Football crazy

The Football season has brought a big project at Sky. The Sportacabin will be full of edit suites cutting the highlights from the Saturday fooball. Viz will provide the graphics. It needs to be linked to the EVS edit system using timecode and through the SQL Server database. Should I have pushed my oar in, or will it be a spanner in the works. Viz seem to think that it will all work easily. Doing it via Trio so will be like drivinng an Aston, read the template and fill in the tab fields. Transition logic to do the animations.

What a little challenge..can we squeeze in a holiday as well? Got a trip to Belgium out of it, and a free cap!

Another Tab

 

Had a look at some neat animation software from Italy. It's called TheTab. Has some nice features for habd drawing cell animation. It allows me to create a cell animation with thick and thin lines, so the pressure onthe pen will affect the thickness. Later you can go back and adjust the thickness if you want. The drawing styles are also logical styles, so that if you change the style of the drawing later, then all the stuff drawn with that brush will be updated. Tried the latest version as well, but needed to send for the Pro version to get things like masking. This should be in the basic version, I think. Quite expensive to go for the Pro.

Licence is strictly for one machine only, as well. You can't just install anywhere. A bit restrictive really, for software that needs a bigger audience. Interesting tho'.

Compared it with the Microsoft Expression package. I wonder why they've hidden that away. It has lots of fine art type drawing features. A bit underestimated really. Would take some time to explore fully. I don't have much time these days...