The names and numbers of each title appear on the panel's
PixButtons for rapid recall, such as the PixPad shown at the right,
which indicates that the title "Men's Crew" is on the air. The name of
each title also appears on the panel's PixButtons for each keyer and
source, so you always know what title you get when you take it to air.
You can open up multiple title stores, to use two or three titles
simultaneously. For example, use three at once for a lower third, a
logo, plus crawling text along the bottom. All standard on a Broadcast
Pix system. And when you want a dedicated graphics operator, just add a
second monitor.
In addition to the rapid selection of CG pages, the Broadcast
Pix control panel also provides control over rolls, crawls and
animations. The PixPad at the right shows the controls for rolls and
crawls. These include setting mark-in and mark-out points, inserting a
black frame at the beginning or end of a roll or crawl, setting it to
loop indefinitely, and auto-start. Auto-start causes a crawl to start
crawling when it is taken from preview to air. In addition to these
controls, knobs control the speed of the crawl, and scrub it. Similar
controls exist for playing 3D animations.
This intimate level of control over CG playout is made possible
by the integration of the CG and switcher. It is part of what enables a
single operator to create a more impactful live production than what
has been possible with conventional independent CG and switchers.
Broadcast Quality Character Generator Inscriber is famous for
the quality of its output, and TitleMotion is no exception. TitleMotion
supports PAL, NTSC, SD or HD. All text and graphics are anti-aliased to an
effective resolution of less than 16nS, and specialized functions such
as user-definable rise-time filtering, gamma correction, and sub-pixel
scrolling text ensure that output quality is the best available on any
platform.
TitleMotion has many powerful typesetting tools such as direct support
for TrueType fonts, a font browser, and the ability to fine-tune your
text appearance through kerning, leading, slanting, rotating, and
dynamic sizing. The product also gives you control over the appearance
of text using 16.8 million colors, 256 levels of transparency, angled
ramp shading, and soft-edge shadows and glows.
200 Templates make it Easy
Even though TitleMotion gives users all the tools they need to create
broadcast quality titles, it also ships with many broadcast quality
title templates. Time is money, and the honest truth is that editors do
not want to spend a lot of time creating impressive titles. TitleMotion
users can quickly and easily modify existing templates rather than
creating a title from scratch. A preview window allows the user to see
a template for easier, faster selection.
To finish the appearance of text, colors and texture maps can be
applied to text foreground, edges, and shadows. Text can also be
beveled for a sculpted 3-D appearance, and any word or line can be
rotated or set on a customizable spline or circle path.
Tools for Improved Productivity
TitleMotion comes with user-definable color palettes, a customizable
video-safe title area marker, and a time-saving Style Library which
lets operators browse, use or edit one of the many pre-designed text
styles. The new Style Library is a collection of 200 pre-designed text
styles. Just like title templates, these can be picked using a preview
window, and are an enormous time saver for editors who don't have time
to create advanced text styles from scratch. Pre-designed styles are
also fully customizable, and new styles can be added to the library at
the click of a button. In addition, titles pages or text styles created
in the TitleMotion can be saved and added to the existing templates and
be used to make instant layouts in future sessions.
TitleMotion includes many more features such as:
- an integrated spell-checker
- text file import for those long credit rolls
- multi-lingual support for virtually any language, including
- Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean when used with the appropriate version of NT.
Motion Effects
Creating motion effects will effortlessly add dynamism to your
production. By simply opening the animation editor TitleMotion places a
keyframe of each element of the title on-screen. Then you can begin
flying text and graphics across the screen. In addition to following
individual flight paths, each object in a TitleMotion animation can
have independent acceleration and deceleration, X, Y, Z movements,
transparency and filter effects, all of which are variable over time.
Objects can also rotate, spin, skew, and twist.
Once an animation is defined, you can save the animation to
your Broadcast Pix clip store. This file can then be played in a keyer
over your video. Any animation can also be saved as a template. The
template utility lets you set up pre-canned motion effects which can
then be applied in one step to animate other graphics and text.
TitleMotion also includes many preset templates, which can be used to
make instant animations. TitleMotion animation templates can be easily
imported or exported and sent via e-mail to facilitate trading
templates with fellow editors around the world.
Because animations created in TitleMotion are fully anti-aliased and
are field-based rather than frame-based, motion effects are extremely
smooth and of the highest possible quality.
Logo ComposeTitleMotion also has a drawing toolbar for
creating boxes, circles, ovals, and spline-based objects with full
control over extrusion, colors, blends, shadows, and textures. Because
TitleMotion supports multiple layers, you can use the text and drawing
tools in unison, and you can also import backgrounds saved in many file
formats such as TGA, BMP, PSD and JPG files. And TitleMotion's logo
handling capabilities are second to none. Logos can be imported as text
objects, which means that logos can be sized, shadowed, tinted,
rotated, and manipulated just like text.
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The CG creates background stills, titles and crawls for this dual box
PixButtons show the name of each CG page
Set crawls to auto-start when taken to air
(click image or here for larger view of
CG)
Easy Templates are included
Animations
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