Latest video demonstrating the new photo post-processing features introduced in RightBooth version 7.7.10.
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The latest version of RightBooth is now released and contains the following improvements:
Latest training video explaining how to make use of RightBooth screen animations in order to add animated transitions between your event screens: Here is a flowchart showing the general process that RightBooth takes when recording videos using different camera types. Note that the hour glass indicates where RightBooth will display the Busy event screen for the time taken to perform the associated task.
When you install RightBooth it also installs a Media Library. Part of this includes the Print layout library which (starting with RightBooth version 7.7) contains a number of pre-designed layouts that you can use in your photo capture events. There are two ways to choose a layout from the Print Layout Library: 1 Choose a Print Layout in the Event Wizard You can create a new photo capture event by clicking the 'Create' button on the main RightBooth window and choosing 'Create a photo capture event' You can then work your way through the Event Wizard and at the Printing stage you can choose to include printing in your event and then browse the Print layout library for your preferred layout. In this screenshot I have chosen to include printing by selecting 'Ask the user', then I clicked the 'Choose a photo print layout' button and I am browsing for a pre-made layout from within the library: 2 - Choose a Print Layout in the Screen Editor If you have designed your photo capture event to include photo printing then you can access the event's current Print layout in the Screen Editor.
Update: 26th May 2022 This article describes the use of the iriun webcam app, but since writing it, DroidCam has been brought to my attention and in many ways it is more reliable and better performing than iriun. So when reading this article, also consider using DroidCam: https://www.dev47apps.com/ Want to use an iPhone's camera as a wireless webcam input into RightBooth? This article explains how. Also note that this solution works with an iPad's camera, or any Android phone or Android tablet's camera. Note: This is a great solution for wirelessly capturing photos and recording 'talking head' videos. It may not be ideal for fast motion video recording, such as that obtained from a 360 spinner booth. See Suggestions to improve performance (below). Note 2: If you are looking to record 360 (or fast motion) videos wirelessly in RightBooth, we recommend using a GoPro camera, because the videos are recorded on the camera prior to them being transferred over WiFi to RightBooth for video processing. Setting Up Step 1
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Working in Portrait Mode If you prefer to work in Portrait mode, there is an option to switch to Portrait in the Iriun Webcam app Settings on your mobile phone. You will then need to tick the 'Rotate 90' check box in RightBooth Webcam video settings. Step 6
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You can now capture high quality videos and photos in your RightBooth events, directly from your mobile phone (or tablet). And because the camera input is treated as a webcam by RightBooth you can also make full use of all RightBooth's webcam features, including Snap Camera overlays, digital props, ink drawing, face detection, video enhancements and video augmentation. Suggestions to Improve Performance A number of users have reported that the video recording is not fluent when using iriun and that it can skip frames, especially when recording fast movement, such as that obtained on 360 spinner equipment. If you are finding this happening, try the following:
RightBooth version 7.6.36 (or later) provides the new 'Access code' feature. Here is a video tutorial showing how to make use of access codes in your events: In addition to standard text, QR codes have evolved to encode text that has special meanings to QR code scanner apps. When a QR code scanner detects a special encoding it can then instruct your device (e.g. mobile phone) to perform an associated action or run an associated app. Examples of special QR codes include Skype codes, email codes, URLs and WhatsApp messages. In this article we are going to consider WiFi QR codes and how to add them onto your RightBooth event screens. Then, when scanned, the code will allow your event users to connect to a WiFi network of your choice without them having to manually select the network or enter the required WiFi password. Step 1 - Create a WiFi QR Code Image RightBooth has a feature that lets you show QR codes on your event screens but it currently doesn't provide the ability to generate WiFi QR codes. However, there are a number of apps online that can generate WiFi QR code images for you free of charge. The one I am using for this article is the JS WiFi Code Generator which can be found here: https://qifi.org/ At this website, simply enter the SSID, Encryption method and Key (password) for your WiFi router. In this example, I am creating a WiFi QR code for my TP-Link N600 router which uses the WPA2 encryption method: When you have entered your WiFi details, click the 'Generate' button, then click 'Export' to download the generated QR image to your PC... By default your browser will download your QR code image into your Downloads folder, so make sure you move it to somewhere more permanent such as your Pictures folder. Step 2 - Add the QR Code Image onto your RightBooth Event screen
Step 3 - Add a white border to the QR code image This is required to help improve the ability for QR code scanner apps to detect the QR code.
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Now when the QR code appears on your event screen, users can scan the code using the QR code scanner on their WiFi enabled device (e.g. mobile phone) to join your WiFi network. So you want your RightBooth users to enter one or more coins into a coin acceptor before they are allowed to use your event. What you need to do is to find a coin acceptor solution that can generate and send a chosen keystroke into the Windows keyboard input subsystem, usually via USB keyboard emulation. With this solution, the keystroke will be sent each time a predefined coin (or combination of coins) are inserted into the coin acceptor. There are many coin and bill acceptors available, but most of them require additional hardware to allow you to connect them to the PC and generate keystrokes. However, there are ready made solutions available where others have done the heavy hardware lifting for you, such as this product: Or if you are feeling more adventurous, you could experiment with solutions like this: www.casino-software.de/cash-interface2_e.htm#keystroke or this: jukeblaster.com/coinkit.html So once you have your coin acceptor working and connected to the PC, here is the change you need to make in RightBooth:
Now when you play the event, RightBooth will wait at the Start screen until a coin is inserted into the coin acceptor, at which point it will progress to the next screen in your event, allowing the user to access your event features. And at the end of each user session, RightBooth will return to showing the Start screen, waiting for the next user to enter a coin into the coin acceptor.
Updated: April 2022 Training video explaining:
IMPORTANT. You will need to be using RightBooth version 7.6.28 (or newer) in order to implement the solution described in this article. I had an interesting email chat with one of my RightBooth users about the consistency of the Voice Recognition feature. He was simply wanting his event users to say the word 'cheese' in order to trigger the taking of a photo. So he created a photo capture event and on his event Start screen he added the word 'cheese' as a label item having the action 'Next screen', and then he turned on the Voice Recognition feature. But when playing the event he was finding that the spoken word 'cheese' was not always being recognised as such, and this led to our email chat. On testing this myself, I discovered that when speaking the word 'cheese', the recognition engine was occasionally (and incorrectly) recognising my spoken word as one of the following similar sounding words:
Now this recognition inconsistency is actually inherent in the Microsoft Voice Recognition system and it makes RightBooth appear to ignore quite a few spoken words. So here is my suggestion to improve the reliability:
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Now when any user says 'cheese' and it is incorrectly recognised as one of the similar sounding words, RightBooth will still accept the word as a voice command and will progress to the next screen as intended, effectively making the voice recognition more reliable and consistent. RightBooth version 7.6.27 has been released and contains the following new features and fixes:
1) Add the 'Record audio' checkbox in RightBooth Settings --> Cameras --> Webcam audio. This allows you to record webcam videos that do not contain an audio track. 2) Allow .wav files to be used as the audio track in the RightBooth Video Enhancements. 3) Add the QR code item to the 'Add items' toolbox in the Screen Editor. This allows QR codes to be added to event screens with a fixed aspect ratio and a correctly sized white border that improves the ability for QR code scanner apps to identify the QR code. 4) Add the 'Choose when to perform file copy actions' options in Event Designer --> Event files/folders. These new options allow you to choose at what point in the playing event flow that various file copy actions will occur. You can choose from the following:
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So you have a DJ at your event and you want to allow your guests to send song requests to the DJ throughout the evening. This article explains how you can facilitate this using RightBooth. 1) Use the RightBooth Event Wizard to create a message event. Or in the Event Designer --> Event type, tick the Message check box to include the Message option in your video recording or photo capture event. In this screenshot we have chosen to include messages in our Photo event: 2) In Event Designer --> Event structure --> Email files, in the section 'Email the event messages' choose the 'Yes' option. This will force each message entered during the event to be automatically emailed to the DJ: 3) In Event designer --> Event social media, untick the option 'Send to user email address'. (see screenshot below). This prevents each user from being asked to enter their own email address after they have entered their message. 4) Enter your DJ's email address into the 'To' text box. This will cause RightBooth to automatically send each message to the DJ's email address. You can also customise the email Subject and Body text accordingly: Note: If you want to send the messages to more than just the DJ, enter each of the other recipient's email addresses on new lines in the 'To' field. 5) In RightBooth Settings --> Social media --> Email server, enter your email Server Host and your account details. This is the email account from which RightBooth will use to send emails to the DJ's email address: Note: Please refer to your email provider's documentation for the details of your email account. 6) In the Screen Editor, on the Choose recording screen, alter the Message button text item with appropriate wording: 7) In the Screen Editor on the Type message screen, alter the text prompts with appropriate wording: Job done ! Now play the event and each time a user enters their song request, it will be automatically emailed to the DJ for his consideration. A guide on how to use a single USB button for controlling your RightBooth events. 1 - Buy a USB button. We recommend using this button: www.usbbutton.com 2 - Plug the USB button into a free USB port on your PC. Wait until Windows configures the button for use. 3 - Download and install the USB Button Configuration utility, available from the website link mentioned in 1). 4 - Run the USB Button Utility 5 - Use the File --> Open menu to open the following file: c:\Program Files (x86)\RightBooth\rightbooth.ubn 6 - Press the 'Program Button' button to configure the USB button so that it will send the Spacebar keyboard character to Windows. Note that this is a one time requirement... 7 - Run RightBooth. Go to Settings --> User Input 8 - Select the option 'USB button' and make sure the Single keyboard key is set to 'Space'... 9 - Open your event and go into the Screen Editor. 10 - Look at each screen that has a choice selection and ensure that the selection arrows correctly point at the text choices. If they don't, edit the label items accordingly. In this example screenshot the selected label item has been widened so that it straddles the accompanying button and its text contents have been right justified so that the selection arrows are positioned to the left of the button and to the right of the label item: 11 - Play the event. The arrows will move automatically between the text choices. When the arrows are pointing at your required choice, you can press the USB Button to select the choice.
12 - If the arrows move too quickly between the choices, return to Settings --> User Input and increase the Choice selector arrow speed IMPORTANT: If you need to edit the selection arrows, you must always select the 'left most' arrow. Any changes you make will be applied to both arrows. Updated: April 1st, 2022 RightBooth now provides the new event type: 'Watch folder'. This allows the event to watch a folder when it plays and then to process videos and photos that appear in the folder. The event flow is as follows:
In 'Watch folder' mode, the event will not allow any video recording or photo capture to take place within the event itself, it is purely watching for files to appear. Here's how easy it is to set up:
Notice in the above screenshot that we have chosen to watch a Dropbox folder. You just need a free DropBox account and install the DropBox client app on the computer. Then choose the Dropbox folder as the Watch folder.
This allows you to implement a very interesting workflow. If you make your Dropbox folder available on other devices, such as mobile phones and tablets (via the Dropbox mobile app), then you (and possibly others) can roam around, away from the computer, taking photos and/or recording videos with your mobile device, while allowing the DropBox app to automatically copy them to the RightBooth Watch folder back on the computer. And each time these files appear in the folder, RightBooth will process them for you, for example, automatically resizing and cropping photos, adding an overlay logo and then maybe printing them, and/or perhaps emailing them to a predefined email address. RightBooth version 7.6.9 is released today, including the new Video enhancements features. Full details
RightBooth 7.6.5 is now released. See the Release Notes for a full list of the updates. This release contains the new Send to Phone feature which is explained in these training videos:
Demonstrating the following screen editor enhancements: - Toolbox sizer - 'Intelligent' tooltips - Toolbox fading and layering - Monitor selector - Move forward and Move backward buttons - The new Keypad item
RightBooth version 7.6.1 has a new 'Print layouts' item in the Screen Editor that can be added to any of your event screens and can contain any number of your pre-designed photo print layouts. Then when the event is playing, your event user may choose one of the layouts for RightBooth to use when printing their photos... If you want to know how to create your own print layouts in RightBooth, check out this video: https://youtu.be/3_Z-kA7pDLA
It is possible to allow your users to change the order of the photos on the print layout prior to the layout being printed. Note you will require RightBooth version 7.5.31 or later for this feature. To do this:
Now when you play the event and after taking 3 photos, they will initially appear in the print layout in the order that they were taken: Now if the user clicks the Reorder photos button, the photo order will be changed as follows: The user can continue to click the Reorder photos button until the photos are in the preferred order, prior to printing.
Here is the latest training video demonstrating how to:
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AuthorNigel Pearce Archives
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