What are overlays?

note this feature requires an advanced or pro licence to use what are designs and overlays? in the designer, you can create two types of content designs these are standard pieces of content (images, videos, etc ) that display on your screen they appear in your playlist just like your other media overlays overlays are custom widgets that sit on top of any content in your playlist they have a transparent background, allowing you to add elements like shapes, text, lines, and widgets that overlay directly onto your media creating a new overlay open the designer, create a new design, select overlay from the type dropdown alternatively, you can convert an existing design to an overlay later by clicking the settings gear icon next to the save button build your overlay by adding shapes, text, lines, and widgets when finished, select a folder and click save using your overlay open an existing playlist or create a new one click overlay at the top left of the screen choose your saved overlay from the dropdown list add your media or other content into the playlist click preview to see how the overlay appears over your media when you're happy with it, click save & publish to deploy the content to your screens looking for something else? we can’t wait to hear about it reach out to our sunshiney support and we'll be in touch in a flash