Overlay Presets

Owned by Ugur Kavalci (Unlicensed)
Apr 29, 2015
3 min read

It is possible to burn in image, logo, text, date, time, time code over the video for each recording formats and you can see it on preview screen.

You can do that by pressing Project -> Overlay Presets

 

Next, this page appears,

 This button adds a new overlay.

 This button removes the chosen overlay item.

 This button saves the overlay setting to a xml file which is currently set.

 

Adding Overlay

By clicking  this button three selections appear for adding overlay as it shown below ;


Text Overlay

Click   this button , then click Add Text Overlay section, following settings appear as it seen below. 

  • Name: name of the overlay item. If the overlay is variable this name tag will be used for changing the overlay remotely using Metus Ingest TCP commands.
  • Location: X and Y location for the overlay region on video. X and Y values can be either pixel or percent relative to top-left corner of the video. ( Pixel / Percent )
  • If preview option is checked then the overlay will be visible in preview screen. Checking the preview option will put a separate overlay region on source of the encoder. Since overlay function edits each frame and makes some modification to the video,  this option is not recommended to use unless it is required in workflow.
  • If the location is pixel then the preview and the encoded video overlay can be at different position of the video in case if the encoded video size is different from source.
  • Background

Transparent : ignores the background color of the overlay.

Color : Background color of the overlay region.

  • Text

Text : The overlay text which will appear on video. Predefined tags can be used for dynamic overlay such as _date, _ time, etc.

For example for burning time code info ;  _time_frame or _time_frame_zero should be selected from the drop down menu.

Color : Text color.

Font : Font of the overlay text.

              Variable Text : This option is available when there is no tag in text field. Variable option is used to change the text of current overlay from remote TCP commands. This option is useful when there is a       need to dynamically change the overlay text such as camera angle etc.

Max Text Length : This option is used with Variable Text option and shows max text characters for current overlay item.

Adjust date/time : Date/Time parameters can be changed according to different time zones.

Custom Start TC : a user defines start time code for overlay.

Image Overlay

  • Name : name of the overlay item. If the over is variable this name tag will be used for changing the overlay remotely using Metus Ingest TCP commands.
  • Location : X and Y location for the overlay region on video. X and Y values can be either pixel or percent relative to top-left corner of the video.  ( Pixel / Percent )
  • If preview option is checked then the overlay will be visible in preview screen. Checking the preview option will put a separate overlay region on source of the encoder. Since overlay function edits each make some modification to the video this option is not recommended to use unless it is required in workflow.
  • If the location is pixel then the preview and the encoded video overlay can be at different position of the video in case if the encoded video size is different from source.
  • Image : the image that will be used as overlay image. It is recommended that the Image to be used to be 32-bit PNG with transparency.
  • Opaque and Transparent :  option can be set for the transparency of the image on video.

 

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