Creating and editing presets

Presets store information about windows, including:

• Source playing in the window
• Position
• Z order, or stacking order
• Size
• Rotation
• Border
• Flip
• Source change transitions

• System settings
• Displays

• Video walls other than the one you are working on

  For example, if you have video wall 1 and video wall 2 set up, but you have video wall 1 open in Wall Editor when you save a preset, the preset contains only information about video wall 1.

• Audio settings, including which window is playing audio, which source is playing breakaway audio, and whether you have chosen breakaway mode or audio-follows-video mode.

• Window:

  • Quality
  • Full name
  • Alias

  • Video wall

  • Fade to black

You can save all this information as a backup file.
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To prevent your presets behaving unexpectedly, follow the advice below.

Build your busiest preset first

Build the preset with the highest number of windows first. Include all the windows you want to use in all your presets. Any windows that aren't for this preset, move away from the displays, and shrink to reduce bandwidth.

Don't use presets to add and remove windows

If you want to remove a window from your display with a preset, don't delete the window.

• Move the window away from the display.

• Reduce the size of the window to reduce unnecessary video bandwidth.

  Note: windows that aren't on the display still take up bandwidth.

• Set the preset duration to 0 seconds.

If you delete a window from a video wall, that window is also deleted from any presets for that video wall.

Don't use presets to change window quality

Don't change the quality of a window that is included with a preset.

For example, if you save a preset that contains two windows of UHQ quality, and then change the quality of one window to EHQ, it will not return to UHQ when you load the preset.

If you want to reduce the video bandwidth consumed by a window, consider shrinking it instead.

Don't use 0 seconds as the duration of a transition

If your preset includes a change of source in a window, don't set the transition time to 0 seconds. For best results, set the transition time to 0.1 seconds.

Windows used in presets only appear on one video wall

You can't use windows that are included in presets on more than one video wall.

1. Create a video wall and select Presets.

   

2. Enter a name for your preset.

   Names can be up to 19 characters long, and cannot contain spaces or ".

   

3. Enter or select a duration for your preset.

   The duration is the time taken to transition to this preset.

4. Select Add Preset.

You can change the name and duration with a preset, or update a preset with a new configuration.

To change the name or duration of a preset

1. Select Presets.

   

2. Find the preset you want to edit and select .
3. Enter a new name or duration.
4. Select any area outside the dialog box to save your changes, or select Close to save and exit the dialog box.

To update a preset with a new configuration

Make sure you load the preset you want to update before you make changes.

1. Select Presets.

   

2. Find the preset you want to edit and select Load.

   

3. Close Presets and make your changes to your video wall.

4. Select Presets > Save Preset.