Grass Valley Media Conversion - Manual (Page 59)

Media Conversion Software Clock Builder
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Clock Builder
Clock Builder conforms to all the normal Windows conventions and so if you
are already familiar with the MS Windows environment you will find it easy
to use.
File Formats
For analogue clocks, images should be designed with square aspect ratio
pixels. Conversion to destination aspect ratios is performed by the Bugclock
system.
For digital clocks, images should be produced with the appropriate pixel
aspect ratio for the target video system. Bugclock performs no aspect ratio
conversion on these images.
As with Animation Builder, OXT, VPB and a variety of popular image
formats are supported. However, as a key is essential for all clock
components (except clock faces), 32-bit Targa or TIFF files are the most
useful format for these items.
General Principles
Clocks are built from a series of components. For analogue clocks, these
components are the clock face, hour hand, minute hand and an optional
second hand. For digital clocks, the components are the clock face, each of
the digits, 0-9 and a separator character – typically a colon and/or slash.
Bugclock Limitations
Currently, the Clock Builder can be used to create clocks, which are too large
or complex for the Bugclock system to display correctly (this may cause
problems with Imagestore). Please bear in mind the clock size limits
described in the Bugclock specification. Future versions of Clock Builder
will include built-in checking to prevent users exceeding these limits.