Just Play Lite · 2026 documentation

Settings (v.2026.x)

Just Play Lite Settings

The actual setup and configuration of the Settings is done by your system administrator.

You can access the Just Play Lite Settings panel via the menu “Just Play Lite → Settings…”, or by pressing Command-, on your keyboard.

The “Reset Warning Alerts” button allows you to re-enable warnings if they have been previously turned off.

General

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  • Show names for all items in timeline: Shows the names of all items in the Timeline as an overlay. If this option is deactivated, you can still hover over an item in the Timeline to see its name.

  • Show tooltips in the library: Deactivate this option to disable tooltips in the Library while moving the mouse pointer over entries. This option is enabled by default.

  • Poster frame cache: Defines the folder where poster frames will be saved. By default, poster frames are saved in the folder Poster Frames inside the Documents folder of the current macOS User. This option is enabled by default. Disable it to suppress the creation of new poster frames in the Workbench.

  • Default video in-point: Changes the in-point of Videos that are dragged from the Library into a Playlist to the specified timecode value (assuming that the Video contains timecode). This is useful if all of your Videos contain a trailer or countdown before the actual video content starts.

  • Synchronise in-point and poster frame for scheduled videos: Defines if setting a new in-point also changes the poster frame of the video, or not.

Advanced

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  • Live preview when dragging the timeline: When enabled, the On Air window updates while dragging the Timeline. Disable this option to improve the overall performance of the user interface.

  • Automatically refresh dropped playlists: Activating this feature automatically refreshes any Playlists when dragged from the Playlists tab (in the Library) and dropped onto either the Calendar or the Workbench view. This is useful, especially when you have older saved Playlists which do not include the necessary metadata to use the aspect ratio features, and you want to automatically include them when dropping Playlists into the schedule.

  • Make sure the Video clips in the playlist are available in the correct Repository Folder(s), otherwise the imported Playlist will be empty.

  • Depending on the size of the Playlist (i.e., the number of Video clips) the “Automatically refresh dropped Playlists” feature may slow down, dropping Playlists into a schedule, as each video clip in the Playlist has to be parsed and the necessary metadata to be extracted.

  • Error display: This option allows you to choose whether error messages are displayed as small icons or as overlays within the On Air Window of the user interface.Depending on the size of the Playlist (= the number of Video clips) the Automatically refresh dropped Playlists feature may slow down dropping Playlists into the schedule as each Video clip in the Playlist has to be interpreted by the Just Play Lite application and the necessary metadata needs to be extracted.