Analog PAL/NTSC TV Character Generator

1.Self-designed FPGA 2.Free update as per request 3.Dedicated high-speed PCI bridge chip 4.Schedle CG lis 5.CVBS bypass

 

1.     Overview

Seekfit’s IdealCg is an elementary and user-friendly character generator system. It incorporates various fonts, transparent banners, images, animated logos (clouds with rain, sun, etc.) in channel design. With this program, you can create and display titles, crawls, logotypes, weathers, graphics, animation, time and more on live videos.

2.     Software UI

3.    CG cards

              

4.     Features

TV-program titling while editing or on the air manually;Information display in form of text and crawl, either left or right;TV-channel / program static logo display;Digital clocks generation and display;Animations and logos playback;Cyclic playback of scripts;The number of graphics elements, which can be used, is unlimited.The element of broadcasting schedule can be edited on-the-fly, while the system is playing, the new ones can be added and the old ones deletedUse any Windows fonts for the title(Unicode supported)Crawls can run from left to right and right to left

High quality and ease of Character Generation

Using all available Windows TrueType fonts;Using text processors and graphic editing programs principles;Static or animated images in PNG or TGA 32-bit formats;Anti-aliasing broadcasting quality;Using 16.7 million colors and 256 transparency levels to fill any page element.

Usability and efficiency

Classical Windows program interface and WISIWYG mode;Instant title output by using prepared scripts;Horizontal Crawl – endless pages run horizontally from left to right, or from right to left(specially designed for languages read from right to left, such as Arabic, Hebrew, etc.) ;Save effects as projects, so that you can reuse them next time.

 

5. Program interface 

 

Ÿ   Main program window

From user’s point of view, this program is just a single window text editor, which allows editing several scripts one by one and keeping them ready for output. IdealCG is basic Windows program interface and “What You See Is What You Get” (WYSIWYG) mode provide fast and easy mastering of its capacities by the user.

Title output can be done manually, or by generating a sequence of pages (Go to Page window) and playing it out in a fully automatic mode.

Ÿ   Vertical toolbar for style editing

You can choose change all attributes of text: font, size, color, transparency, edge size, edge color, etc. For crawling texts, you can define the area of its action, as well as duration or speed of the effect and a delay after the execution of the effect.

By checking “Write Card” at the bottom, you can choose to display the creations immediately or not, in order to add some scripts urgent over live video; or you can display them via Seekfit’s CG Play program, then you can make other scripts while playing.

 

 

6. System Configuration

 

Serial # Item	IdealCg1000	IdealCg2000
Software	IdealCg	idealCg
PC card	By1000pro	By5000cg II
Source	Analogy audio/video	SDI video(embedded audio)
Case
CPU	Intel Duo Core	Intel Quad Core
Motherboard	ASUS	ASUS
Memory	No less than 2GB DDR	No less than 4GB DDR
Hard Disk	No less than 640GB SATA	No less than 1T SATA

Note: PC configuration is just for reference, it is subject to real appliance, but no less than above.

 

 

7. Connectors

 

IdealCg1000

Interface identifier is print on back panel of By1000pro card, here is what it means:

IID	Interface Type	Description
S_VIDEO_IN	S-Video	Analog YC video input
CVBS_IN	BNC	Analog composite video input
S_VIDEO_OUT	S-Video	Analog YC video output
CVBS_OUT	BNC	Analog composite video output
KEY/PREVIEW	BNC	Analog linear key DSK signal alpha-channel output with Sync pulse, or composite video preview output

IdealCg2000

Interface identifier is print on the panel of By5000cg II card, here is what it means:

IID	Interface Type	Description
SDI_IN	BNC	SDI input
SDI_OUT	BNC	SDI output 1

And this is breakout cable for extensive connection.

IID	Interface Type	Description
CVBS_IN	BNC	Analog composite video input
GENLOCK_CVBS_IN	BNC	Sync Black burst signal input
CVBS_OUT	BNC	Analog composite video output
CVBS_MONI_OUT	BNC	Analog composite video monitor output
SDI_KEY_OUT	BNC	SDI key signal output
AUDIO_INL	RCA(White)	Analog audio left channel unbalanced input
AUDIO_INR	RCA(Red)	Analog audio right channel unbalanced input
AUDIO_OUTL	RCA(White)	Analog audio left channel unbalanced output
AUDIO_OUTR	RCA(Red)	Analog audio right channel unbalanced output
AUDIO_MON_OUTL	RCA(White)	Analog audio left channel unbalanced Monitor output
AUDIO_MON_OUTR	RCA(Red)	Analog audio right channel unbalanced Monitor output

8. Typical Application

 

Case A
Case B

Analog PAL/NTSC TV Character Generator