Graphics Technical Specifications

¤ Off-site photography – Digital, CDRom, Slides, or Prints.
¤ Off-site Video capture - most common formats supported.
¤ File transfers – most common formats accepted.
¤ Creation of imagery – to client specification or spikevideo originals.
¤ Presentations – many photographic formats.
¤ Show Operation – many different technologies and methods of presentation.

We specialise in the creation of imagery using Adobe PhotoShop, Adobe ImageReady, Kai’s Power Tools, Extensis PhotoTools & Extensis Mask Pro using either client or agency supplied images, or original imaginative spikevideo creations, or a combination of these. Presentations can be made for single, dual, or triple screens, plus multi-image projection plus “picture-in-picture” - a mixture of data and video for the best quality or Videowalls in Video, Data formats, or a mixture, including multiple VGA resolutions all at once. "Widescreen" 16:9 or "Letterbox" 14:9 ratio can be created or simulated. Several different sources and formats playing at once are a given.

Importation from a variety of sources in a variety of formats – Digital Camera serial, SCSI, PCMCIA, SD; Video camera via Firewire or Avid Digital Video; HP scanner; Zip & Jaz disks; CDR, CDRW, PCMCIA Cards, SD Cards, USB Flash Drive; DVD, DVD-R, MPEG, JMPG, MOV, miniDV, or email.

There are technical restrictions with some formats if being created for large presentation displays.

Creation of a variety of presentation standalone formats including PowerPoint, Scala, Infochannel, Pani Projector slides, 35mm slides, Web, or plain processed files. Imagery for Avid Digital Video also created, especially where graphics and video are to be shown overlapping using scan-conversion via vision mixers or up-scanned using data mixers. The imagery from these two formats normally need to be matched in colour and size (see Operation and Video).

Graphics Technical:

File Imports:

PhotoShop eps, Adobe PhotoShop psd, Mac or PC tiff, jpeg, Kodak pcd, Generic eps, pcx, MS bmp, Targa tga, icb, vda, vst, Compuserve gif, Amiga iff, Apple pic/pict, Pixar pxr, png, Scitex sct, Filmstrip flm, Adobe Illustrator ai, Adobe PDF pdf.

File Exports:

All formats except Generic eps, pcd, & flm. Transfer to Video in Beta SP, SVHS, VHS, DVCam, DVPro, miniDV. Other formats on request.

Colour:

Colours of logos or backgrounds can be specified in RGB, CMYK, LAB, HSB, PMS, or ‘Resene Paint’ numbers.

Resolution:

If resulting imagery is for video then 800x600pixels at 300 dpi is the preferred minimum resolution (gif resolution is normally too low for other than small logo IDs). “Indexed colour” files (from web pages) are not always transferred successfully to RGB when matching logos, so colour numbers may need to be supplied separately.

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