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Acquire Editor Getting Started

This document describes the Welcome Screen or Main Menu

All of your Digital Signage projects will be listed here. Double click on an existing project to edit it or add a new project.

Setting Up Acquire

The first time you use Acquire you may wish to set up your editor.

 

Key.

  1. Database Server: Access point for access to the Acquire Database engine. Unless advised to change this, leave it in the default setting.
  2. Database User: Username for access to the Acquire Database engine. Unless advised to change this, leave it in the default setting.
  3. Default Database Pass: Default Password for access to the Acquire Database engine. Unless advised to change this, leave this in its default setting.
  4. External Trigger: If you are using a trigger device to control the pages Acquire displays, select the connection here (note: USB devices use an app if they are incapable of simulating Serial or ‘Keyboard Wedge’ access).
  5. Editor Grid Size: Let’s you select the size (in pixels) of the Page Designer page grid.
  6. Default Page Size: When you create a new project, its page size is selected here. However, before changing any pages you can select an alternative screen size in the Project settings. Note that although the Acquire player will automatically scale the content to fill the screen, there will always be a small variation when scaling between screen formats and the player will have to work harder on each page change. We recommend choosing the native screen resolution for the remote players for each project.
  7. Editor Border Colour: If you are using a higher resolution than your selected screen size, the un-editable area is highlighted in this colour.
  8. Grid/Selection Colour: Here you can set the colour of the grid that is displayed in the page editor.
  9. Guide Colour: Here you can set the colour of the guides that are displayed in the page editor.
  10. Configure Player: This opens the Player (not Editor) configuration settings window.
  11. Proxy Configuration: Allows your Editor to deploy via a proxy server
  12. Users: Here you can set up user accounts for the Acquire Editor. User accounts allow separate access rights between users.
  13. Use VMR Control for DirectShow Videos: Uses an alternative method of displaying videos. This is not compatible with all hardware.
  14. Show Welcome screen on start-up: Enables or disables the welcome screen when the Acquire Editor starts.
  15. Check for updates: Checks for Acquire program and app updates etc.
  16. New Pages Default to ‘Locked’ State: Marks page as locked.
  17. New Script (playlists) Entries Default to ‘Locked’ State: Marks playlist as locked.