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
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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
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
Nice text Hugh, was that Olite 10 creative?
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.
lets discuss further over drinks later this week....
fly in tonight...
Yup it's Olite.
Hugh
How do you pass Syphon into Cat did you say?Quote:
Originally Posted by SourceChild
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by ping141
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.