Welcome to the Demo version of Mac Video Titler™. This demo version is identical to the working version with one exception: As titles are created, this version will superimpose the word “DEMO” over each line of the title graphic as it is created.
The point to this demo is that you can see how Mac Video Titler works, and get an idea of the quality of the titles it creates.
Description:
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Mac Video Titler works with Adobe Type Manager® and Apple TrueType™ fonts to create fully anti-aliased titles over a solid background color or any PICT file as a background.
Mac Video Titler lets you select fonts, sizes, styles and colors on a character-by-character basis. Drop shadows with selectable shadow depth and color are also available.
Mac Video Titler works with any NTSC or PAL video output card for the Macintosh, and supports resolutions of up to 768 x 576 pixels at either 256 or 16.7 million colors.
You can save title screens as highly efficient Mac Video Titler files, and/or as finished PICT files ready for use in video production and editing.
Mac Video Titler comes with a built-in video graphics font that lets you draw lines, shapes and borders.
Since we know you don’t want to tie up your main desktop video or editing Mac for composing and editing titles, we give you a site license for Mac Video Titler so that you can create title files off-line—even on a Mac Plus!
Limitations:
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Let’s get it out of the way right now: Mac Video Titler doesn’t do rolls or crawls. It creates static titles that are designed to be saved as PICT files (although the output can of course be recorded directly to tape), and has no capabilities for moving titles around on the screen.
If you need rolls and crawls, there are several excellent programs on the market that will give you this capability, albeit at a price of from $3,000 to around $10,000. If you can live with static titles, however, Mac Video Titler creates titles of superb quality at a considerably lower cost, as detailed below.
System Requirements:
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For title composition and editing, Mac Video Titler requires a Mac with 1 Mb of memory, System 6.0.5 or later and 32-bit QuickDraw.
For title creation and output, Mac Video Titler requires a Mac with 5 Mb of memory, System 6.0.5 or later, 32-bit QuickDraw and a video output card.
MacAnimator is System 7 compatible.
Setting Up and Using Mac Video Titler:
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Mac Video Titler comes with virtually its entire manual on-line. Select Help... under the Apple menu, and you can page through all the information you’ll need to use Mac Video Titler.
Video Titler Sample Files:
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The sample files included with this demo are designed to give you some ideas of what Video Titler can do. The following notes list the ATM or TrueType fonts used in each file, and in some cases offer additional notes on how the title was created or used.
• 12-pt. Red Border
This title uses the Video Graphics font built into Video Titler to create a 12-point red border around the edge of the screen. Designed as a backdrop; first click "Title" to print it to the output window, and then create a new text title with the information to fit inside the border. Click "Key" to drop the new text into the bordered background.
• Backdrop 1 & Overlay 1
These companion files create a background "plate" and then drop Helvetica text on top of it. Load the Backdrop 1 file, which uses the Video Graphics font, first, and click on "Title." Then load the Overlay 1 file, which uses Helvetica, and click on "Key."
• Bob M. Key Super
This file uses Helvetica Bold Italic and the Video Graphics fonts to create a standard chromakey news-style super key. To use this with a luminance keyer, you'd change the background to black, and set a drop shadow color value of around 6500 for red, green and blue by double-clicking on the drop shadow custom color palette box. Click the "Title" button to create the output.
• Color Bars 640 x 480
This file uses the Video Graphics font to create quasi-SMPTE color bars. Two notes: The upper and center colors have not been verified with a vectorscope to be accurate. Also, the I & Q sections and the black section at the bottom are "eyeball" approximations only; they also have not been calibrated.
• Custom Colors
This file uses the Revue font, and will look quite funky if you don't happen to have that font installed. If this is the case, change the font to one that you do have installed. This file is here mainly to show how setting custom colors can provide pleasant effects. Click the "Title" button to create the output.
• Deep Drop Shadows
This files uses the Korinna font; Palatino is a good substitute. It demonstrates how a light foreground color and a darker drop shadow color can provide a nice three-dimensional effect. Click the "Title" button to create the output.
• StarFire Features
This file uses Korinna for the top line, Video Graphics for the red line, with Zapf Dingbats for the check marks and Helvetica bold for the features list. These are the features we'd like to see on our next car. Click the "Title" button to create a chroma-key or stand-alone title.
Mac Video Titler Pricing and Availablity:
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Mac Video Titler is available directly from McQ Productions, and is distributed in two ways, and at two prices.
A complete Mac Video Titler package, including the program disk and manual, is available for $139.95 by sending a check to the address at the end of this file.
If you’re willing to forego the printed manual, you can order Mac Video Titler via electronic delivery by sending a check for $119.95, along with your mailbox address on America Online, AppleLink, CompuServe or GEnie. (Please also include the organization name and (optionally) individual name you’d like to appear on the title screen as the registered owner.) We’ll rush you your copy of Mac Video Titler, literally at the speed of light, as a program file sent to your electronic address.
Guarantee:
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Mac Video Titler comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee. There is, of course, the usual fine print that you’ll receive along with the program, but the bottom line is that we want you to be happy with Mac Video Titler so you’ll consider buying other neat stuff from us.
About McQ Productions:
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McQ Productions was founded in 1976 as a video production company by Lon McQuillin, who went on to earn numerous awards as a producer/director/editor. Lon became involved in software development in 1981, releasing the first version of Edit Lister—an edit list management program—for the Apple II computer in 1983 through Comprehensive Video Supply Corp. Edit Lister is by far the best-selling program of its type, with thousands of copies in use on Macs and PCs around the world.
The groundwork laid with Edit Lister was later applied to Edit Master, a full-featured video tape editing system distributed since 1988 by CV Technologies, a division of Comprehensive Video. Edit Master 4.0 for the Macintosh was introduced at the 1991 NAB show, and a new version for the PC will debut at the 1992 NAB. There are now more than 600 Edit Master installations world wide.
To Order:
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Send your check or money order for the appropriate amount as discussed above to:
McQ Productions
P. O. Box 1676
San Mateo, CA 94401
If you have any questions, please call:
(415) 348-1344 - voice (Noon to 6:00 PM Pacific Time)
(415) 342-0199
For package (non-electronic) orders, we’ll pay shipping for normal ground shipments; please add $10 if you want overnight delivery via Federal Express.
California residents please add the appropriate sales tax for your county.
Other Neat Stuff from McQ Productions:
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MacAnimator
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MacAnimator provides direct control of video recorders equipped with RS-422 remote control ports that conform to “industry standard” (ie. Sony) protocol. This includes D2, Betacam, MII, broadcast 3/4-inch, professional SVHS and all except Ampex 1-inch video recorders. (Ampex uses their own proprietary protocol for their 1-inch machines. Their Betacam machines, however, will work fine with MacAnimator.)
MacAnimator loads PICS files or sequences of numbered PICT files and automatically records the images a frame at a time onto video tape. Once the process is started for an animation sequence, MacAnimator works with no further operator involvement.
MacAnimator can also be used with other video sources, such as a camera on an animation stand. In such instances, the operator need only click the “Start” button or press Return to record each frame.
MacAnimator is available for $249.95 for the standard package, or $199.95 via electronic delivery (including simple instructions for making your own cable to connect the Mac to the Remote port on your VTR).
PICS Tools
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PICS Tools optimizes and plays PICS animation files created by programs such as MacroMind Director™, Stratavision 3D™ and Swivel 3D™. It performs 100% lossless compression by removing redundant information from frame to frame. It can also reduce bit depth. For instance, reducing a file from 32 bits to 16 bits can result in a much smaller file size with virtually no reduction in image quality.
PICS Tools can also play back PICS animations at bit depths of from 32 bits down to dithered 1-bit levels, and supports single- or multiple-monitor systems.
PICS Tools requires a Macintosh with 4 Mb RAM (the more the merrier), System 6.0.5 or later and 32-bit QuickDraw.
PICS Tools is available for $139.95 for the standard package, or $119.95 via electronic delivery.
