BrightAuthor creates, publishes and networks digital signage presentations with ease. 
 
BrightAuthor is a PC software application designed to make creating and publishing BrightSign presentations simple and dependable. BrightAuthor’s intuitive interface allows you to design full-screen or multi-zone presentations, create playlists and add day-parting to presentations with ease. Completed presentations can be automatically published directly to memory cards and includes all the necessary content, playlist and other files necessary to guarantee successful playback on all the BrightSign compact media players. BrightAuthor also includes BrightSign networking tools to allow you to send content updates remotely. Not only is BrightAuthor rich with features and simple to use, it is free of charge to all BrightSign customers. Experience BrightAuthor now and bring your digital signage presentations to life.

Benefits

• Free software application that easily creates full screen and multi-zone presentations
• Preset multi-zone templates and custom screen layouts
• Drag and drop playlist creation
• Supports day-parting
• Provides a multitude of playback options including slide transitions, background images and more
• Supports multimedia and networked content including images, videos, live video, audio, RSS feeds, text feeds, date and time
• Includes BrightSign networking tools to deliver remote content and firmware updates to networked units
• Automatically publishes completed presentations to a memory card or network location
• Compatible with all BrightSign compact-size models

Using BrightSign Network, you can easily change what's being displayed on your digital signs from anywhere. BrightSign Network is an afordable subscription-based hosted service, providing the complete infrastructure to serve and support your digital signage network. BrightSign Network is accessed through the Bright Author software interface.

Download the Bright Author Datasheet, 2.9MB pdf
Download the BrightSign Network Datasheet, 1.1MB pdf

Specifications

To create presentations with BrightAuthor, you need a PC with Windows XP, Vista or
Windows 7

To play the presentations you create with BrightAuthor, you need the following hardware:

BrightSign compact unit: HD110, HD210, HD410, HD810 or HD1010

Display: Any monitor, TV, or Elo touch screen with inputs of: HDMI, VGA or Component
(HD810 and HD1010 only)

Storage card: SD or SDHC (all BrightSign models) or USB Flash card (HD810 and HD1010 only)

Card reader/writer or USB port with card reader/writer must be connected to a PC and be compatible with the storage card.