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1. Page 41 EE Stream Labs TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS Text underlining and background setting User Manual DO 100 50 10 200 To underline a text or create a background for it use Box type background area frames If the text is in the background layer it can be outlined or underlined by placing a frame above it In a more convenient case when the text is located within a Frame it can have any position with respect to the underlining or background Besides selection of such frame and its underlining outlining frames as a group allows to move them within the page collectively The difference between the background and outlining frames is that the latter has a transparent internal area See 5 2 Text Frame and 5 3 Rectangular Background Area Box Frame for details on text frames and background area frames Character Alignment Intercharacter space Width adjust at fe at gt Change of the intercharacter space for a text fragment Spacing Alignment of characters with respect to each other within a word or a line may sometimes have to be changed The value of the interval between characters of the text in pixels added to the default value as set in the font This interval can be increased or reduced for 2 adjacent characters on each side of the text cursor or for the whole fragment A negative value can be 30 40 used to make characters touch or even overlay each other manual
2. Script scroll bars f the text does not fully fit in the editor windows standard scroll bar of editor window appear at the right hand and bottom edges of the window allowing to reach any part of the script Marking rules Marking rules appearing at the top and left hand edges of the window provide a convenient way of changing the application area of an effect if it is not supposed to be carried out all over the screen In this case the effect area boundaries also define the indentation values for background text except the bottom margin Page 22 EE Stream Labs User Manual EEO TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS Editor window workspace Color selection for transparent points Safe area Correct image re drawing and recovery in editor window Ji Marking rules are provided with two pairs of sliders located at the edges of the extruded area of the bar and corresponding to the limits of the page effect area When the mouse pointer is located over such slider it turns into an arrow with a support Moving the mouse with a pressed left button provides an easy way of changing the area borders To specify the area more precisely use the X Y W and H fields of the Page Attributes bar Marking rules are provided with small ticks at every 10 pixel and larger ticks at every 100 pixel All page graphic elements are located in the editor window workspace The workspace point color the View Background option
3. e screening effect Wipe e animation effect Animation 6 4 1 Empty Effect A script can contain pages without any effects the special none value is provided for this purpose These pages do not affect the titles output they can be used for comments storage of dummies or samples of character typeface styles Comments can also be entered on pages making part of the titles output if they are located outside the effect scopes 6 4 2 Page Motion Effects Motion effects include e Horizontal Crawl creeping line e Vertical Roll vertical scrolling e Reveal Up upward ingress e Reveal Left leftward ingress Horizontal Crawl Speed 4 HDelay 00 00 20 E Duration 00 042 H Apply gt Set As Defaut M Partial Scrolls 0 B v 300 W w Feo l H 276 l W Opaque i Complete Sottness The following parameters can be specified for all motion effects Additional parameters for effect speed Speed or duration Duration limited area delay time after the effect initial stage ingress Delay motion e completeness option Complete lf the option of the effect execution in a limited rectangular area Partial Scroll is set the following additional parameters can be specified e for the rectangular motion area the upper left corner position X Y width W and height H e whether the page graphics is to be displayed atop of the video buffer old contents or to expulse it in a spe
4. if delays happen prior to the playback of Static pages this mode should be switched off Page 100 EE Stream Labs User Manual TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS 7 3 Script Playback Video Edit View Page Frame Start F5 Clear Esc Hause Ff Hert Eg Faster Alt Grap Slower Alt Grapf Launching script playback Video Start ri q i E Cache buffers clearing and script loading to RAM before playback Playback stoppage and screen clearing Video Clear ri p1 Script playback controls can be found in the Video menu These commands allow to e launch the playback Start e stop the playback and clear the screen Clear e pause resume the script playback Pause Resume e output the next page Next e accelerate the output Faster e slow the output down Slower for motion effects Selecting the Start command or pressing F5 launches the output of script titles to the video card starting from the first page Playback can also be started by pressing the button in the Toolbar To terminate the output use the Video Clear command or press Esc The video buffer is cleared before output starts To launch a script playback without any delays all of its graphical elements should be calculated beforehand using the Video Render command Unless it is done rendering is executed immediately prior to the playback To make as much RAM available as possible cache buffers used
5. rendering and playback It includes both Chart FE playback control commands Start Clear ee Clear Pause Next Faster and panee FY Slower and the script rendering Hert FE command Render Besides the menu Faster Alt Gray comprises the Preferences item used to Slower Alt Gray modify program options and the acer Hardware Options submenu allowing to Preferences adjust video card settings l Hardware Options A script must be rendered before it is played back rendering creates binary images of the script pages which are then transferred to the video buffer Before it is done the script is only connected to the video card via its video buffer size if different video cards have equal buffers the same script can be used with them Script rendering is executed by the Video Render command It may take a substantial time to be processed and capture all of computer resources especially RAM So if another script is played back simultaneously and its playback is not paused image distortions and blinking may happen on the TV monitor screen Page 97 EE Stream Labs Ss ser Manual HHHH TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS Rendering of edited pages and long time storage of rendering results Display of rendering progress in the Status Bar Script rendering during live broadcasts If the script has not been rendered beforehand rendering is executed automatically before the script is played bac
6. select its name in the Style name field and press Restore and OK This window allows to edit parameters of any style but it is impossible to save the performed changes using it Style Operations Using the Style Manager Window The Character Styles subitem allows to manage the styles of the scripts currently opened in the program using the Style Manager dialog box Style Manager DEMOOO SC Commands of this dialog box allow to perform various operations with the styles of the edited scripts It is important to note that an automatic updating of attributes for all characters in the edited script referring to the current style is impossible it has to be done separately for example using the Font Attributes Edit Copp Move tat Dose Exit toolbar or the corresponding window of the Toolbar Page 63 fe Stream Labs HHHH TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS Selection of scripts and styles by their names RU Editing of style attributes using the Style window BU Style copying from one script to another Copy User Manual The dialog box comprises two panels allowing to select scripts to be edited and their styles The Choose document message is displayed until one of the scripts in the panel is selected To select a script position the cursor on its name using the mouse or the keyboard and press Enter or double click the mouse left button The name of the script then appears above the panel a
7. several editor windows are opened for one script each window header displays after the file name the window number 1 for the 1 window 2 for the 2 one etc Hint Script editing in multiple windows allows to avoid unnecessary movements of the cursor between the pages e g when a text fragment copying is concerned Minimizing some of opened windows allows the program to re draw the rest of them almost without slowing down Re opening the minimized windows can be used e g to view the final version of the resulting page There exist many ways to switch between editor windows The most convenient method of window activating is to click the mouse left button when the pointer is over the window If the window is minimized double click to restore and activate it All windows can be activated in consequence by pressing Ctr F6 Finally the Window menu contains a list of all windows which can also be used for window selection To minimize the temporarily unused editor windows use the system menu and the standard Windows procedure To close the unused editor windows use the window system menu or press Ctrl F4 Closing the last remaining editor window for a given script also closes the script file Multiple editor windows can be arranged in several different ways The cascade arrangement Window Cascade allows to switch between the windows easily using the mouse pointer The tile arrangement Tile allows to view th
8. values in the gradient Using this color filling mode can make sense for instance if the distance of the area points from the main outline is supposed to change their color shade and not just the brightness A Glow border in the Bidirectional mode is built both outside and inside of the main outline therefore the resulting border has a double thickness n this Sana the Round Square Rhomb interior remains completely transparent where it is not overlapped with a border see the figure on the right In the Complete mode the interior is filled together with the border area and with the same filling To create neon characters effect a font is to be selected with the characters represented by outline only for example Script Font manufacturers also create special Outline type fonts e g Antiqua Outline and others Characters of these fonts are represented by external and internal outlines and not filled inside They can be used to create neon characters in the same way as with the help of the Bidirectional mode allowing to use normal fonts Such special fonts allow to fill the character outline with other color than used for the Glow border To create the effect with the use of special fonts a border is to be selected of a sufficient size and a round shape the Shape field set to Round The internal filling is made solid with the same or brighter color as at the beginning of border gradient Besides
9. Duration of all motion effects Horizontal Crawl Vertical Roll Reveal Left and Reveal Up can be changed directly during their output to fasten up or slow down the playback use the Faster and Slower commands or the Alt Gray and Alt Gray keys respectively Such rate changes are usually rather slow and gradual and speed values can cease to correspond to integer values of the Speed field in the Page Attributes toolbar To keep the motion evenness and smoothness set a non zero value of the Softness field 2 is usually sufficient Pages including motion affects are initially output at a rate corresponding to the required duration specified at the Page Page 102 EE Stream Labs Ss ser Manual HHHH TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS Attributes toolbar This speed can further be raised or lowered manually in order to fit into an unexpectedly truncated time span or fill up a pause happening during a broadcast Such unforeseen situations would often occur in live broadcasting 7 3 1 Script Pages Playback Using the Go To Page window The playback of a script or a selection of its pages Play FS Clear Ese can conveniently be ules ce performed using the jjuaeiiding er Page Go _ To window ae ee Copy This window lists all script isi pay Paste pages indicating the fists P Delete sequential number effect nee type text contents and WOEN rendering status if the JiRaMiiEm page has been render
10. E Duration 00 00 12 H Anp lt lt q 29 _SetAs Defaut M Partial wipe s o E s m Wit zes l H E wv Crane eno eiei are usaaliy executed in a limited area 5 with the Partial Wipe option set on with the borders defined by the X Y W and H parameters in the Page Attributes toolbar If the Partial Wipe checkbox is unchecked the entire screen is considered the effect area The program offers a selection of standard screening methods shutter types to be specified using the drop down list in the lower left part of the toolbar An unlimited number of user defined Alpha Wipe shutter types can also be used The name of the Page 87 ee Stream Labs User Manual TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS Substitution superposition screening mode Opaque Screening calculation FastWipe Semitransparent shutter border Softness corresponding so called gradient file is to be specified in the File Name field In the effect area the page contents can be output in either substitution or superposition mode The substitution mode is entered when the Opaque checkbox is checked and supposes a removal of the video buffer old contents In this case the editor window is cleared within the effect area In the superposition mode new information is output atop of the older one without removing it as though the page is output in a new layer The editor window looks within the effect area as if it contains an additi
11. Examples Of Combined Effecta ic csecesnscssicsescsevecetsoercsereernsarerocserneoesatoess 94 Cater 7 SEU O ss saedseanice scores pennsioyoenctis A eo 96 7 1 SCREEN OUTPUT OF PAGES DURING EDITING eeeeeeeesesssseeceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseees 96 7 2 SCRIPT OUTPUT PREPARATION RENDERING VIDEO RENDER cccceeeeeeeeeeeeeees 97 7 2 2 Rendering Parameter Group Video Preferences Rendering 99 Te SOUP PIAS ACK Saas tioade e A e E AE E 101 7 3 2 Script Playback Settings Video Preferences Player 104 7 3 3 Why Can Scripts Be Played Back Unevenly cccccccceceeeeeeeeeeees 105 7 3 4 Script Playback Management Using GPI Interface cccccceeeeees 107 Chapter 8 Additional ESS Ss eseop a seers eeees 109 Document History www stream labs com Page 3 EE Stream Labs S SSs ser Manual HHH TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS The latest information about the Alpha Pro software and professional television symbol generating systems can be found at our Web site http www alpha pro com The following denotation for the commands accessible from the menu is used in this manual Video Preferences Player Start Through Pause denotes the Start Through Pause option working in the Player sub window of the Preferences windows called by the command of the same name in the Video menu www stream labs com Page 4 EE Stream Labs User Mama HHH TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS Chapt
12. If a motion effect is executed in a limited rectangular area and its duration is specified manually page motion may develop slight irregularities The program provides a function to overcome this defect by calculating and creating graphic element images in the course of motion Dots of these images are effectively located between the video buffer pattern dots Number of these additional dots depends on the Softness parameter which acquires integer values from 1 to 16 The 0 value means that no smoothing is carried out and no intermediate dots are introduced Smoothing requires additional processor resources therefore a minimal possible value should be assigned to the Softness parameter Usually the value 2 is sufficient Various frames can be used with the creeping line or vertical text scrolling The text itself can be placed into a Frame type frame and Box frames can be used to underline the text or to create a substrate Besides up to four Animation frames can be positioned in the text empty spaces between the words The animation in the frames is then played back during the entire text output in an auto repetitive mode The empty spaces are required since when animation frames are displayed they completely replace he corresponding part of the page graphical image with their contents rather than be put atop of it Page 84 ee Stream Labs User Manual TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS Rendering and output of a fu
13. Kerning This method is used for a more compact positioning of characters in the line taking into account the geometry of adjacent characters which allows them to place them one under another 10 The field can have an empty indefinite value Press Alt and Alt lt to increase or decrease the intercharacter space for a whole fragment of the script text In this case spaces between characters of the whole fragment change simultaneously Thus the initial mutual adjustment of characters is preserved words of the text look are extended or narrowed proportionally Page 42 EE Stream Labs User Manual Vertical shift of characters with respect to the baseline Baseline shift att at fo TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS Vertical shift of the input characters with respect 2 r to the base line can be used to produce X y underscript positive shift or superscript 1 1 negative shift characters The shift size is measured in pixels the field can have an empty indefinite value Changing of the vertical alignment with respect to the base line does not influence the line height automatically calculated along with the paragraph line spacing as far as shifted characters do not reach its top or bottom border Further shift further increases the line height accordingly but it can be adjusted by changing the Leading parameter in the paragraph attributes the Paragraph Attributes dialog box The line adjustment for
14. Wipe shutter moves cornerwise e Horizontal Jalousie horizontally opening Venetian blinds Page 88 ee Stream Labs User Manual TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS Standard shutter granularity Granularity Instant output empty value Cut Random squares shutter Random Squares Up down rightwards leftwards and cornerwise moving shutters Wipe Right Left Up Down Diagonal Wipe e Vertical Jalousie vertically opening Venetian blinds e Diagonal Jalousie diagonally opening Venetian blinds e Circles widening circle Make sure that the File Name field specifying the gradient file name is empty The Granularity field determining the shutter simplification roughening degree specifies the shape of the shutter used at the screening This specification may be required if the computer fails to perform the screening process in the specified time To roughen the shutter creation increase the Granularity parameter value The possibility of a timely update of the image depends on the size of the screening effect area and the shutter shape and can only be determined empirically lf an empty value is specified as a standard shutter type the program performs an instant output of the page contents in the effect area Cut A Random Squares shutter is output by randomly located squares A higher granularity increases the size of these squares which also decreases the minimum time of their outp
15. Y must be specified although the effect scope also includes include the entire video buffer Page 79 Stream Labs SsSs ser Maal Setting of effect scope limits and dimensions X Y W H TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS If the Partial checkbox is checked the effect is considered to be executed within a rectangular area Its border offsets are specified in the X Y fields width and height are determined by the W H values respectively All these parameters are adjusted at the Page Attributes toolbar The background text area in this case exactly coincides with the effect area and the text in this area can only be moved using paragraph indentions and insertion of empty lines Hint To avoid these restrictions of the effect area it is more convenient to put the text in a Frame type frame Effect scope border Effect levels Ope P at the P Tg 4 Vertical Rall rules Elements from previous oS pages mir i 4 i P y ertean Speed le lD elay 00 00 00 l Duration 00 02 06 l lt gt gt Set As Default Partial Scrolls 184 fy fe W we 333 TY H 444 Ao Opaque I Complete S oftness Page 80 EE Stream Labs User Manual HE TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS Editor window contents within and without the effect area Effect scope borders adjustment using the mouse How to specify effect scope borders close to characters and b
16. a text fragment can be conveniently tuned by pressing Alt T and Alt J Character and Box Frame Design Elements Outline Edge Internal area Face 3D surface or shadow Shadow The design only defines the form of a text character contour Face The contour of a Box frame is rectangular The contour can be expanded and the area of its expansion is the outline Edge Besides a shadow Shadow Offset or a side surface of some sort can be created by a contour translation in certain direction which gives a character or a frame a three dimensional look Shadow 3D Color Filling of Drawing Elements Filling color selection in the Colors dialog box Page 43 EE Stream Labs TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS Filling color to be edited Currently edited color Saved color Saved filling color Texture file name field RGB color definition Color transparency definition T Use of the color palette r 7 User Manual Glyph area Face Gradient type M Tile Texture Many of the program dialog boxes allow to specify the character and Box frames filling color To do so always use the Colors dialog box Use the R G and B fields respectively to set the red green and blue components of the color The values of these parameters vary from O to 255 The black color corresponds to 0 0 0 and white to 255 255 255 The T field is used to define the degree of transparenc
17. buffer size exceeds a certain value these operations are performed practically instantly The Used field helping to make a correct choice of the optimal size of the buffer displays how many bytes of the buffer are used in the moment For 64 MB RAM the recommended value for the Font cache is 16 384 bytes and for the File cache 32 68 bytes If the computer has for example twice as much memory the sizes of cache memory buffers can also be set 2 times larger On the other hand if less memory is available the buffer sizes should be reduced accordingly to allow the Windows environment operate normally 4 7 Creation and Use of Named Styles The use of named styles Style creating and editing using the Font Attributes toolbar It is often useful to preserve the most appropriate character and background area typefaces and fillings created in the process of work The program allows to save the corresponding attributes under some user defined style name The attributes are stored along with the name in the same script separately from the text or the area background and text characters or background areas are additionally associated with the name of their style It means that at any moment the attributes of characters or background can already be different from the attributes of their style To restore the conformity when needed select the text characters or the corresponding background area and press Restore and Apply in the Font At
18. by using the Next command alone Use of the interface requires a specific commutation of video device buttons and the contacts of the additional parallel port LP7T2 connector To call the Next command ground the contact 10 nASKNLG i e connect it to one of the contacts numbered 18 to 25 VDC GND To call the Pause command ground the contact 12 CALL PE Contacts 10 and 12 should also be connected to some of the contacts numbered 2 to 9 DATA x via 25 kQ resistors lf either of the GPI interface control modes is active the Next command can be emulated using the F8 key Pressing this key then Causes one next scene to be played back after which the program enters the pause mode Page 108 fe Stream Labs User Manual ZR TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS Chapter 8 Additional Issues How to do without the change discard function Undo Use of special fonts for creating outlines delimiters or icons Program operation without a video card Return to interruptions The program does not provide a possibility to discard the latest changes It is therefore recommended to save scripts using the File Save or File Save As commands before any questionable changes are applied Hint If a background area is to be created of a more complicated shape than a simple rectangle use of symbol vector fonts can be suggested These fonts include outlines of various shapes with filled or empty inter
19. for characters and page images are cleared before the playback Therefore after a playback page navigation in the editor window or character input may be somewhat slowed In the course of subsequent work however the re drawing rate returns back to normal level seen before the playback A script playback is only launched after all page images if possible are loaded to RAM Note that the program always loads them to the Random Access Memory rather than a virtual memory organized somewhere on the hard disk Time spent for this upload depends on the script volume and the rate of file reading from the disk To avoid considering this unknown value start the script playback after a pause provided by the Start Through Pause option in the Video Preferences Player parameter group The Clear command stops titles output and clears the video buffer immediately This command can also be called by pressing Esc Besides the script playback can be stopped by pressing the m button in the Toolbar Page 101 fe Stream Labs User Manual TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS Playback interruption and resumption Video Pause and Resume s Use of the pause before and during script playback Output of the next script page Video Next Change of output rate for motion effects Video Faster Video Slower JO Use of the Pause command or pressing F9 interrupts titles output a tick appears to the left of the Res
20. mode is selected in the Mode drop down list which offers the selection of e Normal the normal mode of border construction when the method of its construction and color filling by any image does not influence the filling of the outline internal area e Complete the border is created from the outside of the outline and the construction method and color filling completely defines the color and textural filling of its internal area the corresponding Colors field values are ignored e Bidirectional the border is created from both the outside and the inside of the outline without filling the internal area which remains completely transparent the corresponding Colors field values are ignored The Complete mode can be conveniently used with textures as in this case the filling affects all common area both the interior and the border The Size field comprises the border area width in pixels Border area for Box frames is built inwards so it should not be too large to not overlap the frame by itself For characters on the contrary the border is built outwards starting from the outline Page 51 EE Stream Labs User Manual Simple Outline border and its Round Square and Rhomb shapes Bidirectional and Complete modes of the Outline border construction Creation of boundary characters Embossed border with extruding and its Sphere Concave Cone and Pyramid forms TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTE
21. of frames is inserted from the Clipboard into a script they are positioned in succession and their relative order is preserved In particular to copying one frame to the Clipboard it must be selected into a group Page 70 ee Stream Labs ssU ser Manual TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS Discarding the frame group selection To discard the frame group selection mode press Gray 5 or click the mouse left button on one of the frames while holding the Ctrl key pressed similarly to the selection procedure 5 2 Text Frame Frame Text frame creation Editing the text frame parameters Clearing a text frame The Frame New Frame command creates a pre determined text frame with one empty paragraph The style of the paragraph as well as its character style is defined by the current values If several frames are created successively they are not located in the same place as the program shifts their initial point preserving all other parameters To edit the text frame arameters use the Frame p i A 96 Attributes dialog box l ue 156 Cancel X Y and Width parameters y an 400 Cancel described above in 5 Multilayer Structure Creating and Editing correspond to the coordinates of the upper left corner and the border width in pixels If several frames within a text fragment are selected simultaneously these fields can have indefinite empty values In this case defined identical parameter values can b
22. of pages is selected it can be altered using the mouse left button while holding the Ctrl button pressed Another left mouse click over a selected page line with the pressed Ctrl button excludes this page from the selection 3 7 Text Cursor and Current Position Script movement within editor window The text cursor a blinking vertical line is used to indicate the current position the point of character input in the editor window If the current position is beyond the text limits is located at one of the frames the cursor is not displayed and the current frame is highlighted with a special rectangle The cursor moves across the frames and text fragments of frames and pages according to their order to transfer it to the next or previous frame or page use the appropriate arrow button If the cursor points to a frame it is outlined with a special rectangle with eight small squares allowing to adjust the frame dimensions and position To move a script within the editor window without changing the current position apply the mouse pointer to the horizontal and vertical scroll bars Vertical movement can also be achieved by pressing PgUp and PgDn Such vertical movement is limited within the page borders Page 27 fe Stream Labs HHHH TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS Current position movement within script page Home End E x m CGBERE Current position movement between editor window pages Current pos
23. of the dialog box and it can be saved by pressing Save in the lower left corner The saved filling is displayed a little higher It is possible to read by pressing Restore which redefines the current filling Copy color The current filling can also be saved or copied Faste color by pressing the mouse right button and selecting ee Copy gradient and Paste gradient respectively A filling is saved as whole along with all additional Paste gradient attributes described below The Gradient type field used to define the type of the color filling gradient offers the following choice of gradient structure types solid one color filling vertical gradient two reference points at the Vertical top and bottom edges horizontal gradient two reference points at ae CHZOnIa Vis right and left edges _ 4 points based on 4 reference points in the corners based on two reference points at the upper left and lower right corners Diagonal based on two reference points at the lower Diagonal left and upper right corners The Gradient type field can have an empty indefinite value Up to 4 reference points or areas are displayed as rectangular frames in the current color filling window To change the color of such point select the corresponding frame with the mouse left button than adjust its color and transparency Page 45 EE Stream Labs Ss ser Manual HHHH TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS Textural f
24. of them can be assigned individual and independent values of layout attributes These attributes are as follows e Right and left indentations specifying boundaries of the paragraph e Formatting mode left right center justify alignment Besides it is possible to adjust the line spacing in a paragraph which allows to pull the lines closer together or wider apart www stream labs com Page 5 EE Stream Labs User Manual HHH TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS Frames Attributes of text characters and background frames Several paragraphs can be placed inside a text frame located arbitrarily on the screen The values of paragraph indentations in this case are measured from respective frame edges When the frame text is added or edited the frame vertical height changes automatically It is also possible to set a rectangular area with graphic filling background layout and size of which are defined by the boundaries of the Box type frame Filling of the area can be performed with the same effects as for normal text characters Picture and Animation frames of type are provided for allocating graphics in a page They allow to include images from BMP or TGA files which can comprise an alpha channel An Animation frame can be assigned with a sequence of TGA files or an AVI file if an appropriate CODEC is installed in the system Such frames are used on pages with creeping line or drum effects An image from a BMP or TGA fi
25. raising of the lower slider value the light becomes brighter less contrasting Decreasing of the difference between the sliders creates an illusion of a more scattered or distant light source The drawing element area point transparency can be changed according to the same principles as brightness If both Transp sliders are set at 100 the transparency preset in the main color or textural filling is preserved unchanged and does not depend on the point position with respect to the main outline If other values of sliders are set the point which should be darker by the rules for colors it is also more transparent according to the position of the lower slider Transparency of the brightest points is multiplied by the number set by the upper slider These sliders can be used with the Embossed effect for example to create realistic transparent surfaces when their transparency depends on the sight angle of the observer The X Y Z fields define the light source direction for the Embossed effect Values of these fields except Z can be positive or negative integers The X axis direction is from left to right Y axis is directed from downwards and Z axis towards the observer The relation between the values of these fields only matters so the values 1 1 1 and 2 2 2 are completely equivalent X and Y values define the direction towards the light source in the plane of titles and the Z parameter sets the height of the source above the ho
26. search and selecting of a file for the frame the Browse button is provided The following graphics file types are supported e Windows BMP 8 24 bit without compression e Targa 24 32 bit with or without RLE format compression The transparency for 256 color files is set by the key color index the Key index field If the key color index is not specified the logo is considered opaque True Color file transparency can be set using the Targa 32 bit format with an alpha channel Windows BMP and Targa 24 bit files formats are considered completely opaque The initial image stored in a graphic file may not have the required dimensions in pixels The program allows to correct this by setting the necessary values of Width and Height fields If the initial sizes are to be restored use the Get size button provided for this purpose It is generally better however to use an image of the required size professional graphic editors like for example the Adobe Photoshop usually provide a better quality rescaling The program features allow first to select the image dimensions and then to insert it permanently without any further scaling Page 73 ee Stream Labs User Manual TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS Suppressing the flicker noise and image jags Use of image frames Differences between image frames and logo characters No flicker noise suppressing filters are provided for images Therefore it is necessary to m
27. should be chosen so as to differ from the colors used in graphic elements The selected color is further used for all workspace points transparent for the passing video signal beyond the page elements The safe area corresponds to the part of the TV screen visible in all types of monitors Borders of this area are shown in the editor window as thin straight lines The area position and dimensions depend On Player Cache Sate Area Rendering the type and settings of the videocard used for x 40 width 888 titles output These v 20 Height o16 parameters are specified in the Safe Area attribute p ce ee ee group of the _ i _ las a Video Preferences window The upper left hand corner point of the videocard buffer is ascribed the 0 0 coordinates Attention In the course of editing the script current status in the window may be represented incorrectly Although there is no dedicated command for the screen re drawing it can easily be achieved in a number of ways The simplest method is to minimize and restore the editor window Alternatively use the View Draft option to change the script display mode in the window Another way consists of switching first to another page of script and then back to the initial page Page 23 Stream Labs SSSsU ser Manual TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS 3 5 Types of Script Representation in Editor Window Draft and Full Zoom or actual size With without grid line
28. similar to the Offset but the shadow on edges is made blurred The field can have an empty indefinite value which occurs when at least one of the below attributes has several different values within the text fragment In this case these attributes cannot be assigned uniformly for all the fragment and should be changed separately for each character The direction of the shadow is set with an accuracy of 45 degrees in a group of 8 radio buttons Note that characters are drawn from left to right and a very big size of a shadow directed to the left can make it overlay the previous character The Size field defines in pixels the shift of the shadow area in the direction defined by the Direction radio buttons The shadow or a character side surface is produced by a shift of the internal area and the border in this direction for the distance defined by the Size value Page 56 EE Stream Labs User Manual The Offset falling shadow The Drop side surface The 3D side surface The Extruded side surface TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS A falling shadow is created by a repeated drawing of the internal and border areas with a certain shift This area can be filled arbitrarily with continuous gradient or textural fillings A certain additional degree of transparency specified for the shadow area may add to the realistic effect A side surface of the Drop type appears when a character is raised and shifted in a certa
29. than the whole script The Render command only re calculates graphics images of the script pages which were modified Processing results are automatically saved between the program computer work sessions A dedicated font and file cache is provided for acceleration of script editing operations The changes of the page text can be output to the screen through a videocard immediately command Take If the Video Display option is active the current page content is output to the videocard continuously right in the course of input and editing The most realistic looking output of the script units in edit windows of the program is yielded by the Hi Co or and True Color operation modes of the Windows environment A simplified output mode Draft can be installed for a fast parallel to text editing display in the program window Sizes of graphic elements displayed in the window can also be reduced 2 or 4 times Zoom which can be handy for work with multiple scripts or large pages www stream labs com Page 8 ee Stream Labs ssU ser Manual TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS Chapter 2 The Structure of Program Scripts 2 1 Script Storing and Related Files SC files Scripts are saved by the program in files with the SC extension Processing results Such script file can be edited and takes very little of the disk space lf any graphics or animation files are used in the script references to their file and path names are only st
30. the dialog box Press gt to play the animation back If an AVI file Page 92 EE Stream Labs User Manual EEO TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS y A Transparency of animation files a is selected but no preview window appears the file cannot be used as an animation source e g because no appropriate CODEC is installed in the system Attention Note that AVI files using YUV representation encodings cannot be used Attention The only way to adjust the transparency of an animation file is to use the alpha channel Most AVI files have no alpha channel therefore they are absolutely opaque Some non linear editing programs and 3D graphic editors Adobe Premiere Adobe After Effects etc allow however to create 32 bit AVI files The same programs usually allow creating 32 bit TGA file sequences as well but it is generally much better to use a single file than a great number of separate frames A sequence of 24 bit TGA files provides an opaque animation Transparency of a sequence of Targa 32 bit files is assigned according to the information from the alpha channel therefore its contents require a special attention For instance if all alpha channel values a zeroes the animation is not seen on the screen at all 6 5 Combined Effects Combined effects as sequences of simple effects Creation of combined effects with page copying Each of the effects described above is fairly simple however a mechanis
31. top edge of the background text will however be displayed in an editor window according to the level of the upper limit of line movement in the videocard buffer Y It should absolutely be considered at the arrangement of additional frames they should lay at the same level or creation of a background image the meaningful part of a graphic file must have an equal top margin Movement of a text inside a background area can be achieved by inserting empty lines and changing the paragraph spacing But it is more convenient to use text frames since their arrangement in pages is not restricted in any way see 5 2 Text Frame Frame Page 66 ee Stream Labs User Manual TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS Background text If an effect is executed in a limited rectangular area the Partial box and limited area in the Page Attributes toolbar is checked the text position inside effects the background area is set by four parameters X Y W and H located in the Page Attributes toolbar These parameters determine the effect scope The left X and top Y offset values for the area upper left corner are measured in pixels from the beginning of the videocard buffer The Y top margin defines the vertical shift of the text The H height does not influence the arrangement of the background text on the page but is used to define the lower edge of the effect scope It is manifested for example for a page with vertical scrolling when the text can b
32. transparent point with black in an appropriate proportion lf a script does not fit into an editor window use the View Zoom mode allowing to reduce the size of all output elements 2 or 4 times Page and frame borders paragraph limits and indentations can be displayed in all modes To make these borders as well as the paragraph break T symbols visible use the Vrew Gridlines option Page 24 e Stream Labs User Manual HHHH TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS If an effect specified for a page is carried out in the environment produced in the video buffer by previous script events the editor window displays residual elements of previous pages in addition to those of the current page These elements are displayed without any frames grid lines or special characters and act as current page background items This background is output out of reach of the page effect area specified in the X Y W and H fields of the Page Attributes bar The Page Attributes Opaque transparency parameter determines whether this background can be seen within the effect area Multilayer page output in editor window Page 25 ee Stream Labs ssU ser Manual TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS 3 6 GoTo Page Window oo Sls Page navigation R Other page typesetting functions F The GoTo Page window provides a full page list for p25 rsl Cea E the current script TO open SAE ER E this window use the Full Page Go To
33. used the maximum height of the page will not exceed the height of the video buffer while its width can be unlimited On the contrary the use of the text vertical scrolling effect limits the maximum width by the size of the video buffer while the height of page can be unlimited Maximum page dimensions for other effects are the same and restricted by the buffer size of the videocard used for titles output Page 9 Stream Labs S SsSsU ser Manual TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS 2 3 Page Multilayer Structure Background text DOCSTR SC Background mage SADE ne a a a a a a a a a a ae a ae a ee a tbat anette cee oo Image frame AVS T Rectangular x 2 EE x i a OHOM background en f ne area Text frame above the background area Each new layer is Each frames and background text can be regarded as drawn at a aframe Separate transparent page layer Some of the pixels of this page become opaque some partially transparent and some of them remain completely transparent Then these sheets are Superimposed and if necessary moved with respect to each other As a result taking into account the overall transparency of each point the passing video signal can be seen behind this page The number of frames is unlimited and the frame sequential number defines the order of its drawing For example after the background layer first drawn is frame 1 then frame 2 et
34. MS An Outline border can be drawn in several ways with round square or rhombic corners The border corner shape is set in the Shape field which can have the Round Square and Round Square Rhombic Rhomb values respectively An Outline border is created in the Bidirectional mode both outside and inside of main outline therefore it twice thicker The interior area remains completely transparent see the figure on the right In the Complete mode the interior is filled too with filling of its border area Characters Round Square Rhombic consisting only of an outline can be created by specifying an opaque border and a transparent internal area T QO Another way is to use the Bidirectional mode of border construction but in this case its width should be reduced twice Sphere Concave Cone Pyramid There are four methods to produce a border with an Embossed extruding defining its form as spherical concave conic or pyramidal The form of the extruding is set in the Shape field which has the Sphere Concave Cone and Pyramid values respectively Page 52 eeeeeeee EE Stream Labs User Manual etree TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS The Complete and Bidirectional modes of an Embossed border construction Actually the extruded border characters look similar to three dimensional figures Parameters of border construction for the Embossed type extruding are described in detail above see 3D R
35. See more on attributes assignment to empty paragraphs below Beginning a new paragraph The simplest way to enter text characters is to use the keyboard The program always inserts typed characters at the cursor position moving it to the right together with all remaining text of the paragraph At this movement the text is transferred from line to line by words while the height of the paragraph increases moving the subsequent paragraphs downwards It is convenient to enter the text using the Windows Clipboard To do this open any text editor for example Notepad or Word to type the text there and then to copy it in Clipboard In the program paste it into the required position of a text frame or a background text Inserted characters are assigned the current attributes according to the text cursor position Text division into paragraphs is not preserved It is also possible to load text files in Windows CP 1257 encoding Text characters of this kind are assigned default style attributes of the program Normal The text is placed onto pages with default attributes as defined by pressing the Set As Default button of the Page Attributes toolbar The end of line character Enter corresponds to paragraph breaks also assigned the default attributes as set in Paragraph Paragraph Attributes dialog box with Set As Default button An occurrence of the end of page character Form Feed in the text creates a new page To load a Windows encoded f
36. Setting of page effect attributes Apply wipe Speed 10 Abela 00 00 20 H Duration 00 0012 E App Apply EES Set As Defaut z Partial Wipe i H i jo H Wy res W H ere Pal alps a EME File Name Alphawipe SPIRALT BMP l a effect attributes are conveniently edited using the Page Attributes toolbar Use the View Page Attributes option or the F7 keyboard button to toggle the toolbar display in the program window New pages created with the Page New command acquire default attributes To specify these use the Set As Default button in the Page Attributes toolbar These attributes are also used when a new script is created or a text file loaded Attention Page attributes are only changed after the Apply button is pressed in the Page Attributes toolbar Failure to do so restores the page old attributes when the focus moves away from the toolbar Page 77 ee Stream Labs User Manual TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS 6 3 General Settings of Page Effects Page graphics substitution superposition over the video buffer old contents Opaque Effect completeness option Complete Effect inner delay Delay How to specify an inter effect delay Effect duration Duration The Opaque checkbox status is essential for all effects If it is unchecked the page elements are superimposed over the video buffer previous contents as the effect is executed If the Opaque box is checked the effect replace
37. Size Sphere Jz Mode Direction C E g Hormal sme Take Restore auto appl size and color filling It also comprises additional fields setting the character drawing quality edge smoothing degree refreshing and restoring buttons for the selected style as well as those for the result videocard display If no text fragment is selected the bar reflects the style settings for the current previous to the cursor text character If however some changes are made and accepted by pressing the Apply button the new settings are applied to new characters input in this position If a fragment of the script text is highlighted the bar displays the settings common for all the text in the fragment If some of the attribute have different values within the fragment corresponding fields of the bar display a special indefinite value See 4 6 Text Character Attributes and below for more information on text character attributes Font attributes bar Show hide tool and status bars in program window To toggle the display of the font attributes bar use the View Font Attributes option or press Shift F7 Large as the program window may be if several editor windows are opened the workspace area often proves insufficient Temporary removal of Toolbar Page Attributes bar Font Attributes bar or Status Bar not currently in use may help to enlarge the workplace area To toggle the bars display use the View me
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39. Therefore it is not necessary to set character attributes during the typing as they will be identical to the attributes of the previous character To change the current style during the keyboard input use any of the methods described above and continue the input without changing the current position If the text is already entered its character attributes can be changed by the selection of the corresponding script fragment and the subsequent input of attributes in any of the ways described above Thus if any of the parameters had several different values in a fragment all these values will stay constant if the corresponding field is not changed This does not apply to the input using named styles In this case all parameters are redefined Page 40 ee Stream Labs User Manual TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS Copying of current character attributes To transfer the current style attributes from one place of the script to another select and copy to the Clipboard at least one character with required attributes and insert it then into the required position Then enter several characters starting from the position next to the inserted character and remove the first superfluous character Besides the attributes can be saved in any named style see below 4 7 Creation and Use of Named Styles Editing of Character Typeface Font Name Character height Size Typeface style Bold Italic Width height ratio Width The type
40. Window above for more information on navigation between the script pages The ze and buttons of the Page Attributes bar can similarly be used to move the current position to the previous or next page Page 28 E Stream Labs HHHH TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS User Manual 3 8 Highlighting a Fragment of the Page Content Scripti One word fragment R Frame and page highlighting Highlighting all page content Display and editing of general attributes of text fragment elements Moving the cursor within a script with a pressed Shift button allows to highlight a fragment of the script text frame or page All above rules for simple cursor movements using the buttons also apply to this operation Moving the mouse pointer with a pressed mouse left button also provides an easy and quick way to highlight a text fragment However this method can only be used to highlight the whole or a part of the text within a selected background area or text frame of one page After the text fragment is highlighted using the mouse it can be edited using the keyboard There exists a way for quick highlighting a one word fragment To do so put the mouse pointer over the word and double click the mouse left button To include a frame into a fragment activate it and press Shift or Shift Further moving the current position while holding the Shift button pressed allows to add other frames or whole pages to the fr
41. a transparency gradient should be defined for example from T 200 to T 50 Page 55 ee Stream Labs User Manual TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS Parameters of a Shadow Area or a 3D Side Surface Shadow Shadow type Type Shadow direction Direction Shadow area shift value Size Shadow area parameters are located in the Font Attributes toolbar or other similar windows and grouped under the name Shadow The type of a shadow or side surface of the character is set in the Type drop down list offering the following selection e None no shadow in this case all other fields of the Shadow group are unavailable for editing e Offset the ordinary method of filling the area of the falling plane shadow when a character and its shadow look as two separated plates e Drop the ordinary method of a solid filling of the area of a side surface A rising character creates a filled surface without taking into account the height of corresponding points e 3D the realistic method of filling the area of a side surface A rising character creates a surface broken into sub areas according to their height and each of these sub areas is filled individually e Extruded a method of area filling of side surface using an extruded character which creates a surface with a gradient filling in a preset direction and according to the height of the points e Soft a method of filling of an area of the falling plane shadow
42. a of the screening effect In order to understand the principles of the screening process consider a file with a 256 grade gray palette or Grayscale Imagine that the area of the page graphic image containing the darkest black dots is the first to appear appearing next are the slightly lighter dots etc The area containing purely white dots is the last to be output Imagine also that the brightness of a dot denotes the depth of its position under a plane The dot displaying process may then be compared to a lowering of the water level at each stage water goes down to the next level of brightness That is probably why such files used for Aloha Wipe shutters are called gradient Hint Shutters look much better when output with soft semitransparent borders To do so check the Partial Wipe and FastWipe boxes and specify a non zero border width in pixels in Page 90 EE Stream Labs User Manual EEO TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS the Softness field Note that the choice of the semitransparent area width should take into account the features of the shutter behaviour A too large Softness value may change a shutter beyond recognition 6 4 5 Animation Animation position on the screen and in the effect area Jai Animation Fade 2 E Durations F Appl lt lt gt set As Default sfog H r 100 M Opaque M ComplReneat 20 H File Name amp LPHAPROSTYGLOB AYI The use of animation in scripts allow
43. ackground areas y A If the page output mode is set in the editor window the video buffer status before the effect execution is displayed beyond the scope of the page effect Within the effect area in the editor window the program displays the background text If the creeping line or vertical scroll effect is used the part of this text which does not fit into the area is also displayed in the editor window It is located outside the effect area in a corresponding direction atop of the video buffer previous contents The display of graphic elements taken from preceding pages in the editor window is affected by the status of the Opaque and Complete checkboxes If the Opaque option is set on the video buffer earlier contents is completely wiped off within the effect area the elements of the current page only remain If the Complete option is set on the effect area is cleaned when subsequent pages are edited otherwise it is filled The above display principles provide a convenient way to adjust the effect scope borders in the page output mode using the marking rules Position the mouse pointer on the edge of an extruded area of a rule press the left button and without letting it off move the pointer When the mouse pointer gets on the slider it turns into an arrow with a support While the button is pressed a line crossing the editor window is additionally displayed and moved which allows to see the effect borde
44. agment Such highlighting can be used for copy past and delete operations offered in the Edit submenu If a fragment spreads across a border between two pages both of them are considered selected To highlight all the text and all elements of a page use the Edit Select All command or press Cirl A Attribute values for the current character and paragraph are displayed and edited using the respective dialog window fields If a fragment of the script text is selected the values represented in the corresponding attribute fields refer to the settings common for all elements of the fragment This principle applies to script characters and paragraphs but not to pages and frames Page 29 ee Stream Labs User Manual TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS If a fragment exceeds the paragraph borders If an attribute acquires several different values within the fragment a special indefinite value is displayed in the corresponding field In number fields and lists it is represented by a blank value in color filling fields by an uncolored border in option checkboxes by grey Squares and in radio button groups by the state in which none of the buttons is selected If such indefinite value is not changed in the course of the fragment editing the corresponding attribute is not altered for the entire fragment Selection of a new definite value changes the corresponding attribute for all fragment elements Attention It should be not
45. ake an analogous filtering while preparing the image with other graphics packages like for example the Adobe Photoshop by softening it with a Blur filter To suppress the jitter and jags at the edges of the image with a passing video signal execute an appropriate filtering Image frames can be conveniently used to design the scene background Their number is unlimited and any collage can easily be created directly in the program In general the use of image frames along with frames of other types provides a multilayer text and graphics editing with a full aloha channel support The main difference between the image frames and logo text characters is that frames can be intersected freely moved within a page and with respect to each other and their number is unlimited They are not adhered to any position in the text and do not move along with it 5 5 Animation frame Animation Animation frame creation Editing the animation frame parameters The Frame New Animation command creates an animation frame opening the Animation Properties dialog box for this purpose An Animation type frame can be connected to a sequence of TGA files or an arbitrary AVI file provided the appropriate CODEC is installed in the system Frames of this type are used in pages with full screen effects such as creeping line or drum and provide a synchronous animation replay in one or several such frames in the cycled mode during the t
46. ame Delete Frame current frame Command Alternatively the De key can be used if the current frame contains an image or a background area A text frame can only be deleted if it is empty The dialog box containing the frame deleting command can be opened by clicking the mouse right button on a frame and selecting the Delete subitem from the appearing properties menu Frame Group Selection Selection of he program page mode allows to several frames select one or several frames of a page i ly I a into a group 4S a group these frames must not y necessarily be in a sequence To selection such group press the Ctrl K key and holding it pressed select the nie required frames by clicking the mouse left button on them Text frames are to be clicked on the frame outlines or on any character interior or Page 69 EE Stream Labs SsSs ser Manual HHHH TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS Moving of all frames of a group ow Jt Alignment of all frames of a group JE a Copying a frame group to the Clipboard For a better selection accuracy it is recommended to set the page displaying mode on the screen to the actual size View Zoom 100 f a group of intersected frames is selected the order of their selection may sometimes be important because otherwise any of the already selected frames can overlap all others To select only one current frame press Gray 5 After a frame is selec
47. arameters is almost identical to that of the Font Attributes toolbar except those concerning the character typeface Sprer Mode Normal For details on background area frame drawing elements and filling methods see 4 6 Text Characters Attributes Box frames can be conveniently used to design a scene background and text frame substrates Use graphics files for the frame internal area textural filling allows to set an appropriate border for it It should be noted and if necessary used that the graphic file image fills the frame areas according to the tile principle Page 72 ee Stream Labs User Manual TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS 5 4 Image Frame Picture Image frame creation Editing the image frame parameters Types of used graphics files and their transparency Map scaling The Frame New Picture command creates an image frame opening the Picture dialog box for this purpose To edit the image frame parameters use the Picture dialog box Cancel Position lok Size width 786 fad The X Y Width and Height parameters described above in Height 576 E fo 5 1 Multilayer Structure Get size Creating and Editing 0 correspond to the upper left Bitmap file name corner coordinates frame width _ eslbhapro tv bmp Browse and height in pixels The name of the graphics file is entered in the Bitmap file name field To facilitate the
48. area is divided into subareas each of them widens in both directions gradually revealing the video buffer new contents A higher degree of granularity corresponds to a large number of these subareas Granularity values close to 7 should not be used Diagonal Venetian blinds output output is performed from the upper left corner towards the lower right one at a 45 angle The widening circle shutter develops from the area centre towards its edges Higher granularity yields a wider ring output at each step Hint During each stage of a standard screening process a portion of the current page contents is output It may happen however that all updated information cannot be re drawn in the time span of one field of the passing video signal In this case the shutter output takes more time than planned and the effect execution looks slowed down To let the update be performed in time it is suggested to roughen the screening by raising the Granularity value It decreases the number of screening stages and allows to perform transitions from one stage to another less often i e not at each video signal field User Defined Alpha Wipe shutters The program allows to use any Alpha Wipe shutters defined in a so called gradient file specified in the File Name field The name of any 8 bit BMP file may be used in this field The program takes care of all necessary scaling so that the image would fit the dimensions of the rectangular are
49. areas as a color gradient or texture e Image element transparency with respect to other graphics layers or video signals e Position variations for string characters upward or downward shift with respect to the base line e Character spacing variation Group 2 e Border area width in pixels e Border area style solid extrusion or diffusion e Border area shape round square rhombic spherical conic or pyramidal e Special border style double sided or complementary e Border area color filling as a color gradient or texture Group 3 e Shadow area or 3D side surface area depth in pixels e Area style regular falling shadow with hard or soft boundary side surface with solid filling with displacement or with filling separately accounting for height and directions e One of the eight directions of the area offset accurate to 45 e Border area color filling as a color gradient or texture Group 4 e Bitmap quality parameter e Blurring degree used to reduce jitter of thin horizontal lines The entered values of attributes can be saved as a style under some name to be used later Defining a narrow background area at the bottom or the middle of a fragment or a text paragraph allows to produce an Underline or Overstrike effect www stream labs com Page 7 EE Stream Labs User Manual HEHE TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS Script replay and rendering Editing process A
50. at file with an alpha channel is used it sets transparency of points and the T fields values are ignored Size and layout of the filled area with respect to the character is an important factor of a color or textural filling of a text The Bounding Box field is used to specify this layout Whether the Font value is selected in this field or not is another essential factor for text characters If the Font value is selected the vertical filling area begins from upper border of the font and ends at its lower border irrespective of character heights The Font value allows to align all filling areas vertically Page 46 H Stream Labs SsU ser Manual Relative position of the Box frame drawing element and filling area Drawing element selection for filling Glyph Area Glyph area TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS Font Glyoh These considerations are very important for textural filling For instance a tile filling should be aligned vertically for consequent characters When scaling texture is applied the vertical scaling coefficient for the large and small characters must be the same If the value selected in the Bounding Box field is different from Font the filling area size for each character is individual and defined by the real size and layout of the character Thus for example the area for capital letters is larger than for lowercase letters and starts higher above It can clearly be seen on the figure e g the fi
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52. box can be used to specify a BMP or TGA format file for the page graphic background similarly to procedure used in the Page Background command lf the cursor is inside a background text a new page can also be created by pressing Ctrl Enter or using the Page Insert Page Break command In this case the background text after and including the cursor is transferred on to the following newly created page while all background text preceding the cursor and all other frames will remain on the previous one The parameters of pages and paragraphs broken this way are identical The current style of characters is also preserved To create a new text frame image frame animation or background area use the New Frame New Picture New Animation or New Box commands in the Frame menu respectively A text frame is created with one paragraph its parameters and character style are determined by the paragraph parameters and characters style in use at the moment of frame creation Page 33 EE Stream Labs S Ss ser Manual HHHH TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS New paragraph and new line To begin the input of a new text paragraph press Enter The new paragraph acquires the parameters of the previous one and the current character style is also preserved New lines in paragraphs are created automatically as the new text is entered Line offsetting is done by words If it is necessary to fix words in specific lines of a para
53. bstantially later than planned This also may happen if the effect speed is too high To correct this situation try to reduce the effect speed raise the granularity or set the FastWipe option on If this is of no avail the effect can be split in two or three smaller effects executed in sequence and covering the entire initially required area lf the granularity value specified in the Granularity field at the Page Attributes toolbar is too low it can also cause delays or distortions of shutter output If this is the case try to raise the granularity value or curtail the effect execution area Animation effects require large amounts of various resources Therefore an animation output should not be accompanied by other actions Page 106 ee Stream Labs User Manual TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS Use of Windows screensaver software facilities Use of timer for reckoning of intervals between video signal fields Use of odd speed values for vertical motion Make sure that the superposition mode is set correctly the Opaque box is unchecked if this mode is not necessary it should not be used Animations with large inter frame differences should be avoided since it is the maximum size of this difference which is limited by the video card capacity Besides animation should not be located in the upper part of the screen If the video buffer sweep is faster than the output a characteristic sawtooth prominence can appear o
54. c Finally the frame with the largest number is drawn on top of all others The order of frames can be changed arbitrarily in the course of editing Frames along with text and background graphics can be used on pages with any effect including the creeping line or vertical scrolling Background layer The Background is used to input the text information with possible graphics and text insertion of images logos This text and graphics layer can be regarded as the farthest from the observer everything else being allocated above it The background layer is the most convenient for fast real time broadcasting of the text with the help of creeping line or vertical scrolling effects The background layer text is entered in a frame rigidly linked to the script page where it can be moved only by changing the area of the effect use or the paragraph horizontal indentation Page 10 ee Stream Labs User Manual TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS A graphics image from a BMP or TGA file with the alpha channel can be put under this text The name of the file is specified by the Page Background command The image is rigidly linked to the left upper corner of page This method is convenient to apply when a specific unchangeable static picture from a file is to be used rather than a series of different frames Such file can be created in the program with the Page Save As Bitmap command The Page Clear Background command allows to cancel th
55. cified direction the Opaque option e cCTeneHb CinaxKUBaHUA HEPaBHOMEPHOCTU ABUKeHUA Softness the degree of motion irregularity smoothing Softness Full screen All full screen motion effects are executed in the entire video buffer motion effects area in the Opaque mode Execution of such effect moves and Page 83 ee Stream Labs User Manual TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS Execution of motion effects in the Complete mode Motion irregularity smoothing Softness Use of animation frames on pages with the creeping line or vertical text scrolling expulses all previous contents of the video buffer in a specified direction Hint With some video cards this may result in the program s inability to refresh the entire video buffer contents during the output of one frame When possible try to use limited area motion effects specifying the minimally required motion area If the Complete box is unchecked an effect consists of two stages ingress and pause After the motion is over the page contents remain in the effect area and does not disappear for creeping line and vertical scrolling effects the rightmost or lowermost characters respectively and page frames remain on the screen lf the Complete box is checked the third stage is added after the pause an empty rectangle of the same size as the effect area enters the page and expulses its contents in the specified direction
56. command or i Full ae press Ctrl G Paste Each line of the list in the Areri eate GoTo Page window Render corresponds to one page Attent Play Page Such a line contains the BE page number and all text information about the page paragraphs are separated by slash symbols Besides each line provides the name of the effect used in the page and a flag showing whether the page has been rendered the R character The current page is always highlighted in blue in the GoTo Page window list Initially this window was meant to be used for easy navigation between the script pages hence its name GoTo Page To move to any page using the GoTo Page window find the corresponding line in the list and click the mouse left button over it Arrow buttons page turning pressing Ctrl PgUp and Ctrl PgDn or direct moving to the list head or tail pressing Home and End can also be used for movements between the list lines Beside the navigation between the pages this window can be used for a number of other operations with one or several selected pages see below These are Clipboard buffer operations Cut Copy Paste page removal Delete rendering Render and replay Play Page To open the submenu for these commands click the mouse right button at any point of the GoTo Page window The most frequently used commands the selected script pages replay Play and videocard buffer clearing Clear are provided as dedicated butto
57. creation by page splitting Page Insert Page Break New page creation by copying to the Clipboard Page Copy to Clipboard and pasting elsewhere in the script Edit Paste There are several ways to create a new script page The 4 way is to use the Page New command to open the New Page dialog box and create a new page with the default output effect The page can be created in the end of Bitmap file C VALPHAPROSLAKE BMP the script before or after the current page The current position moves to the beginning of the only empty paragraph of the newly created page Attributes of this paragraph and the current character correspond to those in use at the moment of the command execution Hew Page Insert before current page f Insert after current page Append to the end of script Background None The New Page dialog box also allows to specify the name of a BMP or TGA format file to produce graphics for the page background similarly to the use of the Page Backround comman4d The 2 way can be used when the cursor is inside a background text In this case press Ctrl Enter or use the Page Insert Page Break command The cursor and background text below it is transferred to the next newly created page the background text above the cursor and all frames remain at the previous page Attributes of effects and text paragraphs as well as the current character style in these split pages are preserv
58. d if the videocard provides adequate hardware facilities Otherwise the buffer clearance is performed instantly with the maximum available speed while all delays produced by the effect duration and pause are preserved Hint The program does not provide a disappearance effect for a limited rectangular area To produce it use the Fade In appearance effect see below with the Opaque mode set on The corresponding page area must be empty Appearance Fade In Fade In Speed 2 4 Delay 00 00 20 E Duration 00 02 13 l App d gt gt Set As Default M PartialFade se 0 ely Jo fA ow res fy H 576 A i Opaque I Complete The full screen with the Partial Fade checkbox unchecked appearance effect causes a gradual reducing of the video buffer transparency with respect to the passing video signal performed at the specified rate If the output page contains completely transparent areas they remain such before in the course of and after the effect execution Attention Before the effect execution starts the screen should be cleared of all graphics Otherwise prior to the effect execution the video buffer becomes transparent for an instant after which the appearance starts It is done to copy the page image to the video buffer before the effect execution Page 86 ee Stream Labs User Manual TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS The Fade In effect can be combined with the Fa
59. de Out effect executed at the same rate after the Delay pause is over To do so check the Complete checkbox Attention This effect can only be correctly executed if the videocard provides adequate hardware facilities Otherwise the output of the buffer contents is performed instantly with the maximum available speed while all delays produced by the effect duration and pause are preserved Limited area The appearance effect execution in a limited area with the Partial appearance Fade checkbox checked Involves a gradual replacement of the respective part of the video buffer with the page graphics performed at a specified rate If the Opaque option is set on the effect area exactly corresponds to the page contents after the effect is over If the Opaque checkbox is unchecked the page contents gradually show in the effect area atop of the graphics and the passing video signal taking into account the transparency values The Fade Out effect can be combined with the Fade n effect executed at the same rate after the Delay pause is over To do so check the Complete checkbox In this case the video buffer and screen contents return to the initial state completely after the effect execution is over Attention An excessive effect area may cause the system to ri reboot The maximum possible value of this area depends on the video card type and the computer capacity 6 4 4 Screening Wipe wipe T Speed 10 Hoela 00 00 20
60. e background graphics assignment 2 4 Frame Types background area Animation frame Paragraphs and their parameters The following types of frames can be used Frame text frame Box rectangular background area Picture image frame and Animation animation frame The text frame is used to create a text layer freely movable within the page unlike the background layer An image background area or other text can be put under the text of such frame A Box background area frame allows to create backdrop pieces for various graphics and text units of the page Such frame can be used for text underlining or creating rectangular edging with continuous gradient or textural filling both opaque and semitransparent The Picture frame type is used for creating layers with images taken from graphics files This type of frames is the most universal of all since using graphics files with or without alpha channel created by various graphics editors it is possible to compose any collage and to place a text information in it An Animation frame can be used for creating a layer containing an animated image from an AVI file or TGA file sequence Frames of this type are used in pages with full screen effects such as creeping line or scrolling These frames allow to create animated icons Such combined employment of several effects is most frequently used for displaying moving icons of weather currency exchange rates etc nformatio
61. e Shitt lng Delete el Select All Ctra F or Script fragment oJ Entire page Script editing often requires the use of recurring fragments or even whole pages The Clipboard buffer of the Windows environment provides a convenient way for their transfer from one location to another Commands of exchange with this buffer are invoked via the Edit menu or by pressing the mouse right button Names of commands in the submenu or context menu depend on the current position in the editor window and the frame selection mode see below The most common way of copying is to select a fragment of the script and execute the Edit Copy command or by pressing Cirlt Ins In this case the fragment actually copied may exceed what is selected in the program window For example if the fragment includes a frame border the entire frame with all the text within is copied to the Clipboard Similarly if the fragment crosses a page border all of the page is copied together with the next one If the fragment begins in an area of the background text of the page and captures at least one frame no matter which all of the background text is placed in a text frame with coordinates 0 0 and width equal to 800 and is copied to Clipboard entirely together with all other selected frames To copy an entire page to the Clipboard use the Page Copy to Clipboard command When entire pages are copied they are captured together with their effects When such C
62. e content of all opened windows simultaneously The horizontal tile mode Window Tile Horizontally is handier for pages with a creeping line effect while vertical tile mode Window Tile Vertically can be used for pages containing a vertically scrolled text To accommodate whole script pages in the editor windows re scale their images using the View Zoom option Reducing of the program window size can put the minimized window icons beyond the workplace area and out of user s sight To get all Page 21 H Stream Labs User Manual TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS the icons back within the workplace area use the Window Arrange Icons command 3 4 Script Editor Window Back Marking rules 7 ground Text frame 4 Image frame Highlighted text text IN Scripti Window Sg rt PACK POUND TEXT ex workspace and fraimie above the background BEDS SSD background ale ea Current text frame Scroll j Background border and its border bars area frame Paragraph POX Text cursor break Editor window The window header bar displays the script file name or if the file is header bar not yet created a name of the type Scriptt Script2 etc If multiple editor windows are opened for one script with the Window New Window command the number of the window Is specified after the file name 1 for the 1 window 2 for the a one etc All this information constitutes the windows name
63. e layer in it the Background layer This layer can accommodate a graphic image with text information and logo characters above it Animation pages do not use a background Top and left margins of these pages specify the position of animation file frames A graphic image from a BMP or TGA file with an alpha channel with a name specified by the Page Background command can be put in the background This image is rigidly anchored to the upper left corner of the page and this method is convenient to use when a certain picture from a file without changes is used rather than a series of various frames Such file can be created at the program for example using the Page Save As Bitmap command To discard the image setting for the background use the Page Clear Background command If an effect is executed in the entire screen area the Partial box in the Page Attributes toolbar is unchecked the background text is positioned from the left to the right and from the top downwards beginning at the upper left corner of page For all effects except the creeping line the right border is simultaneously the edge of the page and of the videocard buffer There is no vertical limit but for all effects except the vertical scrolling an image cut off occurs at the bottom edge of the video buffer The creeping line effect has no horizontal restrictions the page width is determined by its contents both for background and frame text The
64. e much longer than the effect area Similarly in the case of a creeping line in a limited area the effect area is defined by the top margin and the height and the text width is unlimited and can by far exceed the area size An unlimited number of layers frames can be arranged on any page except animation pages Frames are created using the Frame menu which contains a command for each frame type Creating of a new layer frame Frame New Frame for a text frame Mer Frame l New Picture New Box for a rectangular background area frame New Box New Picture for an image frame New Animation New Template Delete Frame Frame Attributes New Animation for an animation frame The new frame is created immediately following the current one or above the current layer The Frame Z order commands can be Z order used for subsequent changes of a frame position in the hierarchy The frame layer which contains the text cursor is considered current If a position in the script is outside the background layer it necessarily specifies a current frame The text cursor symbol in the Page Layout page mode disappears if the current frame contains an image or a background area Inside a text frame the cursor is marked and specifies its position in the text The number of the current frame on the page is displayed below in the Status Bar Current frame and its displaying in editor window Teky aa In a
65. e set for all these frames If no new values have been entered for some of the fields they are assigned according to those of the first of the selected frames The frame height is always defined automatically based on the entered text size To clear the text information in a frame select all of it in a fragment and press Del In this case the frame and its attributes are saved Page 71 EE Stream Labs Ss ser Manual HHHH TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS 5 3 Rectangular Background Area Box Frame Box type background frame creation Editing the background area frame parameters Background area frame design style Siyle Use of background area frames The Frame New Box command creates a frame with background area opening the Box dialog box for this purpose To edit the background area frame parameters use the Box dialog Dox The X Y Width and Height parameters described above in 5 1 Multilayer Structure Creating and Editing correspond to the upper left corner coordinates frame width and height in pixels Size width 224 Height 99 B Shape amp Color epee Box EE its l Aas B Es sh 0 U B a 1 Teall isalitur z Sime Bia a The background area has a rectangle contour which can be designed by the same rules as for normal text character The Style button opens the dialog box used to define the design style of the background area The set of p
66. e type Scriptt Script2 etc displayed Page 16 EE Stream Labs User Manual TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS Main menu Program window workspace Status bar The main menu bar contains the following items File file operations Video titles editing and videocard output Edit Clipboard operations View information representation in the current window Page script pages attributes and operations Frame frame creation attributes and order Paragraph paragraph attributes Character character attributes style creation and logo insertion Window program windows management Help supplemental information from the Help file The program window workspace is used to accommodate the titles output scripts to be edited A script window can be minimized or restored A window can be activated by a mouse left button click or using the Ctri F6 button combination which allows to look through all available windows consequently To activate and restore if minimized a window the Window 1 2 3 4 command or a mouse left button double click can also be used Each script can be edited in several windows simultaneously each of such windows can display a different part of the script All changes made to the script are correctly and simultaneously displayed in all windows at once Each of such windows can be assigned visualization attributes View independently Show or hide the statusbar A status bar containing
67. ealistic Drawing Elements Color Filling If this border type is used for various characters of the text on page they all should use the same light source direction and contrast Characters with conic and pyramidal border forms can be considered not extruded out of the plane towards the observer but on the contrary cut into the plane and have for example a transparent internal area The light direction in this case changes to opposite ae Bs mo DE Ma sa gt 3 mC Ba a Sphere Concave Cone Pyramid When an Embossed border is built in the Complete mode the interior area is filled with the same filling and simultaneously with the border area In this case the common brightness of all internal area points changes so as to create an illusion of the upper plane of the displaced character This mode is most convenient when a displacement with a textural filling is to be produced F r iw af an n 7 is Ls i i j ae ira rae ae Rie im Ke ir 3 3 Po p a ma i EEH ia a 3 ie ay oe P i EN J J Ls Sphere Concave Cone Pyramid An Embossed border in the Bidirectional mode is built both outside and inside of the main outline therefore the resulting border has a double thickness In this case the interior remains completely transparent Since the border is also built inwards the outline its sufficient thickness can result in a complete or partial ove
68. ed The 3 way consists of copying of an entire existing page to the Clipboard and its subsequent pasting at another point of the script To do so use the Page Copy To Clipboard command which saves the page along with the corresponding effect attributes and the Edit Paste command or Shift ns which allows to paste the page from the Clipboard to any of the script currently in work just before the current page of this script Hint It may be helpful to create some dummy basic fragments of titling scripts which can later be pasted into other scripts by page copying for final editing Page 76 fe Stream Labs User Manual ae TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS Script page removal Page Delete Page copying and removal using the Go To Page window To remove a page from the script use the Page Delete command The previous page then becomes current If the removed page was the last in the script the current position moves to the previous one Hint Clipboard copying and removal operations Plavi E er Esc described above can easily be performed ON fiigir uiii multiple pages using the wpe ane Page Go To window In Wipe Full this mode necessary Wipe Full functions are called by a ral Mertic crawl crawl Up rvleft mouse right button click Render Attenti Hervez eve Play Page Open s Text 6 2 The Page Attributes Toolbar Setting of default attributes for new pages Set As Default
69. ed an R character is displayed after its number for each of them If a page or a selection of not necessarily sequential pages is to be played back it can be done by pressing Play or F5 Alternatively press the mouse right button while the pointer is inside the window and select the Play Page command in the appearing submenu All Video Preferences Player options affect the page playback called from the Go To Page window except the Auto Repeat mode in this case playback is never looped and each page is only output once 010 A rvlett In addition to the playback command this window also allows to use the video buffer clearing command Clear or Esc Attention It is important to bear in mind that if the script pages playback is launched using the Go To Page window the video buffer is not automatically cleared before the output of the first page its contents beyond the effect execution area are always preserved And if the output is not performed in the substitution mode the Opaque option is not set active titles are output over the video buffer old contents in the effect area as well This program feature can be efficiently used in live broadcasts Page 103 window is executed over the video buffer old contents User Manual 7 3 2 Script Playback Settings Video Preferences Player Script playback loop mode Auto Repeat Automatic interruption before the playback starts Start Through Pause This
70. ed that if a fragment limits cross include a paragraph break the f symbol the border crossing rule is applied attributes for both adjacent paragraphs are displayed edited and assigned simultaneously The border crossing rule is applied in a somewhat different way when a text fragment is copied to the Clipboard See 4 2 Clipboard Operation Copying and Pasting for more information 3 9 Parameters Setting and Editing Indefinite parameters values Integer numbers input lf and attribute acquires several different values within the fragment a special indefinite value is displayed in the corresponding field In number fields and lists it is represented by a blank value in color filling fields by an uncolored border in option checkboxes by grey Squares and in radio button groups by the state in which none of the buttons can be edited If such indefinite value is not changed in the course of the fragment editing the corresponding attribute is not altered for the entire fragment Selection of a new definite value changes the corresponding attribute for all fragment elements Beside the option of the standard keyboard input of integer numbers many dialog windows provide 1 two software buttons with vertical arrows right of the input field used to increase decrease the field value by 1 Similar changes of the value can be achieved by pressing Gray and Gray respectively Standard and butt
71. eecceeeeeceeeeeeeeeanecs 66 Frame Group DCIS CHOW acpsiieaacionecudaacnsianpbnawndessanenteeredatsccnsinentsonsdebasenseerteeradetacansce 69 32 1 340 FRAME 00 RAMT Se er eee 71 5 3 RECTANGULAR BACKGROUND AREA BOX FRAME ccccccsssececesecceceseceeeeeeceeanees 72 5 4 IMAGE FRAMB PICTURE scavinccncasareagsasdbacdncanansbnaeavacaoosannsdaatatedbaniocaadaaijansuncontessoaias 73 5 5 ANIMATION FRAME ANIMATION ccccsscccccsscccccssecccaseccecusececcusececaueccceuneceeuuseceeanees 74 Chapter o Script Pages amd E MC Cts rsh E 76 6 1 SCRIPT PAGE CREATION AND REMOVAL ccccsssccecsscceceececeesececaeecceeueceeaueeeeeanecs 76 6 2 THE PAGE ATTRIBUTES TOOLBAR ccccsecccsescccuscccssccececcecussecnsceeecseecseeusesensseenssss 77 www stream labs com Page 2 EE Stream Labs User Mamal saidi TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS 6 3 GENERAL SETTINGS OF PAGE EFFECTS ccccccceeeeeseeetsssssccceeeseeceeeeeeressseettnsaees 78 Ol Pape FEC SCODE oirne nnn A SAI ETEEN AEE 79 6 4 EFFECTS AND THEIR INTERNAL PARAMETERG ceseeeeeseeessnneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaes 82 0 Dg Ea E E e E E A A A A E A 83 64 2 Page Motom EICCIN ss sssssanasisseencie eerrcieide Genediee toe Gem AEN 83 6 4 3 Appearance Disappearance Effects cccccccceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 86 6 AA SCrECMING WIDE eseis aire eds rE a Ere iA AEEA 87 CAA O E E E AE ene 91 pe COMDINED ETTE TS eee eee aE E ee re ee ere ere er 93 6 5 1
72. eees 24 BOLO PAGE Wy OW osinnb E E A 26 3 7 TEXT CURSOR AND CURRENT POSITION sssccccsseccccesececcescccceneccceuseceeeseceeanecs 27 3 8 HIGHLIGHTING A FRAGMENT OF THE PAGE CONTENT sseccecsseceeeeseceeeeeeceeanees 29 3 9 PARAMETERS SETTING AND EDITING cccccsssccccesececcesececeescceeesecceeuseceeuuseceeanees 30 Chapier 4 FG e7Ol 2 Script Teri sciescncnesnecuntedsmnivetetiestndaesetcacaadeatiysoerstaseresstadedenevesaweeetedes 32 d l INPUT AND DELETING jscsasgsaiaraenkoansnsinetasacanasanbataadaneaaiasanneyaniaeadanwoasasyrewonoonsaaaieegsaser 32 Text Iniormation MPU eesosas anneanne piei En EENAA EE pni E SNE AR pa 32 Bonm o 0 0 1 eaeRett nee ne ne ae ee nent aver E ser Eee 33 K O E E E E E EE A EA as 34 4 2 CLIPBOARD OPERATIONS COPY AND PASTE sssscccececesseeeeccceeeseeseeeecceeeeeaaseeeees 35 Copying into CH DDO OIG op cesexiicinnsscs svcnnsiandeanesl xecnsias kecneded seapstianieanede arapanerseenniedseciav 35 Inserting of a Script Fragment from the Clipboard ccccccccccccccccceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 36 4 3 SPLITTING AND MERGING OF PAGES AND PARAGRAPHS ccccsssececeseececaeceeeaeeeees 36 4 4 SETTING OF PARAGRAPH ATTRIBUTES cccccsseccccsececeeecceceecceeusececeusecesueceesunecees 37 4 5 INSERTING OF LOGO IMAGES INTO TEXT cccccssscccceesececeesceeeaeececeueeceeaeecceeanecees 38 4 6 TEXT CHARACTER ATTRIBUTES ssscssonncwassedvesshsndonsdanadeavehsasuonboaisbiasasananessaca
73. ensions Therefore only the elements located in this area in the editor window it is atop of the animation first frame output to the display screen are output over the animation Some measures can be taken to address these issues for instance it may be useful to create empty fields next to the frame borders beforehand Frames cannot exceed the video buffer limits this should also be taken into account in advance so that corresponding fragments could be truncated when the animation is created Page 91 fe Stream Labs User Manual TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS Animation playback rate Total duration of animation playback and number of repetitions Repeat G Supported types of animation files Animation file name input and file preview Animation playback duration depends on the number of frames in it a new frame is displayed every time the passing video signal fields change That means that in 50 Hz TV signal output systems PAL SECAM one second accommodates 50 animation frames and in the NTSC system 60 frames A single playback can take more time if the size of transferred data is too large to let all frames to be redrawn in time The number of animation repetitions is specified in the Repeat field Total effect duration is then equal to the number of repetitions times the duration of a single animation playback This duration includes the appearance and disappearance stages Therefore if the Repeat value i
74. er 1 General Overview of Program Features Video effects Text in a page The program is used for creating scripts sequences of titles output with various effects and playing them on a device for superimposing computer graphics over television video signal Hereinafter such device is briefly called videocard Each script can be broken into an unlimited number of pages Each such page can be assigned a video effect which defines the method of the page appearance movement and fading out from the video screen The following types of video effects are supported e Vertical upward scrolling of an infinite page drum Roll e Horizontal scrolling of an infinite page from right to left creeping line Crawl e Passage of a page of a size of the video screen from upwards or from right to left Reveal e Static page appearing effect CrossFade e Standard or customized Wipe effect executed with a mask preset by the gradient file with soft boundaries Alpha Gradient Wipe e Animation played on a static page Animation The following parameters for video effects can be preset e The effect rectangular area e The effect rate or duration e The duration of the pause for the page content display e Whether the effect is executed up to the end or not complete e Whether the page is output over the graphics present on the screen or substitutes it opaque The text inside a page is broken into paragraphs Each
75. eter editing window can also be opened by the mouse left button double click when the pointer is located on the required frame Another way to open the dialog box with the frame parameters is to click the mouse right button on the frame and to select the necessary subitem from the appearing Attributes menu In a special case of the text frame the mouse pointer must be located on the frame outline otherwise a text fragment is selected or the Paragraph Attributes window appears respectively In the page output mode the position of any frame can conveniently be changed using the mouse To do this put the mouse pointer on the frame outline click the left button and holding it pressed without letting off move it to a required place After the left button click the cursor turns into an arrowed cross For an image or background area frame there is no need to position the mouse pointer on the frame outline it can be located anywhere inside the frame Another way to change a frame position with a higher precision is to use the frame parameter dialog box which contains the X and Y fields These fields specify the offset of the frame upper left corner in pixels with respect to the page beginning To change the frame dimensions in pixels use the Width and Height fields in the frame attribute dialog box or use the mouse The latter requires to position the mouse pointer allocates on an appropriate rectangle of the frame outline to click t
76. eviously copied to the Clipboard use the Edit Paste command or press Shift Ins This command results in pasting of the fragment from the Clipboard into the current position If this fragment only contains text it can be inserted only if the current position specifies a character rather than an entire frame If the Clipboard contains frames they are pasted right after the last frame of the current page the background text is pasted into the video in a special text frame and if the Clipboard contains entire pages they are pasted into the script before the current page increasing the total pages number 4 3 Splitting and Merging of Pages and Paragraphs Splitting and merging of page text Splitting and merging of paragraphs To split a page in two select the appropriate position in the background text and use the Page Insert Page Break command or press Ctrl Enter In this case the text preceding the cursor and all frames will stay on the old page while the text following the cursor will become the background text of the new page Attributes of the created page will be identical with those of the previous one If the current position specifies a page frame the page splitting function is unavailable To merge two pages into one use the Clipboard to copy and paste separately the background and frame text of one page to the other then delete the superfluous page To split a paragraph in two press Enter when the text cursor is i
77. ex TT uu EA the per 0 bigtlag bmp Browse file used as a logo The command is accessible if the text cursor is before the logo image The graphic file name is entered in the Bitmap file name field Browse button is provided to simplify the search and selection of the logo file The following types of graphic files are supported Page 38 fe Stream Labs User Manual TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS Logo image scaling Width and Height Logo vertical arrangement Baseline Shift Adjustment of the line height for a paragraph with a logo Horizontal alignment of a logo with respect to line text Width adjust e Windows BMP 8 24 bit without compression e Targa 24 32 bit without compression or with RLE compression e The first frame of any AVI file can also be used as a logo image provided an appropriate codec is available in the Windows environment The transparency for 256 color files is set by the key color index the Key index field If the key color index is not specified the logo is considered opaque rue Color file transparency can be set using the Targa 32 bit format with the alpha channel Windows BMP and Targa 24 bit format files are considered completely opaque The initial image stored in a graphics file can be of a wrong pixel sizes The program allows to correct it by specifying the necessary sizes in the Width and Height fields The Get size button is provided for restoring the i
78. ext movement In this case animation frames should be located directly atop of the output text which must have appropriate empty Spaces under them Animation Properties Filename Ic VALPHAPROSTYGLOE AY I is Cancel To edit the animation frame parameters use the Animation Properties dialog box Page 74 EE Stream Labs S Ss ser Manual HHHH TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS Types of used files and their transparency The name of the AVI file or of the first file of a sequence is entered in the Filename field To facilitate the search and selecting of a file for the frame the button is provided The following file types are supported e All AV files provided the appropriate CODEC is installed e Targa 24 32 bit sequences with or without RLE format compression The transparency of AVI files can be set at the file creation with a non linear editing program using the special format also preserving the alpha channel Such programs normally allow to generate a sequence of in the Targa 32 bit format files with alpha channel instead of one AVI file Targa 24 bit format files as well as usual AVI files are considered completely opaque Page 75 fe Stream Labs EEO TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS User Manual Chapter 6 Script Pages and Effects 6 1 Script Page Creation and Removal New page creation with the Page New command Frame Faragr Mew Insert Page Break New page
79. face only defines the outline of a text character without considering its possible vertical and a horizontal displacement in line The character typeface is defined by the following parameters Name of any vector font supported by the Windows environment This field can have an empty indefinite value The font name is additionally duplicated and can be changed on the Toolbar It is important to note that the quality of the font strongly influences the character outline especially when their height is small Use license fonts for example those included into the Windows distribution kit The font vertical size in pixels This field can have an empty indefinite value The value of the field is additionally duplicated and can be changed on the Toolbar These buttons allow to set or to discard the bold and italic typeface styles respectively The button act independently their combinations correspond to Normal Bold Italic and Bold Italic typeface styles If this field has an indefinite value a gray square is displayed The buttons are also available in the Toolbar and the Character Bold Character Italic menu items where the corresponding boxes can be checked This field defines the aspect ratio between text character width and height in percents Note that the character vertical size remains unchanged while their width varies The parameter values can vary from 10 to 200 This field can have an empty indefinite value
80. fer to their relative locations on the disk Page 15 H Stream Labs S SSs ser Manual TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS 3 3 Main Program Window Main Current Current l l EN font style ie script editor aE WINGOWS Toolbar y y Paragraph Another script Window Graracter alignment j window mwa size mode Boo Pro DEMO01 SU D i gl E Page Color DEHOO1 SC 1 Style name Page Color Font Hame kow Hae TE FPF 1E cig Be li ma Times Mew Roman aj header bar Biel E Size width ps A foo Ax Width ne shitk on T italic Quality Sharoness Mediums Blur Edge Shadow 1 ype Type Cutline None Shape Size DEMOO1 5C 2 E eT Round EE Mode Direction Bo ER aa TE Normal Cre gt at ail d Size C r A aaa Ho Appl Save Tae Restore Auto appl T kkkhh a C DEMO03 SC 2 x DEMO04 SC ajoj Vertical Roll Speed 6 delay 00 00 00 E Duration 00 0411 H Apply gt Set As Default Partial Scroll M Complete Foy Help pess F1 4 7 Mod ed 7 Brief hint Minimized editor Current page number YZ windows Total page number Status bar Page Script attributes Current frame number changes bar Font attributes bar flag Window header The program header bar contains after the text Alpha Pro the bar name of the file opened in the current window If no file has been created the script name of th
81. fferent name Load a previously created script oJ All operations with scripts allowing to create a new script load or save an existing one are performed with the File menu using the keyboard input or the Toolbar buttons Use the File New command to create a new script Before the script is first saved into a disk file it has a name of the format Script7 Script2 etc It acquires the settings of the Normal style pre defined in the program and the page parameters are used as determined by the Set As Default button in the Page Attributes dialog box This also applies to the single paragraph in this page it is created with the default parameters defined by the Set As Default button in the Paragraph Paragraph Attributes dialog box Use the File Save command to save the edited script in the file from which it was loaded Use the File Save As command to save the edited script in text format under a new file name Danka E alphapra ce CEMOO4 SC DEMO SC F DEMOOS SC DEMOOO SC B DEMODE SC DEMO0I SC E DEMOOF SC DEMOO2 5C F DEMOS SC Hma pahaa IDEMOOO SC Tun panoe Script Files 3c TmeHa 2 Page 14 ee Stream Labs User Manual TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS Load a Windows encoding text file Close the script and its windows Script transfer issues The File Open command opens a dialog window allowing to input the file name of a previously saved script To select the type
82. g video signal are proportionally mixed with the black color Besides all non transparent areas are enlarged by black one pixel wide framing These methods provide a smooth brightness transition on the border between the computer graphics and the passing video signal required for a high quality mixer Superposition A threshold value of computer graphics brightness must be specified for video mixer superposition in LumaKey mode with the Keying on mixer option set active in order to prevent the passing video signal appearance in non transparent areas with minimum brightness of pixels The LumaKey Depth field specifies the variation range for computer graphics pixels brightness All values within the LumaKey Depth from the absolute maximum 255 or pure white are then allowed The value 255 means that the brightness of non transparent pixels remains unchanged The lower is the field value the brighter is the page image on the screen To compensate the rise of the computer graphics brightness use corresponding mixer controls If the Keying on mixer checkbox is unchecked the value in the LumaKey Depth field is ignored The Advanced Compression checkbox activates the compression mode for static not moving pages during their rendering Pages using screening and appearance disappearance effects belong to this category This mode efficiently up to 50 saves RAM resources and disk space but requires higher processor performance Therefore
83. graph split the paragraph into several in proper places Remove Text Text character or paragraph separator Frame Page Script fragment To remove one text character press De with the cursor in the preceding or Backspace in the next position Deletion of the separator character J results in merging two paragraphs into one with the common text acquiring the attributes of the second paragraph To remove an entire frame use the Frame Delete command or pressing Del with the current position pointing at the frame A text frame can only be deleted by pressing Del if it is empty does not contain any text If a text frame is not empty the characters inside it will be deleted first Removal of an entire page is done by the Page Delete command If the Del key is hit when a fragment is selected all characters and all frames of this fragment except for text frames are deleted from the script Text frames and pages completely belonging to a fragment remain but become empty If these frames are to be removed as well it can be done as described above A fragment of the script can also be deleted by the Edit Delete command The Edit Cut command or pressing Cirl Del deletes a fragment and copies it to the Clipboard see below Page 34 Edit View Page Frame EE Stream Labs User Manual TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS 4 2 Clipboard Operations copy and paste Copying into Clipboard Cut Ctrl D el Copy Fast
84. group of options specifies o the routine of the Piaver Cache Safe Area Rendering script output using Cf uona the video device The options are preserved Beep When Ready between program sessions and Uk UtMena NN PAMERETE Cnpaska sea re L Omena Temene _ Cnpassa playback of all scripts opened by the program subsequently Preferences M Start Through Pause The Auto Repeat checkbox allows activating the endless script playback mode outputting the first scene after the last one etc such playback can only be interrupted manually using the Video Clear or Video Pause command If the playback of a script or a selection of its pages is launched using the Go To Page window the status of the Auto Repeat option is ignored and the script is only played back once Checking the Start Through Pause box makes the program enter the pause mode after the script playback command is called and the script is loaded to the memory Pressing Video Resume or F9 causes an actual launch of the script playback in this case Setting of automatic interruption may be required for manual or GPI synchronization of the starting moment of titles output In this mode the script playback is always preceded by a maximal uploading of page graphic images to the Random Access Memory allowing performing the script playback smoothly without calling the hard disk This pause can also be used for commutation of video devices and external eq
85. he Clipboard The Move button is used to move a style from one edited script to another deleting it in the old script To do this open the corresponding scripts in the window panels Then select the style to be moved in the panel corresponding to its script and press Move lf a style of such name already exists within the script where it is supposed to be moved and has different attributes it an additional confirmation request is issued for the replacement of the old style with the new one The Dup button allows to create a new style at the selected script Pressing of this button opens the Enter new style Crystal name of a newly created style Lancel possessing the same attributes as the name dialog box used to input the selected one To edit the new style use the Edit button The Delete button is used to remove the selected style from the current script When the text fragments are copied from one script to another using the Clipboard corresponding styles are not copied To transfer the styles from one script to another use the corresponding copy function of the Style Manager dialog box Page 65 ee Stream Labs ssU ser Manual TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS Chapter 5 Script Page Multilayer Structure 5 1 Multilayer Structure Creating and Editing Background layer Background Graphic image in the background layer Background text and full screen effects A new page is always created with a singl
86. he left button and holding it pressed without letting off to move the mouse to resize the frame After the left button click the cursor turns into a double arrow with an appropriate direction Page 68 EE Stream Labs SsSs ser Manual TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS The size of animation frames is defined by the size of the AVI file containing the frames or image sequences it is predefined and cannot be changed Changing the Changing of a position of the Z order Bring to Top current frame Current frame in hierarchy allows Send to Back position in the to set their correct order i e to Move Up hierarchy define the order of the frame Move Down drawing The position changing is performed with the Frame Z order commands After the execution of these the moved frame remains Current The dialog box with the commands changing the frame position in the hierarchy is opened by clicking the mouse right button on a frame Then the properties menu appears where the appropriate subitem should be selected To pull the frame down to the lowermost layer located immediately above the background use the Send to Back command The Bring to Top command on the contrary lifts the frame to the uppermost level so it is be drawn last above all other frames Move Up and Move Down commands swap two adjacent frames lifting or moving down the current frame respectively Deleting the 0 delete the current frame use the Fr
87. he marking rules and thin marking lines between paragraph lines visible if the View Gridlines option is on Effect areas should not be made too large but defining their borders too closely to the boundaries of characters or background areas should also be avoided This recommendation takes into account that smoothing of character and frame borders the Sharpness parameter equal to Normal or 1 use pixels adjacent to these boundaries If such pixels are not included in the effect area the smoothing is not effective Page 95 EE Stream Labs User Manual TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS Chapter 7 Script Output 7 1 Screen Output of Pages during Editing Program two screen operation mode Current page output using the View Take command Special features of vertically scrolling page preview on TV screen monitor during editing Continuous display mode for page contents final state during editing View Video Display Script editing sometimes requires previewing a current page in its final state The program is tailored to operate in a two screen mode computer display screen is then only used for script editing while a dedicated TV monitor is provided for output Contents of its screen stay unchanged until the script or some of its pages are output again To output the contents of the current page use the View Take command or press F4 The same command can also be executed by pressing the Take button in the Font Attrib
88. ht changes are to be made in the scripts re calculation of modified pages can be performed very quickly Moreover if the Start Through Pause option in the Video Preferences Player parameter group is not active titles output from the Go To Page window and rendering of modified pages are performed simultaneously This opportunity should however be used in moderation so as not to disrupt the smoothness of titles output These features can be used for modifying information for instance people s names titles phone numbers etc during live broadcasts In this case opened scripts are used for templates It is however more convenient to use the additional features of the extended version of the program to address these issues Page 98 EE Stream Labs User Manual HEHH TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS Use of Windows Attention Use of virtual memory for program operation should be virtual memory performed carefully Page image rendering may require additional for script at least virtual memory resources hence Windows is to be able to rendering create large swap files of unlimited size Additional RAM resources would however provide a better solution as the rendering speed can in this case be much higher 7 2 1 Script Rendering in the Go To Page Window The Page Go To window allows seeing clearly Fla F5 Clear E whether a page has Tiea Esc already been rendered or Cut not by the R for kme Madi Copy Re
89. ile select the All Files option in File Open File Type field of the File Open dialog box It is recommended to save a script created with this method in a separate SC extension file Page 32 ee Stream Labs User Manual TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS Beginning of Input New script New page Frame Paragr Mew Insert Page Break New frame To create a new script use the File New command press Ctr N or the respective Too Bar button The created script initially receives a name of the format ScriptN and consists of a single page with an empty paragraph with default parameters The initially set current style for characters is the Normal style predetermined in the program There are several New Page possible ways to begin the input and design of C ingert before current page 0k a new script page The Insert after curent page ae ANCE first way is to call the amp Append ta the end of script __ Cancel New Page dialog box using the Page New Background Bitmap file C VALPHAPROSLAKE BMP Command and to create one more page with E None default settings at the end of the script after or before the current page The current cursor position then moves to the beginning of the only empty paragraph of this page This paragraph is assigned the same set of parameters as was used at the moment of the command execution It is also true for the current attributes of characters The same dialog
90. illing Area scaling or tile filling with texture Tile Semitransparent textural filling Relative position of character drawing element and filling area Bounding box Area Files of the same formats as for frames and logo characters can be used to define a texture map in the Texture field e Windows BMP 8 24 bit without compression e Targa 24 32 bit with or without a RLE format compression The Browse button is provided for easier navigation and selection of graphics files as texture maps If a file name is indicated at the Texture field the values of RGB fields for all reference points are ignored Maps scaling is only made if the Tile box is not checked In this case map is first resized according to the dimensions of the used area and then the actual filling is performed lf the Tile box is checked a mismatch between the No Tile area and the file sizes results in a cutting from the right and bottom sides or in a tile filling by the texture Tile The examples at the left show a 64 x 64 Box frame filled by the 16 x 16 pixels texture from the file Treug bmp with scaling above and without it on the tile principle below Tile A semitransparent texture can be set in two ways e if a Windows BMP or Targa 24 format map file is used i e a file without an alpha channel the transparency is specified in the T fields for each reference point separately e ifa Targa 32 bit form
91. image which is moved at the effect execution is defined by the height of the background text or the distance to the frame lower edges whichever is larger Upward Reveal Up and Leftward Reveal Left Ingress Upward Reveal Up and leftward Reveal Left ingress effects make a page move in the corresponding direction The page image located in the effect area moves with a specified speed and stops for the period corresponding to the Delay value Whether the motion in the same direction and with the same speed is afterwards resumed or not depends on the status of the Complete checkbox Ingress of an empty page van be used for expulsion of the entire video buffer contents or some part thereof in certain direction Page 85 EE Stream Labs ssU ser Manual TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS 6 4 3 Appearance Disappearance Effects How to produce a disappearance in a limited area Full screen appearance This type of effects include e Fade Out merging in the passing video signal e Fade In appearance Full Screen Disappearance Fade Out Fade Out Speed 2 Delay 00 00 20 Duration 00 02 13 Ano j lt lt gt gt Set As Default The disappearance effect deals with the entire video buffer contents The principle of this effect is a gradual with a specified speed increase of the video buffer transparency with respect to the passing video signal Attention This effect can only be correctly execute
92. imum and minimum values in percents Thus the upper slider allows to change the brightness of the filling points closest to the outline and the lower slider that of the remotest points The Transp sliders set similarly the degree of the transparency for the border points closest to the outline and remotest from it They set the range of this variation specifying the maximum and minimum values in percents The effect is manifested most strikingly when the lower slider is set to 0 and the upper one to 100 If the values of all sliders are identical the effect is not shown at all the transparency and brightness vary all over area according to the position of the points The Glow border f the complex filling mode is not set the Complex box is filling with the unchecked only vertical color filling without texture can be used as Complex box the main one the Vertical value is set in the Gradient type field unchecked Actually the Vertical value only means here that there are two colors with preset transparences and the brightest points of the Page 54 EE Stream Labs User Manual The Bidirectional and Complete modes ofa Glow border construction Creation of neon boundary characters TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS three dimensional filling correspond to the values of the lower one and the darkest points to the values of the upper one Other points of the area correspond to the intermediate colors and transparency
93. in direction creating a surface filled in a standard way without considering the height of the points To create a realistic effect textural fillings can be used taking into account the selected direction A 3D side surface is produced similarly as a character is raised and shifted in a specific direction creating a filled surface but the height of the surface points is taken into account For a realistic effect gradient fillings can be used allowing to place the lines with points of the same color along the chosen direction specified by the Direction parameter In this case the outline interior is first filled fictitiously according to the color or textural filling then border points are multiplied in appropriate numbers in the specified direction creating the side surface The two previous figures show the result of use of a vertical gradient from black to white with the Drop and 3D types of side surface respectively The same applies to the gradient filling with an alpha channel An Extruded side surface is built as a character is raised and shifted in a specific direction creating a filled surface and taking into account the height of the surface points but in the direction perpendicular to that used in the 3D surface To produce a realistic effect gradient fillings should be set In this case lines with points of the same color are placed in the planes perpendicular to the selected direction specified by
94. ine by line effects The effect of alternate flashing of certain part of the image Flash is achieved by the use of a series of scenes with a Random Square shutter of low granularity Scenes with and without the required element are alternating the scene without the element is output in the substitution mode with the Opaque option set on The program allows to create a script with a logo or any other information constantly present on the screen in parallel with the text output Begin the script with a scene in which the logo appears All subsequent effects are to be executed either in an area not including the logo location or in the superposition mode with the Opaque option set off If a shutter which is always executed in the Superposition mode is used and something is to be output at the location of the logo restore it by copying to the next page and assigning it some effect executed in an area including the logo The full screen Fade In and Fade Out effects cannot unfortunately be used in such script they execution would inevitably make the logo disappear for a while Execution areas of some effect sequences can be positioned accordingly with the text lines layout on the page To create such effects first align the text in a Frame type frame and produce the required number of copies of the resulting page If the text changes afterwards new text has to be copied to all sequence pages along with the frame This method en
95. ion mode is used for page images the corresponding checkbox in the Video Preferences Rendering parameter group is checked To save RAM resources close unused applications reduce the number of installed fonts or cut down number of colors or resolution of the Windows desktop Motion effects executed in limited rectangular areas can sometimes be performed intermittently It usually happens due to a too large effect area when the processor performance or the processing speed of bus interface and card memory is not sufficient for transportation of such data volumes In this case if the limited area motion speed is high a distinct effect of output image unsticking can be observed close to the area edge from which titles appear To solve this problem try to reduce the motion area by cutting off its superfluous parts containing no information Page 105 ee Stream Labs User Manual TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS Too high speed of full screen motion effects Odd speed values for full screen horizontal motion Insufficient operation speed of the computer for data unpacking Too large area and or speed of a screening or appearance effect Too low shutter granularity in large effect area Uneven animation output If the speed of full screen motion effects is too high parts of information due to appear can constantly be observed at the edge of the screen towards which the page moves i e opposite to where i
96. ition movement within GoTo Page window r 7 Current position movement with Page Attributes bar User Manual Use arrow Home and End buttons to move the current position within the script The latter two buttons can only be used within a text paragraph Horizontal arrow buttons are used to move the current position to the next or previous position Vertical arrow buttons operate the same way if the current position points to a frame and if the cursor is within a text paragraph it is moved one line up or down The Home and End buttons move the current position to the beginning or the end of the text paragraph line respectively It is often more convenient to change the current position by setting the mouse pointer to the selected point and pressing the mouse left button If the pointer is over a position in the text the cursor moves to this position If the pointer is over a frame this frame is then selected as the current one Attention It should be noted that if the pointer is over an intersection point of several frames the frame located above all others closest to the viewer is selected Arrow buttons can be used to move the current position to the previous or next script page if the cursor is in the first or last position on the page respectively It is however handier to use the Ctrl T and Ctri button combinations which move the current position to the beginning of the previous or next page see 3 6 GoTo Page
97. k after the Video Start command is called Script playback can start immediately after rendering is complete A one time rendering is sufficient for any script rendering results are saved in a dedicated folder named Cache Files stored in this folder are preserved at a program reload or computer reboot so if later the script is loaded again without any further editing it can be played back immediately If however the script was edited the Modify checkbox in the right hand part of the status bar is checked modified pages are only re calculated Removal of the Cache folder files only all folder files together can be deleted clears disk space but makes it necessary to render the corresponding script again before it can be played back Rendering Script rendering progress is reflected in the Status Bar An extruded rectangle appears in the left hand part of the bar next to the Rendering message The growing number of rendered pages is indicated by the widening black part of the progress bar Hint Script rendering features can be used in live broadcasting To do so open and render several scripts beforehand corresponding to specific situations possible to arise during the broadcast These scripts can further be called forth instantly by focusing on their names in the program window and pressing the button in the Toolbar or by highlighting necessary pages in the Go To Page window and pressing Play or F5 If some slig
98. l line spacing in pixels This value is added to the line height calculated automatically for all characters of the paragraph and can be positive or negative A positive value increases the spacing between paragraph lines A negative value on the contrary reduces the spacing but its absolute value must not exceed the initial default value of the line height This field can have an indefinite empty value The Set As Default button allows to save the current values of the Paragraph Attributes window fields as default paragraph attributes which are later used for newly created scripts and text loaded from files 4 5 Inserting of Logo Images into Text Character windon Bold Italic Styles Insert Picture Picture Attributes The Picture dialog box Used types of graphics files and their transparency The Character Insert Picture command allows to insert a logo image directly as a text character by entering the name of the corresponding graphics file The logo image is then considered as a regular text character and can be moved within the paragraph together with other text The only difference is that it is not assigned style attributes defined at the Font Attributes Insert Picture and Picture Picture Attributes Get size Layout Width adjust 200 la Baseline shift jis fa commands open the Picture dialog box for input of the name layout parameters Height 143 fad Layout and scalin p ind
99. l port of your computer To launch the software use the standard Windows routine The program shortcut can be placed to the Start Up folder for convenience After the system is loaded the passing through video signal appears at the TV monitor connected to the video card output Use the hardware setup window Video Hardware Option to adjust the video card settings the video input used video signal format etc To check the video card status use the Grid button in the same window If the video card works properly a grid will appear at the video output upon pressing this button lf the command line does not provide any other options the program will by default open a one page script named Script7 Parameters of this page can be specified by pressing the Set As Default button in the Page Attributes bar This page contains one empty paragraph also with default parameters specified in the Paragraph Attributes dialog box The program initial state also depends on the options set at the latest closure of the program All options specified in Video Preferences View Draft Zoom Gridlines and Background setting windows are preserved between work sessions Page 13 E Stream Labs HHHH TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS User Manual 3 2 Script Creation Storing and Loading gem Video Edit View New Ctre Oper Ctr Close jave Chrl S Save Ae Create a new script Save a script Save a copy of the script under a di
100. le which may comprise and alpha channel can be used as a page background Background Text graphics animation and background area frames are placed in layers located above the background layer The order of frames along the Z axis is initially determined by the order of their creation This order can later be modified arbitrarily The size of any frame except an animation one can be changed Frames can be freely moved within a page and mutually superposed Pixels outside text characters and background areas are transparent The transparency of graphics and animation frames is defined with the color keying mechanism or through the alpha channel Any fragment of the text down to an individual character or a background area frame can be assigned specific style attributes subdivided into following groups 1 Internal area outline layout and filling 2 Border area type width and filling 3 Shadow area or 3D side surface area type depth direction and filling 4 Character drawing quality and area boundaries smoothing filters www stream labs com Page 6 EE Stream Labs User Manual HHHH TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS Group 1 e Font a name of a font installed in the Windows environment Arial Times New Roman etc e Font style normal bold italic or bold italic e Character height and width expansion condensation factor in pixels e Color filling of character internal area or background
101. lipboard content is then pasted into a script new pages are created However sometimes it is required to copy the content of an entire page and to transfer it to another one leaving all effect parameters in the latter page intact that is without adding of a new page In this case the content of the page should be selected with the Edit Select All command or by pressing Ctr A and then copied with the standard Edit Copy command Note that in this case all background text of the copied page is moved into a special text frame with coordinates 0 0 and width 800 Page 35 EE Stream Labs S Ss ser Manual HHHH TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS Selection and copying of frame groups R mY or A group of one or more frames not necessarily sequential can be selected to copied entirely to the Clipboard in a standard way with the Edit Copy Frames command or by pressing Ctri ins In particular it is the only way to copy exactly one frame To select such a group mark the respective frames by clicking the mouse left button on them while holding the Ctr key pressed The single current frame can be selected with pressing Gray 5 To discard the frame selection press Gray 5 or similarly to the selection routine clicking the left mouse button on a frame to be de selected while holding the Ctr key pressed Inserting of a Script Fragment from the Clipboard To insert of any script fragment page or group of frames pr
102. ll screen creeping line Note that if a non zero Delay internal pause is specified for the page the animation playback is stopped during this pause and after it the last frame remains displayed Creeping Line Horizontal Crawl The creeping line effect moves the page contents from right to left Each paragraph of the background text is considered an individual line and is not formatted It allows to output several lines located above each other simultaneously which can be used for instance for a multilanguage translation The total length of the page image which is moved at the effect execution is defined by the maximum line length of the background text and the distance to the frame right edge For a full screen creeping line the top margin value is specified in the Y field defining the background text position This margin also denotes the upper display limit of the page graphic elements upon reaching this border they are truncated from above The lower border of the creeping line coincides with the video buffer lower edge Hence if the total height of the creeping lines and frames exceeds the video buffer size they are truncated from below The above only concerns the contents of the page in any case the video buffer with the creeping line is moved as a whole Vertical Scrolling Vertical Roll The vertical scrolling effect makes a page move upwards The total height of the page
103. lling for characters y and p is different from that for other letters The value of the Bounding Box field also matters with a similar color or textural filling of Box background areas If the Font value is selected in this field the filling area fully complies with the sizes and layout of the outline area Face Edge or Shadow In aat this case the Face area filling can begin not from the Font Box upper left corner but after a certain space defined by the sizes of the border and the shadow If the value selected in the Bounding Box field is different from Font the filling area size and layout fully complies with the background area rectangle together with its shadow and border The upper left corner of the filling area then coincides with the Box upper left corner This is frequently used when one texture file is used for the internal area border area and or shadow area Glyph E The two rectangles shown in the figures have a 64 x 64 pixel background and a 8 pixel wide border The texture file Treug bmp used for the Face area is 16 x 16 pixels large The upper figure demonstrates that the texture starts at the upper left corner of the internal area while in the lower figure it begins at the upper left corner of the Box Color filling parameters of the three character or background frame drawing elements i e Face Edge and Shadow can be edited without closing the Colors dialog box The element type is selected fro
104. llowing text alignment modes can be chosen for a paragraph Left all text lines are aligned by the left edge Center all text lines are aligned by the middle line between the edges Right all text lines are aligned by the right edge Justify all text lines of the paragraph except the last one fill in the space between the edges The last line of the paragraph is aligned by the left edge Attributes of paragraph text alignment can be set through the Paragraph menu Paragraph Attributes dialog box or the Toolbar If paragraphs in a fragment do not have the same type of alignment the corresponding field value is indefinite that is empty when none of the items is checked in the Paragraph menu and no button is pressed in the toolbar all buttons are light gray Paragraph indention values are counted in pixels from respective frame or page borders if the paragraph is at the background To change the indention explicitly use the Paragraph Attributes dialog box Specifying the indention values in the Left and Right fields one should be careful to avoid the negative paragraph width Page 37 ee Stream Labs User Manual TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS Adjustment of paragraph line spacing Leading Setting and use of default paragraph attributes A 0 value in one of these fields corresponds to no additional indention The Leading field in the Page Attributes dialog box allows to adjust the paragraph vertica
105. logo image can be inserted directly as a text character by specifying the respective graphics file name It is also possible to specify a vertical shift with respect to the string baseline and a horizontal shift which allows to superpose following string characters over the image Moreover it is possible to scale the image to definite vertical and horizontal sizes A text fragment with appropriate attributes of pages characters paragraphs and frames can be copied to Clipboard to be later inserted at any place of the current or any other script A text stored in the Clipboard from another Windows application can also be pasted into the script Script replay is launched by the Start command and can be interrupted at any moment by the Stop command which also clears the screen Titles replay can also be paused command Pause Effects can be executed in a step by step mode command Next and the creeping line and drum effects execution can be accelerated or slowed down by the Faster and Slower commands respectively The step by step title output mode can be controlled by a GPI interface To start a script replay without a delay at an exactly specified moment it is recommended to render images of graphics elements in advance using the Render command There also exists a mode allowing to output and edit titles simultaneously which can be necessary for live broadcasting This mode allows to output only some of the script pages rather
106. m of their multilayer consequential execution allows to create sufficiently complicated and interesting transitions Creation of an effect sequence can conveniently be started with positioning all graphic elements eventually to appear in the same page It is important to arrange all of them correctly to prevent subsequent re arrangements to be required after the elements are copied to other multiple pages After this basic page is laid out it is useful to save it in a separate dummy script then it is be copied as many times as required in the current script using the Page Copy To Clipboard and Edit Paste commands Then superfluous graphic elements are removed from each of resulting pages and a proper effect is specified as a part of the sequence Page 93 ee Stream Labs User Manual TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS Use of the multilayer script representation in the editor window The multilayer script pages representation in the editor window can be of a great help It allows to control all stages of the effect sequence during the effect adjustment It may be useful to change the transparency of certain scenes temporarily using the Opaque parameter For a precise alignment of graphic elements and the effect area borders it is recommended to use the actual view mode View Zoom 100 for the editor window 6 5 1 Examples of Combined Effects Alternate flashing effect Flash Script with a constantly present logo L
107. m the Glyph Area list Page 47 Stream Labs User Manual TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS 3D Realistic Drawing Elements Color Filling The Colors dialog box for 3D filling Main color filling Position of the light source in the 3D space Complex mode Effect color coefficients RGB Effect transparency coefficients 3D color filling complex mode Colors Glyph area Bounding box Area je i Al lel al pi po RGB 1004 ie Transp 100 4 Be Browse Tile Cancel The program allows to create special kinds of effects where drawing element point colors are defined not only by the standard color or textural filling but also by the type of element It concerns the Embossed and Glow borders as well as the Extruded 3D Surface side face The light source coordinates X Y Z adjustment is only available for an Embossed 3D Additional parameters of such effects are allocated in the lower right corner of the Colors dialog box but they only appear when an appropriate type of the border or side surface is chosen Complex 11 Al a a a Normally the complex mode of filling is used the Complex box is checked In this mode in addition to the standard color or textural filling as described above the area point brightness and transparency is changed so as to achieve the necessary effect When this box is checked the effect color brightness RGB and transpa
108. multiply the time needed for a script rendering therefore this resource should be used carefully A user watching a TV program may not notice the difference between the characters drawn with different Quality attributes Different script elements and text fragment can also have different levels of drawing quality defined experimentally Besides the smoothing may not be used during script editing for a quick results preview on the TV screen it can be specified later after the page layout is complete Smoothing of Transitions between Drawing Areas Sharpness The value of this field determines the level of color diffusion and transparency in all directions on the boundaries of various areas of the character or frame outline The Sharp Sharp Normal value corresponds to no Page 59 ee Stream Labs User Manual TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS Smoothing of wrinkles in the Embossed and Glow border areas diffusion while the Normal and Blur values set different levels of the diffusion If the value of the Quality field is Raw or Simple the Normal value is equivalent to Sharp The main purpose of this field is the use of the flicker filter which allows to partially suppress the flicking on boundaries for an output to an interlacing TV screen If the video device supports an alpha channel suppressing of the flicking also takes place on the graphics passing video signal boundary This field can have an empty indefinite val
109. n the position where a paragraph break is needed Parameters of the two paragraphs will be identical to those of the old one The current character style will also be preserved Deleting a J separator character results in merging two paragraphs into one with the text attributes of second of them becoming those of the resulting paragraph Page 36 fe Stream Labs User Manual eee TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS 4 4 Setting of Paragraph Attributes Bee Character Lett w Center Right Justify Paragraph Attributes wl or The Paragraph Attributes dialog box Types of paragraph text alignment Type of the paragraph alignment displaying and setting Adjustment of paragraph horizontal indention Left and Right If at least a part of the current paragraph s is contained in the script fragment the paragraph attributes are defined by the items of the Paragraph menu Alternatively to assign these parameters click the mouse right button when the current position cursor is located within the paragraph text Some of the parameters can also be adjusted using the Toolbar buttons The Paragraph Paragraph Paragraph Attributes Attributes menu item ee erin allows to set the values of ae Lap T0 alignment parameters for the i _ Cancel Leading jo B at current paragraph or jet As Detaul paragraphs of the selected script text fragment through the Paragraph Attributes dialog box One of the fo
110. n Structure Information input in text frames and background areas is carried out in paragraphs Each paragraph has a set of independent attributes left and right indentation values with respect to the frame or page borders text alignment methods and the value of the line spacing adjustment with respect to that of the Leading paragraph Page 11 EE Stream Labs User Manual HHHH TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS Paragraph words splitting into lines and relative positioning The word wrapping inside a paragraph during the text input and editing is carried out automatically Words layout inside a line depends on the paragraph alignment method left right centered or justified Intervals between words can be adjusted through insertion of space and tab symbols More precise allocation of words in lines and adjustment of line spacing can be achieved by dividing a paragraph into several Page 12 ee Stream Labs ssU ser Manual TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS Chapter 3 Work Starting and General Description of Program Interface 3 1 Work Starting Software installation Software Run Program default state The Alpha Pro software is installed by running the SETUP EXE program under Windows The software can be installed either with or without a video card present in the computer This also applies to the operation of the Alpha Pro software itself all you need is to install the hardware dongle to the LPT1 paralle
111. n of the effect time including between the effect beginning and completion if the Complete option is set the effect soeed continuously varies in the course of its execution to fit the specified effect duration These slight and repetitive speed changes can only be seen in movements If however this is also unacceptable change the Softness parameter only available for limited area motion effects with the Partial Scroll option set on Page 78 ee Stream Labs User Manual TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS Specifying effect duration using the effect speed Speed Effect execution speed can be specified for all effects using the Speed parameter The integer number specified in this field is used by the program to calculate according to the effect type an parameters the effect duration which then appears in the Duration field using the minutes seconds frames format The Speed parameter specifies for motion effects the value in pixels of the page text displacement during one field change In the case of screening Wipe appearance Fade In and disappearance Fade Out effects the effect duration is measured in units corresponding to field changes in the passing video signal The number of such units is calculated as 256 Speed Animation speed cannot be changed the output of each new animation frame begins at the moment of the field change Hence the effect duration depends on the number of frames in the animation file and
112. nal areas Such background area can conveniently be moved if the symbol used for its creation is placed into a separate text frame The area size and aspect ratio can be changed using the font related Size and Width fields in the Font Attributes toolbar Special symbol fonts can also be used to insert special delimiters icons figures etc right into the text Page 109
113. nd styles contained in the script are listed in the panel To return and select another script select the line To perform any operation with a style put the cursor on the style name in one of panels and press the corresponding command button at the bottom of window The Edit button opens the Style dialog box which allows to edit all attributes of the chosen style except its name To style editing can also be entered by the mouse left button double click on its name in the corresponding panel Shape amp Color Page CH isalitur z Simp Blur This window contains the same set of parameters as the Font Attributes toolbar except that it cannot be used to change the style name The Copy button allows to copy a style from one edited script to another To do this open the corresponding scripts in the window panels Then select the style to be copied in the panel corresponding to its script and press Copy If a style of such name already exists within the script where it is supposed to be copied and has different attributes it an additional confirmation request is issued for the replacement of the old style with the new one Page 64 fe Stream Labs User Manual TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS Style moving from one script to another Hove Style duplication in the script under another name Dup Style removing from the script Delete Style copying at the text fragment inserting from t
114. nderea character PA ie PA Paste appearing in the list next to Minmi Delete the page number if it is Mimmi rendered To render one or several selected pages a press the mouse right l Open As Text button with the pointer ee inside the iia and pe select Render in the appearing submenu R characters appear in the list next to the numbers of rendered pages as the rendering process goes on Render Play Page 7 2 2 Rendering Parameter Group Video Preferences Rendering This group Preferences comprises options of the Player l Cache Safe Area Rendeng script graphic E elements I Keying on miser Lumakey Depth 255 rendering for a T Filter colors subsequent If Advanced Compression video card ee ee ee Parameters are saved between the program work sessions and affect all scripts opened later Page 99 ee Stream Labs User Manual TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS Graphics rendering for mixer superposition Keying on mixer Allowed range of graphics brightness for mixer superposition LumaKey Depth Additional compression of page binary images Advanced Compression The Keying on mixer checkbox allows to activate the special rendering mode preparing graphics for mixing with the passing video signal using a mixer which produces a computer graphics dots brightness key LumaKey If this option is set on all pixels at least partially transparent with respect to the passin
115. ne and vertical scroll effects no cutoff is executed on the right and bottom effect scope borders respectively Hint Complicated scripts sometimes present difficulties in distinguishing graphic elements of the current page from their predecessors from preceding pages which are kept in the video buffer and are also displayed in the editor window They can be told from each other by the fact that service marking line are only displayed for the current page elements 6 4 Effects and Their Internal Parameters Effect selection for a script page Effect types Each page is assigned a proper effect which defines the way it appears in the video buffer and vanishes from it The effect type is specified using the drop down list located in the upper left corner of the Page Attributes toolbar e None e Horizontal Crawl e Vertical Roll no effect comment page creeping line vertical scrolling e Reveal Up upward ingress e Reveal Left leftward ingress e Fade In appearance against a background of the video buffer contents e Fade Out merging in the passing video signal e Wipe screening e Animation animation The following effect types can be distinguished e empty effect None e motion effects Horizontal Crawl Vertical Roll Reveal Up Reveal Left Page 82 EE Stream Labs S Ss ser Manual HHHH TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS e appearance disappearance effects Fade Out Fade In
116. nformation normally appears Reducing the motion speed eliminates this effect The maximally possible speed value depends on the information features and computer properties For instance enlarging height or width of the output page may require reducing the motion speed and vice versa Full screen horizontal motion effects are known to cause a uniform quiver of the image with the frame update frequency This is caused by odd or oddly even values of the Speed parameter Try to use even values for these speeds if that is of no avail use evenly even values This limitation is a peculiar feature of specific video cards A fundamental way to deal with this issue is to replace full screen effects with similar limited area effects When additional page image compression is used at their output much higher computer performance is required since data unpacking is executed in real time Therefore if static pages using screening and appearance disappearance effects are output with a substantial delay the Advanced Compression option in the Video Preferences Rendering parameter group should be set off If setting off this option produces the desired effect it means that the delay cause was determined correctly It should be noted however that deactivation of this option may double the required memory size If the execution area of a screening Wipe or appearance Partial Fade In effect is too large the effect execution may be completed su
117. nitial dimensions if necessary It is certainly better if the image has the required dimensions from the beginning professional graphic editors like Adobe Photoshop usually provide better scaling quality The program features allow to select the image size first and then to insert it without any additional scaling A logo can be moved vertically with respect to the base line specifying the image downwards shift in pixels in the Baseline shift field If a negative number is entered in the field the logo on the contrary is moved upwards The height of a logo is considered along with those of all other paragraph characters when the paragraph line height is calculated If the line height becomes too big after inserting a logo it can be adjusted using the Leading field in the Paragraph Attributes dialog Dox When inserting a logo the following text can be made to overlay it or on the contrary to be spaced from it The size of such horizontal displacement of the following text in pixels is set in the Width adjust field A negative value allows to place the following characters over the logo On the contrary positive values make following characters to move further away to the right from the image 4 6 Text Character Attributes Text attributes for the current position or a fragment of the script can be assigned in several ways Page 39 ee Stream Labs User Manual TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS Using the Font Attributes
118. ns in the upper part of the window See the documentation below for a more detailed description of these commands Page 26 ee Stream Labs ssU ser Manual TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS Selection of script pages ak NNN At least one page the current script page is always highlighted and Pia F5 Clear Esc selected in the GoTo Page window list 002 FullScreen Motion Effects J03 wipe FullScreen blotion E fects To select a set of several MEEME Full S creen Motion E fects pages in the GoTo Page WERI Full S creen M otion E fects window list use the mouse Vertical Roll Speed 6 ertical left button while holding faea PEREP ae oae UU craw AITBAION Atenton Ver mp one the Cir button pressed Up Reveal Up S peed 12 Delay 1 The selected pages Can be rvlett Reveal Lefh S peed 12 Delay 1 located anywhere in the list not necessarily in a continuous sequence Selected pages are highlighted in dark blue in the list A continuous sequence of pages can be conveniently selected using the arrow buttons while holding the Shift button pressed Each pressing of an arrow button adds one page to the head or the tail of the selection list respectively Pressing the PgUp and PgDn buttons while holding the Shift button pressed adds to the list several pages at once Likewise pressing the Home or End button adds all pages from the current one to the head or the tail of the list respectively After a set
119. nu items The Toolbar Page Attributes bar and Font Attributes bar can also be separated from the main program window and relocated at the display screen at will To do so double click the mouse left button on the corresponding bar The Toolbar can also be positioned horizontally or vertically A mouse double click on a separated bar returns it to its regular position A new editor window is created in the program window automatically when a script file is opened with the File Open command or a new script is created with the File New command The display settings for the window are used as specified in the View menu Create new editor window s Page 20 fe Stream Labs User Manual TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS Create new window s for opened scripts Cae Help New Window Cascade Tile Horizontally Tile Vertically Arrange loons 4 1 DEMO045 S01 2 DEMOOTS SC 3 DEMOO2S SC 4 DEMO0S4 50 5 DEMOO44 SC 2 Activate deactivate editor window Minimize editor window Close editor window Types of windows arrangement Minimized editor windows arrangement It is often convenient to get a parallel access to different parts or different views of the same script The program provides for this need allowing to display a script simultaneously and correctly in multiple windows New windows using the current script display settings can be opened with the New Window command in the Window menu If
120. nvenient way if a specific style was edited and all text fragments referring to its name are to be changed respectively Alternatively the Font Attributes toolbar can be used It allows to redefine for example only the name of a style without changing other character attributes If all remnant style attributes are to be restored use the Restore button located in the toolbar To make the attributes valid do not forget to press Apply The style attribute restoring button can be conveniently used to transfer character attributes from one place of the script to another without copying anything to the Clipboard To do this create a working style named for example Temp use it to save all necessary attributes and then restore them in the required place using the Restore button Named styles can also be used Box background area frames To create and edit such styles use the same methods as for characters via the Font Attributes toolbar or the Edit command of the Style Manager dialog box Editing and assignment of attributes is performed in a dialog window opened by pressing the Style at the frame parameter adjustment dialog box Page 62 EE Stream Labs User Manual HHHH TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS 2ed Height 99 B Shape amp Color epee Box Mualiko Simp Er a This window has the same set of parameters as the Font Attributes toolbar except the font typeface attributes TO set a named style
121. of the file to be loaded use the File Type field Selection of the All Files value in this field allows to load a Windows CP 1251 encoding text file Characters of such text are ascribed the attributes of the program pre defined Normal style The text is then allocated to default settings pages as determined by the Set As Default button in the Page Attributes dialog box The End of Line Enter symbol is considered as a paragraph break Paragraphs are also assigned default settings defined by the Set As Default button in the Paragraph Paragraph Attributes dialog box If the text contains an End of Page Form Feed symbol a new page is created A Windows encoding text file can also be inserted in the script by a Clipboard copy and paste operation see 4 2 Clipboard Operations Copying and Pasting Such file can be opened in any Windows text editor from Notepad to Word providing the Copy to Clipboard Edit Copy feature The File Close command closes the current script i e all windows used for its editing However if the script replay via the videocard is in progress at this moment it does not stop To stop the script replay use the Video Stop command lf the script was changed after the latest disk saving user s confirmation is asked for before the script is closed A script transfer to another computer or change of folder names does not cause any problem due to the fact that all references to graphic files stored in a script re
122. oggle the continuous display mode The main task of the continuous display mode is a real time adjustment of the page graphic element parameters and their Page 96 EE Stream Labs User Manual HE TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS Real time adjustment of character parameters in a text fragment Continuous display mode requirements respective layout Any changes made in the editor window are reflected on the TV screen instantly This applies to any text or frame displacements changes of their features and modifications of single character attributes To be able to adjust character attributes in real time set the Auto Apply option in the Font Attributes toolbar on Then all changes in character features in a selected text fragment are displayed both in the editor window and on the TV monitor screen without pressing the Apply button if the View Video Display option is activated Attention Continuous display mode can only be activated in the page editing mode View Page Layout with the actual size view View Zoom 100 Continuous display is an option peculiar to a window so changing the focus may pause or resume it The viability of the continuous display mode depends on the computer performance and available RAM resources to be allocated for cache buffer Video Performance Cache 7 2 Script Output Preparation Rendering Video Render The Video menu deals with script Video Edit View Page Frame
123. onal remotest background plane remaining from the output of preceding pages If the time specified for the screening process execution is not sufficient for example with small Granularity values the FastWipe option may be of certain help It causes the screening shutter to be calculated beforehand Since this operation requires additional RAM it should not be excessively used This option is compulsory for soft semitransparent border shutters with the Softness value greater than 0 Any screening shutter can be output with soft semitransparent borders To do so check the Partial Wipe and FastWipe checkboxes and specify a non zero width of the semi transparent border in the Softness field If one of standard shutters is selected set the Granularity parameter to 7 Standard Shutter Types ONeEMeHTbI CTPpaHVUbl BHyTpn OONacTM wAeNCcTBUA s3ccdexKTa BbIBOOVTCA BMecTO nnn noBepx cogepxnmoro BUuaeOCbydepa OMHVM n3 npegonpegeneHHbix CNOCOOOB KOTOPbIA 3afaeTCA B OTOHeENbHOM OTKNOHOM CMNCKE Within the effect area page elements are output instead or atop of the video buffer contents using one of the predefined methods to be selected from a dedicated drop down list e lt empty gt Cut instantly and all at once e Random Squares random squares shutter e Wipe Right shutter moves from left to right e Wipe Left shutter moves from right to left e Wipe Up shutter moves up e Wipe Down shutter moves down e Diagonal
124. ons can be used to input the sign of numerical values 2 a horizontal slide bar To use it double click the mouse left button at the field name A dialog box is displayed containing the parameter name a numeric input field and a horizontal scale bar with a slider The slider can be moved with the mouse allowing a rapid change of the field parameter value within the entire allowed Page 30 Stream Labs User Manual HHHH TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS range while the corresponding value is displayed in the input field The minimum possible value is indicated left to the field the maximum value right to it The resulting value is considered entered after the Enter button is pressed or after a mouse click beyond the window Press Esc to discard the input of the new parameter value Page 31 EE Stream Labs User Manual TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS Chapter 4 Editing of a Script Text 4 1 Input and Deleting Text Information Input Current attributes for inserted characters Using the Windows Clipboard From a Windows encoded text file Text entered from the keyboard is assigned the current attributes of the character at the previous cursor position If the text is inserted at the very beginning of a paragraph then at first attributes of the next character are taken When a new paragraph is created certain attributes are assigned to the separator character and used further when real input begins
125. ored in the file Actually although these graphics files are stored separately from the script they make part of it Saving the relative references allows to move scripts from one disk to another along with the related graphics files saving the subdirectory structure The Video Render command processes a script prior to the output to the videocard creating a series of binary files These files are created in the Cache folder of the directory where the Alpha Pro program has been installed These files are saved between the program or the computer work sessions which saves the necessity of re processing the script if it had not changed Tip Files in the Cache folder are not necessary for the respective scripts As they can take quite a lot of the disk space it is possible to periodically delete all files in this folder for example when certain old scripts are not worked with anymore For other scripts if required the Render command can be re executed 2 2 Splitting a Script into Pages Setting output effects for each page Maximum page size A script consists of one or several pages which can have their own video effects creeping line vertical text scrolling CrossFade etc The number of pages in a script is unlimited and it often turns out big enough if complex effects are generated as combinations of simpler ones Depending on the effect types page dimensions can vary for instance if the creeping line effect is
126. r location with respect to other elements of the current and preceding pages Attention Border smoothing as specified by the Sharpness parameter in the Font Attributes toolbar of characters and Box background areas enlarge their dimensions by 1 pixel in all directions It must be considered when specifying effect scope borders for the current and subsequent pages The effect area should either include these additional pixels or to the contrary not touch them not to interfere with the smoothing A similar smoothing takes place when pages are rendered for titles superposition using a mixer the Video Preferences Rendering Keying on mixer option This means that effect scope borders should not be set exactly at the borders of characters or Box areas they should always be placed at least one pixel further to the outside Page 81 fe Stream Labs HE TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS Cutoff of page elements outside the effect scope during the rendering y A Different presentations of elements of the current and preceding script pages Ja User Manual Attention Background text and graphics located outside the effect scope as well as frame parts not included in the area are cut off during the rendering although they are fully displayed in the editor window This should be carefully considered although sometimes this fact may be taken advantage of see 6 5 Combined Effects In the special cases of the creeping li
127. r signals arriving from the interface Switching the system to GPI interface controlled operation requires in addition to the manufacturing of an extension cable as described below to edit the line use_gpi 0 Page 107 ee Stream Labs User Manual TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS Next and Pause commands and distinctions of the start stop mode use_gpi 1 from simple start mode use_gpi 2 Connection to the computer parallel port LPT2 Keyboard emulation of the Next command in the PLA YER INI file with a text editor lf GPI interface control is not required a zero default value must follow the sign If the system is to be controlled with the Next and Pause commands or the Next command only see below 0 is to be replaced with 7 or 2 respectively The Pause command which interrupts any effect execution to be resumed when the Next command is executed or stopped entirely is only available when use_gpi 7 The Next command is multifunctional and is able to initialize several distinct operations 1 to start the playback of the following page 2 resume the final stage of an effect before the pause specified in the script is over 3 resume the effect execution interrupted by the Pause command The Pause command can conveniently be used to interrupt long time effects e g creeping line or vertical text scrolling if their output is to be paused for a while All other tasks can be successfully performed
128. r the frame update can happen in an undulatory mode Use of Windows screensaver software facilities may cause such system to become active during the titles output Generally use of additionally loaded Windows facilities should be avoided since such software reduces the memory resources available to the titling software If the program uses the system timer to reckon the time spans between the fields of the passing video signal it toughens all restrictions applied to the titles output The countdown must be performed using the interruptions generated by clock pulses of video signal frames Contact the program authors for more related information lf an odd speed value is set for vertical motion and the video card generates the signal using line interlacing as it usually does vertical resolution may be reduced by half During the motion only odd or only even text lines are output To avoid this effect use even values for vertical motion speed 7 3 4 Script Playback Management Using GPI Interface The use_gpi parameter in the PLAYER INI file Effects controlled using the GPI interface can be executed during the titles output In this mode the script is played back by one page scene and the Start Through Pause option in the Video Preferences Player parameter group must be set active GPI interface control also allows a standard script playback Pressing any of the control keys F9 F8 or Esc makes the program ignore furthe
129. rea Parameters Edge Border type Type The border area parameters are located at the Font Attributes toolbar or in other similar windows grouped under the name Edge The outline type is selected in the Type drop down list offering the selection of e None no outline in this case all other fields of the Edge group are unavailable for editing e Outline a border with a regular area filling e Embossed a border area filling looking as if produced by extruding and illumination e Glow a border filling with blurring with the distance from the internal area The field can have an empty indefinite value which occurs when at least one of the below attributes has several different values within the text fragment In this case these attributes cannot be assigned uniformly for all the fragment and should be changed separately for each character Page 50 ee Stream Labs User Manual TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS Border corner shape Shape Border construction mode Mode Area size Size The shape of the outline corners is set in the Shape drop down list For Outline and Glow outline types the selection contains e Round the round shape e Square the square shape e Rhomb the rhombic shape For the Embossed outline the outline corner extrusion can have one of the following shapes e Sphere spherical e Concave concave e Cone conic e Pyramid pyramidal The border construction
130. rency channel Transp coefficients can be adjusted The figure on the right demonstrates these parameters for the Embossed border Page 48 ee Stream Labs User Manual TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS Customization of a 3D effect color RGB Customization of a 3D effect transparency channel Transp 3D effect light source direction XYZ The drawing element point brightness depends on the effect type and light source position The light source is considered white therefore a blending with black in the defined proportion i e depending on the position of the side surface point in respect to the main outline takes place Its brightness decreases for a defined value and the RGB sliders determine how much the brightest and the darkest points of the surface are blacked out This sets a range of this variation by specifying the upper and lower brightness limits in percents Thus the upper slider allows to reduce the common brightness of the filling area points The lower slider allows to move the lower limit of point brightness up preventing them to become too dark This effect appears most strikingly when the lower slider is set at 0 and the upper one at 100 If the slider values are identical the effect does not show at all the brightness just changes all over the area according to their position Decreasing the upper slider value produces an illusion that there light source becomes less bright Contrariwise with a
131. rizon of this plane Thus the light direction can be changed for an opposite one by changing signs of the X and Y field values Page 49 ee Stream Labs ssU ser Manual TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS 3D filling with an unchecked Complex box If the complex filling mode is not set the Complex box is unchecked the additional X Y Z fields are only available for editing for the Embossed effect Besides only vertical color filling without texture can be used as a main filling the Vertical value in the Gradient type field Actually the Vertical value only means here that there are two colors with preset transparences and the brightest points of the three dimensional filling correspond to the values of the lower one and the darkest points to the values of the upper one Other points of the area correspond to the intermediate colors and transparency values in the gradient Using this color filling mode can make sense for instance if a non white light source is to be represented This can be done by using various tone gradations of this color for reference points of the main filling Internal Area Parameters Face Color filling Only the color filling is specified in the corresponding Colors field for internal area of a character drawing or a frame This field is usually located closest to the parameters defining the character outline It is described in detail above see Color Filling of Drawing Elements Outline A
132. rlap of the internal area by the border Page 53 EE Stream Labs S Ss ser Manual HHHH TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS To construct the plane correctly from which the displacement of the characters takes place one can use a Box background area with the same filling style and any down to the minimum value of 1 pixel border size To produce a more realistic look fillings may be diversified using for instance a slightly rough texture of the same colors The Glow A Glow diffusion border Border can be and its Round drawn in Square and different Rhomb forms _ Styles so that Its corners would have rounded squared or rhombic shapes The border corner shape is set in the Shape field which can have the Round Square and Rhomb values respectively Round Square Rhomb Normally and by default the complex mode of filling building is ene OW eres used with the Complex box checked In this the mode in addition to a normal color or textural filling area point brightness and transparency change according to their distance from the main outline When this box is checked the effect color brightness RGB and transparency channel Transp coefficients can be customized filling in the complex mode The RGB sliders set the degree of darkness mixing with black for the points of the border area closest to and the most distant from the outline They set the range of this variation specifying the max
133. s and special characters An editor window always displays a single page of the script The page is drawn exactly according to the sequence and allocation of frames which allows to form a fairly precise impression of the page appearance Frame position and dimensions can be changed at will borders of the active frame are marked with eight rectangles which can be moved with the mouse to change the frame height and width Placing the mouse pointer at the frame border but beyond the rectangles displays a cross arrow signifying that the frame can be moved across the page The so called Safe Area is also displayed in the editor window to indicate the part of the page which is certain to appear on a TV screen of any type frame ca A H A A H H A A H A A f TEE TEE EET EEP ELLE CETTE ET EET EA ETI ET EP EEE EE EER ELIE TE Usually the first stages of text input do not require displaying all graphic elements in full detail A simplified representation of these elements allowing to accelerate the process is available via the View Draft option If this option is not selected all script elements are fully displayed In this mode graphic elements are reproduced in the same way as at an actual titles output except the Anti aliasing feature and the display of frames and characters superposition taking into account the alpha channel signal Alpha channel signal is taken into account by mixing the color of a semi
134. s insufficient and the Fade speed is low the effect may have not enough time for execution To solve this problem adjust either of these parameters Attention If the number of repetitions exceeds 1 make sure that animation first and last frames fi each other but are different Otherwise a hitch can happen at the beginning of the repetition Sometimes it happens because the generation program creates one frame more than required when copying the first frame into the last one at the cycling The following file types are supported e Video for Windows all AVIl files e Targa 24 and 32 bit with or without RLE format compression file sequences The name of a graphic animation file is to be entered in the File Name field To facilitate file search and selection a button is provided opening the Browse dialog box Browse Ei x al alee LPHAPRO GLOBF127GA GLOBF18 GLOBFOS TGA S GLOBFO TGA GLOBFI3 TGA GLOBF19 GLOBFO2TGA GLOBFOS TGA GLOBF14 TGA GLOBF20 GLOBFO3 TGA GLOBFOS TGA GLOBFIS TGA GLOBF21 GLOBFO4 TGA GLOBFIO TGA GLOBFI6 TGA GLOBF22 E GLOBFoS TGA GLOBF11 TGA GLOBF17 TGA GLOBF23 Tyglob 00 01 Mra patina TVGLOB AMI seep ene Tun pange Animation OTMena A few seconds after the name of an AVI file is entered in the File Name field a small preview window appears in the right hand side of
135. s the video buffer previous contents with the page graphic elements within the effect area This also applies to the display of the effect area contents in editor window The completeness option can be set for most effects using the Complete checkbox If it is checked the page disappears using the same methods and the same speed as were applied for is appearance after the effect and the inner delay time Delay is over In this case the video buffer contents remain the same before and after the entire effect execution An inner delay can be specified for most effects using the Delay field to be executed after the effect is complete If the Complete option is set the delay takes place before the effect last stage i e the page disappearance from the screen The delay time is set in minutes seconds frames The program does not provide special means to produce such a delay It can however be construed by the use of a wipe effect with the Speed value exceeding 256 with a small scope and the Opaque option set off The Delay value for this effect specifies the inter effect delay time in minutes seconds frames Effect execution time can be specified directly for all effects using the Duration field The effect speed field Speed must be set a special empty value beforehand Any value may be specified in the Duration field not necessarily corresponding to an integer effect speed The program takes care of an appropriate distributio
136. s to diversify titles output with any kind of graphics including 3D effects created using various software packages 3D Studio 3D MAX Adobe Premiere Adobe After Effects Ulead Cool3D etc An animation effect is in essence an appearance disappearance Fade In Fade Out effect executed in a limited area and using a cycled playback of an animation file That means that when appearance disappearance effects are executed the animation playback goes on while the animation transparency with respect to the passing video signal or the video buffer preceding contents changes Hence the Opaque and Complete options have the same meaning as above Thus if the Opaque box is checked both static and animated graphics are displayed with a substitution of the video buffer old contents and if it is unchecked they are displayed atop If the mode of the animation superposition is unimportant for the script the Opaque option should better be set on as this mode requires less computer resources The Fade parameter is equivalent to Speed except that when the value is 0 appearance effects are not executed at all A page can comprise in addition to an animation text and other non animation frames The animation then acts as a moving background and all other elements are located in front of it Attention The X and Y fields determine the position of the animation upper left corner the effect area is defined by the animation frame dim
137. script Video Start command to stop the titles output Video Stop command to pause the titles output Video Pause command after the button is pressed the titles output stops and the button sticks when the button is pressed again it unsticks and the titles output is resumed Font style buttons to set discard the boldface style for the current text position or all characters in a highlighted fragment Character Bold option to set discard the italic style for the current text position or all characters in a highlighted fragment Character Italic option Paragraph alignment buttons Page 18 EE Stream Labs User Manual HHHH TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS to set the left edge alignment mode for the current paragraph or all paragraphs of a highlighted fragment Paragraph Left option to set the center alignment mode for the current paragraph or all paragraphs of a highlighted fragment Paragraph Center option to set the right edge alignment mode for the current paragraph or all paragraphs of a highlighted fragment Paragraph Right option to set the full alignment mode for the current paragraph or all paragraphs of a highlighted fragment Paragraph Justify option Hint button to call the description of specific commands or program element interfaces from the Help file A special pointer with a question mark appears on the screen
138. sequential mode of the script output in an editor window the text cursor never disappears and always specifies a current frame independently on its type In a page mode the current frame is highlighted by a rectangle with eight squares on its edges The type of the outline of this frame can slightly vary from one case to another Page 67 ee Stream Labs User Manual TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS Selection of the current frame r Editing the current frame parameters BU Changing of frame position xX Y Frame resizing Width Height A current frame can be selected by moving the text cursor sequentially through the script using the keyboard buttons see 3 6 Text Cursor and Current Position Display A faster and more convenient way is to click the mouse left button when the pointer is located on the required frame In the page output mode when frames overlay each other frame selection may present certain difficulties In this case if the mouse pointer is in a frame intersection region the uppermost frame is selected Therefore it is important to construct the frame hierarchy of the page correctly so that the frames would not screen the access to each other The dialog box with the current frame parameters can be opened using the Frame menu This menu contains several items corresponding to different frame types Frame Attributes Box Attributes Picture Attributes or Animation Attributes The param
139. slider is set to 0 and the upper one to 100 If the values of all sliders are identical the effect is not shown at all the transparency and brightness vary all over area according to the position of the points If the complex filling mode is not set the Complex box is unchecked only vertical color filling without texture can be used as the main one the Vertical value is set in the Gradient type field Actually the Vertical value only means here that there are two colors with preset transparences and the brightest points of the three dimensional filling correspond to the values of the lower one and the darkest points to the values of the upper one Other points of the area correspond to the intermediate colors and transparency values in the gradient Using this color filling mode can make sense for instance if the distance of the area points from the main outline is supposed to change their color shade not just the brightness Drawing Quality Quality When the drawing quality is to be improved The video card buffer is usually rather small about 768 x 576 dots The duration of the string visible part about 52 microsecond gives the size of the TV screen monitor pixel of about 65 ns which makes the jags on inclined and rounded lines clearly seen The program provides some built in mechanisms of elimination of this defect To choose one of them use the Quality field in the Font Attributes toolbar The Extra value corresponds
140. supplemental information is located at the bottom of the program window It comprises e A brief one line description of the used command e Number of the current page and the total number of pages in the script e Sequence number of the current frame staring from 1 e A flag indicating whether the script has been modified after its loading or latest disk saving To turn the status bar display on activate the View Status Bar option Page 17 Toolbar EE Stream Labs S Ss ser Manual HHHH TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS View Toolbar To toggle the display of the toolbar usually located at the top of the program window use the View Toolbar option The toolbar comprises several drop down list fields allowing to set the following attributes for the current text position or a highlighted text fragment Attributes Style Name Character style Font Attributes Style Name Character font Font Attributes Font Name Character size Font Attributes Size The Toolbar buttons also allow to perform the following operations Create load or save scripts to open a new script to be edited in a new window File New command to load an existing script from a file into a new window File Open command to save a script in the current window to disk under the current name File Save command Replay scripts to start the titles output according to the current window
141. sures the conformity of text layout in different pages Text should not be placed to the background as execution areas of the sequence effects are likely to be different and the layout of different text parts can be hard to coordinate Page 94 fe Stream Labs User Manual TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS Examples of line by line effects Character by character effects typewriter flying letters Execution area specification for single line and single character effects Various shutter combinations can be regarded as an example of line by line effects Good horizontal and vertical panels can be produced if the motion is limited by the area of a single line Flying lines can be created using upward or leftward motion when the execution area for each next effect is exactly one just produced line smaller One character effects can be used to imitate a typewriter or to make a word be built letter by letter Similarly to the case of line by line effects output of each character requires a separate page to be created Words should not be compressed using Kerning it can hinder the division of the word into rectangular areas for the execution of character by character effects Flying characters can be produced using upward or leftward motion when the execution area for each next effect is exactly one just created character smaller To specify the effect area at each page use corresponding sliders on t
142. ted in a group its contour is outlined by thin lines with eight small squares on edges Moving of the text cursor with the help of arrows keys is then unavailable as these keys are used for other purposes An entire group can be moved within the page using the arrow keys Each hit of a key moves all frames of the group in the corresponding direction by one pixel If the Ctr key is pressed and hold each key hit moves the group by 16 pixels Moving is accompanied by the display of the new frame layout in the editor window in the page mode All frames of a group can be aligned to the boundaries of one of them These commands are performed by the arrow keys with the Shift key pressed In this case the alignment is performed with respect to the last selected frame of the group Thus the up arrow draws all frames are drawn to the upper edge of the last frame of the group the down arrow moves them to the to lower edge the left and right arrows to the left and right edges respectively Another method of alignment can be used if several frames are selected simultaneously in a text fragment In this case certain identical X and Y values can be set for all of them For fields where new values have not been entered they are assigned equal to the values of the first of the selected frames A group of frames can be copied to Clipboard entirely by the methods described above in 4 2 Clipboard Operations Copy and Paste After a group
143. the number of repetitions during the animation output specified by the Repeat parameter The Complete option affects the effect total duration If this option is set on the effect acquires a final stage and the time for its execution is added to the effect proper duration to be displayed in the Duration field The delay time specified by the Delay parameter is not taken into account in the Duration field The total effect execution time is a sum of the values of these fields 6 3 1 Page Effect Scope Full screen effects and those executed ina limited rectangular area Partial An effect scope can usually be specified as a rectangular area for any effect The disappearance effect Fade Out is the only exception as it is always executed in the entire area of the video card buffer The area of an animation effect is determined by the dimensions a position of the animation frame on the script page For other types of effects the scope can be specified explicitly Unless it is done the effect is considered a full screen one and is executed in the entire video card screen buffer lf the Partial checkbox is unchecked the effect scope is supposed to include the entire video buffer In this case the background text position except in the creeping line case can be chosen without any additional restrictions To position a creeping line or several lines above each other in the background the top margin parameter
144. the Direction parameter The same applies to the gradient filling with an alpha channel This type of side surface can be used to create an effect of diffusing tails for characters Page 57 ee Stream Labs User Manual TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS The Extruded side surface filling in the complex mode The Extruded side surface fillings with the Complex box unchecked Normally and by default the Complex box checked and the complex mode of filling construction is used In this mode in addition to normal color or textural filling area point brightness and transparency change according to the point distance from the main outline When this box is checked the effect color brightness RGB and transparency channel Transp coefficients can be customized The RGB sliders set the degree of darkness mixing with black for the points of the border area closest to and the most distant from the outline They set the range of this variation specifying the maximum and minimum values in percents Thus the upper slider allows to change the brightness of the filling points closest to the outline and the lower slider that of the remotest points The Transp sliders set similarly the degree of the transparency for the border points closest to the outline and remotest from it They set the range of this variation specifying the maximum and minimum values in percents The effect is manifested most strikingly when the lower
145. to produce information found in the Help file on a clicked upon item not yet implemented wipe Speed 10 HDelay 00 00 20 H Duration 00 0012 E App Apply lt lt q gt gt Set As Default z Partial Wipe s oi f lo H Wt res W H Ere Cal Opaque ae feta ORC ja W File Name AIphaWwipe SPIRALT BMP The page attributes bar contains a drop down list allowing to select a video effect for the active script fragment page s According to the selected effect the choice of the fields present in this bar also varies Page attributes bar see Chapter 6 Script Pages Editing for more information on effects selection and settings To toggle the page attributes bar display use the View Page Attributes option or press F7 Page 19 E Stream Labs HHHH TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS User Manual Style name The Font Attributes bar allows to customize current text style for Page Colort input symbols or a highlighted text fragment Besides it can be used Font Name to edit and refresh the attributes of a specific style El a a a a ness ae The window contains the following field groups 5 fico He Shape amp Color character internal area drawing style color kucu ae hift filling and position I bold Edge character edge style shape size and color filling F italic Quality Sharoness Shadow shadow or 3D side surface style direction Medium Blur Emboss Shape
146. to the maximum quality when the effective size of a pixel is reduced to the value of about 8 ns and the jags are certain to cease to be visible Page 58 EE Stream Labs User Manual How to avoid the work deceleration at the script preparation TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS Beside the case of slanted lines the quality improvement is required at drawing of small characters The highest quality Extra can be necessary to render them well readable while preserving the correct shape The Raw value specifies no smoothing The Simple mode produces a higher quality text character mapping due to the es smoothing of jags on boundaries Anti aliasing The use of this Paw simple Medium mechanism may however result in certain squareness of the character rounded parts To eliminate this defect the drawing quality must be improved up to for instance the Medium level Other values of this attribute are Medium2 HQ and Extra corresponding to even higher quality drawing can be required for character of smaller size the figure shows an example of 100 pixel character or for the Sharp level of smoothing the Sharpness parameter the value in the figure Normal This field can have an empty indefinite value which means that characters of different drawing quality are present in the text fragment In this case the smoothing level cannot be changed for the whole paragraph either Improvement of the drawing quality may
147. toolbar Using the Toolbar Using named styles Setting of attributes during the keyboard input Setting of attributes for already entered text The Font Attributes style toolbar allows to set any attributes of characters directly changing the corresponding field values Following the input of new values do not forget to press Apply or to select the Auto Apply option to put the changes into effect If the Apply button is not pressed although the entered new values are displayed in the toolbar the current text attributes remain unchanged and the toolbar field values are restored immediately after the cursor moves The Toolbar enables to set the following character parameters Bold typeface Italic typeface Font Size Font Name Style Name Setting character attributes through the toolbar does not require any additional confirmations and is therefore faster than using the Font Attributes toolbar The use of the named styles allows to set all character attributes selecting the style name on the Toolbar or in the Style name field of the Font Attribute toolbar In the latter case it pressing Apply is not sufficient before doing this it is still necessary to load restore the initial parameters of the chosen style by pressing Restore then the assignment can be made For more details see 4 7 Creation and Use of Named Styles If the cursor is inside the text some current style attributes are always determined
148. tributes toolbar Styles can be copied from one script to another which allows to use separate scripts as libraries of styles To create a new style using the Font Attributes toolbar enter its name in the Style Name field and specify other attributes then press Save Existing styles can be used to set and edit text character attributes If a style already exists in the script and had the attributes different from those saved an addition confirmation of operation is requested before the style us updated To edit an already existing style its attributes should be restored by pressing Restore before any correction is applied to them This is necessary since the Font Attributes toolbar reflects the current character attributes even if it belongs to the same style Initially there always exists a style in the script predetermined by the program and named Normal The attributes of this stile can further be edited and redefined Page 61 fe Stream Labs User Manual TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS Style setting using the Toolbar Style setting using the Font Attributes toolbar Copying of character attributes Assignment of styles to Box background frames The simplest way to set a style for the current position a text fragment or the current background area is to choose its name in the corresponding window of the Toolbar This setting takes place automatically without any additional confirmations It is also the most co
149. ue which means that characters of different levels of smoothing are present in the text fragment In this case the character drawing quality cannot be changed for the whole paragraph either To smooth the wrinkles arising at the use of Embossed or Glow border types the Blur value in the Sharpness field is used The necessary smoothing level S defined a the Mo Medium1 Sharp HQ Normal area width For example for a normal text the Normal value is sufficient Setting of the Cache Memory Buffer Size for Character Drawing and Page Display Video Preferences Cache The setting of Preferences maximum capacity of the cache memory buffers is carried out in the Cache parerieierarcun File cache 32768 Used 2382 of the Video Preference TrenHa Weer Lnpaska s dialog box it is used by the program for fast redrawing of characters during editing Font cache as well as for storing in memory of intermediate results of script processing File cache Player Cache Safe Area Rendering Font cache Used 15546 Page 60 ee Stream Labs User Manual TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS Dependence of editing speed on the size of the cache memory buffer Recommended sizes of cache memory buffers sizes of these buffers are defined empirically depending on the text of the script and on the RAM capacity In the size is insufficient certain time is required for page redrawing or change during editing If the
150. uipment Page 104 ee Stream Labs User Manual TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS Ready beep Beep When Ready lf the Beep When Ready option is set active an audible signal is issued when the script playback is paused see above 7 3 3 Why Can Scripts Be Played Back Unevenly Hard disk calls or other program activity during script playback Too large area and or speed of limited area motion Uneven hopping script playback can usually be detected visually in case of doubts it can be recorded on a videotape recorder and reviewed in a frame by frame or slow motion mode Consider several of possible causes of uneven script playback and ways to deal with them If the titles output is accompanied by hard disk calls or active use of the processor by other programs occasional pauses ruptures or repetitions of graphic information blocks can happen Therefore it is recommended not to launch or at least not to use actively other programs in parallel with the titles output Firstly such programs use RAM resources secondly working in multitasking mode reduces free time available for unpacking and output of information blocks to the video buffer Hard disk calls can be caused by a lack of RAM required to store images of script pages then some of them are kept in virtual memory To address this issue consider building up the computer RAM If the RAM cannot be increased make sure that the Advanced Compress
151. ume item in the Video menu If then the Resume command is applied the script playback is resumed immediately Alternatively the m button in the Toolbar may be used to interrupt the script playback Script playback interruption would normally happen instantly however if certain effects are executed at the moment the program may wait for the effect execution to be completed or to reach a specific stage for instance the Delay internal pause or a completion of an animation cycle etc before pausing the playback Hint Script playback interruption can be used with the creeping line or vertical scrolling effects when a concept pause Is required in certain places The interruption command is called automatically before the script playback if the Start Through Pause option in the Video Preferences Player parameter group is set active This interruption is used to synchronize the launch of titles output with other events as well as to load the script to the memory In this case playback is actually launched by the Video Resume command Using the Next command or pressing F8 provokes an output of one following script page This command is available if the playback is interrupted by the Pause command A page by page output mode can be used when the exact values of delay intervals between scenes are unknown to the staff and the script output is carried out in the live mode in parallel with the broadcasting or editing
152. ut Small squares if rapidly output make am impression of an explosion like appearance of the new page in the video buffer The Random Squares shutter can be used as a good substitute for the Fade n effect on video devices lacking the hardware facilities for appearance effects Traditional shutters moving up down rightwards leftwards or cornerwise Wipe Right Left Up Down or Diagonal Wipe are produced by drawing of a corresponding rectangle or trapezium A higher granularity increases the surface of such rectangle The cornerwise shutter output is performed from the upper left corner towards the lower right one at a 45 angle Attention Horizontal shutters of big height should not be excessively used as at their output a characteristic prominence can be seen about the middle of the shutter It is produced when the buffer contents cannot be completely updated in the time span of one field of the passing video signal Page 89 EE Stream Labs User Manual EEO TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS Horizontal vertical and diagonal Venetian blinds shutters Horizontal Vertical Diagonal Jalousie Widening circle shutter Circle What if a standard screening method cannot be executed in time Semitransparent borders for Alpha Wipe shutters Shutters output as horizontal vertical or diagonal Venetian blinds or jalousies is performed similar to traditional shutters of respective orientations The effect
153. utes toolbar This command outputs the entire contents of the current page to the TV monitor screen looking exactly as at the actual real script playback Some distinctive features are however to be named 1 pages containing creeping lines are not output 2 the entire current page contents are always output regardless of the effect area position and dimensions and 3 video buffer contents are not rendered by the moment of the output a transparent background is always used When a page using the vertical scrolling effect is output to a TV monitor screen by the View Take command background text and corresponding frames are arranged in the normal order Parts of the text and frames not included in the video buffer visible area are truncated Position of the background text being scrolled in a limited area corresponds to its position in the editor window this also applies to all frames in the page Parts of the text and frames not included in the video buffer are truncated A continuous mode is provided for page contents display on the TV monitor screen facilitating the final alignment of graphic elements with respect to each other The output is performed in the same way as with the View Take command but is executed instantly during pauses in editing It is a more rapid and easy way to work since there is no need to execute the Take command repetitively after each stage of editing Use the View Video Display option to t
154. y The value of this parameter can vary from O to 255 full transparency corresponds to 0 complete opacity to 255 If transparency is present gray squares on white background appear in the square fields displaying the color The Colors dialog box contains 48 basic colors in the upper left corner To select a color simply click the mouse left button on the corresponding color Clicking the mouse right button on this palette transforms it to another one containing all colors and vice versa A slider to the right of the palette is used for adjustment of the color brightness degree Page 44 EE Stream Labs s Ss ser Manual Saving of the current color Se 8 Saving of the current color filling a E re E n ia ou e E te m k E E Color filling gradient types Gradient type Solid Color filling reference points TELEVISION COMPUTER SYSTEMS The current color field lays to the left and above the palette and the saved color field is below it To select this color together with the corresponding transparency click the mouse left button on this field Saving in this color field is provided by the Pick button Copy color The current color and transparency can also be Paste color saved or copied by pressing the mouse right l button and selecting Copy color or Paste color Copy gradient Faste gradient respectively The color filling is specified in the center

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