Session 17: Tickers

Preparation

  • There are no external assets required for this training session.

Description

Tickers form an ever more significant part in broadcast information – especially social media related content.

Session specific objectives

Creating a ticker, populated in the contents, fed by a manual text string.

Chapter 1: Creating a ticker

  • Ticker nodes tabs
  • Changing fonts
  • Number of Cycles parameter

Chapter 2: Editing the ticker

  • Spacing, Limits and Speed options

Chapter 3: Adding inputs to the Contents

  • Where to add the input

Chapter 4: Adding a Restart Ticker animator

  • Using a New Block

Chapter 5: Adding images between slugs

  • Using icons between slugs

Expected duration

1 hour

User Level

All new users

Session Project

If you want to review Justin Avery's instructor project at this point in the course, you can download the project zip here.

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