user's manual atmosphere media player 9

atmosphere media player© - Version 9

The atmosphere media player© is the core component of the atmosphere platform. This user’s manual outlines the new features of version 9 and the process of registering for the platform, installing the player on an Apple computer and creating playlists and schedules online or locally.

Requirements of atmosphere V.9

The atmosphere media player© has been developed for the Apple MacOS platform. The operating system should be Catalina (10.15) or newer. The atmosphere content has two Ultra High Definition resolutions 3840x2160 and Cinema 4K 4320x1920. This is the list of Apple computers that can play UHD resolution:

Requirements are the following:

• Mac mini (Late 2014), (2018)• iMac (21,5”, 2017)• iMac (Retina 4K, 21,5”, 2017)• iMac (Retina 5K, 27”, 2017)• MacBook Pro (Retina, Late 2013) and later• MacBook Air (Early 2015) and later• MacBook (Retina, 12-inch, Early 2015) and later• Mac Pro (Late 2013)• iMac Pro (Late 2017)

This is the list of Apple computers that can play Cinema 4K 4320x1920 resolution: Requirements are the following:

• MacBook Pro (2016 and later)• iMac (21,5”, 2017)• iMac (Retina 4K, 21,5”, 2017)• iMac (Retina 5K, 27”, 2017)• Mac Pro (Late 2013)• iMac Pro (Late 2017)• Mac Pro (2020)• Mac Mini M1 (2020)

All mac computers can play standard UHD 3840x2160 since 2017.

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1. Registration a. Activation email d. Reset password

2. Client portal a. Home b. Dashboard c. Video library d. Audio library e. Playlists f. Programmes g. Schedules

3. Client portal programming a. Previewing content b. Creating and editing playlists I. Creating a playlist folder II. Creating a standard playlist III. Adding content to a standard playlist IV. Editing content in a standard playlist V. Creating a filtered playlist VI. Adding content to a filtered playlist VII. Creating a combined playlist VIII. Adding content to a combined playlist IX. Permanent and loudness function c. Creating and editing programmes I. Creating a programme folder II. Creating a programme III. Editing a programme d. Creating and editing schedules I. Creating a schedule folder II. Creating a schedule III. Editing a schedule e. Assigning schedules to players

4. Getting the atmosphere media player 9 a. From your distributor (pre-installed) b. From your registration email c. From the atmosphere client portal

4. Installing the atmosphere media player a. Activating your first atmosphere license b. Activating pending licenses c. Download queue and new videos d. Updating atmosphere

5. Using the atmosphere desktop app a. The atmosphere library screen I. The control bar II. Playing single or multiple videos b. The playlists and programmes screen I. Creating a playlist II. Editing a playlist d. Creating and building programmes I. Creating a programme II. Building a programme III. Programmes playback behaviour e. Keyboard short cuts

6. atmosphere preferences configuration a. General options b. Local content I. Creating a library II. Importing from a library c. Schedule I. Using local schedule II. Using online schedule d. Security e. Controllers f. Content updates g. Video wall controller I. Setting up the Datapath FX4 II. Using a private network III. Connecting the Datapath FX4 h. Network Playback I. Setting up Network Playback with two computers II. Loading content for Network Playback i. ArtNet output

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7. Launching atmosphere at login a. Automatic launch on boot

8. Extension modules a. Network Playback I. Playlists - network mode b. ArtNet output I. Setting up Lightkeys II. Creating matching colours scenes in Lightkey III. Setting up cues in Lightkeys IV. Setting up DMX inputs triggers for individual colours V. Setting the ArtNet output of the atmosphere media player VI. Setting up triggers for videos

9. atmosphere iPad Controller a. Download the atmosphere iPad controller b. Connect to the atmosphere media player© c. The atmosphere control screen I. The library screen II. The control bar III. The schedule screen d. Creating a new playlist e. Re-order and delete videos in a Playlist f. Create and schedule programmes I. Schedule programmes g. Network Playback h. atmosphere settings I. Options II. Security III. Schedule IV. Updates i. Points to note 10. Setting the Apple system preferences

11. Case studies

12. Contact

1. Registration

The atmosphere platform requires registration to uniquely identify each customer to the system. In the atmosphere platform a registered customer identifies a business. The registration process captures a user email as the contact person for your organisation. After registering you will be able to access your account with a unique account identifier (sent to your contact email). Your account identifier is confidential information and should not be shared with anyone not authorised for your organisation.

Go to: https://shop.atmosphere-media.com

• On the log in page click on register.

• Fill the register form. Be careful to not misspell your contact email. This email address will be used for activating your account and for all communications from the platform.

• Enter a password between 8 and 12 characters.

• Please read attentively the End User License Agreement (EULA).

• Click on register

• An activation email will be send to your email account.

a. Activation email

Following your registration, you will receive an account activation email. This email contains your personal account identifier AM……. Please retain this email for future access to your atmosphere account.

• Click on ‘Activate my atmosphere media account’ to activate the account.

Note: The account activation email can take a few minutes to arrive. If you don’t see it in you mail inbox, please check your spam folder.

Congratulations, you can now log into your account with your account identifier and your password. Go to: https://shop.atmosphere-media.com Enter your Account Identifier AM….. and password and click “Log In”.

b. Reset Password

If you forgot your password, you can reset it on the log in page:

• Click on ‘Forgot password?’ • Type your account identifier • Click on ‘Reset password’

An email will be sent to your registered email address with a new password. Please use it to log in and change it with a personal password as soon as possible.

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2. Client Portal

Logging in to the atmosphere client portal gives you access to information about your installations and licenses as well as the possibility to control and manage your atmosphere players centrally.

Download atmosphere player latest version

Visit atmosphere websites

Edit your account

a. HomeUnder the home button you can always download the latest version of the atmosphere media player©. You can also click on various links to learn more about the various atmosphere products.

Account: allows you to edit your login and business details. To enter edit mode you must select the edit pen . Changes must be saved.

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b. Dashboard I. Installations

The dashboard gives information about your licenses, product names, license codes, installation name and status.

Installations: show you all installations (players) and their license status per venue. Green: all licenses are active. Red: one or more licenses have expired. By clicking on a player

Installations

Installation with actual playing schedule

Add a new venue

and selecting the edit pen you can change its schedule. Add venue: you can add a venue for one or more installations in your organisation. When installing a new player you will be able to chose between the different venues.

Edit mode: click on the edit pen to enter edit mode.

Active license(s)

Expired license(s)

Edit mode

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II. Products

Products: by clicking on a product you can see the installations (players) that have this product license, the license code and its status.

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Select a product

License code

License status

Installation

Venue

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c. Video library

This presents a view of the atmosphere video content available for your installations. The video content depends on the licenses you have purchased. Recently added: shows the last hundred videos added to the library.

Categories: shows the different categories of content available (e.a. Ambient films, Animations, Live music, etc.).

Channels: a channel is a complete set of videos available from a product (e.a. Purchasing the “atmosphere hospitality music” product gives access to the “atmosphere live music” channel).

Series: are ongoing collections of videos that atmosphere expends over time (e.a. The “USA Ambient” Series contains all ambient films from the US. When a new film is produced it will be added to the USA Series).

Albums: shows the list of music albums available. An album is a close set of videos, comparable to a CD.

Artists: shows the list of artists in alphabetical order.

Views: You can chose between icon view and list view. List view gives additional information about artists and duration.

Recently Added

Categories

Channels

Series

Albums

Albums

Icon and list views

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Attributes: All atmosphere videos have metadata that help specifying their main characteristics; country, colour, feature, feeling, music genre, etc. Attributes allow you to locate videos with similar tags and create playlists extremely fast.

Active menu: selecting the ‘Active menu’, allows to create new playlists with all items shown in the icon window or with selected items. It is also possible to add content to existing playlists. You can also search playlists.

Attributes

Jazz Sub-category

Music genres

Active menu

Create new playlist with all items

Add to existing playlist

Search playlists

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d. Audio Library

This presents a view of the atmosphere audio content available for your installations. The audio content depends on the licenses you have purchased. Recent songs: shows the last audio songs added to the library.

Artists: shows the list of artists in alphabetical order.

Attributes: All songs have metadata that help specifying their main characteristics:

• Genre: atmosphere has defined over 100 precise music genres and sub-genres to facilitate the building of playlists.

• Hits: helps you to find quickly music from each decade 50s, 60s, 80s, etc..

• Language: allows to select all songs from a specific language.

• Mood: music is not only defined by genre but also by the mood it generates. atmosphere has defined multiple moods for each song of the library; Active, neutral, passive, positive pleasant, melancholic, romantic, sexy.

• Type: regroups further characteristics like Instrumental music, live music, Vocal (Accapella, duet, rap, vocal female, vocal male). Under Type you will also find different Radio playlists listed by target groups (14 to 39, 30 to 60), different party playlists (Afterhour, Club 54, Ibiza chill out, club night, etc..) as well as DJ sets.

Artists list

Attributes

Recently Added

Attributes

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e. Playlists

The playlists window allows the creation of video and audio playlists.

Command bar: allows you to create or erase playlists and playlists folders.

After clicking on the plus icon to create a new playlist, the “Create New Playlist” window opens. Write a title, select between 3 types of playlists (standard, filtered or combined). You can also add the new playlist to an already existing folder. The minus icon allows you to erase playlists or folders.

Allows you to create new folders

The edit pen in the command line allows you to edit folders’ names. The edit pen in the content window allows you to enter the edit mode for a playlist. Permanent playlists: an atmosphere audio player doesn’t keep all playlists at all time. However if you wish to keep a playlist on a player select permanent.

Loudness: The atmosphere player preferences allows 2 different reference loudness for a location, normal and loud. You can set playlists to this loudness

Action menu: allows you to copy playlists or move them to a folder

Permanent playlist

Action menu

Copy or move playlist

Playlist

Audio playlist selected

Playlists Folder

Automatic loudness

Command bar

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f. Programmes

The programmes window allows the creation of video and audio programmes. A programme is a succession of playlists at a specific time

Start hour: choose the start hour of your programme based on your venue opening hours.

Command bar: allows you to create or erase programmes and folders

After clicking on the plus icon to create a new programme, the “Create New Programme” window opens. Write a title and add the new programme to a folder if you wish.

The minus icon allows you to erase programmes or folders. Allows you to create new folders.

The edit pen in the command line allows you to edit folders’ names. The edit pen in the programmes window allows you to enter the programme edit mode. Action menu: allows you to copy a programme or move it to a folder.

Time segment bar: allows to change the granularity of the programme time

Action menu

Programme

Command bar

Programme start

Programme Folder

Time segment bar

Enter a name

Add programme to folder

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g. Schedules

The schedule window allows the creation of weekly schedules. Daily Programmes are going into schedules.

Command bar: allows you to create or erase schedules and folders After clicking on the plus icon to create a new schedule, the “Create New Schedule” window opens. Enter a schedule name and add the new schedule to a folder if you wish.

The minus icon allows you to erase schedules or folders. Create new folders.

The edit pen in the command line allows you to edit folders’ names. The edit pen in the schedule window allows you to enter the schedule edit mode. Action menu: move a schedule to a folder.

Schedule

Weekly Schedule

Schedule Folder

Enter a name

Add schedule to a folder

Command bar

Action menu

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3. Client Portal Programming In this chapter you can learn step by step how to create playlists, programmes and schedules and address them to your players for automatic play. Following our examples and chronological procedures will help you understand the structure of the user-friendly atmosphere portal.

a. Previewing content

You can preview all available content on the atmosphere client portal. This will help you to create playlists. When the mouse hovers above an audio or video cover, the play icon will appear.

• Click on the play icon to open the preview pop up window

• play and scroll through the video

b. Creating and editing playlists

The Playlist window allows you to create as many playlists as you wish. It is important to organise these playlists into folders to keep an easy and quick overview of all playlists created.

I. Creating a playlist folder

• Select the ‘PLAYLISTS’ tab and then click on the folder icon in the command bar at the bottom left side of the window.

• Enter the folder name in the ‘name’ field. As an example, we call this folder Live Music.

Save the new created folder

Note: use the edit pen to edit the name ofexisting folders.

You can create further folders to organise your future playlists using the same procedure. In this example we created folders per playlists categories (Live Music, Ambient Films,..) or per location (Wellness & Spa, Beach Club, Lobby ).

Create folder

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II. Creating a standard playlist

• Click on the icon in the command bar

• Enter your playlist name in the ‘Title’ field(In this example: Jazz Music Instrumental - PL)

• Under the ‘Media Type’ drop down menu, choose between ‘Audio Playlist’ and ‘Video Playlist’. As we want to create a video playlist, we choose ‘Video Playlist’

• Choose the ‘Playlist Type’ you want to create between ‘Standard Playlist, Filtered Playlist and Combined Playlist’. In this example we want to create a ‘Standard Playlist’.

• Select ‘Add playlist to folder?’ and in the dropdown menu choose a folder you created previously. In this example we select Live Music.

• Save the new created playlist

The new playlist has been saved under the ‘Live Music’ folder

Note: you can only create playlists (Audio Playlists or Video Playlists) if you have an active license for the corresponding product.

III. Adding content to a standard playlist

Example 1: It is possible to add complete Albums, Categories, Series, etc. to a playlist. In this first example we want to add a complete video album to our previously created video standard playlist ‘Jazz Music Instrumental - PL’

• Select the ‘VIDEO LIBRARY’ tab. On the left side you see a selection list including: ‘Recently added, Categories, Channels, Series, Albums, Artists, Attributes‘ under which all content is organised. Please go to page 8 “c. Video Library” for detailed explanation.

• Click on ‘Albums’. Choose the album ‘Take Five’. All videos from this album are presented in the content window on the right.

Note: you can chose between icon view and list view. List view gives additional information about artist and duration. Click on the active menu icon on the upper left side of the window.

• Select Add to playlist, click on thefolder where the ‘Jazz MusicInstrumental - PL’ is located and select it. All songs from the ‘Take Five’ albums have been saved to this Playlist.Note: You can select ‘Create new with all items’ if you wish to create a new playlist and add all videos to it.

Active Menu

Select playlist

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Example 2: In this example we want to add single selected videos to a previously created video standard playlist ‘Best of Ambient Films - PL’

• Select the ‘VIDEO LIBRARY’ tab. On the left side click on Categories / Ambient films.

• Click the videos you want to select with the mouse, the video borders turn blue.

• Click on the active menu icon on the upper left side of the content window.

• Select ‘Add selected items to playlist’and save the selected items to the ‘Best of Ambient Films - PL’ Playlist.All single selected videos are saved to the Playlist.

IV. Editing content in a standard playlist

Click on the edit pen to enter into edit mode for a playlist.

The following features are possible for a standard playlist:

Name edit: overwrite the name in the name field

Order videos: grab a video with the mouse and move it over another video.

Erase videos: select one or multiple videos (the video border turns blue). Click on ‘Delete Selected’.

Save the changes you made

Copy Playlist: select ‘Copy Playlist’ under the active menu and duplicate an existing playlist.

Move Playlist: move playlist to a folder.

Edit pen

Add selected itemsMake a copy

Move playlist to a different folder

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V. Creating a filtered playlist

There are different playlist types on the atmosphere portal. ‘Filtered playlists’ narrows content selection by applying filters.


• Enter your playlist name in the ‘Title’ field(In this example: Sunny Afternoon - FPL)

• Under the ‘Media Type’ drop down menu, choose ‘Video Playlist’ as we want to create a video playlist.

• Choose ‘Filtered Playlist’ under ‘Playlist Type’.

• Select ‘Add playlist to folder?’ and in the dropdown menu choose a folder you created previously. In this example we select the folder ‘Ambient Films’.

• Save the new created filtered playlist

The new playlist has been saved under the ‘Ambient Films’ folder.

VI. Adding content to a filtered playlist

unlike a standard playlist, content is not added from the content library to a filtered playlist. You apply filters in choosing a content type and its corresponding items. The content corresponding to the ‘Type’ and ‘Items’ selected will be added automatically to the playlist. You can add as many filters as you wish, each filter will narrow down your content selection.

• Select the ‘PLAYLISTS’ tab, click on ‘VIDEO’, open the Ambient Films folder and select the ‘Sunny Afternoon - FPL’ filtered playlist we just created.

• Click on the edit pen to enter into edit mode.

• Click on the to add the first filter. Each filter is built from a ‘Type’ and corresponding ‘Items’.

Under ‘Type’ you can chose between:

Attributes: all videos have metadata that help specifying their main characteristics. When selecting attribute as a filter, you will be able to select a multitude of specific items including country, colour, feature, feeling, music genres, etc..

Artist: when selecting artist, all artists and their content available on the platform are listed in alphabetical order under items.

Album: when selecting albums, all albums and their respective content are listed in alphabetical order under items.

Series: are ongoing collections of videos that atmosphere expends over time (e.a. The “USA Ambient” Series contains all ambient films from the US. When a new film is produced it will be added to the USA Series). All series are listed under items in alphabetical order.

Enter edit mode

Select the content type Select the content item

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Channel: a channel is a complete set of videos available from a product. (the “atmosphere hospitality music” product gives access to the “atmosphere live music” channel). A list of all channels available on your system will be listed under item.

Category: shows the different categories of content available (e.a. Ambient films, Animations, Live music, art, etc.).

• In this example we choose ‘Type: Category’ and ‘Item: Ambient Films’. In the content window 103 Ambient videos have been selected.

• Click on to add a second filter. This time we choose ‘Type: Attributes’, ‘Item: Season and sub-item Summer’. In the content window, the selection narrows down all ambient films showing summer sceneries.

• Click again on to add a third filter. We choose again ‘Type: Attributes’ but this time we select ‘Item: Time of Day and sub-item Afternoon’.

• Save the filtered playlist

The filter playlist has been edited and 13 videos for a duration of 3 hours and 15 minutes correspond to the filters we have set: Ambient videos with sceneries of summer filmed in the afternoon.

Note: a filtered playlist evolves in time. When new videos corresponding to the filters set are delivered to the platform, the filtered playlist will grow automatically.

Note: content order can’t be changed in a filtered playlist. A filtered playlist can be played pas a shuffled playlist in a programme. If a specific oder is requested, it is possible to save a filtered playlist as a standard playlist and then reorder the content.

Duration Amount of videos Three filters selected

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VII. Creating a combined playlist

The ‘Combined Playlist’ is the opposite of the filtered playlist. The result of the different filters are added together. This means each filter add his result to the previous one and extends the set of content.


• Enter a playlist name in the ‘Title’ field(In this example: Dinner Ambience - CPL)

• Under the ‘Media Type’ drop down menu, choose ‘Video Playlist’ as we want to create a video playlist.

• Choose ‘Combined Playlist’ under ‘Playlist Type’.

• Select ‘Add playlist to folder?’ and in the dropdown menu choose a folder you created previously. In this example we select the folder ‘Live Music & Ambient’.

• Save the new created filtered playlist

The new playlist has been saved under the ‘Live Music & Ambient’ folder.

VIII. Adding content to a combined playlist

Adding content to a combined playlist is similar to doing it for a filtered playlist. You apply filters in choosing a content type and its corresponding items. The content corresponding to the ‘Type’ and ‘Items’ selected will be added automatically to the playlist. You can add as many filters as you wish, each filter add his result to the previous one and extend the playlist.

• Select the ‘PLAYLISTS’ tab, click on ‘VIDEO’, open the ‘Live Music & Ambient’ folder and select the ‘Dinner Ambience - CPL’ combined playlist we just created.

• Click on the edit pen to enter into edit mode.

• Click on the icon to add the first filter. Each filter is built from a ‘Type’ and corresponding ‘Items’.

Under ‘Type’ you can chose between:

Attributes: all videos have metadata that help specifying their main characteristics. When selecting attribute as a filter, you will be able to select a multitude of specific items including country, colour, feature, feeling, music genres, etc..

Playlist: will give you the possibility to select any playlist ‘Standard, Filtered or Combined’ previously created.

Artist: when selecting artist, all artists and their content available on the platform are listed in alphabetical order under items.

• In this example we choose ‘Type: Attribute’ , ‘Item: Time of Day and sub-item Sunset’ as the first filter. In the content window 13 videos corresponding to the filter set have been selected.

First filter selected

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• Click on to add a second filter. This time we choose ‘Type: Artist’, ‘Item: Lola’. In the content window, the playlist extends to 59 videos.

• Click again on to add a third filter. We choose again ‘Type: Attributes’ but this time we select ‘Item: Season and sub-item Summer’. The new combined playlist has three filters adding their results to each other. The playlist has now 96 videos.

• Save the new combined playlist

Note: a combined playlist evolves in time. When new videos corresponding to the filters set are delivered to the platform, the combined playlist will grow automatically.

Note: content order can’t be changed in a combined playlist. A combined playlist can be played as a shuffled playlist in a programme. If a specific oder is requested then it is possible to save a combined playlist as a standard playlist and then reorder the content.

IX. Permanent and loudness functionThe ‘Permanent’ and ‘Loudness’ functions in a playlist are only available for the atmosphere audio player (Linux).

Permanent: the atmosphere audio player doesn’t store all content due to the very large amount of audio content available. Starting a playlist with new content to download could take up to 15 sec. If ‘Permanent’ is selected in an audio playlist, its content will stay on the player and the playlist will be selectable right away.

Loudness: two different loudness levels can be set in the atmosphere audio player preferences while configuring the player in a location. ‘Normal’ for the standard background music loudness and ‘Loud’ for special music requests, announcements or promotion content. All playlists are automatically set to ‘Normal’, selecting ‘Loud’ will trigger the louder level previously set for the player.

Duration Amount of videos Three filters selected

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c. Creating and editing programmes

The programmes window allows the creation of video and audio programmes. A programme is made of one or more playlists starting at a defined time.

I. Creating a programme folder

• Select the ‘PROGRAMMES’ tab and then click on the folder icon in the command bar at the bottom left side of the window.

• Enter the folder name in the ‘name’ field. As an example, we call this folder Restaurant Videos.



You can create further folders to organise your programmes using the same procedure. In this example we created folders per location (Elevator, Bar, Restaurant, Beach Club, Lobby, Wellness & Spa ).

II. Creating a programme

The Programmes window allows you to create as many programmes as you wish. It is important to organise these programmes into folders to keep an easy and quick overview of all programmes created.


• Enter your programme name in the ‘Title’ field (In this example: ‘Monday to Friday’)

• Select ‘Add programme to folder?’ and in the dropdown menu choose a folder you created. In this example we select the folder ‘Restaurant Videos’.

Save the new created programme

• Use the same procedure to create a second programme with the name ‘Weekend’.

• You now have two different programmes in the 'Restaurant Videos’ folder: - ‘Monday to Friday’- ‘Weekend’

III. Editing a programme

The programme’s window allows to add playlists to a programme at a specific time.

• Select the ‘Weekend’ programme under the folder ‘Restaurant Videos’

Create folderEdit folder name

Create a newprogramme

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• Set the time slider to the granularity you wish, there are 4 time resolutions from left to right: 5 min., 15 min., 30 min. and 1 hour.

• Select the edit pen to enter edit mode

• Click on ‘Start Hour’ to select the starting time of your programme from the drop down menu. You can take the opening hour of your location, we selected 9 am in the following example

• Double click in ‘Video Sequence’ to create a new event

• Select a playlist from the drop down menu

• Write the ‘Start’ and ‘End’ times of the selected playlist. You can adjust times to the second. Note: playlist can not overlap, if this is happens, an error window will appear on the screen.

• Select Shuffle if you wish to play videos in a playlist in random order.

• Select ‘Network Mode’ if you want multiple players to be synchronized during playback. Note: Network Playback is an extension module, not available with a standard license.

• Click ‘Add Event’ to save the new created event

The new event created appears now in the ‘Video Sequence’. You can create further events to complete your programme. The programme has a maximum length of 24 hours.

Save the new edited programme

Note: after adding an event, the duration of the selected playlist is shown right to the playlist name. This is the duration of content in the playlist. If this duration is longer than the programmed time, the programme will interrupt the playlist at the end time and play the next event. If the duration of the playlist is shorter, the programme will loop the playlist until the next event. Therefore the playlist content duration should always be longer than the programmed time to avoid repetitions.

Note: A programme break is when nothing has been programmed for a specific time (i.a. 16:00 to 17:00 in the above graphic). The player will stop to play, video and audio will be turned off.

Note: under the ‘Action Menu’ you can copy and move programmes to different folders.

Select edit modeDouble click in video sequenceSelect a playlist

Write start and end times Click Add Event to save

Playlist duration Programme break

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d. Creating and editing schedules

The schedule window allows the creation of weekly schedules. Daily Programmes are going into schedules.

I. Creating a schedule folder

• Select the ‘SCHEDULES’ tab and then click on the folder icon in the command bar at the bottom left side of the window.

• Enter the folder name in the ‘name’ field. As an example, we call this folder ‘Restaurant’.



You can create further folders to organise your schedules using the same procedure. In this example we created folders per location (Bar, Beach Club, Corridors & Elevator, Lobby, Restaurant, Wellness & Spa ).

II. Creating a schedule

The Schedules window allows you to create as many schedules as you wish. It is important to organise these schedules into folders to keep an easy and quick overview of all schedules created.


• Enter your schedule name in the ‘Title’ field (In this example: ‘Restaurant Summer’)

• Select ‘Add schedule to folder?’ and in the dropdown menu choose a folder you created. In this example we select the folder ‘Restaurant’.

Save the new created schedule

• Use the same procedure to create other schedules.

III. Editing a schedule

The schedules window allows to add programmes to each day of the week. You can create individual schedules per player for the different modes of operation in your location (i.a. Summer, Winter, Christmas, Weddings, Party, etc..).• Select the ‘Restaurant Summer’ schedule under the folder ‘Restaurant’

Create folderEdit folder name

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• Select the edit pen to enter edit mode

• Click on the programme drop-down menu for each day of the week and select a programme

Save the new edited schedule

Note: under the ‘Action Menu’ you can move schedules to different folders.

e. Assigning schedules to players

To assign schedules to players go to the DASHBOARD menu.

• Click on a player to open the schedule selection menu

• Click on the edit pen to enter edit mode

• Select the schedule you want to assign to the selected player

Save the assigned schedule

Note: The assigned schedule will be directly to the player. The Player will play the new schedule depending on the settings in the atmosphere media player preferences: immediately, at the end of playing item, at the end of playing playlist (see 6. Configuration atmosphere preferences/Schedule).

Programme drop-down menu Select a playlist Action menu

Click on a player

Assign schedule

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4. Getting the atmosphere media player 9 a. From your distributor (pre-installed)

When purchasing atmosphere though a distributor, the atmosphere media player© will be preinstalled on the Mac computer you ordered. The distributor will have also registered you as a new client and the first license (i.e. hospitality subscription) will already be activated on the player.

b. From your registration email

Following your registration, you will have received an account activation email. This email contains a link to the atmosphere media player©.

c. From the atmosphere Client Portal

The atmosphere media player© is available free of charge under the atmosphere client portal, home page. Go to: shop.atmosphere-media.com and log in.

4. Installing the atmosphere media player© after downloading atmosphere, go to the download folder of your computer: • Double click on the atmosphere dmg installation file. • Double click on the install package file. • Follow the atmosphere installer instructions

Go to your Application folder and click on the Atmosphere.app to open. Note: Create an Alias for quick access on the desktop doc.

a. Activating your first atmosphere license

As this is a new atmosphere installation, the first license which includes the atmosphere media player© has to be installed. Before activating your first license you should set your computer name to be the name you want for this installation. Note that atmosphere installation names should be unique within a business. You can set the computer name under ‘system preferences/sharing’. When you are ready, click on ‘Get License’.

Note: All further licenses can be assigned online from atmosphere media.

If you didn’t register click on ‘Register’ and create your account. If you have an account, enter your Account Identifier and Password. At this point your account will be verified. Enter your License Code.

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Note: The atmosphere installation name which is taken from the computer name should not be modified.

If the activation was successful you will get a success notification. If the activation failed you should check your license code and check that your installation name is unique within your business. The atmosphere media player© will automatically restart to apply the license. Any newly purchased content will be automatically downloaded. You will be able to monitor the download in the library under ‘Download Queue’.

b. Activating pending licenses

To activate pending licenses you can just restart atmosphere or go to ‘Reset Library’ in the application menu, keyboard short cut is: “cmd L”.

Note: The atmosphere media player© will restart and activate all pending licenses.

c. Download queue and new videos

• Download queue: After activating a license, you can monitor the download of new content under the category ‘Download Queue’ in the library. Background content updates are automatic with the atmosphere media player©. Note: This feature must be enabled in preferences. The system has to be connected to the internet. Content is downloaded at a rate that will not cause excessive use of the local network.

• New videos: All new downloaded videos are shown in the library category ‘New Videos’. Content is considered new if it has been added to the local system in the previous month. Note: A restart of atmosphere may be required to refresh the ‘New Videos’ category.

d. Updating atmosphere

atmosphere updates are shown automatically on the app main screen and updates are done through the app.

You can also ‘Check for software update’ in the application menu, short cut “cmd U”.

Note: The atmosphere media player© will restart to update the application. Authentication by a user with administration access will be required.

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5. Using the atmosphere desktop app

a. The atmosphere library screen

The atmosphere media player© library presents a view of the atmosphere content you have subscribed to. When an item on the left is selected, the content of that item is displayed in the detail view on the right. Videos from the library get added to playlists.

• Expansion modules: it is possible to subscribe to different extension modules to expand the atmosphere media player© features (see §8 Expansion Modules).

• Download queue: you can monitor the download of new content or content updates. Background content updates are automatic with the atmosphere media player©.

• Categories: shows the different categories of content available (e.a. Ambient films, Animations, Live music, etc.).

• Channels: a channel is a complete set of videos available from a product (e.a. Purchasing the “atmosphere hospitality music” product gives access to the “atmosphere live music” channel).

• Series: are ongoing collections of videos that atmosphere expends over time (e.a. The “USA Ambient” Series contains all ambient films from the US. When a new film is produced it will be added to the USA Series).

• Albums: shows the list of music albums available. An album is a close set of videos, comparable to a CD.

• Artists: shows the list of artists in alphabetical order.

• Attributes: All atmosphere videos have metadata that help specifying their main characteristics; the subject, feature, feeling, colour, etc. Attributes allow you to locate videos with similar tags and create playlists.

• Local content: The atmosphere media player© allows playback of non-atmosphere content. - Video codecs supported: H264. - Files format supported: mov, mp4, m4v.

• Status info: give information about the selection playing (video, playlist or schedule).

I. The control bar

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Content categories

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• Loop*: When highlighted, the selected library videos or the selected playlist will be looped. (looping must already be enable when play begins).

• Volume**: The atmosphere volume control is independent from the Mac main volume.

• Icon and list view***: The atmosphere player offers two different screen views: Icon view and list view. To change screen view click on the different symbols in the control bar.

II. Playing single or multiple videos

Play can be started and stopped by clicking the play button or by pressing the space bar. Select a video by clicking on the icon. The icon border turns blue. Select multiple videos by holding the “shift” or “cmd” keys while clicking.

b. The playlists and programmes screen I. Creating a playlist

To create a new playlist you have to do the following:

• Click on ‘+’ in the control bar to add a playlist (or “-“ to erase it). Enter the playlist name in the pop-up window.

II. Editing a playlist

• Add videos from the library to the playlist by selecting them in the Icon or List View, and bringing up the context menu using a right mouse click.

• Set the order of videos in a playlist using the Icon or List View. Drag a video with the mouse and drop it off where desired.

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• Remove selected videos from a playlist using Icon or List View (right mouse click).

c. Creating and building programmes

the atmosphere media player© allows you to create programmes for the automatic playback of playlists throughout the day. You can create as many programmes as you wish, typical usage is to create seven, one for each day of the week. Programmes can be put into a seven day schedule in the atmosphere preferences for automatic playback.

I. Creating a programme

• Click on the programme tab to display the programmes view. • Select ‘+’ to add a new programme (or ‘-‘ to erase a programme). • Enter the name of the new programme in the text dialog.

II. Building a programme

• Click on the ‘+’ icon in the programme detail view to add a ‘type’. There are five different library types: Playlist, Series, Album, Attribute, or complete Channel.

• If you chose ‘Playlist’, click on the item drop down to select the playlist you wish to use.

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• Select the start time and shuffle options (network mode* is an extension module). • Add further playlists or other types to schedule your programme throughout the day.

The system automatically calculates the start time for a playlist when added to a programme. However it is more generally the case that a playlist is desired to start at an exact time. Set the start time as desired.

Note: When the time is displayed in red, it means that this playlist starts after midnight in a new calendar day.

Note: The Network Mode is an extension module, the option will only appear if you have the license.

Note: Setting programmes to run on a particular day of the week is done under Schedules in the atmosphere preferences.

III. Programmes playback behavioura. When “Autostart Schedule” is enabled in the atmosphere preferences, the programme for the current day begins playing when the atmosphere media player© is launched. b. When a programme plays, it jumps to the playlist (playlist, series, album, attribute, channel) scheduled for that time. c. A playlist who’s natural length is shorter than the actual time it must play for will loop until interrupted by the next playlist. c. When launching “Autostart Schedule”in the atmosphere preferences, if the time for the first playlist in the day’s programme has not yet been met, the programme for the previous day is chosen and the last playlist is looped until interrupted by the current day programmes. This feature supports 24/7 use of the atmosphere media player©.

Note: when using online schedule playlists are not looped but stop (display turns to black) at the end time they have been set.

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e. Keyboard Short Cuts

Many functions of the atmosphere media player© can be controlled with keyboard short cuts:

• Play or stop: To play or stop an atmosphere video, a playlist or a schedule, select the item with the mouse and press the space bar. “Space bar” too play or stopWhen stopping a video the display or video wall stays black

• Menu screen: To see the atmosphere menu on the desktop screen of your computer you have to first stop the running video and then select escape. “esc”

• Scroll up/down: You can scroll up and down the library, playlists, attributes and sequences in the atmosphere menu by selecting the cursor keys. “cursor keys up, down, left and right”

• Jump to previous/next video in a playlist: While playing a playlist select:“cursor keys left/right”

• atmosphere preferences: You can open the atmosphere preferences window by selecting:“cmd, comma”

• The video wall input sources (when connected to a Datapath): To change between atmosphere, TV or a further external video source: “cmd 1” for atmosphere“cmd 2” for the TV signal“cmd 3” for the 2nd external signal

• The Mac desktop view (when connected to a Datapath): Due to the format (21:9) of the video wall it is not possible to see the upper and lower part of the computer desktop. This is made possible by selecting the keys “ctrl,cmd,1” this feature will change the aspect ration of the screens and let you see the complete desktop. You can now see the upper part of your desktop.

• Resetting library: You can reset library from purchased atmosphere content or software products by selecting: “cmd, L”

• Check for software updates: You can check and activate software updates by selecting:

“cmd, U”

• Apple computer shut down: You can shut down your Apple computer from the keyboard by selecting: “ctrl, option, cmd, eject”

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6. atmosphere preferences configuration

atmosphere Preferences are organised by function: Options, Local Content, Schedule, Security, Controllers, Content Updates, Video Wall, Network Playback*, ArtNet Output*. * If licensed.

• Go to the atmosphere preferences in the application menu:

• You can access the preferences with the short cut: “cmd ,”.

a. General options

• Content location: the root directory of your atmosphere library. Attention! Should not be changed once content is downloaded.

Save changes before closing or changing tab. Note: the “Save” button only applies to the active tab. You have to save for each tab.

• Display mode: allows the setting of font and icon sizes in the user interface to match the monitor size and viewing distance from the control interface (10 foot Interface).

• Launch wait time: this feature supports launching atmosphere media player© only after the MacOS desktop has been configured, typically on boot. Valid values are 0 to 120 seconds.

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• Audio delay: a delay can be set on audio so that displays that render video with a delay can still be lip-synced. Audio delay is set in milliseconds. By 30 frames per sec. videos, one frame delay is 33ms.

• Video scale mode: controls video scaling. - Scale video to fill width and height: video will be played full screen (default setting). - Scale video to fill either width or height: video will be scaled preserving aspect ratio until either width or height reaches the bounds of the display. Where the aspect ratio does not match the display, letter box will appear top and bottom or left and right. - Do not scale video: video will be displayed in its original format, no scaling.

• Video horizontal anchor: anchor point for the X axis (left, right, centre).

• Video vertical anchor: anchor point for the Y axis (bottom, top, centre).

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b. Local content

The atmosphere media player© allows playback of non-atmosphere content. - Video codecs supported: H264, H265 - Files format supported: mov, mp4, m4v. Multiple libraries may be specified. A library is created by specifying its name and root directory. A local library is shown in the library window of the user interface. Local movies can be added to playlists.

Local Content is added in three steps:

• Saving the videos you want to play inside a folder on the computer.

• Creating a library • Importing from the library

I. Creating a library

• Click ‘+’ to add a Library. • Select the path to the root directory of the library. The directory name will be used as the

library name. This can be changed. • Click on ‘Add library’.

II. Importing from a library

• Select the library and click on ‘Import From Selected’

The atmosphere media player© imports all videos located under the library’s root folder that have not been previously imported. An icon is generated for each video. You can always add new videos to the folder and this task can be repeated at any time to expand the library.

Note: If only a grey icon is generated, it means that the movie is not playable by atmosphere.

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c. Schedule

I. Using local schedule

The schedule window allows to play automatic schedules, schedules can be the local schedule on the computer or the online schedules programmed through the Client Portal when ‘Use online schedule’ is selected.

• Autostart schedule: enables automatic playback of schedule.

• Mapping programmes: programmes can be mapped to each day of the week, as shown.

• Idle Timeout: When ‘Autostart Schedule’ is enabled, an idle timeout controls how long the system will wait since the last interaction before starting schedule playback. An interaction is a mouse click, key stroke or any interaction via the iPad controller. Idle timeout only happens if no video is playing and the display is not been used externally (video wall controller input). Idle timeout minimum value is 10 seconds.

• Wait for timeout on launch: makes atmosphere wait for the ‘Launch Wait Time’ set under ‘Options’ after launch instead of immediately starting schedule playback.

II. Using online schedule

Select ‘Use online schedule’, to play the schedules you have programmed on your atmosphere client portal account. After the idle timeout the atmosphere media player© will download the online schedule from the atmosphere cloud.

Change: select the way the online schedule should interrupt the playback when you decide to change a schedule online: ‘At End of Playing Item’, ‘Immediately’ or ‘At End of Playing Playlist”.

Note: schedules have to be programmed previously to selecting this function. The computer must have an online connection to download the online schedule. The computer doesn’t need a constant online connection to play.

Mapping programmes

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f. Content updates

Background content updates are automatic with the atmosphere media player©. This features is disabled when installing the software for the first time. Enable it to receive new content and content updates.

Content update mode: three modes are available:

• ‘LAN + Internet’ and ‘LAN Only’ modes are only relevant when two or more atmosphere players are installed in a location. Multiple atmosphere players can share their content over LAN and therefore minimise drastically network usage. ‘LAN + Internet’ means that the player will try to get the content over LAN from another player or if it is not possible get it through the internet from the atmosphere cloud. ‘LAN Only’ means the player will only update content over LAN and never go to the internet.

• ‘Folder’ allows to copy content from an external drive. The missing content will be put automatically into the right directory.

Enable LAN content sharing: if you want the player to share its content with other players in your location turn content sharing on.

d. Security

The Security window allows you to change the password for remote access. The password can be made visible. Enter the new password, confirm and save.

e. Controllers

The iPad controller app and the atmosphere media desktop player have to be paired for security reasons. To pair an iPad, you have to enter the password of the player (set in atmosphere preferences: Security) the first time you connect. You can connect multiple iPads.

• Forced iPad controller connection: Allows an iPad to take control of an atmosphere media player© even if another iPad is controlling it. Password entry on the iPad is required.

Note: if the iPad doesn’t find the desktop player make sure that the Wifi is in the first position in the Mac network settings. Go to System preferences/Network/Set service order.

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g. Video wall controller

I. Setting up the Datapath FX4 The Datapath FX4 controller is used to create a video wall with four displays in portrait or landscape format.

• 4 x Portrait: for a video wall in cinema 4K format with a 21:9 aspect ratio and a 4320 x 1920 resolution.

• 2 x 2 landscape: for a UHD video wall with a 16:9 aspect ratio and a 3840 x 2160 resolution.

The MacOs desktop must match the resolution of the video wall. The video wall must be configured via the atmosphere preferences before its resolution is available to the MacOs desktop.

The computer must be connected to the Datapath as follows: Mini Display Port or USB C out to Display Port in of the Datapath FX4. The FX4 must be reachable via ethernet.

• Enable Video Wall: makes the video wall functionality available for use.

• Video Wall IP Address: Enter the Datapath IP address. The Datapath mustalready been configured with a static IP address. Use the ‘Test’ button to make sure you have the correct address. Note: if the FX4 IP address is not set, use the Wall Designer software to set it. (Ensure the FX4 network password is empty).

• Input: the Datapath FX 4 has 3 inputs. Inputs HDMI 1 and HDMI 2 can be used for external signals (TV Set top box, Live Cam, BluRay Player, Digital signage player,..).

• Descriptive Name: the name of each input can be edited.

• HDCP: this digital copy protection must be turned on for TV receivers and other players that are HDCP compatible or no signal will be displayed. Turn it off for atmosphere.

• Default Input: must be set to the input atmosphere is connected to.

• Vertical Scale: use this feature together with vertical shift to see cropped section of a 16:9 signal on a 21:9 video wall. Typical values are between 84 and 100 where 84 shows the full input with vertical squashing and 100 cropped the input top and bottom.

Note: the value for the atmosphere input should always be 100.

• Vertical Shift: This moves the image down (positive value) or up (negative value). Typical values are between 0 and 10 proportional to vertical scale. Note: The value for the atmosphere input should always be 0.

• Resolution: The resolution for each input connected to atmosphere or external video sources, have to be selected and should be as follows: - (Datapath FX 4) Display port must be used for atmosphere cinema 4K content 4320x1920 - UHD input can be used for all other format from HD (1920x1080) to UHD (3840x2160).

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Resolution compatibility:

• HD (1920x1080) older DVD player, Blue Ray player or TV Set top box, etc..

• UHD (3840x2160) Apple Mac Mini, Apple Mac Pro, Apple iMac or Mac Book Pro with USB C output, Blue Ray player, TV Set top box, etc..

• UHD: 3840x2160 @ 30 Hz. Compatible Apple computers with HDMI and mini display port outputs. (Mac Mini 2014, Mac Pro 2013)

• UHD: 3840x2160 @ 60 Hz. Compatible Apple computers with HDMI and mini display port or USB C output. (Mac Mini 2018, Mac Pro 2013, etc..)

• Cinema 4K: 4320x1920 @ 30Hz. Apple iMac Retina 4K with USB C output.

• Cinema 4K: 4320x1920 @ 60Hz. Apple iMac Pro or Mac Book Pro with USB-C output.

• Output: Set the different parameters screen size, bezel sizes and output orientation of your video wall displays:

• Screen Size: The diagonal size (in millimetre) of the displays you are using.

• Bezel Sizes: The bezel size (in millimetre) of the displays you are using when in landscape mode.

Output Orientation: there are four different output orientations:

• 4 x Portrait: for a video wall in Cinema format with 4 screens in portrait format.

• 4 x Portrait Reversed: for a video wall in Cinemawith 4 screens in portrait format with reverse cabling.

• 4 x Portrait Reversed: for a video wall in Cinemawith 4 screens in portrait format with reverse cabling.

• Custom: any orientation (set using wall designer)

Note: After saving your video wall set up, the atmosphere media player© will quit to apply all settings to the Datapath FX4. Before restarting it you will have to set the Mac Desktop to the right format (please go to Setting Apple system preferences/Displays).

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III. Connecting the Datapath FX4

Connecting a Mac Mini to the Datapath FX4 (4 x portrait setting):

II. Using a private network

The Mac computer and the Datapath FX4 must communicate via ethernet. If it is not possible for them to connect via an Ethernet Switch, a direct ethernet connection can be made using a private network. For both switch and direct cable connections, the Mac and the FX4 must be on the same subnet. Go to the Mac System Preferences/Network:

Ethernet Connection: • IP Address: 192.168.23.1 • Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0 • Router: 192.168.23.1

Go to the FX4 Network Settings (Wall Designer Software):

Note: When the Datapath is connected with USB to a computer with the Wall Designer software, disconnect the ethernet cable or the IP address wont be saved.

In the Wall Designer settings: • Deselect DHCP and go to Static Mode and configure the network settings manually • IP Address: 192.168.23.23 • Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0 • Gateway: 192.168.23.1 • Erase the password. Note: no password should be given to the Datapath FX4 to be able to control it by ethernet from the atmosphere software.

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Connecting a iMac Retina 4K to the Datapath FX4 (4 x portrait setting):

Computer desktop settings: • Internal desktop must be set to 1680x945 • Second display (Video Wall) 4320x1920

Note: Display Port 1.3 or 1.4 are needed to display the Cinema 4K. Note: with the Datapath FX4 HDR, atmosphere should be connected to HDMI 3 (2.0). Only the UHD content format 3840x2160 is supported, it is not possible to set the desktop to 4320x1920 pix.

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h. Network Playback

The Network Playback is an extension module for the atmosphere media player©. This module allows the synchronisation of multiple Apple computers to display very high definition videos or to synchronise programs on multiple atmosphere installations.

The following graphic shows a set up with 4 Mac Mini M1 playing each a portion of a native 8K video. Each Mac Mini playing a 3840x2160 pix video.

• All players must be connected by ethernet with a fixed IP address. • WiFi must be disabled on the Mac computers. All control of atmosphere media player©,

either via iPad or network playback master, must be via ethernet. • It is recommended to use a separate subnet for networking the Mac computers for

network playback.

I. Setting up Network Playback with two computers:

• Go to the Mac System Preferences/Network on both computers and set a private network:

Computer 1 Computer 2 Ethernet Connection Ethernet Connection IP Address: 192.168.2.125 IP Address: 192.168.22.126 Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0 Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0 Router: 192.168.2.1 Router: 192.168.2.1 DNS: 8.8.8.8* DNS: 8.8.8.8

* Take the DNS from your Internet Service Provider, if you don’t know it use 8.8.8.8.

Note: atmosphere media player© must be restarted any time the network configuration of the Mac changes.

• Start or restart atmosphere on both computers after the network has been set. • Go to the atmosphere preferences/Network Playback. These settings must be only done

from the computer that will be used as the Master.

• Subdomain: Select the private network that has been set. • Find Players: the players on this subdomain will be found automatically

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• Screen position: Select which video/screen will be played from each computer. ‘Off’ can be used for only master computer, this means when a computer is used as a master but should not play any video.

• Audio Mode: chose the computer that should play the audio channel.

II. Loading content for Network Playback

All atmosphere content can be played in Network Mode. To play an external movie in network mode:

• Create a folder with extension ‘.amp’ for the name of the movie. It will now be recognised as an atmosphere media player© multi channel file.

• Separate the video into channels as follows: N_name_vid_N.mov where N is the channel number.

• Identify the audio file by ending it’s name with ‘_aud’, e.g. ‘name_aud.mov’

Note: Content should always have a separate audio file to be able to correct delay between audio and video playback (see Options/Audio Delay).

Note: If a video only has one movie and atmosphere media player© is asked to play a channel greater than ‘1’, it will simply play the first movie.

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i. ArtNet Output ArtNet Output is an extension module for the atmosphere media player©. atmosphere uses the ArtNet protocol to trigger external devices. The most current use of the ArtNet protocol is to trigger DMX sequences for lights. Please see a detailed explanation for a DMX installation under section 8. Extension Modules.

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7. Launching atmosphere at login a. Automatic launch on boot

It is possible to launch the atmosphere media player© automatically on boot.

• Go to the computer ‘System Preferences’. • Click on ‘Users & Groups’

• Select ‘Login Items’ and click + to add an item that will open automatically on log in. • In the drop down menu, go to Applications and choose the atmosphere App.

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8. Extension Modules a. Network Playback The Network Playback is an extension module for the atmosphere media player©. This module allows the synchronisation of multiple Apple computers to display very high definition videos or to synchronise programs on multiple atmosphere installations. The tab will only appear if you have purchased the Network Playback license.

License: when using Network Playback, all connected computers must have a Network Playback license.

Network Playback settings: main settings (network, IP Address, Mode,.) must be set previously in the atmosphere preferences: Network Playback.

• Enable Network Playback: if selected all videos played manually will be played in Network Playback mode.

• Screen position: select which video/screen will be played from each computer. ‘Off’ can be used for ‘Only master computer’, this means when a computer is used as a master but should not play any video.

• Audio Mode: chose the computer that should play the audio channel.

• Refresh status: refreshes the network status of the players to find all players on the network (this happens automatically at launch).

I. Playlists - network mode

Network Playback can be applied to playlists in a programme. All movies in the playlist will play synchronised to the configured master. Just select the Network Playback button for each playlist.

b. ArtNet output

ArtNet Output is an extension module for the atmosphere media player©. atmosphere uses the ArtNet protocol to trigger external devices. License: to be able to use the ArtNet Output extension module your player must have the Timeline Event license.

The most current use of the ArtNet protocol is to trigger DMX sequences for lights. The following pages show you a detailed explanation of how to use the atmosphere ArtNet Output to trigger a professional DMX lighting control software. It also shows how to connect the needed hardware component.

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I. Setting up LightkeyLightkey is a professional DMX lighting software that can be directly installed on the Apple computer used for the atmosphere media player©. The atmosphere ArtNet Output extension module is compatible with all DMX software understanding the ArtNet protocol. The following example shows how to setup 3-Channel DMX RGB lights and how to create lighting sequences in Lightkey that can be triggered by the atmosphere media player©. Go to the Lightkey website and download the app: Lightkey download

The following hardware and cables are needed for the test:

• DMX Interface (ENTTEC DMX USB PRO)

• DMX Cable (5 pin to 3 pin)

• RGB DMX light (e.g. Showtec compact PAR 7 Tri)

• Further DMX/XLR cables for further lights

Hardware Setup:

• Connect USB interface to Mac. • Connect USB interface to first DMX light (5 pin to 3 pin cable). • Set the DMX light to 3 channel mode (see light’s user’s manual). • Set your the DMX light (or multiple lights) to DMX address 1 (see light’s user’s manual). • If there are multiple lights, connect them by DMX or XLR cables.

Lightkey Setup:

• Go to the Mac System Preferences/General and uncheck ‘Close windows when quitting an app’.

• In the System Preferences/Users & Groups/Login Items, set the Lightkey app as a login item.

Note: for automatic start atmosphere must also be under Login items but atmosphere must start after Lightkey. Go to the atmosphere Preferences/Options and set ‘Launch Wait Time’ to 20 sec.

• Open Lightkey and create a new project, give it a name: ‘atmosphere Simple Lighting’ and save.

• Choose the ENTTEC DMX USB PRO as your output device and click next

• Enter ‘PAR Spot (RGB)’ in the search bar

• Drag the profile ‘PAR Spot (RGB)’ into the table on the right so it covers the numbers 1 to 3 and click Patch

• Click the down arrow next to ‘Universe 2’ and set it to ‘Input via: Art-Net’

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• Click Next at the bottom right • Click Next two more times • Click Go!

Note: if your fixtures have more than three channels, you may end up with different DMX addresses and different profiles in Lightkey. Whatever fixture you are using make sure you get control over the RGB channels to be able to mix solid colours.

II. Creating matching colours scenes in Lightkey

• Select the fixture P1

• Change the color wheel until you find a light blue color that you like- outer ring: hue - inner rings: saturation and brightness - center dot: color picker

• Click + in the upper right of the Lightkey app

• Name the new setting ‘Light Blue’ and click ENTER

• Repeat these steps for two more colours. A light green and a light orange

III. Setting up Cues in Lightkey

• With the light Blue scene selected go to the ‘Live’ view at the bottom half of lightkey and click Edit

• Click + to create a new button and hit enter

• Go to the options tab at the top and enter “00:02,0” for both ‘Fade-In’ and ‘Fade-Out’ and click done

• Create on button for each colour scene

IV. Setting up DMX input triggers for individual colours

• Click ‘Show External Control Window’ on the upper left

• Click ‘Manually Add Binding’

• Click on the pen to edit the trigger (Universe 2; Channel 1; Value 1)

• From the drop down menu on the right, select: - Activate/Deactivate Cue - Cue: Light Blue - Behaviour: Active

• Click + on the right side • Click on the pen to edit the trigger

(Universe 2; Channel 1; Value 2)

• From the drop down menu on the right, select: - Activate/Deactivate Cue - Cue: Light Blue - Behaviour: Deactivate

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• From the drop down menu on the right, select: - Activate/Deactivate Cue - Cue: Light Green - Behaviour: Active



• From the drop down menu on the right, select: - Activate/Deactivate Cue - Cue: Light Green - Behaviour: Deactivate



• From the drop down menu on the right, select: - Activate/Deactivate Cue - Cue: Light Orange - Behaviour: Active



• From the drop down menu on the right, select: - Activate/Deactivate Cue - Cue: Light Orange - Behaviour: Deactivate

You have finished setting up scenes that will perfectly match the atmosphere ambient films. Go back to the atmosphere player and set it up to send the triggers we just defined in Lightkey.

V. Setting up the ArtNet output of the atmosphere media player©

• Start the atmosphere player Note: Lightkey must always be started before the atmosphere player to be recognised

• Go to the atmosphere preferences (⌘,) • Go to ‘ArtNet Output’ • Select ‘ArtNet Triggers Enabled’ • Set DMX Network to 0 • Set DMX Subnet to 0 • Set DMX Universe Shift to 0

• Click Save Changes and Close

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VI. Setting up triggers for videos

• Select a video with a bluish thumbnail • Right click and select info

• Go to the DMX Events Tab

• Click + in the lower left corner to add local DMX Events

• Enter the following numbers into the table: Event Time 00:00:00:000Network 0Subnet 0Universe 2Channel 1Value 1

• Click again + to create a second and third event as shown in the picture

Make sure to hit ENTER after any changes you made in the window before you click Save and close the window.

Repeat this process for other videos with an overall blue colour.

• Now select a video with a greenish thumbnail • Right click and select info


• Click + in the lower left corner to add local DMX Events

• Enter the following numbers into the table: Event Time 00:00:00:000Network 0Subnet 0Universe 2Channel 1Value 3

• Click again + to create a second and third event as shown in the picture


Repeat this process for other videos with an overall green colour.

• Now select a video with a orange or yellowish thumbnail • Right click and select info


• Click + in the lower left corner to add local DMX Events and set all events as shown in the picture.


After finishing the setup restart atmosphere and lightkey

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9. atmosphere iPad Controller

The atmosphere iOS Controller App has been developed to help you control one or more atmosphere media players© from a single iPad. You can use this application to remotely control an atmosphere media player© running on any Apple computer (Mac Mini, Mac Air, Mac Book Pro, iMac, iMac Pro, Mac Pro). a. Download the atmosphere iPad controller

Go to the iOS App Store and download the “atmosphere Controller” app to your iPad. Its free of charge. The app is compatible for iOS12 and later.

b. Connect to the atmosphere media player© on your Mac

• Both iPad and Mac computer must be connected to the same network. • Launch the atmosphere Controller on your iPad. • On the Home page select the search icon on the left

• First time connection to an atmosphere media player© requires authentication. The default password is ‘atmosphere’. This can be changed under atmosphere settings on the iPad or under atmosphere preferences/security on the computer.

• Select ‘Take control’ after the password has been accepted. • Two finger tap on the home screen allows you to restart the atmosphere player

c. The atmosphere control screen

The atmosphere control screen on the iPad is very similar to the atmosphere media player© on your Mac. This screen allows you to select videos from the library and play single or multiple items.

I. The library screen When selecting a single video, the selected item turns blue.

Player detected

InformationPlayer status

Take control

Search icon

Control Bar

Library

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Library: this presents a view of the atmosphere content on the Mac. When an item on the left is selected, the content of that item is displayed in the detail view on the right. Tracks from the library get added to Playlists.

II. The Control Bar

* When highlighted, the selected library videos or the selected playlist will be looped. (looping must already be enable when play begins).

** The atmosphere Volume Control is independent from the Mac main volume.

iii. The schedule screen

The Schedule screen allows you to create Playlists and Programmes

Playlists: a playlist is a list of videos from the library which play in the order in which they are presented. Just as with the library, a selected item has its videos displayed on the right. Playlists get added to programmes.

Programmes: the atmosphere Controller allows you to create programmes for the automatic playback of playlists throughout the day. You can create as many programmes as you wish, typical usage is to create seven, one for each day of the week. Programmes can be put into a seven day schedule in the ‘atmosphere Settings’ for automatic playback.

d. Creating a new playlist

To create a new playlist you have to do the following:

• Tap first in the Playlists area to select • Tap on + to add a new playlist (or - to erase a playlist) • Write a new name in the pop-up window

Volume Control**BackwardPlay previous video

Play/Pause

StopForwardPlay previous video

Loop*

PLAYLISTS

PROGRAMMES

Programme Duration: At least 14 hours, 30 minutes, 0 secondsProgramme Name: 01_MondayPlaylists area

Schedule screen

Programmes area

Selected programme

PLAYLISTS

PROGRAMMES

Programme Duration: At least 14 hours, 30 minutes, 0 secondsProgramme Name: 01_Monday

Click in the playlists area

Write the name

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• After you saved the new playlist, go to the library, select videos and with a two finger tap open the playlist pop-up menu.

• Scroll to the new playlist and add your selected videos to it.

e. Re-order and delete videos in a playlist

• Hold your finger in the detail view of a playlist for 2 seconds to enter the edit mode.

• You can re-order videos by holding the sign and quickly move the video up or down.

• You can erase any video in a playlist by tapping first on the sign left and then confirm by clicking delete on the right to confirm.

• Hold your finger in the detail view of a playlist for 2 seconds to exit the edit mode.

f. Create and schedule programmes

Programmes: a programme is a list of playlists which play at an assigned time of the day. Scheduling a programme to run on a particular day of the week is done under ‘atmosphere Settings’. You can create as many programmes as you wish, typical usage is to create seven, one for each day of the week.

• Tap in the programme area to select.

• Add a new programme with + (or erase a programme with - )

• Enter the name of the new programme in the text dialog.

Add to playlist

Select videos

Re-ordervideo

Down

Up

Erase video

PROGRAMMES

Hold finger 2 s. to enter edit mode

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I. Schedule Programmes

• Click on the ‘+’ icon in the programme detail view to add a ‘type’. There are five library types: Playlist, Series, Album, Attribute, or Channel.

• Select a type

Add Programme Programme Name

New Programme

• If you chose ‘Playlist’, click on the playlist drop down to select the playlist you wish to use.

• Select the ‘Start Time’ of the playlist.

• Select shuffle if you want the content to be randomly played.

• Select Network Mode if you wish to synchronise multiple players. Network Playback is an extension module, (see next paragraph).

• Add further playlists or other types to schedule your programme throughout the day.

Programme Name: 01_Monday

Programme Duration: At least 14 hours, 30 minutes,

Type Item

Add an item

Programme Name: 01_Monday

Programme Duration: At least 14 hours, 30 minutes, 23 seconds

Type Item

Type Item

Enter new programme name

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g. Network Playback

If you have purchased a Network Playback license for the synchronisation of multiple atmosphere media players, a Network Playback tab will appear. Automatic use of the Network Playback is done in the ‘Programme’ window. The main settings of the Network Playback is done in the atmosphere preferences on the Mac computer.

h. atmosphere settings The Settings window has four sections: Options, Security, Sequences and Updates. I. Options

• Content Location: the path to your content folder can be changed. Write the new path and save.

• Lauch Delay: you can change the launch delay of your player. This feature supportslaunching the atmosphere media player© only after the MacOS desktop has been configured, typically on boot. Valid values are 0 to 120 seconds.

• Audio Delay: set the delay on audio so that displays that render video with a delay can still be lip-synced. Audio delay is set in milliseconds. By 30 frames per sec. videos, one frame delay is 33ms.

II. Security The Security window allows you to change the original password. Enter the new password and save.

III. ScheduleSelect ‘Play Startup Schedule’ to enable automatic play for a whole week.

• Click on the dropdown menu and select the Programme to play for each day of the week

• When ‘Play Startup Schedule’ is enabled, an idle timeout controls how long the system will wait since the last interaction before starting to play. The idle timeout value can be changed here. 5 seconds is the minimum timeout that can be set.

• Select ‘Wait For Timeout On Launch’ if the player should wait for the ‘Launch Wait Time’ set under ‘Options’ after launch instead of immediately starting schedule playback.Save Changes

Save Changes

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• Select ‘Use online schedule’, to play the schedules you have programmed on your atmosphere client portal account. After the idle timeout the atmosphere media player© will download the online schedule from the atmosphere cloud.

• ‘Schedule Change’: select the way the online schedule should interrupt the playback when you decide to change a schedule online: ‘At End of Playing Item’, ‘Immediately’ or ‘At End of Playing Playlist”.

Note: online schedules have to be programmed previously to selecting this function. The computer must have an online connection to download the online schedule. The computer doesn’t need a constant online connection to play.

Note: when changing between online and local schedule, you have to go back to the ‘Home’ window and ‘Take Control’ again to see the changes in the Schedule window.

IV. UpdatesEnable background content updates: select this function to enable automatic content updates. Content update mode: two modes are available:

• ‘LAN + Internet’ and ‘LAN Only’ modes are only relevant when two or more atmosphere players are installed in a location. Multiple atmosphere players can share their content over LAN and therefore minimise drastically network usage. ‘LAN + Internet’ means that the player will try to get the content over LAN from another player or if it is not possible get it through the internet from the atmosphere cloud. ‘LAN Only’ means the player will only update content over LAN and never go to the internet.

Enable LAN content sharing: if you want the player to share its content with other players in your location turn content sharing on.

Enable LAN Content Sharing

Save Changes

Save Changes

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i. Points to note

1. The atmosphere media player© remembers the device that is connected to it. When you attempt to control the atmosphere media player© and it is currently being controlled by another device, control can be forced by selecting ‘Forced iPad controller connection’ in the atmosphere media player© preferences.

2. Every action on the iPad is sent to the atmosphere media player©. Thus there can be a small delay (up to one second) between tapping on the iPad app and being able to execute the next action (tap, drag etc.).

3. For actions that control playback, there is a delay of about 2 seconds before interaction is enabled again.

4. Schedule playback behaviour: a. When ‘Play Startup Schedule’ is enabled, the programme for the current day begins playing as soon as the atmosphere media player© is launched. b. When a schedule plays, it always plays the playlist/item for the current time. c. When playing local schedule, if the current time comes before the start time for the first playlist then the last playlist from the previous day is looped until the start time occurs and the day's programmes begins. This feature supports 24/7 use of the atmosphere media player©.

d. When online schedule is selected, the player will play the programmes and playlists edited on your atmosphere client portal account. If no playlist have been selected for a certain time the player will stay back and wait for the next item.

5. The system automatically calculates the start time for a playlist when added to a programme. However it is more generally the case that a playlist is desired to start at an exact time:a. When a playlist start time comes before the natural end of the previous playlist, then that playlist would be interrupted for the new playlist to start.

b. When a playlist start time comes after the natural end of the previous playlist, then that playlist is looped until the new start time is reached. c. When moving to the next video in a playlist and the next playlist is schedule to start within 15 seconds, instead of playing the video, the system moves directly to the next playlist. This means that there could be a 15 second variance in the starting of a playlist. This is especially true if shuffle is selected.

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10. Setting the Apple system preferences When using a computer as a video player for a professional media installation, certain system preferences settings have to be made to insure the continuous playing of the system.

• Go to the Mac computer ‘System Preferences’.

Desktop: it is recommended to have a dark desktop background for all screens, menu and video wall. You can use the atmosphere graphics. Screen saver: screen saver should always be turned off, select ‘Never’.

Mission control: all settings influencing the desktop should be disabled. Mission control and hot corners functions should not be selected.

General: ‘Require password’ and ‘Disable automatic login’ should not be selected. Privacy: add the atmosphere application to ‘Accessibility and ‘Full Disk Access’.

Privacy: add the atmosphere content folder under privacy.

Desktop & Screen Saver

Mission Control

Security & Privacy

atmosphere must be selected

Add atmosphere

Add atmosphere

Spotlight

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https://www.dropbox.com/s/ytb97dpjn3f8ape/atmosphere%20graphics.zip?dl=0

Display: all displays must have the right scaling for best quality. To see all available settings click on ‘Scaled’ while holding the ‘Option’ key.

The following chart shows the different resolutions needed for standard atmosphere installations:

Arrangement: desktop arrangement must be adapted to the type of atmosphere installation:

• UHD single screen or UHD multi screen Mac Mini (3840x2160). Note: by single screen installations without menu monitor, the atmosphere menu will appear on the main screen after clicking stop (space bar, the screens turns black) and escape on the keyboard.

• UHD multi screen with iMac Retina 4K connected to a Datapath FX4 or Datapath FX4 HDR. (menu screen 1680x945. video wall screen 3840x2160@30Hz).

Displays

click on ‘Scaled’ while holding the ‘Option’ key

Computer Product Menu Screen Video wall

Mac Mini UHD Single screen 3840 x 2160

Mac Mini -Datapath FX4

UHD Multi screen 3840 x 2160

Mac Mini M1 -Datapath FX4

Cinema 4K Multi screen 1920 x 1080 4320 x 1920

iMac Retina 4K -Datapath FX4

UHD Multi screen 1680 x 945 3840 x 2160

iMac Retina 4K-Datapath FX4

Cinema 4K Multi screen 1680 x 945 4320 x 1920

Mac Pro-6Core Cinema 4K Multi screen 1920 x 1080 4 screens 1920 x 1080 each

90° rotation/270° for Big Sur

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• UHD multi screen with Mac Mini M1 connected to a Datapath FX4 or Datapath FX4 HDR. (menu screen 1920x1080. video wall screen 3840x2160@60Hz).

• Cinema 4K multi screen with iMac Retina 4K connected to a Datapath FX4 or Datapath FX4 HDR. (menu screen 1680x945. video wall screen 4320x1920@30Hz).

Note: when using the iMac Retina 4K, the resolution of the menu monitor should not be set higher than 1680x945 to not put a strain on the graphic card.

• Cinema 4K multi screen with Macs Mini M1 connected to a Datapath FX4 (menu screen 1920x1080. video wall screen 4320x1920@60Hz).

• atmosphere Cinema 4K multi screen with Mac Pro (mid 2103), direct connection to 4 displays in portrait format. (menu screen 1920x1080@60Hz. Video wall, each screen 1920x1080@60Hz with 90° rotation (270° for Big Sur) for a total resolution of 4320x1920 pix).

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Energy saver: should be set as follow: Schedule: Allows you to set ‘Start’ and ‘Shut Down’ times for your computer.

Primary and secondary button: The secondary button has to be set to allow the use of the right mouse click needed to create playlists in atmosphere.

Sound effects: Should be turned off

Automatic update: All automatic features should be disabled as they could interfere with the playback of atmosphere.

Computer name: It is recommended to use distinctive computer names. This will help to manage licenses if you have more than one computer.

Login items: add the atmosphere app to the login items window to start atmosphere automatically on boot.

Automatic login: should be set to the user account that is playing atmosphere to allow automatic play.

Energy Saver

Mouse

Sound

Automatic Updates

Sharing

Users & Groups

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11. Case studies a. atmosphere UHD single screen installation

UHD Display: The standard requirement is a UHD display in 16:9 format. atmosphere is compatible with all renowned display brands (Samsung, LG, Sharp, Sony, Panasonic, Philips ..) and all screen sizes (55”, 65”, 75”, 95”, etc..”). The Mac Mini HDMI output must be connected to the display HDMI input. The display can also be connected to the thunderbolt outputs using a Thunderbolt to HDMI or Thunderbolt to Display Port adapter.

Mac Mini M1 (minimum configuration) MacOS Big Sur (11.0) operating system or newer, minimum configuration: • Mac Mini Apple M1 Chip with 8-Core Cpu and 8-Core GPU 256 Storage • 8GB Unified memory • Magic mouse and wireless Keyboard

Note: In this example there is no external menu monitor, the atmosphere menu is on the UHD Display. You can connect a menu monitor to the Mac Mini M1.

External Drive: It is necessary to use an external drive (USB3/Thunderbolt 3) with a minimum of 4TB to store the content not to be limited by the size of the internal drive.

atmosphere iPad Controller App (optional) The atmosphere iOS Controller App has been developed to help control the atmosphere media players© from an iPad. This application can be downloaded free of charge from the Apple App Store and can be used to remotely control multiple atmosphere installations.

Sound System (optional) atmosphere recommends the use of an additional sound system. Audio out: The Mac Mini audio line is a 1/8" (3.5mm) stereo minijack analog. HDMI 2.0 port supports multichannel audio output. Audio interfaces connected to the USB or thunderbolt ports will appear in System Preferences/Sound/Output.

1

Mac Mini M1

iPad with atmosphere Controller App

HDMI Out/In

To Sound System

1 UHD Display

3,5mm Minijack

2

4

5 Optional

2

4

5

3 External Content Drive

3

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b. atmosphere UHD single screen to multiple displays

UHD Displays: Multiple UHD displays in 16:9 format. atmosphere is compatible with all renowned display brands (Samsung, LG, Sharp, Sony, Panasonic, Philips ..) and all screen sizes (55”, 65”, 75”, 95”, etc..”). The Mac Mini HDMI output must be connected to the splitter HDMI input. The splitter can also be connected to the thunderbolt outputs of the Mac using a Thunderbolt to HDMI or Thunderbolt to Display Port adapter.

Mac Mini M1 (minimum configuration) MacOS Big Sur (11.0) operating system or newer, minimum configuration: • Mac Mini Apple M1 Chip with 8-Core Cpu and 8-Core GPU 256 Storage • 8GB Unified memory • Magic mouse and wireless Keyboard

Note: In this example there is no external menu monitor, the atmosphere menu is on the UHD Display. You can connect a menu monitor to the Mac Mini M1. Note: the audio is send to each display through the HDMI cable (embedded audio). This has to be configured in System Preferences/Sound/Output. Each display should be connected to a sound system or a soundbar.


UHD Splitter In this example we use a Gefen Toolbox UHD 1:4 Splitter. The splitter must be HDCP compatible.

1


HDMI Out/In

1 UHD Displays

Mac Mini M12

2

3

4 x HDMI Out/In

4UHD 1:4 Splitter

3 External Content Drive

4

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c. atmosphere UHD video wall installation 16:9 (3840x2160 pix)

UHD Displays: 4 HD or UHD ultra thin bezel professional displays for video walls. atmosphere is compatible with all renowned display brands and all screen sizes. The 4 Datapath FX4 HDMI outputs are connected to the displays’ HDMI inputs. We recommend the use of the new Datapath FX4 HDR.

iMac Retina 4K (minimum configuration) MacOS Big Sur (11.0) operating system or newer, minimum configuration: • iMac Retina Display 3.0 GHz Intel Core i5 • 8GB Memory 2400 MHz RAM with 1TB Drive • Radeon Pro 555 with 2 GB memory • Magic mouse and wireless Keyboard

The iMac USB C output is connected to the Datapath FX4 Display Port input. USB-C to Display Port adapter (Moshi or comparable). USB-C to HDMI if connected to the Datapath FX4 HDRComputer desktop settings should be:- Internal desktop 1680x945 (30Hz) - Second display (Video Wall) 3840x2160 (30Hz)

Note: It is possible to use a Mac Mini M1 with external display. The minimum configuration should be: • Mac Mini Apple M1 Chip with 8-Core Cpu and 8-Core GPU 256 Storage • 8GB Unified memory • Magic mouse and wireless Keyboard


Datapath FX4 Wall Controller The Datapath FX4 is supporting 4K at 60 fps with 3 video signal inputs: One input for atmosphere UHD content and two additional input sources for external signals (TV, BluRay,..). The Datapath FX4 is controlled by the atmosphere media player©. Major settings for the video wall can be set in the atmosphere preferences. Input signal selection can be controlled from the atmosphere media player© from the iPad Controller App or from the Keyboard (short cuts).

HDMI Wall Socket (optional)PureLink PI105 HDMI for connecting external HDMI signals to the Datapath

Sound SystemA professional sound system must be installed.

1

iMac Retina 4K i5 or i7 or Mac Mini M1


1

2

6 Sound System

2

3

5

4 HDMI outputsto 4 HDMI inputs

USB C to display port

Ethernet connection

Audio out

Datapath FX 4Wall Controller4

Ext. Source HDMI 2

Ext. Source HDMI 1

5

6

UHD Video Wall (4 x HD or UHD Displays in Landscape Format)

2 x HDMI In Wall Socket

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d. atmosphere Cinema 4K video wall installation (4320x1920 pix)

UHD Displays: 4 HD or UHD ultra thin bezel professional displays for video walls installed in portrait format. atmosphere is compatible with all renowned display brands and all screen sizes. The 4 Datapath FX4 HDMI outputs are connected to the displays’ HDMI inputs.

iMac Retina 4K (minimum configuration) MacOS Big Sur (11.0) operating system or newer, minimum configuration: • iMac Retina Display 3.0 GHz Intel Core i5 • 8GB Memory 2400 MHz RAM with 1TB Drive • Radeon Pro 555 with 2 GB memory • Magic mouse and wireless Keyboard

The iMac USB C output is connected to the Datapath FX4 Display Port input. USB-C to Display Port adapter (Moshi or comparable). USB-C to HDMI if connected to the Datapath FX4 HDRComputer desktop settings should be:- Internal desktop 1680x945 (30Hz) - Second display (Video Wall) 4320x1920 (30Hz)

Note: It is possible to use a Mac Mini M1 with external display. The minimum configuration should be: • Mac Mini Apple M1 Chip with 8-Core Cpu and 8-Core GPU 256 Storage • 8GB Unified memory • Magic mouse and wireless Keyboard


Datapath FX4 Wall Controller The Datapath FX4 is supporting 4K at 60 fps with 3 video signal inputs: One input for atmosphere UHD content and two additional input sources for external signals (TV, BluRay,..). The Datapath FX4 is controlled by the atmosphere media player©. Major settings for the video wall can be set in the atmosphere preferences. Input signal selection can be controlled from the atmosphere media player© from the iPad Controller App or from the Keyboard (short cuts).

HDMI Wall Socket (optional)PureLink PI105 HDMI for connecting external HDMI signals to the Datapath

Sound SystemA professional sound system must be installed.

1


1

2

6 Sound System

2

3

4

Cinema 4K Video Wall (4 x HD Displays in Portrait Format)



Ext. Source HDMI 2

Ext. Source HDMI 1


5

iMac Retina 4K i5 or i7


Ethernet connection

Audio out

3

6

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e. atmosphere Cinema 8K video wall installation (8640x1920 pix) with Network Player extension module

2 x iMac Retina 4K i7 USB C to display port

1

2

4 Black Burst Generator



Ethernet

To sound system

2 x Datapath FX 4Wall Controller3


BNC Cable


Ethernet

2 x iMac Retina 4K i7 or 2 x Mac Mini M1 (minimum configuration) MacOS Big Sur operating system or newer, • iMac Retina Display 3.6 GHz quad core Intel Core i7, 8GB Memory 2400 MHz RAM with 1TB Drive • Radeon Pro 555 with 2 GB memory, Magic mouse and wireless Keyboard

One iMac is set as the master, all direct or sequence plays are controlled by it.

Genlock synchronization of the 2 Datapath FX4 A Black Burst generator is used to genlock the two Datapath (Blackmagic Design Mini Converter Sync Generator). Ethernet Switch and Airport Express router (for Wifi)

2 4

SLAVE

BNC Cable

Airport Express/Router to internet

5


5 Ethernet Switch and Airport Express

(2 different programs or all synchronised)

MASTER

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f. atmosphere hybrid system with Network Player extension module.

The atmosphere media player© allows to build hybrid systems with multiple Apple computers as well as different displays and video walls. Each viewing area can display its own content or all areas can be synchronised. All controlled by one master player.

4 x HDMI Out/In

HDMI Out/In

Mac Mini M1


1

2



Ethernet connection


Ext. Source HDMI 2

Ext. Source HDMI 1


Mac Mini M16

Mac Mini M17

UHD 1:4 Splitter

UHD 1:2 Splitter

5

Ethernet Switch and Airport Express

Cat Cable HDMI Out/In

9 UHD screens

8

MASTER

SLAVE 1

SLAVE 2

(3 different programs or all synchronised)

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12. SalesJeff Van DuynPresidentEmail: [email protected] North America, Inc.700 Atlantis Road Suite 303Melbourne, FL 32904Phone: 702-932-5588Cell: 317-840-1931Web: www.atmospherena.com

13. SalesJeff Van DuynPresidentEmail: [email protected] Healthcare - USA Inc.700 Atlantis Road Suite 303Melbourne, FL 32904Phone: 702-932-5588Cell: 317-840-1931Web: www.atmospherehealthcare.us

14. Sales - SupportContact Mike OhrenEmail: [email protected]: 715-834-7074Cell: 715-559-2225atmosphere by MacMan4677 Keystone CrossingEau Claire, WI. 54701

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