live text

[miguelangelpinheiro]

I think will be great a special layer to insert text during a show, sometimes to use like a banner or like an effect.
There are differents softwares to pc where you can write something and directly output to the screen

[Jey]

That's a great idea. That's pretty much what I'm looking for too.

[SourceChild]

A cost effective way to do this is to get one of the Epiphan USB Capture devices to use as a VGA or DVI input device. Attach another computer's output to the capture device. On the second computer, run something like Media Shout or Song Show or even Keynote or Power Point.

Make the background a solid color different than your text body and outline color, then use the keying feature in Catalyst Color effects to overlay the text as a higher layer.

[miguelangelpinheiro]

Yes, it´s a way to do that, but still thinking that a special layer is a simple way to do the same

[SourceChild]

On the cheap, Song Show Plus software on a laptop is your fastest easiest way. Try it on a color back ground from the PC and use the transparent color fx on Cat and dial out the background color.

[Jey]

On the cheap, Song Show Plus software on a laptop is your fastest easiest way. Try it on a color back ground from the PC and use the transparent color fx on Cat and dial out the background color.

That's what I normally do using Song Show Plus software or Power Point. It's the fastest & easiest way to go about. However I still think it will be great if this feature is build into Cat. MA has came up with a feature like this for their VPU's... I just used it last week on a gig.Pretty good stuff as well.


It's just a matter of time Richard will come up with something to cheer up the users.

[samsc]

you can create a movie with text in it-

its called a quicktime text track-

documentation is at

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutor...exttracks.html

formats are something like:

{QTtext} {font:Geneva} {plain} {anti-aliasn} {size:12} {textColor: 65535, 65535, 65535} {backColor: 0, 0, 0} {justify:center} {timeScale:1000} {width:160} {height:48} {timeStamps:absolute} {language:0} {textEncoding:0}
[00:00:00.000]
Text Slide 1
[00:00:02.000]
Text Slide 2
[00:00:04.000]
Text Slide 3

[Jey]

you can create a movie with text in it-

its called a quicktime text track-

documentation is at

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutor...exttracks.html

formats are something like:

The Quicktime Text Track is pretty cool. Got to check that out!

Jey

[SourceChild]

Incidentally, QT Text Track is one of the foundations that Live Type uses. If you have Final Cut Studio with Live Type, you can do much the same thing.

[samsc]

Incidentally, QT Text Track is one of the foundations that Live Type uses. If you have Final Cut Studio with Live Type, you can do much the same thing.

live type is a proper text creation animation program. not related to quicktime text tracks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiveType


quicktime text tracks are an ancient way of doing small numbers of these things ( and pretty much obsolete )
according to wikipedia they date back to quicktime v1.5 ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickTime#QuickTime_1.x

Apple released QuickTime 1.5 for Mac OS in the latter part of 1992. This added the SuperMac-developed Cinepak vector-quantization video codec (initially known as Compact Video), which managed the previously unheard-of feat of playing back video at 320×240 resolution at 30 frames per second on a 25 MHz 68040 CPU. It also added text tracks, which allowed for things like captioning, lyrics, etc., at very little addition to the size of a movie.

you cant do much with quicktime text tracks, and it hasnt been changed for a decade or more - but for some things it might work.