Phil M0OFXI think I mentioned the #Chyron Lantern64 card I bought... Well this is it working! At the moment it's set to Free Run, I need to provide a video source to try out the overlay features.
Best part is, the host PC doesn't have to do anything. It's controlled with text commands. All these graphics are running completely in the background.
I just noticed something about the Chyron card. There's a power/reset LED on the back of the PCB. That's a bit weird (in the sense you can't see it) ... except you can.
The LED shines through the middle of the lantern, masked by the solder mask.
Someone put some real effort into that.
The LED shines through the middle of the lantern, masked by the solder mask.
Someone put some real effort into that.
Anyway true to form, I've started documenting this thing on my website... as you do. Or as I do.
https://www.philpem.me.uk/tv_video/chyron_codi
https://www.philpem.me.uk/tv_video/chyron_codi
Chyron Lantern (Digital PC CODI PCI)
Chyron Lantern (Digital PC CODI PCI) I have a Chyron Lantern-64 Analog character generator card, which I picked up on ebay in early 2024. This card can accept PAL or NTSC video and key, and outputs the same. A separate genlock input is also present, which allows the same video input reference to be daisy-chained into several cards. Curiously it also has an analog audio output, LTC timecode input and 16-bit GPIO port.
I guess the next step with this would be to load the Aston character generator font into the font bank and see what that looks like... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_92P_jH-H0E
I will, of course, be loading Decorated 035 into it at some point too... and a Gill Sans variant might pop up for doing the ITV Schools logo remake (once I learn Blender)
Aston 1 Character Generator Font Demo
Oh cool. You can download a "message" for the iNFiNIT!, then change the text. The text areas are called 'tabs'.
wild. there used to be a package called Chyron Recall Plus which automated that kinda stuff.
"The software enables the Digital PC CODI to display messages, fonts and graphics from the Chyron iNFiNiT!, MAX! or Maxine! character generators. The two supplied key panels enhance Digital PC CODI operation with improved speed and access to complex functions."
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/261762-REG/Chyron_7A10205_Recall_Plus_Software_for.html
penguin42@philpem Ah that period of computing when every product! Had! To have! a ! in it's name!
@penguin42 don't forget the lower case i's!
REX HR0VS@philpem By gum, Count Binface has really put them on the map!
Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️@philpem god that's an amazing looking card, and I can't help but think there was definitely a better way to do this
Saphira Lohikäärmekettunen 
🚫 KubeCon Europe@philpem hellorld! Nice! :3
Rivaclaw🏳️⚧️ΘΔ@philpem The text looks really crisp!
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vxo@philpem oh hell yeah! that's awesome :D
Ben A L Jemmett@philpem Man, a GUI like that is how you know you've found the good stuff!
@baljemmett This is just the demo that comes with the SDK!
@baljemmett Yep! This is the SDK. They released a package called Lyric which has a nice graphical UI, but I've not been able to get it working with my card.
@philpem Awesome it works!
And wow, that's the kind of software UI that just hits special. Including the default "MFC" icon :p
And wow, that's the kind of software UI that just hits special. Including the default "MFC" icon :p