize Event.

To synchronize video players that are on the same local network, you need to create two presentations. The leader presentation must have a presentation setting that defines that player as a synchronization leader, and the other presentations must be set as followers. Then all presentations will be able to sync accurately based on the clock and video player sync settings.

Creating the Leader Presentation

  1. Create the leader presentation (make sure to toggle Interactive on the top right).

  2. Add a Timeout event to the content you want to display first, then drag that event to the other content in the presentation.

  3. In Event Properties > Advanced, select Add Command.

  4. Select the Link command and select Synchronize.

  5. Toggle the down arrow to enter a Keyword. This keyword will be used to trigger follower players to start displaying content.

  6. In Presentation Settings > Interactive > Synchronization, select Enable enhanced synchronization and choose Master. This will enable synchronization of player clocks.

  7. Publish the presentation

Creating the Follower Presentation

  1. Create the follower presentation (make sure to toggle to Interactive on the top right).

  2. Add a Synchronize event to the content you want to display first, then drag that event to the other content in the presentation.

  3. In Presentation Settings > Interactive > Synchronization, select Enable enhanced synchronization and choose Slave.

  4. Add a synchronize event to listen for the Keyword you selected in step 5, above.

  5. Save and Publish. You can also select Save as and Publish the presentation with a different name for additional players (for example “Player 3 follower presentation”)

And by receiving the Sync message in the video state of Slave (Follower) zone(s).

Notes

XC5 presentations are different: create leader and follower zones in BAcon. Add a sync command that gets triggered by the word start. If you are playing videos on one Raptor player, you don’t have to sync the clocks in Presentation Settings > Interactive > Synchronization. Only needed if sync between multiple XC5 players.

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