The A7 graphics editing tools

Speed. Reliability. Flexibility.  The three attributes most appreciated by graphics operators whilst creating new content. That's why Aston7 graphics editing tools have been designed to exceed even the most demanding expectations.

In an ideal world, the creation and editing of graphics content would be possible on any desktop or laptop. The tools would display the content and animations exactly as they'd appear on the live video output. Well, Aston has now created this ideal world. The A7 Edit tools make it easy and fast to create, edit and preview your compelling graphics projects.

At the heart of the Aston7 display sits the "editor" window. An exact representation of the broadcast output picture which, naturally, may be configured for any aspect ratio or SD/HD line standard required. The A7 toolbox is located alongside the Edit window which makes it easy to add graphics objects such as text, shapes, video, tickers and rolls & crawls to the project.

Each graphics project is displayed in the form of a tree structure. This lists all the individual pages and the graphics elements within each one. The structure is designed to let you quickly navigate between pages in a sequence and to view or update the display or animation properties of each element. Special emphasis is given to the ease in which text may be entered or edited, either in the Edit window or using the A7's smart text edit boxes.

Resources such as textures, founts, video clips, images, 3D models and audio clips are displayed as thumbnails at the bottom of the Edit window.