Evertz - Overture™ Branding Software - Media Creation & Management

Overture™ Branding Software

Media Creation & Management

All of Evertz® Logo-enabled keyer products ship with the Overture™ Software Suite, which is used to create logo/media files for insertion into the Analog, SD or HD video path. allows for easy-to-use tools to create, manage and control Evertz® Logo/Media Insertion product line, thus simplifying the graphics workflow in the broadcast environment.

The Overture™ Software Suite is comprised of four tools - each providing for specific functionality within the graphics workflow. The tools are: Media Designer, Media Manager, User Manager and Media Commander.

Overture™ Media Designer

Flexible Design Canvas: Media Designer's design canvas provides users with ease to access design objects, toolbars, and positioning controls. The canvas can be set to various video standards to allow for accurate display and positioning of design objects such as static and animated logos. The design canvas also has tools to import AVI or MOV files, and play them online.
Static or Animated: Media Designer allows users to create the "look" they want to present to the viewers. The tool can import graphic files created in the Tiff, Targa, BMP, GIF, JPG, AVI or MOV formats from professional graphics programs. The tool converts these graphic files into an RGB or YC_bC_r/YP_bP_r format, which is used by the Evertz® Logo/Media Insertion products in the video domain.

The static logos are fixed-position/fixed-transparency images. The static logos can also have effects such as fades, wipes, and pushes. Animated logos have an active position and active transparency series of images displayed at any size up to full-screen. Duration of playout depends on storage size and playout memory installed on the logo/media insertion device. Audio clips and repeat counts can be added to the animations.
Clocks: Media Designer allows for the creation of a number of different clock objects. An analog clock object has a rendering of a traditional wall clock, driven from an internal real-time clock or slaved to the LTC input. The digital clock object has digital clock characters, rendered using the internal device CG. Time display options include HH:MM, HH:MM:SS, or HH:MM:SS:FF in 12 or 24-hour styles. Up and down counter objects can also be created.
Playlists: Media Designer allows for the creation a complete graphic "look" by using playlists. Users can create their layered look on the same design canvas by creating and positioning the various design objects. Media Designer will build all the objects into a playlist, which can then be accessed on the Logo/Media Insertion device.

- Date & Temperature: Media Designer allows for the creation of date and ambient air temperature objects. Both are rendered using the internal device CG. Internal date values run from either internal real-time clocks or slaved to the LTC input if date information is available. This is an ideal feature for the re-transmitting of date-specific material. Temperature display options include Celsius or Fahrenheit, with or without the degree symbol. Temperature values are derived from a manual entry on the device, a text file loaded on the device, connection to the METAR website, or the optional external temperature probe (+TP option for channel branding devices).
- Text Crawls: Media Designer allows for the creation of text crawl objects. The static or dynamic text crawl objects are rendered by the internal device CG. The crawl objects include foreground/background color and transparency settings, rate and display positioning, and font type setting (using any TrueType font). The contents of the crawl object can be entered in manually upon creation, via text file, or an RSS (Really Simple Syndication) web feed. The user can also set the appearance of the crawl object when brought onto the screen. Note: the text crawl feature is an orderable option on the channel branding devices.
- Text Headliners: Media Designer allows for the creation of a 3-line text headline object. The text headline object is rendered by the internal device CG. The text headline object includes: effects (such as fade, push, and wipe), rate and display positioning, and font type setting (using any TrueType font). The contents of the text headline object can be entered via a text file. Note: the text headline feature is only available as part of the text crawl option on the 9725 and QMG series of channel branding devices.

Overture™ Media Manager

Device Management: Overture™ Media Manager is a password-protected tool. Users can add and group channel branding devices that they want to control and manage the media online. Users create devices by specifying an IP address and providing a description. Upgrading device firmware can be done via this tool.

Media Management: Overture™ Media Manager allows users to drag-and-drop logo, audio, font and text files from the local PC, connected network space, to the channel branding devices. Files can be uploaded, downloaded, archived, or deleted using the easy "right-click" functionality. Status of transfers and actions are also provided to the user.

Playout Control: Overture™ Media Manager allows for the quick access to a host of features including the "fade-in" and "fade-out" functions. Media can be taken to or off air using these functions. The tool also allows media control from remote access points.

Object Properties: Using Overture™ Media Manager, users can "right-click" on any media file to display the properties and view a thumbnail of the associated logo. Thumbnail views can be displayed from the connected device as well as on the local PC or network storage space. Media properties that can be displayed include: horizontal and vertical positions, gain settings, and clock parameters.

Overture™ User Manager

Device Security: Overture™ User Manager provides the ability to add security to the devices. Since the channel branding devices are typically in-path, protection from unauthorized access needs to be provided. User Manager allows for the creation of user profiles with passwords.

Tools Security: Overture™ User Manager allows for the creation of user profiles that give permission to particular tools and their functions within the software suite. Profiles for graphics departments, operators and engineering can be created to allow users access to specific functions with the various tools.

Overture™ Media Commander

Device Control: Overture™ Media Commander is a password-protected tool. The graphical interface allows operators to control various devices to take media on or off air using a touch screen interface or computer screen. Operators can also edit crawl messages via a simple editor. This is ideal for breaking news or emergency crawls. The Overture™ Media Commander also allows for a central control point for remote devices.