MagicSoft CG

MagicSoft CG ver 7.0

MagicSoft CG is a broadcast solution that is used to easily create, display and control a variety of different projects including Lower-Thirds, Tickers, Logos, Crawls, Clock and Rolls – essentially everything you need in your day to day operations 

An unlimited number of items that can be animated by moving, rotating and changing color and transparency can be previewed prior to going out to air. Multiple real-time effects can be used for graphics and text providing an optimal visual appearance 

MagicSoft CG is compatible with Blackmagic Design Decklink standard and high definition video cards that supports internal or external keying 

Video tutorials	Vimeo	YouTube
Installing and requirments
Basic concepts
Working with text and rectangles
Working with images and rtf
Working with digital and analog clock
Working with live-input and sound wav
Working with the timeline
Working with a lower-third project
Working with a ticker project
Working with the timer project
Working with the playout project
Working with a script project

The CG can be used as a solution for news allowing simultaneous management of Live input, Lower Thirds and Tickers.	The Roll project can be easily previewed during editing of multiple rows. The content can be changed dynamically.
The TCP/IP protocol can be used for controlling the CG from another application. For example a specialised application for soccer.	The Lower Third project it is very flexible and it can be easily used for managing the promo or self-promo events.
The Script project can be combined with animated smileys for producing hourly weather presentations.	Televoting and interactive games can be implemented by using scripting, TCP/IP control or both of them

FEATURES

DESCRIPTION

Broadcast quality

MagicSoft CG has a GPU-based rendering engine that supports all SD and HD modes
The graphics is 24 bit (TrueColor) with 8 bit alpha channel (256 transparency levels)
De-interlacing and anti-flicker display options guarantee proper output of images and live video
The engine offers Antialiasing for TrueTypeFonts and Anisotropic Filtering for images profiting by GPU

3D working environment (no layers) 

The objects can be animated by moving, rotating and changing color and transparency and can be dynamically moved on z-axis eliminating the limitations of the layer oriented programs
Rendering for both Preview and On Air is made in the GPU so powerful CPU is not needed
The key-frame concept is used to describe the characteristics in time of an object and can be used to interpolating the 
previous-mentioned characteristics in the time intervals between key-frames

Scripting and Automation 

MagicSoft CG offers the possibility to run application like SMStoTV by scripting
The TCP/IP protocol allows you to control the displaying and content of a project

HARDWARE SPECIFICATIONS

The following configurations are based on Intel motherboards ( socket 775 and 1156 )
The recommended configurations are easy to upgrade from SD to HD (sure, an HD system can also work in SD )
Our software works under Windows 7 ( Win7 64 bit it is recommended )

FREE APPLICATIONS

	Extra Keyboard (free application)  This application allows you to map multiple commands on each button in order to manage projects and content of the text and images.   A powerful wizard will help you to make this only by mouse clicking.  This application also supports X-Key external keyboard
	RSS (free application)  With our free RssToTxt program you can manage the news from a RSS feed and by saving as Unicode text files you can display them using a ticker project. Latest version adds some function to find and replace strings, convert upper/lower.

Scheduler (free application) 

This application can run scheduled commands for the CG at specified time. 

GPI (free application) 

GPIClient converts a serial port to a GPI IN device. Commands can be map for contact on and contact off separately .