AutoAds in Solid Scoring

Sponsor [AutoAds] & what not to do

AutoAds is designed as a very simple way for clubs to activate their sponsor logos.
Besides being an obvious button in our system, the back end is also simple.
There is one folder on the desktop where the club dumps multiple club sponsor logos in.
Quick and easy (especially for the ever-changing multiple volunteers at clubs)

Alternating manually between "Scores" & "Ads" is a single click (shown on PC).
 (shown on the Remote-App)

Our clubs are inevitably the best testers for Solid systems.
Here's a good issue case study:
  • A club's Solid Scoring System was not opening correctly
  • Result:

  • Instead of loading the usual individual logos and small videos into the AutoAds folder the club had a single video file at 60meg.
    • This single file showed a welcome-message, followed by about 20 sponsor logo images.
  • AutoAds (and the other triggers, ie. Four, Six, Overs, Goals, etc) are primarily designed to play individual images and small clips
  • The main problem with this case was that the club video file was 4K size (3840x2160).
    • The club's LED system was set to display HD (1920x1080)
    • Meaning that the Solid system was trying to actively (live) rescale this image within our software.
    • This particular section of our software is not designed for live scaling processing at this level
    • When this video clip was manually resized to HD it played easily - as it had zero processing to do.
  • Whilst it is nice to create video clips for AutoAd use in this "single file" format it is not recommended for most clubs.
    • As mentioned above this file had a club welcome message, followed by 20 sponsor logo slides.
    • Should the club need to add or remove a sponsor logo it would be a painful task (should the original video creator not be readily available).
  • The preferred method (suiting most clubs, with no access to video creators) is to:
    • Place several files in the desktop AutoAd folder (& similarly for the other folders, ie. Goal, Four, etc.)
    • The first file can be the quick intro clip provided by Solid (the bouncing "Thanks to our Sponsors", the spinning "Four", etc.)
    • Followed by individual sponsor logo images (separate files)
      • Harry's Bakery, McDonalds, Pete's Fish'n'chips, DC Building, and so on.
      • If you want to control the order you can rename these files, ie.
        • 01 DC-Build.jpg, 02 Harrys.jpg, 03 McDonalds.png, etc.
        • Unlike the original "single video" method, this is easy to edit.
          • If Maccas stops paying sponsorship, move their logo to the [hold] folder
          • If Con's Fruitery wants to sign up, you simply add his logo into the mix
Note: if you system does not look like this then you may have an earlier system. Contact Solid if you are interested in updating.
NEW for 2024 is the ability to update your logos & image via the Solid cloud.
Where you can add or modify your sponsor logos from the comfort of your home or work PC. Whether your scoreboard is current on OR off.

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