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title: Presentations
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createdAt: 2025-04-02T20:51:35.218Z
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This page / section pertains to BrightSign Author, our latest app for authoring and managing content and players. For the legacy BrightAuthor Classic app, refer to our [Legacy Docs](docId\:i5zF53DX56wdWDFHlRot1).
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# Managing Media

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to upload and manage content using BrightSign Author (BrightAuthor\:connected), allowing you to publish presentations that contain images, video, audio, and HTML pages.

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[Download Sample Assets](https://www.brightsignnetwork.com/download/Videos/Training%20Videos/Media-management-assets.zip)

# Building a Simple Presentation

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to build a simple presentation, and publish it to your BrightSign player.

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# Building a Multizone Presentation

This tutorial explains how to use BrightSign Author (BrightAuthor\:connected) to build a multizone presentation, where specified regions of the screen display various types of content simultaneously.

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# Scheduling and Publishing Content

This tutorial explains how to schedule and publish a presentation to your BrightSign player.

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# Creating a Ticker

In this tutorial, you will learn how to generate both static and live text, make and format a ticker zone, add text to the zone, and make live updates to the ticker text while a presentation is running.

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[Download Sample Assets](https://www-old.brightsign.biz/application/files/5515/8256/9466/BrightSign-Tutorial-RSS-text.zip)

# Adding Time and Date

In this tutorial, you will learn how to add and format the date and time in two separate clock zones within a multi-zone presentation using BrightSign Author (BrightAuthor\:connected).

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# Using a Transparent Overlay

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use BrightSign Author (BrightAuthor\:connected) to add a PNG image with transparent areas to a multizone presentation.

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[Download Sample Assets](https://www.brightsignnetwork.com/download/Videos/Training%20Videos/overlay_assets.zip)

# Making an HTML5 Presentation

With BrightSign Author (BrightAuthor\:connected), you can make HTML5 presentations to display websites, utilize touch gestures (like swiping), use JavaScript, and update text. In this tutorial, you will learn how to make a presentation using an HTML5 webpage and publish it directly to your BrightSign player. Then we’ll switch over to BrightSign Cloud to see how to host HTML sites remotely both on a web server and via BrightSign Cloud.

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[Download Sample Assets](https://www.brightsignnetwork.com/download/Videos/Training%20Videos/overlay_assets.zip)

# How to Use Audio Zones

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to make an audio zone that includes a playlist of audio tracks, as well as a dynamic playlist that can be updated live. You’ll also learn how to mute the audio coming from the video zones.

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[Download Sample Assets](https://www.brightsignnetwork.com/download/Videos/Training%20Videos/AudioZone-assets.zip)

# Video Sync Overview

This video describes how video sync works in BrightSign Author (BrightAuthor\:connected). 

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# Using the Video-In Widget

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to add HDMI content, even HDCP content, to a video zone using the Video-In widget.

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# How to Use Streaming Content

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to stream content to your presentation using BrightSign Author (BrightAuthor\:connected).

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# How to Use Zone Messaging

In this tutorial, you will learn how to add interactive touch functionally to the multi-zone presentation using zone message events and zone message commands.

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[Download Sample Assets](https://www.brightsignnetwork.com/download/Videos/Training%20Videos/Zone-messaging-assets.zip)