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Run the room tonight.

Three short pages take you from the disk image to a film on the wall, taken when you say and at no other time. Everything else is here for the day the room has to run itself.

Today Playery plays films and stills as playlists you take to one projector; opening hours, a slate, subtitles and a phone remote run the space when nobody is at the laptop. What it plays is the list, and a file it cannot play says so on its row.

Start here

From the disk image to a film on the wall. About five minutes, and nothing to set up.

  1. 01Install and first runOpen the disk image, drag it across, and know what the two windows are.
  2. 02Your first wallAdd a film, preview it, take it to the wall. Take is the only thing that changes the room.
  3. 03The keysEverything on the control window has a key, so a show never needs the trackpad.

Running a room

The controls that run a space when nobody is at the laptop.

  1. 01The slateWhat the projector shows when there is nothing on it.
  2. 02Loop one, loop all, onceHow the playlist runs when nobody is pressing Take.
  3. 03Opening hoursThe room opens and closes itself, and comes back after a power cut.
  4. 04The phone remoteThe playlist, blackout and volume on a phone, behind a PIN.
  5. 05The projectorWhich display is the wall, and what happens when it changes mid-show.

Files

What goes on the wall, and what to do with a file that will not.

  1. 01SubtitlesChosen per file, from a file beside the video, one you pick, or a track inside it.
  2. 02Prepare for the wallOne press turns a file the wall cannot play into one it can.
  3. 03Playlists are filesA playlist is a document you open, save, copy to a stick and open on another Mac.
  4. 04The logWhat was on the wall and when, and what went wrong, in words.
  5. 05The licenceFree within three playlists of three files; a key lifts the cap, checked on this Mac.