How do you make a company logo show on live

Xavion wrote on 7/8/2005, 2:17 PM

Is it possible to have your company logo show in the lower right corner of a TV screen, while a program is showing live? This question was asked by a Cafe' Manager. He wanted to be able to show his company logo on the TV monitor's and advertise the
weekly special's (ticker tape style) while looking at a live program.

Comments

JJKizak wrote on 7/8/2005, 4:56 PM

This sounds to me like one of those super long copyright threads that never die.

JJK

johnmeyer wrote on 7/8/2005, 5:25 PM

I think you'll need to buy a piece of hardware. This is the sort of thing that Video Toaster was designed to do. I think there are some modern counterparts that are not too expensive. Someone will chime in and give you a make and model.

Spot|DSE wrote on 7/8/2005, 5:53 PM

http://www.focusinfo.com/products/fireflymc/fireflymc.htm. With their Messenger app, you can overlay. In fact, I *believe* you can overlay with this unit on it's own.

rs170a wrote on 7/8/2005, 7:21 PM

Is the feed to the TV set straight video (lots of options for doing an overlay) or is it from an antenna, cable or satellite? If it's the latter, an overlay becomes a lot more difficult if not impossible.

Mike

B.Verlik wrote on 7/8/2005, 7:44 PM

You may look into "Visual Communicator" It used to sell for about $100. and was capable of Live green screen "Chroma-keying" and live "Teleprompter". (This was a program I was looking into, just before I discovered Vegas Video 4.0 from Sonic Foundry. I saw a demo on TV and almost went for it.) I don't know anything about it except what I saw on TV. They even included a cheap green screen with the program. I just went to the site and they had various new versions w/ various pricing.
http://www.seriousmagic.com/vcfeatures.cfm

TheHappyFriar wrote on 7/8/2005, 7:50 PM

at the tv station i used to work at we had a small (the size of an external modem) logo inserter. You uploaded the logo via serial port (logo had to be a certain size & black/white). Then you put the video feed in the IN port & the OUT to the transmitter/amp/etc. worked great. I'll try to get the name of it on monday.

As for the crawl you'd need another piece of hardware (or one that did both). they make crawl-specific hardware. I'd imagine it costs under $500. We had a simular drive for the emergency weather service system. It would crawl on the top of the screen the emergency or the test info.

Infact, now that I think about it, the EWS machine was SEPERATE from the crawl generator. I'll get that info monday if i can too.

Spot|DSE wrote on 7/8/2005, 8:31 PM

TheGr8Steve makes a great call...live video stream with overlay capability in both Visual Communicator, same with their newest software, "VLogit" which is made for video bloggings. Probably the cheapest, most simple solution you'll find.

Xavion wrote on 7/11/2005, 9:10 AM

Thank you guy's! This forum is always very helpful.