Sync Presentation Zones within a Player using BOS 9.0.101+ and BA:connected 1.19.3+
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As of BrightAuthor:connected 1.19.3 and BOS 9.0.101, Link Synchronization and it’s follower component, called the Synchronization Event, are used to synchronize content. Hardware (clock) synchronization is no longer needed.
This section has a video tutorial:
Syncing Presentation Zones on a Single Player
Create your zones and name the leader and follower zones.
Make all of the zones interactive:
In BrightAuthor:connected version 1.47.2 or later, select Advanced for each zone, as shown in Image 1a.
In BrightAuthor:connected versions before 1.47.2, toggle on Interactive for each zone, as shown in Image 1b.
Select the leader zone and add the content elements to synchronize.
Add your timeout and transition commands to the content.
Add UDP commands to the content with indications like “start” and “end” that can be used to trigger transitions as shown in Image 2.
Select the timeout and transition commands on the initial content, and add the Link command and Synchronize command parameter under Advanced. Enter whatever Keyword you have chosen to start the content.
Do the same for the content that should play after the initial content. Use the keyword “end” (or whatever keyword you have selected) in the final command that returns you to the initial content. See the image below.
Select all of the content and commands and copy them to each of the follower zones. Delete the events, since only Synchronize events are needed in the follower zones.
Now add Synchronize events to all of the content in the follower zones and specify the necessary Keyword (for example, “start” or “end”). Your presentation is now ready to publish.
Syncing Presentation Zones on Multiple Players
To synchronize clocks in multiple players on the same local network, you should have multiple presentations. The leader presentation must have a presentation setting that defines that player as the leader, and other presentations must be set as followers.
These instructions assume that you have set up the timeout and transition commands in your zones and added the Link Synchronize advanced command as described in steps 1-7 in the section above:
Select the leader presentation.
In Presentation Settings > Interactive > Synchronization (under the Networking tab), select Enable and choose Leader.
Select a follower presentation.
In Presentation Settings > Interactive > Synchronization, select Enable and choose Follower.
Make sure that Domain is set to the same value for both the leader and the follower presentations:
For example, if the Domain of leader is set to 10 make sure that the follower(s) are also set to 10.
The Domain value differentiates each set of synchronized players on the same network so multiple synchronized presentations sets can exist on the same network.
Do this for all follower presentations, then Save and Publish. You can also select Save as and Publish the presentation with a different name for additional players.