Media Composition

Media composition is the mixing of different kind of media such as 3D model, video, audio, picture and text. Static media composition converts other forms of media into one media format. For example, DVD is the composition of MPEG-2 video and Dolby audio. Users need a video editor or a 3D model creator to compose media into a format file. The procedure is long and the final title is lack of interactivity.

Dynamic media composition can mix media inteactively and in real-time. You can render a 3D model with textures in real-time. And you can select the cinematic effects during the playback. Moreover, you can edit media and generate a script to control a title. Ladybug Studio XP is a software suite suitable for the dynamic media composition.

1. Video Texture

Video texture allows you to display a video over an object surface. You can write a vertex and pixel shader with HLSL language to generate lighting or deformation effects on the video. And you can also implement algorithms of image processing in the pixel shaders for real-time cinematic processing.

2. Ticker System

Video presentation is an important application of media composition. You might have taken a video during your business travel and just want to insert an annotation on the video for your presentation. Thus you need the function of text overlay video. A Ticker System designed with mCL in Ladybug Studio XP can complete this task easily.

After the creation of a ticker database for a video, you can simply launch a mCL script to present that video with annotation. The timeline of the video playback will active the ticker in the database.

3. Real-time Video Control

A video camera watching cars on the highway generates a real-time video stream. You may want to insert some words over the video to warning on the traffic. An annotation ticker is required to be added and rolled along the horizonal direction in real-time. The Ticker System can help you do this as well.