ToolsOnAir
Composition Builder
With its innovative user interface and powerful feature set, composition:builder enables small and mid-sized TV stations to easily create and implement professional real-time graphic overlays for news, weather, stock, sports, and other broadcast events.
ToolsOnAir family of products
composition:builder, is part of the ToolsOnAir Broadcast Suite, a complete set of powerful video production tools designed to create a professional TV broadcast facility on the proven Apple Macintosh platform.
concept
composition:builder is designed to interface with Apple's Quartz Composer technology, enabling fast and easy integration with graphics and animation created in other preferred applications including Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator. Professional quality graphics development no longer has to cost a fortune.
quality
Designers can use their preferred graphics applications to create animation templates that are easily customized at air time, maintaining pristine, professional quality graphics throughout the process. And just:play can update templates automatically with live, real-time information updates via internet RSS feeds or databases, making the creation of live news tickers, weather and traffic condition graphics as simple as drag and drop.
flexibility
composition:builder's pre-designed templates can be effortlessly dropped into any graphics layer in just:play, and scheduled to play out relative to any video clip. Changes to graphics and information sources can be easily made during playout and brought to air in real- time. Keep your viewers informed of the latest news, scores, weather and more with fully branded graphics.
reliability
Based on Apple's proven, robust Mac OS X, composition:builder is a fully native Apple Xcode development, compatible with any current Apple Mac Pro or Xserve model.
Key features
• Import native Adobe Photoshop (PSD) or Illustrator (AI) and Apple
• Quartz Composer (QTZ) files
• Integration of RSS-feeds: Clocks, Database, Input ports
• Supported broadcast formats: PAL, NTSC, HD 720, HD 1080
• Intuitive and easy to use interface
System requirements
• Mac OS X 10.6 or later
• Current Macintosh computer (preferably Intel) with at least 2 GB RAM
• ATI or NVidia graphics card (Intel integrated GMA 950 and X3100 chipsets not supported)
• A screen resolution which accommodates common SD or HD formats is recommended
• To create custom patches: Apple's Quartz Composer (free, included in Xcode tools)