Scala InfoChannel 3

InfoChannel Designer 3

Multimedia Authoring & Scheduling Software

InfoChannel Designer 3 allows users to author and schedule professional multimedia for virtually any type of display application.

From retail dynamic signage to entertainment, education, cable television, and corporate communications, InfoChannel Designer 3 gives users more creative control with seamless integration of text, graphics, animation, sound and video. Content is then distributed to remote players using InfoChannel Network Manager 3.

KEY FEATURES

Authoring

• Easy user interface that takes just minutes to learn.
• Scheduling of events for time, day, month and year.
• Drawing tools, texture tiling, real-time image processing, opacity and alpha channel.saliasing, formatting, rotation and multi-language spell check.
• Data-driven text crawls with controllable direction and speed.
• Interactive buttons, variables and branching without programming.
• Imports standard graphics, sound and video files.
• Supports import from TWAIN compatible digital cameras and scanners.
• Serial port data communications.
• Support for Windows® Script Host compatible languages (e.g.: JavaScript, VBScript).
• Logging of events for ad billing and error tracking.
• Multiple level undo.

Playback

• Smooth, full-screen, TV-like playback with hundreds of real-time effects and transitions.
• Versatile layering of text, video and graphic elements.
• Unlimited mixing of digital audio tracks.
• Seamless, smooth playback of digital video.
• Optional add-ons for TV and HDTV Tuners, VCRs, switchers, and other hardware devices.

Publishing

• InfoChannel Network
• Web component
• CD-ROM
• E-mail
• Stand-alone file
• HTML
• Video
• Printing in a variety of formats

WYSIWYG TEXT ENTRY

When you author for broadcast television or narrowcast networks, pixel-perfect design is important. Scala's award-winning WYSIWYG authoring environment is perfect for graphic artists and turns static imagery into dynamic multimedia content.

COST EFFECTIVE MOTION DESIGN

Tap into a wealth of experienced graphic designers and Adobe PhotoShop artists to produce TV-like content for dynamic signage, instead of relying on costly and time consuming video production. Simply introduce your artists to the concepts of timing and screen transitions!

RELIABLE PLASMA PLAYBACK

Multimedia presentations play back on large screen plasma displays exactly as they were designed. There is no chance of averaging or sampling artifacts -- because Scala maps pixel-per-pixel to the plasma displays! What you design is what you get. Transitions are even reliable when you base your authoring "preview" equipment on the same specifications as your playback equipment. And timely custom messaging can be inserted without creating a bottleneck for your creative staff.

MEDIA SUPPORT

Graphics:

BMP, GIF, IFF, JPEG, PCX, PNG, Targa, TIFF, WMF

Animation:

SWF, FLC, FLI, AnimGIF

Sound:

WAV, MP3, MIDI, CD Audio (requires sound card, CD-ROM drive)

Video:

Software and hardware MPEG 1 & 2, AVI Support and QuickTime® 3

Fonts

OpenType®, TrueType® and ScalaType

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

• Pentium® III sor Celeron® 633 processor or better.
• 256 MB of RAM, at least 1 GB of free hard disk space
• Windows® 2000 Service Pack 2 or better
• Internet Explorer® 5.5 Service Pack 2 or better
• DirectX® 8.0a or better
• PC SVGA card with at least 16 MB of video memory and DirectX support with WHQL® certified drivers
• DirectSound® supported sound card with WHQL® certified drivers
• CD-ROM drive