Content types

What is worth knowing about each kind of content: images, video, audio, PDFs, the office formats you have to export first, and apps.

Images

The fastest content to get on a screen. Formats, the size to export at, and why a photo from a phone sometimes appears sideways.

Video is downloaded and played from the device, so it never buffers. Formats, encoding settings, 4K, and audio.

MP3 and FLAC, scheduled like anything else. Where the sound comes out, and what to show while it plays.

Upload a PDF and choose which pages play. Each enabled page becomes its own playlist item, and can be renamed or rotated.

PowerPoint, Slides, Keynote, Word, Docs and Pages cannot be uploaded. Four ways to export them, and which one to pick.

Excel, Sheets and Numbers cannot be uploaded. Export a snapshot, or publish a live link when the numbers change through the day.

Live, self-updating content, managed under Apps rather than in Content. It takes a duration, and its settings live on the instance.