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Each cell in the grid can be used to display a media file or launch a session.
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Content Folders
These are folders containing media files which are constantly continually monitored by ICE. The list of content folders are maintained in the Config > General dialog. A reference to each image or video file in a content folder is stored in the ICE database.
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To add a content folder, select Config > General. On the Media tab, press the '[+' ] button to the right of the content folders listbox. Navigate to a suitable folder containing media files, e.g. C:\Igloo\Content, and press Open. The selected folder will be shown in the content folders list and it will be monitored for new files being added.
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Please note that sub-folders of a content folder are not monitored. |
Content Banks
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To add a content bankContent Bank, press the Add Content [+] button and select New content > Content Bank.
Set Note the layer is set to be Pinned by default so that it isn't removed upon returning to the Homescreen.
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The Content Bank contains 8 grids, each with 50 cells. A The name of the associated media file or session is shown in the cell and a cell with no corresponding content is labelled ‘empty’displayed as a blank cell. The currently selected grid is highlighted with a blue edge, and the current cell is highlighted with a green edge.
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To add content to a cell, right-click on the cell and select Load. This pops up the Load Content dialog and, from the Media Files tab, you can select one of the files from the content folders. Once selected, the cell is updated with the filename. The Content Bank layer will also display the media file.
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TIP: Make sure you save the workspace if you want to save any changes to a Content Bank layer. |
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You can also drag and drop media files directly from Windows Explorer onto a cell. |
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For more advanced content, you can also use the Load menu to link a cell to a session. When the cell is clicked, the session will be launched. This behaves the same way as the Load Session menu item, and removes any unpinned layers before loading the layers from the session. |
Content Bank Geometry and Effects
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The ContentBank layer settings act as global settings properties for all the cells in the Content Bank. Right-click Click on a cell and select Edit to modify the local settings for the cellshow the properties of the cell in the layer properties, and click on the word ContentBank above the grid to show the global properties. |
Each cell in the content bank has its own geometry settings which are contained within the overall content bank layer settings i.e. they are relative to the top-level geometry settings. In the Effects tab, any effects added will apply to the current cell only.
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Right-click Click on a cell and select Edit to access the cell’s geometry settings (this only applies to media files, session properties are only accessible by loading the session and clicking each layer).
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The settings window will change as below to indicate the geometry settings of the cell are now displayed. Remember the Container in this case is the ContentBank layer itself rather than the whole canvas.
Clicking the ContentBank text (on the top right-hand side) will return back to show the layer properties of the ContentBank gridlayer itself.
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