Hi Guys, First of all can I say a huge thank you to everyone on the list who has helped me over the last year with all of my noobish questions that I've posted. This isn't a question, but a little something I wanted to share!
Last year the company that I work for decided to overhaul our whole broadcast system and switch to a Mac Based Playout, Scheduling and Graphics system. We went round IBC and looked at all of the new technologies that were available at the time and went with a company from Austria called Tools On Air, some of you may heard of them (most likely Achim Breidenbach, Boinx Software). They explained to us how their system ran off Quartz Composer, and showed us some examples of graphics they had comprised for a news channel in France. So at this point I was selected to start designing and programming the graphics for one of our current products for a relaunch, and my expedition into the wonderful world of Quartz began! At first I found it impossible to find any form of tutorials or beginners guide to Quartz. Seeing as the only book about Quartz Motion Graphics has been constantly pushed back from release, it was pretty hard at first. But then I discovered this mailing list and everything started falling into place! Yesterday evening we launched our new look channel on UK TV; Sky Channel 906 and Freeview Channel 96/94 using our Babestation brand. The graphics is interactive via a PHP web page, sending messages to each individual machine using the UDP protocol. The graphic is made up of separate components that are loaded in via an XML configuration. Each component gets it's colouring, positioning, timings etc from another XML file that is loaded with the component at runtime. Dynamic videos and images can be loaded into each component through the command messages from the PHP page, enabling our producers to create content live on set and showcase it instantly, as well as having a whole bundle of pre produced content at their disposal. I'm sure it's all pretty basic stuff, after seeing some of the insane things you guys do! But I'm just happy it's working and looks pretty smart! If you want to check out Quartz running in the wild just tune in tonight from 9pm on Sky and 11pm on Freeview. Otherwise here's a quick snap that I took last night http://grab.by/cOny (i regard this as sfw), but seeing it move does it justice! It would be great to get some of your feedback and ideas for future improvements! Many thanks again! Charlie FYI, our channel is NSFW and contains adult material! -- Charlie Francis Senior Engineer *Cellcast UK Ltd* 150 Great Portland Street London W1W 6QD UK T. +44 (0)203 376 9420M.+44 (0)7988 509 614 e.char...@cellcast.tv www.cellcast.tv The Cellcast Group is a leader in the provision of participation television programming and interactive mobile content in the rapidly growing multi-platform digital entertainment sector. Our services enable broadcasters, content developers, media ventures, 3G services and mobile networks to participate in the accelerating convergence of Television, IT and Telecommunications. Company Registration No. 04327957 (England and Wales) This message is confidential. It may also contain information that is privileged and not authorised to be disclosed. If you are not the intended recipient, be advised that you have received this email in error and that any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing or copying of this email is strictly prohibited. If you have received it by mistake please notify the sender immediately and delete it from your system.
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