Datavideo CG-300 Character Generator Kit For HD and SD

DatavideoCG-300 Kit includes a DECKLINK 4K Extreme Card, which can be used as a Down Stream Keyer or Key and Fill. It supports HD/SD-SDI and Analog sources. Works with all Datavideo switchers and is compatible with Windows Desktop only. The CG-300 is an HD/SD Character Generator Software extremely powerful titling program designed especially for the live broadcast and video post-production environment.

The CG-300 comes with a Title Compose program for creating high-quality title pages. A display list can be created ahead of time to make on-air usage a simple, one keystroke operation, or you can randomly select the title pages while on air. Once the title pages have been composed, they can be displayed automatically or completely under Manual Control. It can be used to display standard format graphic. Title pages and graphic images can be freely intermixed with one another in any order.

CG-300 SD/HD CG with normal features.Kit includes DECKLINK 4K Extreme Card, which can be used as a Down Stream Keyer or Key and Fill. Supports HD/SD-SDI and Analog sources. Works with all Datavideo switchers. Windows Desktop only.

The title pages can contain Text, background colour boxes, geometric shapes, full-colour graphics images such as logos and background graphic. The text is created using TrueType typefaces and can be sized, kerned, rotated, and italicized. Each of the characters can have up to two edges and three shadows. Moreover, the character's edges and shadows can be colorized with a solid colour, a vertical colour spread, a colour gradient (4pt, 5pt, or linear), or textures.

The Video Interface cards that are currently supported by CG-300/350 are:

• Black Magic Design’s - Decklink Cards
• Black Magic Design’s – Intensity Cards
• AJA Video’s – Kona Cards (LHe and LHe+)
• A second Video Output of your computer. (Does not support keying)

Media Catalogues
The Media Catalogue is divided into three groups based upon the type of images that the software can display. These are titles and graphic images. These images can be quickly added to the Display List Editor to create a display list.

The Title Catalogue
The Graphic Image Catalogue shows the graphics images stored in the folders that are included in the Catalogue

Display List Editor
The Display List Editor is used to create and edit display lists. You can add, delete, and duplicate images here. An image can be added here by double-clicking it in the Media Catalogue or dragging it from the Media Catalogue and dropping it into the Display List. You can also change the order of the images in this window using "drag and drop". This will change the order that the pages will be displayed. You can also randomly select the next page to display for those "last minute" changes.

Preview Window
The program previews an image before it is displayed to ensure that the wrong one won't be shown. The Preview Window previews the next Image to be shown. Use "drag and drop" to drag the page to be previewed from either the Display List or the Media Catalogue. Double-clicking on an image in the Display List can also be used to select an image to be previewed. The size of this window can be controlled from the "View" Menu.