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Message Channel Character Generator

McCG User Interface

Create your own Community Message Channel.


The McCG is a very Flexible Message Channel software package designed especially for Cable, Educational, Industrial, and Corporate users, or anyone who wants to quickly get their message across to their community via a Television Screen. It comes with a very flexible, easy to use, Message Compose program for creating High Quality Message Pages. Once the Message Pages have been composed, they can be displayed automatically or completely under Manual Control.

Once the Message Pages have been created, they can be added to a Display List so they can be automatically sequenced. Each Page will be displayed with the Page Transition Type, Transition Speed, and Dwell Duration that the user selected for the page. The Message Pages will continue to automatically sequence until you stop it. This feature is very useful for creating Video Kiosks, Digital Signage Systems, and Message Information Channels.

McCG can also be used to display Standard Format Graphic Images. Message Pages and Graphic Images can be freely intermixed with one another in any order.

Message Pages can contain Text (of course), Background Color boxes, Geometric Shapes, full-color graphic images as Logos, and either a Background Graphic or Background Video. The text is created using TrueType typefaces and can be Sized, Kerned, Rotated, and Italicized. Each character can have up to Two Edges and Three Shadows. The character's edges and shadows can be colorized with a solid color, a vertical Color Spread, a Color Gradient (4pt, 5pt, or linear), or Textures.


    Drivers are available for the following Display Cards:
  • AJA Xena
  • Black Magic Design's Decklink
  • Standard VGA Cards (Single and Dual Head)
  • With More Being Added All The Time. (SDK available)
We even have a free
Fully Functional Evaluation Copy
of the software for you to download.

  How it Works

Media Catalogs
The Media Catalog (shown below) is divided into groups based upon the type of images that the software can display. These are Message Pages and Graphic Images. These images can be quickly added to the Display List Editor to create a Display List.

Image of Media Catalog
Media Catalog
  • The Title Catalog shows the Message Pages in the current project.

  • The Graphic Image Catalog shows the graphic images that are stored in the folders that have been included in the catalog.
Image of Display List Editor
Display List Editor
Display List Editor
The Display List Editor (shown at left) is used to create and edit Display Lists. You can Add, Delete, and Duplicate images here. An image can be added here by double clicking it in the Media Catalog or dragging it from the Media Catalog and dropping it into the Display List. You can also change the order of the images in this window using "drag and drop". This will change the order that the pages will be displayed. You can also randomly select the next page to display for those "last minute" changes.
Preview Window
The program previews an Image before it is displayed to ensure that the wrong one won't be shown. The Preview Window (shown at right) previews the next Image to be shown. Use "drag and drop" to drag the page to be previewed from either the Display List or the Media Catalog. Double clicking on an image in the Display List can also be used to select an image to be previewed. The size of this window can be controlled from the "View" Menu.
Preview Window Image
Preview Window
Image of Preview Control Buttons
Preview
Control Buttons
Preview Control Buttons
The Preview Control Buttons (shown at left) are used to control the Previewed Image. It has the following buttons:
  • Edit Title:
    This button will start the Title Composer and load the previewed page into it.

  • Start Auto Sequence:
    This button starts Automatically Sequencing the Images in the Display List.

  • Page Off:
    This button removes the Image from the Video Output.

  • Display Previewed Page:
    This button displays the previewed page on the Video Output.

  • Display Image and Preview Next:
    This button displays the previewed page (just like "Display Previewed Page"). It also previews the next page in the Display List.

McCG... Only $595

Includes McCG software, Title Composer, and Printed Manuals.


Download the free, fully functional
McCG evaluation software.

This evaluation software places a faint Cayman Graphics logo on the screen.
Of course, the version that we sell doesn't have this Watermark.

To install the evaluation software, download it,
then run the downloaded program (McCG.exe),
and follow the directions on the screen.

Download the complete Manual.
Download the Evaluation Software (Approx 20 MBytes)
Check out the McCG's Features and Specifications


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