The CG-350 and CG-300 are Windows-based character generators designed for live production and post production. Different functions are assigned to different sub-programs. Both sets will work with a Blackmagic Design Decklink or AJA Xena card, as a downstream keyer or as key and fill sources (depending on the card).
Datavideo CG-300 KIT CG-300 Kit Character Generator for SD and HD
The CG-350 and CG-300 are Windows-based character generators designed for live production and post production. Different functions are assigned to different sub-programs. Both sets will work with a Blackmagic Design Decklink or AJA Xena card, as a downstream keyer or as key and fill sources (depending on the card).
The CG-300 is a smaller version of the CG-350, without the Banner Crawl (continuously scrolling text) and Snyper (corner graphics, station IDs, "coming up next" animations, etc.) functions, which run independently from the character generator software. Please note: The CG-300 is available for sale in the U.S. only.
Features:
The CG-350 features Banner Crawl for continuously-rolling text crawls and Snyper for corner graphics and animations (station IDs, "coming up next" animations, etc.) over your outgoing program, both running independent from the CG software
HD Extreme Decklink card is included.
Support for resolutions from 320x240 to 1080i HD
Anti-aliased characters with leading, kerning and tracking, with two edge and three shadow styles for each character.
24-bit color support with 256 levels of transparency. Color can be selected by adjusting RGB or HLS levels.
Create smooth gradients between any 2 colors in the characters, edges, shadows, and shapes.
Character attributes can be drawn with custom textures (marble, wood grain, etc). As many as 16 different textures can be used on each page.
Up to 32 shapes per page. Each shape can be set to a solid color, semi-transparent color, a color gradient, or a texture. The shapes can be edged, colored, sized, italicized, and rotated just like text characters.
Up to 16 full-color logos can fine-positioned, overlapped, sized, etc. just like characters.
1000 Layers - Text, logos, and shapes can be placed on multiple layers, each independent of the others. Layers can be named.
Text Style Gallery - One button access to your 64 user-defined text styles.
Typefaces - each page can use up to 25 Truetype different typefaces.
Specifications:
Character height - 600 to -600 scanline heights (negative heights make characters appear inverted).
Character width - 10% to 500%
Italics angle -45 to +45
Rotation angle -360 to 360
Character and edge blur - Variable from 2 (sharpest) to 12 (heavy blur). Blurs are independent of each other.