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IanH
31-10-2012, 06:57 PM
Any body have any experience of an app that can create Simple Text loops

suitable for fast ingesting into Catalyst....

Thinking of Breaking News ........ type applications

Spam Butterfly
02-11-2012, 03:37 PM
Ian - unfortunately text is one of the most demanding of things to get right.
It depends on what you are showing your text on, too. To make really silky smooth text then you really need to run content at 50 or 60 fps.

After Effects really is the business for this.

http://vimeo.com/15247757
This is an installation I programmed, with James Cooksey doing the LED.
This was played back using Animation Codec at 800x600@50fps to get the text as smooth as the tickers in Canary Wharf. The font was a special dot matrix font, with no aliasing. The content was pixel perfect. Played back off a Kitten (a baby Cat).

Hugh

IanH
02-11-2012, 07:08 PM
Nice text Hugh, was that Olite 10 creative?

SourceChild
04-11-2012, 03:02 AM
Ian,

I've recently dealt with a ton of this for sporting related events. I found that the fastest way to get text in is to build quartz comps and then pass them with syphon into Cat.

However, I like Huge's suggestions.

IanH
04-11-2012, 06:20 PM
lets discuss further over drinks later this week....

fly in tonight...

Spam Butterfly
05-11-2012, 08:07 AM
Yup it's Olite.
Hugh

ping141
08-11-2012, 12:41 PM
Ian,

I've recently dealt with a ton of this for sporting related events. I found that the fastest way to get text in is to build quartz comps and then pass them with syphon into Cat.

However, I like Huge's suggestions.

How do you pass Syphon into Cat did you say?

SourceChild
09-11-2012, 01:20 PM
How do you pass Syphon into Cat did you say?

This article will talk you through some of it. There's a lot you'll have to tweak and play around with. If you're comfortable with quartz it should make sense.

samsc.com/showthread.php?t=2027&highlight=syphon


There's also a patch in Max/MSP you can use to do the same thing. It requires system resources though so make sure your patch doesn't get too performance heavy.