The EMITY editor: create your digital signage posters and videos

Putting a visual on your screens used to mean a design tool, an export, then an import back into the platform. EMITY’s built-in editor folds those three steps into one: you compose inside E-MANAGER, you publish, your screens show it.

1,000templates in your subscription
Every formatportrait, landscape, 4K, LED
One accountno third-party tool to open

How it works

A built-in creative tool, not another piece of software

The EMITY editor is new for 2026. It lives inside E-MANAGER, the dashboard you already use to run your screens: no switching between tools, and no export to redo every time something needs changing.

In practice, you open the editor from any playlist and any screen — a playlist being the sequence of content that plays on a display. Your media are there, your colours too, and the result reaches your screens without leaving the page.

Whether you run a small business or an organisation with several hundred sites, you get the same interface and the same templates.

When it is time to create, E-MANAGER offers you several starting points. EMITY’s built-in editor covers the great majority of cases; and if your teams already work with Canva or Adobe Express, those two integrations stay one click away.

  • ✓Your media: straight into your EMITY media library, with no download in between
  • ✓A library included: royalty-free images and videos come with the editor
  • ✓One-click publishing: the design joins the playlist you selected
  • ✓Instant re-editing: a correction takes moments, with no source file to hunt down

MacBook on a meeting-room table showing the choice of starting points in E-MANAGER

In pictures

The editor, at a glance

Two screens are enough to follow the route: choosing where to start, then the space where you compose.

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1. Where you start

When you add content, E-MANAGER shows the starting points available to you: the built-in editor, your media library, the widgets — and the Canva and Adobe Express integrations for teams that already use them.

The EMITY editor interface: media panel on the left, canvas in the centre, properties on the right, timeline along the bottom

2. Where you compose

Your media on the left, the canvas in the middle, the properties of whatever you have selected on the right, and the timeline along the bottom — the one you use to animate and to edit.

Uses

What you create with the editor

A welcome poster, a presentation video, a strip for an LED wall: the same interface covers all four cases below.

Posters and playlists

Publish to all your screens in a few clicks. Full HD, portrait, landscape, 4K: the design adjusts to the dimensions declared for each screen. See EMITY digital signage.

Videos and animation

Edit and animate your videos directly, then publish or export them. Layers stack the elements, tracks set the order they play in, and transitions sit between two pieces of media.

LED screens

A dedicated mode takes account of the constraints specific to LED panels: unusual resolutions, very elongated formats, a full stadium ring. Understand LED screens.

Multi-format export

Export a design as an image, as a video or as a web page, to share it beyond your screens — by email, on an intranet, inside a presentation.

LED mode

A mode built for LED screens

An LED wall is not measured in inches. It is assembled module by module, and its final resolution is almost never that of a television. The editor’s LED mode starts from that reality instead of working around it.

  • ✓Size declared by modules or by dimensions
  • ✓Values in pixels, or in millimetres with the pixel pitch
  • ✓Total size worked out for you: 31 modules of 72 px make a strip of 2,232 × 72 px
  • ✓Video export in Full HD or 4K
  • ✓Automatic cutting into stacked bands, reassembled by the controller
  • ✓The mode switches off in one click, back to an ordinary screen

iMac showing the EMITY editor with an LED strip on the canvas, sized 2,232 by 72 pixels

Features

What saves time day to day

Four mechanisms carry most of the comfort of using the editor.

Drag and drop

You pick an element up and put it where it belongs. It is the gesture of every consumer design tool, so there is nothing to relearn — and nothing standing between you and a first design.

Every format

Each design is set against the screen that will carry it: a portrait totem, a landscape screen in a lobby, a very long LED strip. The same message follows, without being rebuilt.

Templates

Short of inspiration? 1,000 templates come with your subscription, sorted by sector, in portrait and in landscape, still, animated or video. Adapt one and publish.

Layers and timeline

Layers stack text, images, shapes and video; the timeline decides when each one appears. The playhead is your reference for placing a sharp cut or a gentle transition.

Why an in-house editor

One account, one place to look

An outside design tool means one more account to manage, one more set of permissions, and files travelling back and forth with every change. Here is what having it built in changes day to day.

  • ✓One login: the E-MANAGER one your teams already have
  • ✓One round of training to plan, for publishing as well as for creating
  • ✓No intermediate export, so no file version to track down six months later
  • ✓Custom templates in your own colours, shared with your users
  • ✓One point of contact when a question comes up, including while you find your feet

Did you know?

The editor is part of the subscription, with no extra module to buy: the Standard, Premium and Excellence plans are set out on our subscriptions page.

And if you are comparing several platforms, the question of a built-in editor is worth asking early: many of them send you off to a third-party tool. Our digital signage software comparison goes through the criteria one by one.

Templates

Templates built for your sector

Retail, healthcare, corporate, events, property… Each template starts from a real use rather than a blank page. You adapt it to your message, and it fits itself to your screen.

Wall-mounted screen in an office building lobby announcing a conference

Offices and workplaces

Welcoming visitors, the programme for a conference, safety notices, team figures: the template takes a few fields and goes straight to the screens in reception.

Corporate

Portrait screen in a clothing shop announcing a new collection

Shops and retail

New arrivals, a highlighted aisle, a seasonal mood. The portrait format of in-shop totems is there from the outset, with no cropping by hand.

Retail

Portrait screen behind an estate agent’s window showing a property to let

Estate agents and services

Window displays, listings that rotate, opening hours and contact details. The window stays alive even when the office is closed, and the content updates remotely.

Property

The same holds for every sector we work with: companies, shops, education, and the others set out in our customer cases.

Several sites, several brands

Your own templates, shared with your teams

Once communication runs across dozens of sites or franchises, consistency becomes the real question: everyone needs to create quickly without drifting away from the brand.

You build your own templates, in your brand’s colours and typefaces, then make them available to your users and your partners. Each one fills in the local message; the frame itself does not move.

Sensitive elements — the logo, statutory notices, a brand banner — can be locked so that nobody moves or deletes them by accident.

  • ✓In-house templates, built once and reused everywhere
  • ✓Brand elements locked in place
  • ✓Local publishing without going back through head office each time
  • ✓One estate, run from the same dashboard

Frequently asked questions

What teams ask before they start

Another question? The general digital signage FAQ covers hardware, publishing and subscriptions.

No. The editor is built into E-MANAGER and included in the subscription: posters, videos and LED content are all composed inside the platform, with the same login you use to run your screens. If your teams already use Canva or Adobe Express, those two integrations remain available alongside it.

1,000 templates are included, sorted by sector and available in portrait as well as landscape, in still, animated or video form. Each one adapts: you change the text, the images and the colours, and the layout follows the resolution of the destination screen.

Yes. A timeline and several tracks let you sequence media, place cuts and transitions, and animate still elements. The result goes straight to your screens, or exports as a video file for another use.

An LED wall has a resolution that is almost never a television’s, because it is built module by module. The editor offers a dedicated mode that starts from the real dimensions of the wall, including very elongated formats such as a stadium ring.

Yes, and it is the recommended approach as soon as several sites are communicating: you build your templates, share them with your users, and lock whatever must not move. Each site fills in its own message without leaving the brand.

It stays editable. You reopen it from the playlist or from your projects, correct what needs correcting, and the new version goes back out to the screens concerned. No source file to find, no re-importing.

No: E-MANAGER and its editor run in a web browser, on Mac as well as PC. On the screen side, the hardware you already have will usually do — see compatible screens and our digital signage articles.

Ready to create?

Build your first poster this week

Try the EMITY editor on your own content, or book a demonstration: we start from your screens and your messages and show you the whole route, from design to display.