tennisBoard7 19 video lessons
tennisBoard7 is the tennis scoreboard software for LED displays, projectors and TV graphics. These 19 lessons, 1 h 58 min in all, go through the program page by page: pick a lesson below and it plays here. The videos have no narration; on-screen captions explain each step.
Main Window and Game Page (Menu strip, display modes, designs, logo)
6:10
A first tour of tennisBoard7: the main window with its title bar and menu strip, the four display modes of the board, the design gallery, and the top of the Game page with the logo, the tournament and court lines and the two players.
6:31
How to score a tennis match in tennisBoard7: the up and down arrows, left and right clicks on the points and set cells, Undo, the serve dots, deuce and advantage, a game, a set, a tie-break and the end of the match. The match-state tag of the Game page and the big point callout of the board are shown on the way.
5:33
The optional point outcome buttons of tennisBoard7: how to switch them on, and how Ace, DF, W, UE and FE give the point and record how it ended. Fault, second serve and double fault, Undo of a point with its outcome, and the serve speed box. Every outcome feeds the statistics of the Stats tab.
4:51
Challenges and Hawk-Eye in tennisBoard7: the challenge dots of the Game page, the Hawk-Eye call that the board shows for 8 seconds, the Challenges Left band, the extra challenge in a tie-break, and the big point callout that appears by itself before a break point, set point or match point.
4:09
The match clock of tennisBoard7: start and pause, typing a time, switching between the match time and the time of day, and how the clock starts and stops by itself. Then New Match: the question before the reset, what a new match resets and what it keeps.
6:35
The Match Rules window of tennisBoard7: the five modes Tennis, Doubles / College, Fast4, Padel and Beach, their presets, and every rule row from Sets to Win to the challenges. How the values are checked, what Save & Apply and Cancel do, and what happens when the rules change during a match.
6:22
The tool icons of the tennisBoard7 Game page: the shortcuts to the Language and Remote Control pages, the NDI output, the Keyboard Hook Manager with the global keyboard shortcuts, and the background video and middle image layers of the board.
6:37
How to use the Media Player of tennisBoard7: playlists 1 to 20, the clip list, Add Clip and Delete Clip, playing one clip with Play, Pause and Stop, running a playlist with Start and Finish, Return to Scoreboard, sound, auto repeat, the display mode and the URL page for web pages.
7:06
A tour of the Info page of tennisBoard7: what every button opens, then the Banner with its text lines, memories, sponsor logo, background, clock and countdown, and the full-screen Announcement with its styles.
6:50
How to keep the player lists of tennisBoard7 with photos, country and player facts, how to manage the sponsor logos, how to run a slideshow of the player pictures on the board, and where to set the background of the info screens.
6:08
The first six tennis info screens of tennisBoard7 and their editor: Player Intro, Head-to-Head, Officials, Statistics, Set Summary / Result and Point by Point - the fields, Show and Hide, and what stays on the board when the editor closes.
7:12
The second group of tennis info screens in tennisBoard7: Code Violation with warnings and penalties, the Hawk-Eye Challenge, Serve Speed, the Status Card with a countdown, Order of Play, and the Big Point Callout for break, set and match points.
4:49
How tennisBoard7 computes the match statistics from the points you give, how to correct a value by hand, how to choose the rows of the board graphic, and how to show the statistics of the match or of one set on the board.
6:34
Sponsored mode in tennisBoard7: the Standard scoreboard with a sponsor band below or above it. The band shows an endless row of sponsor images or one of four scrolling texts. How to switch to the mode, fill the band, change its style, font and colours, and set the location and the height of the band. Guide chapters 7.4 and 13.3.
6:28
Advertisement mode in tennisBoard7: the board is shared by a scoreboard column, up to two banners and a large media area for clips, a camera, an NDI source or a part of the screen. The Media Player, Camera, Screen Capture, Banner and Settings tabs of the Ad page: playlists, sources, the layout of the board and the content of the banners. Guide chapters 7.5, 13.7 and 13.8.
6:22
Chroma Key mode in tennisBoard7: a compact scorebug and lower thirds on a plain key colour, ready to be keyed over the live picture by a vision mixer, vMix or OBS. The CK page: scorebug on and off, the tennis info screens as lower thirds, clips, camera and screen capture behind the graphics, and the key colours. Guide chapters 7.6 and 9.14.
6:20
The Settings page of tennisBoard7, part 1: the Settings tabs, the License page with the Computer ID, the licence key, the licence terms, License Info, Demo mode and the USB licence, and every row of Screen Properties. Guide chapters 3 (Licensing) and 18 (Settings).
6:18
The board design editor of tennisBoard7: screens and elements, Location and Style values, moving an element and putting it back, colours and fonts, Save Design As and Factory Settings. Guide chapter 8 (Designs) and 18.1 (Settings).
6:43
Remote control and language settings of tennisBoard7: the phone page over the network, address and QR code, PIN, Internet access, the HTTP API, what the phone page offers, the program language, its texts and the titles. Guide chapters 14 (Remote control) and 17 (Languages).
Follow the lessons on your own PC. The demo has every feature and shows only a small DEMO watermark.