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Video walls

A wall is several displays hung together — four above a counter, say — designed as one artboard. Each panel plays on its own screen, on its own timeline. Walls live under Displays in the sidebar.

A wall is a design surface, not synchronised playback

Panels share no clock. Artwork spans a wall because each panel is designed with its own slice of the picture — nothing keeps two panels frame-aligned as they play. Still artwork reads as one image; video does not. A slide changing at 10:00 on one panel may change a second later on the next.

Create a wall

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    Open Walls under Displays in the sidebar, then click New wall.That's the only way to make one — walls aren't in the Create menu.
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    Name the wall and pick a Layout.Presets cover 2 × 1, 3 × 1, 4 × 1 and 2 × 2. Custom takes Columns and Rows — up to 16 each, 64 panels in all.
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    Set Panel size, Panel diagonal and Bezel.Landscape or Portrait, then your real hardware in inches and millimetres so the canvas draws the seams where they fall. Both are design hints; nothing is sent to the displays.
    The New wall dialog. A Wall name field reads “Counter menu board”. A Layout row offers 2 × 1, 3 × 1, 4 × 1, 2 × 2 and Custom, with 2 × 2 selected and previewed as four tiles above the line “4 panels · 3840 × 2160 px artboard”. Below it: Panel size as Landscape 1920 × 1080 or Portrait 1080 × 1920, Panel diagonal set to 55 in, Bezel set to 0 mm, and Panel content offering New sequences or Blank panels.
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    Choose Panel content, then click Create wall.New sequences gives you one blank sequence per panel. Blank panels creates nothing — you point each panel at a sequence you already have.

The wall page

The wall is drawn at true relative proportions, each panel showing its real first slide. The line above reports what is actually playing — not what is merely wired up — and names why the rest are not: no screen, waiting to be paired, offline, or no content.

A wall page titled “Lobby video wall”, described as 2 rows of 2 panels, 1920 × 1080 per panel, no bezel. Under the title: “Nothing on this wall is playing yet” and “4 panels have no screen”. A canvas draws the four numbered panels at true proportions, each marked No screen. A Panels list beneath gives every panel a content picker and an Attach screen button.
A new four-panel wall. Nothing is playing yet — every panel still needs a screen.

Wire up each panel

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    Pick what it plays with Choose content.Any sequence you own, including one you use elsewhere. Clear content empties the panel and stops the attached display.
    The “Content for panel 1” picker. A search box contains “menu”, above a Clear content row captioned “The panel goes back to empty” and one matching sequence, “Sunrise Cafe Menu Board”, marked 1 slide.
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    Point it at a display with Attach screen.Only screens no other wall has claimed are offered — a screen belongs to one wall. Detach screen unhooks it later; that display keeps playing.
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    Pair the display, if it isn't paired yet.The panel offers Pair it, which opens the dialog from Pair your first screen.

One background across the whole wall

Background lays one Solid or Gradient field over the artboard and gives each panel its own slice, so the colour runs continuously behind the bezels.

Applying a background replaces the background of every slide on every panel.

Deleting a wall, from the ⋯ menu, removes the grouping and not the artwork: the panel sequences stay in your library, and every attached screen keeps playing what it has. Nothing goes dark.

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