General
The operator’s Screen is divided up into three areas. CueList, Preview, and Bins. Each is discussed below, in the order that you’ll use them.



The Bins
The term “Bin” is used for a holding area of media that may be used. When media of (almost) any kind is brought into SundayPlus to be used, it is “Loaded” and automatically placed in the appropriate Bin. Each media type has its own Bin associated with it. Text, Images, and Video, respectively, are selected by the buttons you see here: Clicking on a Bin button the first time, will select that Bin and display its contents. Clicking on a button after the bin is open will pull down the menu for that Bin.

The Text Bin
Below is a picture of the Text Bin. It shows the title of the file and an icon to indicate whether a file is text or a song. The Text Bin scrolls and holds 96 files at a time. File formats allowable in the Text Bin are: ASCII Text (.txt), Rich Text Format (.rtf) and SundayPlus Text Format (.ptf). SundayPlus Text Format contains information that other formats can’t, such at text transparency, whether a file is a Song or Text, and Markers (explained in full in the Help File and Field Guide!).



The Image Bin
Here is a picture of the Image Bin. Notice how you can see thumbnail representations of the images that are currently loaded. The Image Bin will hold 100 images at a time. Image formats allowed are: Windows Bitmap Files (.bmp), CompuServe Compressed Image Files, non-animated (.gif), JPEG Compressed Files (.jpg), PICT Files, a Macintosh format (.pct) , PhotoShop Files (.psd), Targa Format (.tga), Tagged Image Files (.tif).



The Video Bin
This is the Video Bin. Here, too, you can see thumbnail representations of the Video Clips that are currently loaded. You can choose any frame of the video to be the thumbnail. The Image Bin holds 40 clips at a time. Formats allowed in the Video Bin are: AVI (.avi), QuickTime and QuickTime VR (.mov), MPEG 1 (.mpg), and Flash or Shockwave (.swf). Interactivity is available on QuickTime VR and Flash files!



The CueList
The CueList is the final organizer for your presentation. Each spot is a “Cue” making up a CueList. A Cue can be a single image, a video clip, or a background with a 100 page text file (or lots of other combinations). You place items from the bins into the order you intend to show them. It’s easy to place media here; you just drag them up from the bin and drop them into the CueList.

You can tell what type of file is in each Cue by the icons (or lack thereof) on the Cue. For example, the first Cue in the picture below is an image with a text file. The next is a video file (you can tell by the film sprocket holes). Number four is an image with no text file and it’s on the screen (the red outline tells us that). The fifth one is a background with a song (see the musical note icon?). You can rearrange Cues by dragging them at any time around the CueList.

The Preview Area
The Preview area is for just that; previewing what is coming up next (called Preview). It also has a Picture-In-Picture (PIP) capability so that you can also see what is currently on the projector (called Program; it’s the one with the red outline). Left-clicking inside the large picture switches the large and small images, so you can see a big view of Program and a small Preview or vise versa. The PIP can be dragged to any corner to give a clearer view of what is behind it. Right-clicking turns the PIP off. There are also buttons for some special functions that are used during playback of a CueList. We’ll discuss them in the section called “Using a CueList”. It’s important to know that the pictures here are for the operator’s convenience and that no transitions between pictures will be visible.