The professional graphics and video play-out server for broadcast just got a major update. Here’s just some of the awesome new features: NTSC, PAL and lower-field interlacing in SD and HD With the added support for NTSC, CasparCG Server 2.0 can now play all the current broadcast formats in both SD and HD, and output them to one or several video cards and/or screens simultaneously. Choose between progressive, upper- field or lower-field interlacing, it’s up to you! Multiple video cards in one server You can now use several video cards in the same machine, no matter if you use cards from BlackMagic Design or Bluefish Technologies.

The first tutorial is how to make a simple lower third from a video file (that includes alpha) and convert it into a CasparCG flash template with the Template Generator plugin in Animate CC (2019 is tested). Download serial number idm.

You can even use cards that have multiple channels, letting you use smaller cases that are easier to fit in a small rack. Much, much higher performance By rewriting the software for multi-threading, CasparCG Server 2.0 can now take advantage of all your processors by performing many tasks in parallel. Other tasks have been moved to the graphics card, further increasing the performance and enabling real-time functions like scaling. Reading files from disk is now asynchronous and the buffering has been greatly improved. Built-in video effects (DVE) All playing media can be manipulated in real-time. You can move, scale, mask and change the opacity and video plus audio gain with the new real-time Mixer feature.

Take advantage of the built-in animation types, just like with transitions. The Mixer can even de-interlace video, transform it and then re-interlace it correctly.

Generate alpha channel from a separate file of any type While you can still use the embedded alpha channel of videos, Flash templates and images, you can now also override the alpha channel with a separate file. You can, for example, cut a hole in a video file with an animated Flash template, or even an image that you can This is also useful for HD video where the alpha-capable codecs tend to generate very big files. Now you can play two small files, such as H.264; one for fill and one for alpha. Play all common formats Previous versions have always been able to play many video formats and codecs, such as DVCPRO, DVCPROHD, MPEG-2 and many AVI and QuickTime-wrapped codecs such as Animation+. That support is now extended with codecs such as DNxHD and H.264. And, now that you can generate an alpha channel from any media type, it’s easier than ever to output good looking HD without having to use large files.

The new version of CasparCG Server can also display most common bitmap formats directly. Grab input video and overlay graphics Video and audio input into a DeckLink card can now be used just like any other media. Use it as one of several layers (each of which can be transformed with the Mixer feature) or just overlay other media such as video and graphics on top and then output it. You can even cut a hole in the input video with another video, a Flash template or an image. Embedded SDI audio Both the Bluefish and DeckLink video card families can now embedded audio in your SDI output.