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OT – Live broadcast graphics off a MacBook Pro – Possibilities?
Hi Guys,
This is slightly off topic but I feel someone here may have had a similar thought before, plus my best work around for my problem to date has been using FCP, so I feel it’s somewhat related to here.
I’m soon to come into posession of my new macbook pro. I volunteer at the local community tv station where kids do some basic shows in a simple studio.
I’ve been curious for a while wether there are any systems you can buy to do broadcast type graphics off a laptop – ie a program and to run the graphics and perhaps a PCI card to output a signal and key channel.
I don’t know wether anything like this exists or if anyone has any efficient and effective work arounds to achieve this sort of thing. I’ve done stuff before such as running prepared graphics straight off a FCP timeline with a green background and chroma keying it in the desk, but obviously this is far from perfect or exact.
If anyone has any ideas, experience or knows of appropriate products I would really appreciate hearing from you.
Thanks heaps guys.
Jason Allen
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Yeah,
I don’t think there’s a solution for outputting something with a key signal embedded; but there is a new product from Matrox called MXO, which is supposed to output (and then transform via an external box) video in to “broadcast quality” via your DVI monitor port. Everyone’s waiting at the moment to see if this product will actually work as advertised. It comes out this summer.
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Hi Lu,
Thanks for the suggestion.
I think smoething like that and then just keying the output in the switcher is looking like my best bet.
Thanks for your time. Iappreciate it a lot.
Jase
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