An info screen project is completed once you finish arranging its timeline. In other words you have to place all scenes in some order and give them durations to round up the project. You will do all that in the Project Timeline floating panel. If the panel is not currently visible on the screen just enable it in the View menu.
If your info screen project has only one scene then there is nothing much to do with its timeline. The first scene of the project is always added to the timeline automatically and gets the default duration of 12h. You will want to make adjustments there only if you want to set a shorter duration for the only scene of the project. When a project plays to the end it automatically starts a new round from the beginning and that happens even for single-scene projects. You can find this fact useful if the scene should update with fresh contents from its online sources.
We explained that the first scene of the project is added to the project's timeline automatically. For all other scenes you have to do that by yourself. This is made like this for a purpose. Rememeber that you have full freedom in assembling an info screen project including the possibility of using the same scene as many times in the timeline as needed.
To add a scene to the timeline simply drag it from the Scene Selector onto the empty scene placeholder that is always at the right end of the Project Timeline. There is also the Add Scene To Timeline option in the Scene menu and a similar option in the context menu available when you right click a scene in the Scene Selector.
Each scene in the timeline gets its own timer to control the duration within a project with three boxes representing duration in hours, minutes and seconds. The default duration for scenes you add to the timeline is 1h.
You can rearrange the order of scenes in the timeline through drag & drop. To remove a scene from the timeline right click on it and choose Remove from timeline option from the context menu or select the scene and press DELETE on the keyboard.
To preview the project press F6 on the keyboard, choose Preview Project option from the Project menu or click the corresponding button on the workspace toolbar. Note that this kind of preview always starts with the first scene and plays in real time. If your scenes have long durations you can use runtime commands to control the project's execution. To exit the preview press ESC or ENTER, LEFT/RIGHT ARROW to jump to previous/next scene, HOME/END to jump to the first/last scene.
Once you are satisfied with the project's timeline the development is over. Choose Save option from the Project menu or press the corresponding button on the workspace toolbar and you are ready for deployment. |