| The CG-300 is a
character generator program designed for live production and post
production. Operational functions are logically assigned to different
sub-programs.
It is used in a PC with
a Blackmagic Design Decklink or AJA Xena card as a downstream keyer,
and requires a Windows 98 SE or newer operating system. Please see
"System Requirements" under the Specifications tab for more info.
Title Composer
Makes title pages that may be played back in sequence and edited while
off-line while another image is being shown. Once composed, title pages
can be played back in sequence from a list. Even with a pre-made list,
changes can easily be made while the show is going on. Title pages can
include:
- Graphic Images
- Static or animated text. The CG-300 supports
TrueType typefaces and can be sized, kerned, rotated, and italicized.
Each character can have up to two edge and three shadow styles. The
edges and shadows can be colorized with a solid or transparent colors,
color gradients, or textures.
- Background color boxes
- Geometric shapes
- Background (live) video
Display List
Editor
Used to create and edit the list of images. Drag and drop your pages
from the Title, Animation or Graphic Catalogs onto the Display List and
create your playback sequence with ease.
Preview Window
Next screen preview; allows you to preview any particular page without
going live with it.
Media Catalogs
Information is organized into Title, Animations and Graphic Catalogs.
- The Title Catalog shows all your static text
pages.
- The Animation Catalog shows text and shape
animations that have been created and pre-rendered with the Title
Composer.
- The Graphic Catalog shows the graphic images
stored in the folders that are included in the catalog.
Features and
Specifications
- Support for various resolutions
- Anti-aliased characters
- 16,777,216 colors with 256 levels of transparency
(24-bit color with 8-bit alpha). Color can be selected by adjusting RGB
or HLS levels.
- Advanced color gradients - create smooth
gradients between any 2 colors in the characters, edges, shadows, and
shapes.
- Linear color gradients with up to 16 color
points can be rotated up to 90° in either direction
- Area gradients with up to 5 points of color
- Textures - characters, edge, and shadows can be
drawn with user-defined textures (marble, wood grain, etc). As many as
16 different textures can be used on each page.
- Shapes - up to 32 shapes per page. Each shape can
be set to a solid color, semi-transparent color, a color gradient, or a
texture. Shapes are controlled by ratio and roundness (i.e. 100%
results in a circle while 0% results in a square, 25% is a square with
round corners, etc.). The shapes can be edged, colored, sized,
italicized, and rotated just like text characters.
- Logos - Up to 16 full-color logos can
fine-positioned, overlapped, sized, etc. just like characters.
- 1000 Layers - Text, logos, and shapes can be
placed on multiple layers, each independent of the others. Layers can
be named
- All character, edge, and shadow attributes are
selectable character by character.
- Unlimited Text Styles
- User-defined Text Style Gallery - One button
access to your 64 most used text styles.
- Typefaces - each page can use up to 25 different
typefaces. CG-300/350 supports Truetype typefaces.
- Character height - -600 to +600 scanlines in
1 scanline increments. A negative height makes the character appear
inverted.
- Character width - 10% - 500% of normal in 1%
steps.
- Italics angle - -45° to
+45° in 1 degree steps.
- Rotation angle - -360° to
360° in 1 degree increments.
- Character and edge blur - Variable from 2
(sharpest) to 12 (heavy blur). Character and edge blur can be set
independently of each other.
- Character, edge, and shadow colors can be set
to one of 16,777,216 colors with 256 levels of transparency and can be
either a solid color, a smooth color gradient or be drawn with
user-defined textures.
- Two independent edges - five types for a
variety of styles
- Works AJA Xena or Blackmagic Design Decklink PC
cards.
System
Specifications
Operating SystemWindows NT 4
Windows 2000
Windows XP
Windows Vista
ProcessorPentium
1GHz or higher
RAM128 MB or higher (minimum 512 MB recommended)
Hard Disk Drive(s)80 MB for installation
Misc.One available USB port for dongle key
VGA card with at least 16-bit color (32-bit recommended)
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