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Effects Generator

Breakthrough, Real-Time 3D Digital Video Effects
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GlobeCasters Effects Generator is a breakthrough DVE, providing real-time video manipulation never seen before at any price

  
     

In addition to tradition 2D DVE, 3D DVE and 320bit animating graphics, the GlobeCaster Effects Generator gives you live production capabilities never before possible, such as Warp Geometry FX and Video Tracing. In combination with Globecasters chroma keyer and switcher, the Effects Generator can place actors onto virtual sets, complete with rea-time reflections and refractions. The Effects Generator's sub-pixel positioning, smooth filtering and edge anti-aliasing ensures the hightest broadcast-quality output possible.

Broadcast news, TV show and live event producers, online editors and corporate video producers everywhere are using GlobeCaster Effects Generator to communicate their messages more powerfully and affordably than they ever thought possible. Experience GlobeCaster for yourself and discover how the GlobeCaster Effects Generator can elevate your production capabilities.

KEY FEATURES
  • Complete set of traditional 2D and 3D digital video effects
  • Warp Geometry Effects wrap live video onto any animating 3D shape
  • Video Tracing performs real-time reflections and refractions
  • Create custom effects and virtual sets
 

SPECIFICATIONS
     
 

Real-Time Digital Video Effects

  • Standard dissolves and wipes with soft edges and borders
  • Organic animating alpha channel wipes
  • Traditional 2D and 3D plane-in-space DVE
  • Push, pull, squeeze, spin, page peel, picture-in-picture and mosaic effects
  • 3D Warp Geometry video effects
  • Single or dual-channel 3D DVE
  • 3D Video Tracing (reflections and refractions)
  • Sub-pixel position and edge anti-aliasing
  • Smooth picture filtering
  • Uncompressed 32-bit graphic animations
  • Real-time colour effects
  • Multi-camera, multi-layer virtual sets
 
     
     
 

Interoperability

  • Four programmable GPI triggers
  • Eight tally light interfaces
  • Create and externally trigger complex sequences of effects, clips, stills, titles and graphics
 
     
     
 

Custom Real-Time Effect Creation

  • Create geometric primitives
  • Keyframe animation of position, rotation and size
  • Animate objects, lights and camera
  • Linear, spline and hold interpolants
  • Custom colour space re-mapping effects including posterise, monochrome and hue wedge and circle
  • Adjustable video plane edge cropping
  • Multiple true 3D star and spot lights
  • Flat, phong and ray-traced graphics
  • OpenGL effects preview on PC interface
  • Safe title, safe action and 3D axis indicators
  • Import Electric Image, Lightwave, AutoCAD and Softimage 3D models for real-time video geometry effects
 
     
     
 

Real-Time Video Keying

  • Flexible Chroma and luma keying
  • Auto-set keyer settings function
  • Key colour spill suppression
  • Single button key invert
  • Archivable keyer settings
 
     
     
 

Integrated Still / Clip Store

  • Uncompressed digital component still store
  • Less than 1/2 second still store recall
  • Full frame motion removal
  • Import / export 16 still formats supported including JPG, BMP, PSD and TGA
  • Optional dual-channel clip store holds up to 2 hours of broadcast quality video and audio
 
     
     
 

Paint & Compositing

  • Create graphics for inclusion in effects
  • Object oriented, vector-based paint system
  • Shape-based and freehand drawing tools
  • Rotoscoping
  • Linear and spline-based keyframe animation
  • Particle system animation including velocity, gravity, friction and collisions
  • Smooth air brushes
  • Adjustable soft-edge shadows
  • Stencil and matte creation
  • Unlimited cutomisable brushes
  • Lighten, darken, colourise, blur, randomise, erase, clone, gradient, magnify, stretch, image, luma colour, alpha-map and colour correct inks
  • Unlimited chroma and luma keys
  • 3D perspective corner layering
     
     
 

Character Generator

  • Create text for inclusion in effects
  • Real-time roll, crawl, flash, twist, flip horizontal, flip vertical, zoom, pop and fade text effects
  • Sub-nanosecond anti-aliasing
  • Auto-correct spell checker
  • User defined styles
  • Free form positioning, layer and size
  • 32-bit image compositing
  • Sophisticated type treatments
  • Over 100 Bitstream fonts included
  • Direct support for Truetype fonts
  • Import TXT, RTF and Microsoft Word (DOC) text files
 
     
 
   
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