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[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.