I'm putting together a news report for a project and I was wondering whether there was anyway I could recreate the BBC News, ITV, Sky or Channel 4 name bar for my project (Joe Bloggs... London etc)... sorry I can't remember the proper name for it. I'm using AVID Media Composer?
I'm putting together a news report for a project and I was wondering whether there was anyway I could recreate the BBC News, ITV, Sky or Channel 4 name bar for my project (Joe Bloggs... London etc)... sorry I can't remember the proper name for it. I'm using AVID Media Composer?
Regards
pmday2013
Aston, and it isn't hard. If it doesn't have to animate I'm sure you could knock up the BBC astons and the ITV astons too, for that matter. By the way, this is TV Forum, not Homework Helpline
(Aston... name-strap... lower third... just three of the main terms used)
With this kind of thing, you really need to have a good, thorough play around with the software. Try to avoid consulting this and any other kind of forum for help... it's much more rewarding to have discovered it for yourself.
Anyway I might as well contribute something of use to this topic. I don't know what version of Avid you are using but have you not yet discovered the text tool/Marquee tool? When I did this kind of thing I just attempted to create the old static graphics used by BBC/ITN in the 1990s, fading them in and out as necessary. It's easy and does the job!
In the UK they're often known as 'Astons' as that was the brand name of the dominant leader in caption generators used in the UK in the 80s, 90s and quite a lot of the 00s. You still see loads of them in SD galleries, though the Aston 7 is the only HD variant and is very different to 3, 4/Caption, Motif/Ethos, Red/Green/Blue.
In the US Chyron was the dominant brand name in use - so in the US they're often called 'Chyrons'.
The generic term is something like 'lower third' (screen position), 'super' (superimposed), 'strap' (text is often on one) or 'caption'.
The key thing is to chose a typeface that looks suitable (BBC News use Gill Sans - and I believe Humanist is the name of a (near?) identical face in a lot of libraries)
Yes, Gill Sans (or Humanist 521, they're almost identical) is the BBC News font - Bold and Regular variants. A typical BBC News strap is white background, with black text - bold on the name line (in capitals) and regular on the second line (in mixed case). The red used by BBC News generally has RGB values of 144/0/0 (though increasingly a higher red value of up to 200 is being used).
The old gallery PA/Director joke is PA: "Standby super..." Director "OK treasure..."
