Author Archives: Jeremy Cleek
Tightrope Creative
On January 1st of 2009, Tightrope Media Systems officially launched Tightrope Creative, our Carousel design service division. With Tightrope Creative, you will get professionally created channel designs that include: Coordinated design elements Pre-configured zone layouts Specialized templates High-utility icons New design elements called “snap-ons”, which modify the look of a template to give it a [...]
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Re-ordering of blocks in Carousel 5.2
Here’s a real life example of how a new feature in Carousel can improve the legibility of text in a bulletin. We start with our master RSS template, choose our background, and we get this: Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! Notice how the text becomes washed out towards the bottom of the screen. This will happen [...]
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Behind the Scenes: “The Key and the Portal”
Amber and I recently completed a short that played at the ACM conference in Washington DC. Please visit our webpage to view the movie. Short Synopsis: In the spirit of a graphic novel – a 1930s detective is stuck in a futuristic world, unable to comprehend the power and efficiency of modern technology. Meanwhile, workers [...]
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A Behemoth Is Coming
What is as close to a feature length training video as I will ever make will be unleashed Monday April 14th. The Template Editor. Kind of a masterpiece. My "Lawrence of Arabia". In fact, its so special you can watch it in HD! (soon) Zooming, panning, and other trickery isn’t the most affective way to [...]
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Tightrope by day…
Filmmaker by – well, whenever I can. I thought it might be appropriate to put up the trailer to my first feature length film, "Up and Down Again". This is what I do when I’m not working. We screened it in New England July 2006. To be honest – I was pretty burnt out after [...]
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I got nothin
I wanted to write another post, but umm… I got nothin. Keep the questions coming in. Post a comment or send an email to jeremy.cleek@trms.com.
Q&A – Managing Bulletins in Carousel
This one’s from Salem, MA Q – I wonder if you can tell me if more recent versions of Carousel are doing a better job of allowing the user to change the order in which the pages run. It seems to me that managing my pages would be a lot easier with a drag and [...]
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Spring ’09 Channels from Tightrope Creative