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Hi,

I'd like to have moving lowerthirds even though officially it can't be done with the Television Studio.

Is it possible wilst using the chromakey functionality the TV studio to create a visual graphic leader played from a computer where we use a green color as chromakey and stack in in front of a camerashot?

Or do you have another idea?

Thanks
Petra

I´ll think that you're not understanding correctly what the limitation are for the TVS.
It can´t do moving graphics internally but there are no limitations when the graphics are done externally.
You can use cromakey but the best way to do it are to use a computer with 2 outputs, 1 fill and 1 key signal.

Hakan

Hi Hakan,

Thanks. I do understand TVS can't do motion graphics, but indeed I'm looking for ideas to workaround this problem. So two signals are needed. You can't just play a After effects file with transparant backdrop I assume?

thanks

No, there are no way to get the alpha channel embedded into a single sdi or hdmi input of the Atems, thats why you need 2 channels to do a real alpha channel key. Croma or luma keying are the only options you can use if you only have a 1-channel solution.

Hakan

Take a CasparCG for graphics and video playout. Works fine with ATEM. As "Hatl" wrote: you'll need two inputs. But with this, you can playout MOVs with alpha channels.