TitleBox graphic manager

By Larisa Bocharova

TitleBox software graphic manager developed by Digital Media Technologies dedicated to titles creation and graphic live air transmission branding. TitleBox works on a base of Matrox DigiSuite LE/LX/DTV video cards, and Matrox DigiMix & Dayang DigiTitle-M graphic cards.

Using TitleBox one can create not only titles but also logos, clock, counters, labels for music video and other additional graphics for air branding. Simultaneously several graphic objects can be rendered and displayed by TitleBox in real time. All the graphics generated by TitleBox is being represented in full color 16-bit view with 256 grades of transparency.

When creating titles the TitleBox allows using whole set of previously developed templates giving a possibility to avoid involving high cost designers into complex operations of live air branding and simply outputting a text from console and convert it by TitleBox accordingly to appropriate template.

TitleBox supports multi-user mode: several users in local network can simultaneously input and edit data for air branding.

Being an air system the TitleBox can be controlled from AirBox (Digital Media Technologies) playout server synchronous to its schedule. In other words, when new schedule starts its executing the TitleBox is being launched and overlay prepared titles and graphics over video played fro server at good time.

Some TitleBox’s features illustration

The system has easy user interface which mostly doesn’t differ from standard Windows interface. Many users easy learn to work with TitleBox even don’t reading user’s manual.

TitleBox has composite, S-Video, component YUV and SDI (optional) interfaces. For work with TitleBox one should have PC like Pentium III, 800 MHz, RAM 265 MB and connected to LAN.

Material provided by System Video Graphics Alliance