Quartz Composer is now working blue — what's next; AAPL pulls the plug
on QC?!
On 03/12/2011, at 6:00 AM, Joris de Jong wrote:
Lol at the pic. Quartz composer, the tool of choice if you need to
reach the foot fetishists.
Joris
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excuse any weird spelinj mistaxes)
On Dec 2, 2011, at 14:02, Charlie Francis
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Guys,
First of all can I say a huge thank you to everyone on the list who
has helped me over the last year with all of my noobish questions
that I've posted. This isn't a question, but a little something I
wanted to share!
Last year the company that I work for decided to overhaul our whole
broadcast system and switch to a Mac Based Playout, Scheduling and
Graphics system. We went round IBC and looked at all of the new
technologies that were available at the time and went with a
company from Austria called Tools On Air, some of you may heard of
them (most likely Achim Breidenbach, Boinx Software). They
explained to us how their system ran off Quartz Composer, and
showed us some examples of graphics they had comprised for a news
channel in France.
So at this point I was selected to start designing and programming
the graphics for one of our current products for a relaunch, and my
expedition into the wonderful world of Quartz began! At first I
found it impossible to find any form of tutorials or beginners
guide to Quartz. Seeing as the only book about Quartz Motion
Graphics has been constantly pushed back from release, it was
pretty hard at first. But then I discovered this mailing list and
everything started falling into place!
Yesterday evening we launched our new look channel on UK TV; Sky
Channel 906 and Freeview Channel 96/94 using our Babestation brand.
The graphics is interactive via a PHP web page, sending messages to
each individual machine using the UDP protocol. The graphic is made
up of separate components that are loaded in via an XML
configuration. Each component gets it's colouring, positioning,
timings etc from another XML file that is loaded with the component
at runtime. Dynamic videos and images can be loaded into each
component through the command messages from the PHP page, enabling
our producers to create content live on set and showcase it
instantly, as well as having a whole bundle of pre produced content
at their disposal.
I'm sure it's all pretty basic stuff, after seeing some of the
insane things you guys do! But I'm just happy it's working and
looks pretty smart! If you want to check out Quartz running in the
wild just tune in tonight from 9pm on Sky and 11pm on Freeview.
Otherwise here's a quick snap that I took last night http://grab.by/cOny
(i regard this as sfw), but seeing it move does it justice!
It would be great to get some of your feedback and ideas for future
improvements!
Many thanks again!
Charlie
FYI, our channel is NSFW and contains adult material!
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