lyric pro and calling up graphics
by sean mcdonald
on
Sep 24, 2009 at 8:44:23 pm
We are being ask to load our graphics in the lyric pro HD system to be called up on air. I have figured out what formats are accepted and our chyron operator is able to pull up each graphic individually, however, he still has to save back out as a .lyr file extension in order to call up during a show.
We found out it takes app. 30 seconds per graphic to convert from a .tga file, etc. to a .lyr file (lyric file)
we average 40 to 75 news graphics per 1 1/2 of news and this is not really feasible to do in the amount of time given.
The .lyr extensions are what Lyric saves the file as when you enter a number on the keypad and hit record. I am trying to save out the files in photoshop as .lyr so that the chyron operator can enter a number on the keypad and just hit read, instead of having to go through and import the graphics and record them individually.
does anyone know of a third party plugin that can save photoshop files out as an .lyr fomat, or if there is a way to batch convert all the files in chyron lyric pro?
Re: lyric pro and calling up graphics by Shawn Humphrey on Oct 6, 2009 at 4:53:33 pm
Are these just full page graphics? Either way you should be able to just call up pages and not have to convert anything.
Since this is news say you have 6 full screens to make.
name them
Full1.tga
Full2.tga
Full3.tga
and so on.
The Chyron person should be able to build pages by importing the graphics into them. In the 2D object template they have to uncheck the box that says "embed on save". Then record the page.
Lets say page 1001 corresponds to graphic Full1.tga.
Now for the next newscast you build your first graphic and name it Full1.tga, right over the first one.
When the operator reads page 1001 it will see the new graphic.
Additionally, you can have them set up a folder system for all your newscasts say AM, Noon, 5, 530, 6, 10, etc. And have graphics that go into each folder. Then the operator would have to have specific page areas for each newscast.
ONE Thing you need to make sure you do is make all your graphics the same size. If the Chyron operator is resizing anything and then recording the page the resizing will apply to the next graphic you make at that filename.
