ProPresenter-Scoreboard

ProPresenter-Scoreboard
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Setting up your Mac
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Installing Scoreboard
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Registering Scoreboard
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Selecting a sport
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Scoreboard Output Preferences
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Scoreboard Overview
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Scoreboard Controls
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Baseball
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Lacrosse
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Soccer
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Football
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Basketball
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Scoreboard Editor
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Scoreboard Documents
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Macros
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Advertisements
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Setting up your Mac
ProPresenter Scoreboard requires OS X 10.9.x or newer to run. It is also designed to be run in
a dual-monitor configuration, with one monitor being your computer screen and the second your
scoreboard.
Due to the nature of scoreboards, particularly LED boards, the resolution of the scoreboard may
be lower than the actual output resolution of your Mac. Please refer to the manufacturer’s
information about configuring the hardware for your display.
You will need to select the output resolution from your Mac. To do this, follow the steps below:
1. Click on the Apple icon in the upper left corner of your screen and select System
Preferences.
2. Click on Displays.
3. Click the Gather Windows button in the lower right corner. This will relocate the Display
settings for your second screen to your computer monitor.
4. Select the Display settings window for the second display.
5. Press the Option key on your keyboard while clicking on the Scaled option. This will
reveal a list of supported resolutions.
6. Select the correct resolution that your hardware needs.
7. Confirm the changes and close System Preferences.
You should now see the desktop background image on the scoreboard surface if everything is
connected correctly. If you are not seeing this, verify all of your connections and then contact
support for your scoreboard hardware.
Our support team is unable to assist with troubleshooting the physical setup of most scoreboard
systems, so please make sure the hardware is working correctly before contacting our team at
Renewed Vision.
Once you have the computer connected properly, continue to installing ProPresenter
Scoreboard.
Installing Scoreboard
Scoreboard will download as a standard .dmg file on your Mac. Open the disk image and then
drag the application icon to the Application folder in the installer. This will install Scoreboard into
your Applications folder. Once the application is done installing, press Command-E to eject the
disk image, or drag it to the Trash in your Dock. Open Finder and navigate to the Applications
folder to open the program.
Registering Scoreboard
If you have purchased Scoreboard, enter your license information in the window that is shown
when you first open the program in Finder. You can also click the Buy Now button to purchase
Scoreboard or Try It to run the program in the watermarked demo mode. Click Submit to
activate Scoreboard and remove the watermark. You will be prompted for your Administrator
username and password for your Mac.
Selecting a sport
After you enter your registration information or select Try It you will be able to choose the
primary sport you want to use. Click on the sport’s logo to load the custom scoreboard layout.
Scoreboard currently supports baseball, lacrosse, soccer, football, basketball, and hockey.
Additional sports may be added through in-app updates.
You can change the active sport at any time by selecting the Actions menu and then choosing
Change Sport. You’ll be shown the same window again and can select a different sport.
Scoreboard Output Preferences
Once you have installed Scoreboard and opened a Sport, you will need to adjust the output
preferences in ProPresenter Scoreboard.
Click on the ProPresenter Scoreboard menu item in the top left corner or press Command +
comma on your keyboard. Click the Display tab in Preferences.
If your computer is properly connected to the external display, you should see two screens
indicated here. The one with the white bar across the top is the computer screen. If the word
Output is not positioned on the second screen, click on the word and drag it to the second
screen.
The order of the two displays reflects the Arrangement layout in System Preferences and the
screens can’t be repositioned within ProPresenter. This only affects the direction you move your
mouse to reach the second screen.
At the bottom of the window, manually enter the resolution of your scoreboard. In the example
shown on the previous page, the actual resolution of the second output is much larger than the
scoreboard’s resolution, so the Output screen is indicated by a smaller box, but shown relative
to the actual resolution.
If you are using an LED scoreboard, you will most likely need to select the arrow to position your
screen in the upper left corner. This may vary depending on your setup and the hardware you
are using.
We recommend selecting the Display at Top Most Window Layer and Show Output at
Launch options. This will prevent any other screens or the mouse from showing on the
scoreboard screen and it will ensure your scoreboard turns on immediately when the program
opens.
Scoreboard Overview
Scoreboard includes the standard scoring for each sport, with custom layouts for displaying the
scoring information. The screenshots below show the main scoreboard controls for each sport.
Each sport will be covered in more detail following this section.
Each scoreboard is shown on the left in the preview window so that your scoreboard operator
can see exactly what the spectators are seeing, even if he can’t see the actual scoreboard. The
controls for the scoreboard are to the right.
There are additional layers to each scoreboard for displaying media such as advertisements,
player introduction videos, and other images or videos you use during a game. These features
will be covered later.
Shown below are the main scoreboard controls for Baseball, Lacrosse, Soccer, Football, and
Basketball.
Scoreboard Controls
The controls for each sport are all fairly similar, and should be familiar to you even if you’ve
never used a score board controller before. In this section, we’ll briefly cover the different
sections of the scoreboard controls.
Baseball
The Baseball scoreboard starts with nine innings. If your game goes into extra innings, the
program will automatically add the innings for you. As you add more than nine innings, the early
innings will disappear off of the scoreboard. Scoreboard can only show a maximum of nine
innings at the same time.
Team names can be replaced by updating the Visitor and Home labels. This will also update
the names next to the current At Bat buttons.
Selecting the At Bat team will change which team the scoring controls change. If the home team
is selected, then balls, strikes, out, hits, and runs, as well as the inning score count, will be
updated. Errors will apply to the away team.
The New Batter button will reset the ball and strike count.
You can also click on any number and manually type in the new value. For example, if there is a
grand slam during an inning, instead of clicking the run button four times, you could click in the
score box for the inning and type ‘4’, then press return on your keyboard, to have it show up
immediately.
If you are playing a game with fewer than nine innings, or have a small scoreboard and can’t fit
that many inning boxes, you can click on the pen icon in the upper left corner of the scoreboard
and then update the Visible Innings option on the Scoreboard Editor screen.
Lacrosse
Team names can be replaced by updating the Visitor and Home labels. This will also update
the names next to the Possession buttons.
Each team has controls for Score, Shots On Goal (SOG), Saves, and Time Outs Left (TOL) that
can be updated by clicking the plus or minus buttons above each option. Lacrosse also includes
a penalty section that is updated by entering the player number, selecting the penalty time, and
clicking the Add Penalty button.
Clicking the Possession controls will change the possession indicator on the scoreboard if you
have one enabled in your layout.
You can also set the current Period and the Game Clock. To update the Game Clock, type in the
minutes and seconds that you need for the current period, or for time corrections, and press
return on your keyboard. You can reset the clock by clicking the reset button next to the clock.
Clicking the Start button will start or stop the clock.
Soccer
Team names can be replaced by updating the Visitor and Home labels.
Each team’s scoring includes Shots On Goal (SOG), Saves, and the Score, which can be
changed with the plus and minus buttons, or by typing in a number and pressing the return key
on your keyboard.
You can update the current period with the control located in the middle of the scoreboard.
The Time Settings at the bottom of the Soccer Scoreboard make it easy for you to adjust the
start time for each period or overtime, as well as set the Extra Time clock.
Football
Team names can be replaced by updating the Visitor and Home labels. This will also update
the names next to the Possession buttons.
Each team’s scoring includes +1, +3, and +6, as well as the corresponding minus values if a
play is over turned. You also have control over Time Outs Left (TOL).
The Down, To Go, and Ball On values can be updated incrementally with the plus and minus
buttons, you can click in each box and type in the correct value, or you can click the Update
button to quickly update all three values simultaneously.
The Possession button changes the possession indicator on the scoreboard. You can also
update the current Quarter and Game Clock. To change the Game Clock, enter the correct time
in minutes and seconds in the smaller box, then press the return key on your keyboard. The
reset button with reset the clock and stop it from running.
Basketball
Team names can be replaced by updating the Visitor and Home labels. This will also update
the names next to the Possession buttons.
Each team’s scoring includes +1, +2, and +3, as well as the corresponding minus values if a
shot is over turned or too many points added. You also have control over Fouls, Bonus shots,
and Time Outs Left (TOL).
The Possession button changes the possession indicator on the scoreboard. You can also
update the current Period and Game Clock. To change the Game Clock, enter the correct time
in minutes and seconds in the smaller box, then press the return key on your keyboard. The
reset button with reset the clock and stop it from running.
Scoreboard Editor
The Scoreboard Editor is the same for all sports. The only difference is one option that is
available for baseball, as mentioned in that section of the manual.
To access the Scoreboard Editor, click the pen icon in the upper left corner of the scoreboard.
When you click, the main screen will change to the Scoreboard Editor. The pen icon will change
to an ‘x’, which you will click to close the editor and return to the scoreboard.
This is what you will first see when you open the Scoreboard Editor. The editor consists of three
main areas: The Scoreboard Document, Macros, and Advertisements.
Scoreboard Documents
Scoreboard Documents are the layouts for the scoreboard. In most cases you will select Edit
Scoreboards. You would only need to use Select Documents if you have been sent a
scoreboard layout from someone that you want to load into the software.
Click on Edit Scoreboards to open the Editor to adjust an existing layout or create a new
layout. You will see this when you open the Editor.
The left column will show you a thumbnail of every layout you have available. You can click the
plus button
at the bottom of this column to add a new blank layout. You can also use
Command + C and Command + V to copy/paste an existing layout that you want to adjust.
The middle section is your workspace. This is where you can select, move, arrange, and add/
delete elements from your scoreboard layout. The tools across the top allow you to add
additional objects to the layout: Text, Shape, Draw Shape, Image, Video, Live Video, Web Page,
and Text Ticker. Clicking on the Ruler will show/hide the ruler. The last two buttons are Move
Forward and Move Backwards for the selected object relative to other objects on the slide.
The column on the right has five sections: Document Properties, Slide Properties, Slide Builds,
Object Properties, Text Properties, and Image/Video Properties.
Before you begin modifying or create a layout, click on the Document Properties tab. You will
need to update the Document’s size to match your output setting. If the size doesn’t match, you
will see a yellow alert triangle, like the one shown below. Click the alert to quickly update the
document size. If you are creating a layout to use on another computer, be sure to use the
Custom Size option to set the document to the correct size for that display.
You will mainly be working with the Object Properties and Text Properties. Object Properties is
where you will link the slide objects to the scoreboard data, using the Data Link option.
Each sport has a unique set of Data Link options. The image above is from Basketball. As you
can see, there are options for all of the same properties that exist on the scoreboard. Some
Data Link values are team specific. These are indicated by ‘teamOne’ or ‘T1’ depending on the
sport.
As you are creating a new layout, select the object on the slide and then link it to one of the
Data Link options. Make sure that anything that is not a dynamic value is set to None in the list
so that it doesn’t display something it shouldn’t.
Team One is always the first team shown on the scoreboard control screen, regardless of if you
have the team set as Home or Away. In baseball this is the top team, in all other sports, it is the
team on the left of the scoreboard. Team Two is the second team.
Object Properties has other standard layout settings as well, such as size and position, fill and
outline colors, and shadow properties.
The Text Properties tab uses standard text control tools. Select text boxes to change the font
settings for those boxes. Multiple text boxes can be changed simultaneously.
Macros
Macros are used to show content that you want to replace the scoreboard. You can use videos
or still images here. The most common usage of a Macro would be for things like a flag for the
national anthem, graphics to introduce players, or game animations. You can use Macros to
display any media that you want to be shown full-screen on your scoreboard display.
Adding media to a Macro is easy. Find the file you want to use in Finder and drop it onto the
Macro box. You can also rename the Macro to make it easy to know what will play and you can
lock it to prevent changes. You can also add a live video input as a Macro; right-click on the
Macro to add Live Video.
Macros will show a thumbnail of the media after you have added the cue to it.
After you have added media to Macros, close the Scoreboard Editor. You will see the Macros
lined up at the bottom of the Scoreboard screen. Click any Macro to play the media cue. When
a Macro is playing, it will look liked a pressed button. It also toggles the scoreboard off, so click
the Scoreboard Off button to turn the Scoreboard back on and to clear the Macro.
To delete a Macro, return to the Scoreboard Editor, select the Macro, and press the delete key
on your keyboard.
Advertisements
ProPresenter Scoreboard makes it easy for you to place ads on your Scoreboard and increase
revenue.
You will need to create one ore more ad zones for the ads to be shown in. To get started, click
on the Zone Editor button on the Scoreboard Editor. You will see a window similar to the one
shown below.
Click the + Zone button at the bottom to create a new zone. Select the zone and change the
name. You can also change the color of it so that you can identify ad zones by color if you have
more than one.
If you know the exact location for the ad zone, you can enter the size and position manually. You
can also drag and resize the zone directly in the window on the right.
Click the visibility icon to the right of the zone name to show or hide an ad zone in the Zone
Editor. Click a zone name and press the delete key on your keyboard to delete a zone.
Make a note of the size of your zone(s) and close the Zone Editor.
Advertisements can be still images or short videos. If you use videos, you will want to make
sure that the Display Duration time is the same length as the video, otherwise it will be cut short.
We also recommend making the ad media the same size or aspect ratio as the ad zone so that
no scaling has to be done. This also prevents the ad content from becoming distorted.
Ads need to be located in the same folder on your computer, but you can have multiple ad
folders linked to the program. To add a folder of ads, click the plus button below the
Advertisements section and select the folder in Finder. This will add the folder to the list. Once
you have the folder in the list, click the dropdown menu and select which zone to show the ad
in. You can also change the duration for the ads. This is a global setting and cannot be set
individual for each ad.
You will need to click the Scoreboard On/Off button to toggle the scoreboard to get the ads to
show. As of the current version (build 14248), there is no refresh or update option for ads. There
is also not a way to clear the ads. We are looking into options for both of these and will update
this manual once they are available.
The Ad Report will give you a table with information on which ads were shown, and how many
times they were shown. You an use this information for billing or for promoting your ad space to
new advertisers. The ad report is broken down by day so that you can see exactly what was
shown on which day, home many times, and for how long. You can print this information directly
or export it to a spreadsheet.