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 September 10-14 Amsterdam |
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Click to view the Aston website | Aston manufacture a range of video charcter generators and graphics presentation equipment for television broadcasters and production companies around the world. Aston is one of the premier brands of the broadcast industry and, to many, the word Aston is actually synonomous with TV graphics. Founded in the 1970's, Aston was one of the first hardware manufacturers in the industry to address the needs of broadcasters for high quality TV graphics in a way that suited both offline and TV programming. Aston operates on the premise that qualities such as innovation, product useability, reliability and professional support are all essential to the company's success in the global broadcast market place. |
Aston 7 Character Generator
The Aston 7 Graphics System is a truly ground-breaking new PC-based TV graphics management suite that will change, for ever, the way in which graphics are created and transmitted in the modern world of automated live broadcasting.
Aimed at live TV programming such as News, Sports, Business, and Shopping, the A7 brings together an unbeatable package of 3D animated text & graphics, on-screen video clips, built-in support for live content feeds, and with proven connectivity to external automation systems.
A7 graphics are created and edited on standard Text is rendered using standard Windows fonts. |
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Key features of the Aston 7 system
- Graphics are created, editied and previewed on Windows PCs without the need for dedicated hardware
- A choice of tower or rack PC hardware, fitted with industry standard SD or HD PCI graphics adaptors, for A7 graphics video output
- The centralised A7 Resource Folder makes it easy for the user to access graphics images, video & audio clips, and 3D models created by other 3rd party PC packages
- Graphics are manipulated within the Edit Window in 3D space so that they gain depth and well as horizontal and vertical positioning. Simple mouse movements allow the user to position and rotate objects to achieve the desired effect
- The powerful animation wizard makes it easy to manage the way in which individual, or grouped, graphics objects appear, disappear and transition within a 'scene'
- Text and graphics surfaces may be configured to use any of the pre-defined colour, lighting and texture combinations available in the A7 materials pallete.
- Optional video input PC cards enable live video signals to be included in a graphics page or even applied to the surface of a 2D or 3D object
- Live text updates and graphics animations can be linked through the Aston Datapool API to external content sources so that the management of on-air graphics can be 100% automated.
