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Posted by Richard Crowley on 01/23/06 16:12
"Jeff_BTFP" wrote...
> I do live video for touring dance competitions, and I am in need of a
> solution that will allow me to display graphics and text on projection
> screens, pretty much generating these on the fly.
>
> I need about 10 seconds of video and audio between each act (each act
> being 2 or 3 minutes long) that will display the name and entry # of
> the next routine. The graphics would be pretty standardized, the only
> thing that would change from each 10 second clip to the next would be
> the text.
>
> We are talking about a decent number of titles, sometimes up to 300 a
> day. I have considered using FCP or similar, and having 300 instances
> of the 10 second sequence, and just changing the text box for each act
> prior to each show. I would then obviously output using the external
> monitor preview option into a switcher (of which I already own).
Maybe you'd better exlain what your "video sequence" is?
Else it sounds like all you need is PowerPoint or something
where you can prepare hundreds of slides before the event
(or even on-the-fly if needed) and just point-n-click to select
which one to display. Are you talking about titles/names over
static backgrounds? Over moving backgrounds? Also don't
know what the audio consists of?
There are many specialized applications made for generating
title sequences, etc. for projection display. Most of them were
written for churches who use projection screens for all sorts of
things like this.
> Apparently I wouldn't be told until about 10 seconds prior to the video
> being played back what the next act is, so all of the titles would have
> to be done ahead of time. I could use markers to quickly access each
> act if they went out of order.
We do that commonly with PowerPoint. On a modern laptop PC,
you can manage which slide is showing, etc.. from the main screen,
and the external video output will show the full-frame page. And
some of the apps made for churches make image management and
even on-the-fly creation even easier.
> I have heard about graphics generators and such that would do a better
> job, or perhaps give me greater flexibility and/or better graphics than
> just using the limited text features of Final Cut Pro. Maybe there are
> plug-ins that would do the trick? Maybe I just even answered my own
> question :-)
FCP (or any video editing application) doesn't really seem like the
right kind of tool for this job, but then you haven't really given us
much of a description of what it looks/sounds like.
> My budget could be up to $15,000, and although I'd like to buy a G5,
> I'm not opposed to buying a PC if there is a specific title-generator
> software that would be better suited to my needs.
Dunno why you couldn't do it for 1/10th that budget, at least with a
PC, maybe more if you're paying a premium for the fruit computer.
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