General Discussion

Hello, I am sort of new to the Ross Carbonite/Dashboard/TouchDrive systems that I currently operate. Is it possible to use Lower Thirds without Xpression? 

Or in other words is it possible to load a Lower thirds graphic to a Media Store and have it show up under a Key/"Self-Key"/"Auto-Key"/DVE? 

I see the Carbonite came with an example default lower thirds graphics, but I cannot find directions on how to create a graphic + alpha using Adobe photoshop. 

I am familiar with creating images with alpha channels/mask under Adobe Photoshop, just I don't know what type of files the Ross Dashboard/Carbonite uses when it comes to Images + Alpha. Does it prefer ".tga", ".png", ".tiff", or ".jpeg" file formats? 

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. 

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Brian
AV Control Room Producer
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Absolutely! As long as we're talking static Lower 3rds, then yes, you can load a PNG with alpha in to a Media Store and then use that for any type of keying need. Lower 3rds, Location bugs, additional info for the topic at hand, whatever.

I create the PNGs in PhotoShop simply as a image with transparency. No need to add additional specific channels for the Alpha channel.

The only thing to remember: Carbonite wants the resolution of your graphic to exactly match your system resolution.

1080, P or I? 1920 x 1080. Not 1081, not 1919, but exactly 1920 x 1080.

Same for 4K if that's your world, 3840 x 2160 not something else.

Good luck!

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Kevin Lawson
Senior Engineer
Ice 9 Productions
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