DataSource
Data Source
Using the videotitling applications only for scrollings is a limit for anyone that has a modern conception of tv graphics in broadcast environment. For this reason it is more and more often necessary to considerate that the realization of a graphic project could require the visualization of data not yet known, not present or varying in time, also during the same issue (for example, the realization of a newsticker in which it is needed a visualization in real time of news and headlines coming from external suppliers in the form of both local and remote files.
At ClassX we have developed DataSource, a technology that allows to transform any graphic (MoreCG, CastaliaCG) project in a template, or rather in a scheme, in which the contents can be associated to external data sources.
As it is showed in the figure above, through DataSource it is possible to assign more data sources to more graphic objects inside the same project. This makes it possible the realization of complex templates in which you can visualize an indefinite number of independent newstickers, scrolls, effects etc. The template, being itself a graphic project, can be organized at will and contain static, dynamic graphics and everything provided for by the possibilities of MoreCG or CastaliaCG.
DataSource supports data in XLS (sheets, styles, etc. support. It doesn't need any pre-installed application), TXT (texts with autoformat and automatic conversion in CSV database, etc.), SMSText (data coming from GSM modem), External (manually editable data), XML (with Feed RSS management) format.
Through DataSource, CGPlayout allows to interactively check the data sources, through opportune controls in Play environment, also in On Air.
