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AE in a live environment
Hey,
I am planning to put together a small live show on a regional TV station here (I’ve never made live TV before, seems like a fun challenge) covering our upcoming election.
As part of this, I want to create simple but effective illustrative graphics (graphs, colour coded maps etc) to integrate into our live broadcast.
The only proper live graphics system I can easily get hold of is a slightly dated Inscriber ICGS Extreme system, which really doesn’t do what I want (aside from offering realtime output and alpha).
So, my next idea is to use After Effects (which I feel more comfortable with). I plan to create a number of compositions ahead of time, and then use scripts and expressions to update them and build on them. And then render them and playout to air somehow…
Currently my best bet for playout is an Avid Xpress Pro Mojo suite with the AE preview plugin, that should give me a good quality RAM preview output from the timeline – but that seems like a flakey proposition in many ways.
I also like the idea of a BlackMagic DeckLink card to control output, but I’ve never used one and don’t know alot about the options or use.
Ideally, I want to be able to feed text files of data into After Effects to create graphics (that bit I am currently working on with scripts) and then render and playout to air within a couple of minutes.
Is this achievable? Is there a better way to approach it? Does anyone have any better ideas?
I have at my disposal AE 6.5 Pro and an Avid XPro Mojo suite – anything else I will have to beg, borrow or steal.
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3 Replies
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What I want to create is visual representations of data, not just the text itself, otherwise Inscriber would do the job. Sadly nothing I have available provides anything close to quick or easy graphical visualisation.
It’s not that I want to go live with AE so much as I want to be able to make animations with a quick turn around, and then play them directly from the PC in a timely fashion.
I suppose at the very least I could use Avid Xpress Pro as a playback system – import and playout the rendered animations. Which might be where I am headed now, as the ability to play, even rendered sequences, from the AE timeline is pretty limited.
I have no framestore, and the Inscriber system is an older and limited one…
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At a TV station I worked at a few years ago, they brought in a PowerPoint specialist (I didn’t know such a specialist existed in the first place) to do what you are talking about. AE is definitely not the answer.
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What about Apple Motion 2. I understand you can use midi to control it, I do a lot of live video production and am very interested in looking into using Motion for a visual playback….
Paul
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