composition:builder
composition:builder Realtime Graphics Template Editor
The composition builder application for macOS combines an innovative user interface with a powerful feature set which enables small- and mid-sized TV stations to easily create and implement, professional real-time graphic templates for news, weather, stock, sports, and other broadcast events. These templates can then be used within just:play and just:live.
composition:builder is a great graphics alternative to many other costly solutions on the market.
- Powerful Graphics Development: The Composition Builder application for macOS enables TV stations and Live Event broadcasters to effortlessly generate high-quality real-time graphic templates for news, weather, stock exchange, sports, and other broadcast applications, which can be utilized directly in just: live and just:play.
- Customize on Air: Customize your real-time graphics On Air or use external sources (XML, RSS, images, and text files) to manually or automatically update your graphics.
- XML, XPath Support: Out-of-the-box support for XML files, coupled with the powerful XPath query language, enables data extraction from local or networked files.
- Sample Content Included: composition:builder ships with a package of pre-designed templates that can be used and modified for free.
- Stop Frames for Dynamic Graphics: The powerful “stop-frame” functionality allows you to dynamically extend the duration of graphic templates while maintaining the individual duration of animations within the template.
- Live Graphics Control: Changes to graphics and information sources can be easily made during playout and taken to the air in realtime, enabling fast turnaround on-air adaptations where needed.
- Extendability: composition:builder is designed to enable the fast creation of your custom template compositions to extend your graphic template’s portfolio.
- Native Integration: Realtime graphics created with the Composition Builder application are interpreted natively and rendered on the fly by ToolsOnAir’s playout engine, ensuring the realtime preview of graphic templates in either the just:play or just:live user interface.
composition:builder SYSTEM REQUIERMENTS OS Version 5.0: latest versions of Apple macOS Ventura, macOS Sonoma, macOS Sequoia are recommended. Runs natively on qualified Intel- or Apple silicon hardware (Apple silicon (M1-M4) is highly recommended). When running macOS Sonoma, Apple silicon is required! RAM 16 GB of RAM recommended. Graphics Card AMD or Apple silicon graphics card (integrated or discrete). Screen Resolution at least 1920×1080 Supported Resolutions NTSC, PAL, HD, UHD Other A trial version of the latest Composition Builder v.5.0.0 is included in the latest release version of just:live/just:play installer and can easily be downloaded. composition:builder is a Site License that is now part of any purchased Realtime Base FX Layer.
Make sure to test the final composition on a system that is equal to the system that is used to run the Just Out engine. Depending on the CPU, GPU, and storage system used for playout, you will be able to play more or less complex compositions.