BTi vs Leader
had a lovely chat with the BTi guys. they're the ones that do our school closings & sports ticker. they showed me their election software. each page can use online or input results; either one during the same election day. it just airs whichever vote numbers are larger. pre-race set up is done by them (Dennis i'm going to repeat that... they program the thing) then we would select from the templates we told them to create. yes, it can do candidate pictures, winner, incumbent, democrat, republican logos. it's got a screen that can be used for talent. it's server based, and one instance can control multiple chyrons (un ike now where leader needs a unique instance to control full screens and the lower thirds. there is no hardware to buy, you can run as many client versions as you like with no additional licenses (so Craig could have one open and the vote tally section could have five open, there could be 4 open on the set for the talent screens with no prob. all in all, it does what leader does, just a little differently two talent screen, will talk to a chyron, to sum it up, it seems to do everything that avid's Leader does, AND it runs on windows7.
they also had a twitter ticker (a "twititker" (i just love making up my own language)). the neat thing about that was that general tweets went into a producer screen for screening purposes, but if you knew thehashtag and password, your tweet could go directly to air. so, basically tweets from a trusted source, say David Douglas out in the field can get to air more quicklier than ones from me.
en sa mémoire: tres enchiladas, tres Tecates & one laptop battery gave their lives to provide you with this day's posts.
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