MediaCreator

Benefits

MediaCreator’s graphical user interface (GUI) is laid out logically and is easy to use. Among the key aspects of the GUI are:

• Xtreme Page Manager
  Provides fast access to all pages in the system via a page thumbnail gallery.
  
• Creator Edit Window
  Where all pages are composed. From the Creator window enter text and import backgrounds, graphics and images.
  
• Video Window Control
  Advanced feature for building CCTV programming or a professional look. Easy-to-access tab opens controls for inserting a video window in graphic backgrounds/templates.
  
• Shortcut Buttons
  A convenient way to access frequently used functions.
  
• 64 Preset Text Styles
  There’s no limit on how many text styles can be created.
  
• Easy-To-Use
  Controls For placing text, background graphics, setting up a full-screen or scalable video window, selecting a desired color to frame a video picture in graphic and adding logos.
  
• Instant Response
  As soon as a change is made to a typeface, height, etc., text is instantly redrawn on the screen.
  
• Unlimited Text Styles
  Every character on every page can have a different style.
  
• Automatically Creates Alpha Channel
  Just type your title and save it.
  
• 256 Levels of Anti-Aliasing
  Better than 1 ns effective resolution.
  
• Truetype Typefaces
  Load Truetype typefaces directly. No conversion is necessary. They don't even need to be installed on your system. They can be loaded directly from a CD-ROM or the Internet. You can even preview them before they are loaded.
  
• Full Color Logos
  Can be created from standard graphic images. Size them right on the page.
  Benefits
• Graphic Backgrounds
  Import JPG, GIF, TIFF, TGA, BMP, and PCX images as backgrounds
  
• Spell Checker
  Finds your spelling errors before your client does.
  
• Need to update the information on a page?
  Go back anytime and edit your work.
  
• Pays for itself
  In time savings alone or by letting you accept just one text -intensive job.
  
• Long Crawls
  Crawls are composed as single pages of text. Crawls can be up to 8,000 characters.

Specifications

• Resolution
  256 Levels anti-aliased characters with an effective resolution of better than 1 nanosecond.
• Colors
  16,777,216 colors with 256 levels of transparency and 256 levels of background video. Color can be selected by adjusting RGB or HLS levels. For some interesting effects, try blending colors, background video, and transparency in color gradients.
• Color Spread
  Create a smooth color spread between any two colors in the Characters, Edges, Shadows, and Background Color Boxes.
• Advanced Color Gradient Builder
• Color gradients can be applied to the Character, Edges, Shadows, and Background Color Boxes.
• Linear Color Gradients with up to 16 color points can be rotated up to 90° in either direction.
• Area Gradients with up to 5 points.
• Textures
  Characters, edge, and shadows can be drawn with user-definable textures (marble, wood grain, etc). As many as 16 different textures can be used on each page.
• Background Color Boxes
  Up to 32 Background Color Boxes. Each Background Color Box can be set to a solid color, semi-transparent color, background video, a Color Spread, a Color Gradient or a Texture.
• Full Logo Colors
  As many as 16 full-color logos can be added to each page. These can be fine positioned, overlapped, just like characters. Once a Logo is loaded, it can be sized within the Power CG.
• Backgrounds
  Background Video, Full screen graphics (BMP, JPG, GIF, TIFF, TGA, and PCX).
• Spell Checker
  Finds your spelling errors before your client does.
• 1,000 levels of undo
  All done in such a way that it doesn't hog all of your system resources.
• Text Positioning
  Freeform - characters, words, and rows can be moved around in single scanline/pixel increments.
  Center - Horizontal and vertical.
  Justify - Right, left, and both margins.
  Lower Third Mode
  User defined defaults
• Adjustable Safe Title Margins
• Tabs
  16 Tabs per page, can be positioned in single pixel increments.
  Unlimited Text Styles
  Every character, of every page can have a different style.
  User-defined Text Style Gallery
• One button access to your 64 most used text styles.
• Typefaces
  10 typefaces per page, each page can use up to 10 different typefaces. Can load Truetype typefaces directly. Typefaces can be loaded directly from a CD-Rom. Typefaces can be previewed before they are loaded.
• Character Height
  10 to 250 scanlines in 1 scanline increments. Character Width
  10% - 500% of normal in 1% steps.
• Italics Angle
  0° or +11°
• Edge/Shadow Blur (softness)
  Variable from 2 (sharpest) to 12 (very fuzzy).
• Character and Edge Colors
  Characters and Edges can be set to any of the 16,777,216 colors with 256 levels of transparency and 256 levels of background video. They can be either a solid color, or contain a smooth color gradient within the character and edge. They can also be drawn with user definable textures (marble, wood grain, etc.).
• Edges
  Five types (No Edge, Full Surround, Extruded, Hilited, and Offset). Extruded, Hilited, and Offset edges can be set to eight different directions. Depth is adjustable from 0-99 scan lines in single scan line increments.

Compatibility

MediaCreator is compatible with MediaZone digital signage editor.