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Alpha Pro 2.0 Character Generation software

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Akatona Technologies have been working together with Stream Labs for more than a year. From the beginning our cooperation was excellent, better than with any other CG hardware supplier. The first steps of integration of their hardware with our IVS CG software were a really simple business, and Stream Labs boards worked perfectly from the start. Our IVS software is compatible with the 5 leading CG hardware for PC, but Stream Alpha Plus card is the best choice for Composite.

Janos Katona, Director (Akatona Technologies, Hungary)

Character Generation program Alpha Pro 2.0

Alpha Pro 2.0 is a simple, user-friendly Character Generation program. Using Alpha Pro you can create and display titles, rolls, crawls, commercial blocks, logotypes and more.

The program grants infinite freedom in design possibilities; all types of fonts, three dimensional shadows, semitransparent masks, textures, complex multilayer compositions, animations etc. can be employed.

Program features

  • TV-program titling while editing or on the air, manually or in automatic mode;
  • Text and graphic information display in form of crawl and roll;
  • TV-channel / program static logo display;
  • Any kind of analog clocks generation and display;
  • Animations and logos playback;
  • Cyclic playback of scripts;
  • Multilayered graphic windows for incoming information display.

High quality and ease of Character Generation

  • Using all available Windows TrueType fonts;
  • Symbols and tickers design with complex 3D-shades, outlines and borders;
  • Using text processors and graphic editing programs principles;
  • Fonts with random direction gradients, textures including images in JPEG, BMP and TGA 32-bit formats;
  • Anti-aliasing broadcasting rasterization quality;
  • Line interlacing flicker filter;
  • Placing logos as symbols in crawls;
  • Using 16.7 million colours and 256 transparency levels to fill any page element.

Usability and efficiency

  • Edit and hold in readiness several scripts simultaneously;
  • Classical Windows program interface and WISIWYG mode;
  • Instant title output by using prepared scripts (templates).

Wide range of linear effects

Script consists of an unlimited number of pages; every page has a video effect assigned to it.

Alpha Pro 2.0 uses the following effects:

  • Vertical Roll – text that runs vertically from bottom to top;
  • Horizontal Crawl – «endless» page of random height and length that runs horizontally from left to right;
  • Reveal Up / Reveal Left – horizontal and vertical slide-ins;
  • Animated logos and clips playback as an individual effect, or as a part of titles block;
  • Fade In / Fade Out / Cross Fade – smooth transition effects;
  • Zoom – scaling effect;
  • Near 300 kinds of Wipes with transition softness settings.

All effects can be displayed on full screen or in any specified rectangular area. All effects have speed, duration, delay, timing or external events control settings.