At the NAB Show 2010 (National Association of Broadcasters) held in Las Vegas, Nevada this week, Macrosystem AG CEO Jorg Sprave is joined by MSUS President Eric Kloor and MSUS VP Sales & Marketing Phillip Bice. They are greeting resellers and customers in their hospitality suite at the Hilton Gardens Hotel (near the LV Convention Center) and showing the newest Casablanca Operating Systems: Smart Edit 9 and Bogart SE 3.
They are also sharing a new software program called Title Studio - this is a forthcoming product that will be available for the Generation 3 Casablanca editors (S2000, S4000/PRO, and S4100) running Bogart V3 and higher. I had the opportunity to play with a beta version of the software recently and really enjoyed the new creative capabilities. Here is a translation of the PDF announcement from the MS AG website (translated from German -- the syntax is rough in some passages due to grammar translation)
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TITLE STUDIO ANNOUNCEMENT
Title studio is a new formation program that replaces the standard titler program. Title studio is obviously HD capable and offers many creative possibilities to form text up to the single letter and calculate together with a title effect.
Title studio will be published briefly and is available at the the price of 149. EURO.
We offer in April 2010 all customers, who have licenses one of the following packages for its system: Title effect package 1, 2, or 3, Deluxe Titler 3D the new title studio with a discount of 20% on. (NOTE: this offer is made in the German language website to PAL Customers - NTSC customers may have a different offer when the product is closer to NTSC release)
With title studio, you have next to the previous possibilities in addition many further helpful and functions that are based to a large degree on. They individually can format any letters of a line. A large selection at predefined styles already is included. Moreover you can form self also the letters far the accustomed possibilities out. So your text can get a surface structure and tilted edges. The selection of structures to the formation of the text as well as that stands you an extensive library to that. That individually formed can be stored and are styles by an example picture in the style archive to find easily again. The title studio indicates you in its exactly that, what you see later also after the calculation, (that names one WYSIWYG, exception upon inputting of a course writing). At the same time also all current text formats are available.
General
To generate generally over 100 predefined writing styles and almost endlessly many possibilities own styles over 300 included, different materials and pattern of writing style own to the design all titles now also in perfect abundance HD quality project independent: An once generated title can be used in all any video formats.
WYSIWYG editor
Every letter can its own writing style have is every letter the sign distance, the sign width and the writing size individually adjustable the line distance is each separated line adjustable, block sentence becomes the text alignment (to the left, centers, to the right, looked) is each line individually adjustable it can as desired many lines per text chalkboard written become. Any area in your title, marked with Shift, Ctrl, mouse and double click and Dreifachklick two different users layouts solutions small and large.
Sides (3D Textures)
it can be generated as desired many sides, can become can become can archive become that sides after retroactively in your sequence sorted sides copied sides in order to use it
in any other projects again
Text chalkboards
It can be generated as desired many chalkboards per side, can receive are can there each chalkboard an any background the edges freely adjustable the text above, met with and aligned become below at the chalkboard, the position and size of the chalkboards are can freely adjustably chalkboards retroactively forwards and/or behind pushed become. A chalkboard can be archived in order to use it in any other projects again. The shadow the text can narrow places become per chalkboard as desired
Writing style
Every writing style is individually change-able through: Type / size, surface (color, pattern, etc.), imprint (punch), frame, facet, 3D and outline
Here are two screen shots of the new Title Studio pulled from the announcement PDF document:
This screen shows how you can use multiple/ varying font attributes even on a single line. I also found the box options in the new Title Studio more flexible, with the ability to move the boxes back and forth (exchange the order of boxes after you add/create them).
This 2nd screen shot shows the pre-set style/ attributes available to you in the new Title Studio software. You can easily access and use these font styles (by highlighting text and then selecting the style in the menu below). You can also create your own variations or brand new styles with the font style editor, then your own custom font styles become available as well for future titling projects.
Looks very nice but i would be just as happy if i had my 3D Titler Pro working in Bogart and happier still if Bogart 3 had less bugs. Can't MSDE devote some time to actually providing the "Coming Soon" software dare i say it "SOON"
I was in my 50s when it was promised this time next week i'll be in my 60s
Regards
Charles UK
Posted by: Charles Higgin | 04/13/2010 at 07:56 AM
I understand Charles and agree. I understand what I perceive to be the company's plans to look forward to the next attractive feature/option, but as an end-user I am hoping for and looking forward to adjustments and fixes with the current software/OS. I believe there needs to be that balance to keep current customers and also provide new incentives and enrichment's to entice additional/new customers to the product line.
Posted by: Chet Davis | 04/14/2010 at 09:31 AM
The new features of this forthcoming titling software are exciting for me. To be able to make different size letters on the same line is something I've wanted. And I like the templates. I will definitely buy this software when my Gen 3 machines become useable. Right now they are not useable. I thought I could input HDV, edit and make standard DVD's. Unfortunately, the downconvert from HD to SD/DVD is horrible: like VHS EP quality. Most all of my projects are multi-cam so I use Quadcam for most projects, but IT DOESN'T WORK IN HD! It stutters and freezes, and you can't see what you are doing. Sadly, I'm unplugging and boxing up the Bogart machines until the software is fixed and I can use them. I spent a lot of money for so far nothing. BUT: the fact I am even keeping them is a testament to my confidence in MS that this will be fixed. Soon, I hope.
Posted by: Mike Madden | 04/14/2010 at 11:01 AM
I think we will be pleasantly surprised shortly with Bogart. The downconvert issue is a reported issue and samples have been sent to the developers. Hopefully, we will have fixes in the very near future-hopefully.
Posted by: Lou Bruno | 04/14/2010 at 01:51 PM
The new Titler is a real winner. Simple to use, Sharp & creative.The treatment of our titles now, is way up there.
Down converting to DVD is the only issue (not sharp)so I race it back into the cam. Down convert via the menu then fire wire the video into my Cassa (into a 2.4 software drive) & burn.
3.2 software is HOT the ability to copy a project into another allows me to experiment.
Pulling in footage 1920-1080i via USB hard drive in the normal record in window works perfectly. (EX1 Sony card cam)it even digitised standard def footage that I forgot was also on the drive !! It placed it into a new project box n gave it a name. The time code burn now works on DVDs too.
Hopefully the next upgrade 3.3 fixes the annoying bug or two within Arabesk also down converting.
Cheers Larry in OZ
Posted by: larry Gray | 05/30/2010 at 12:07 PM