• Overlay your camera footage and produce these pages:
  • Meeting Title
  • Race Card
  • Parade
  • Race
  • Results
• No more typing, load data directly from ‘Formbank’ Press Association special files.
• 2 concurrent meetings, displaying both local and Intertrack races and results.
• Edit and save the meeting data.
• Customise the data for your own ideas about the layout of the pages.
• Incorporate a meeting or race sponsor’s logo on any page.
• Add advertising pages for sponsors or local firms.
• Include animation and special effects on any pages.
• Runs on Windows XP/2000/98 PCs.
• Uses 2 screens if available. Operator screen for data entry/edit/overlay choice. Viewing screen for displaying the current overlay page.
• Advice and help is just a phone call away.

Purpose
The purpose of the Greyhound Meeting Overlay Program is to enable the production of identified video footage for your race meetings as a live broadcast and onto DVD or Video. Using an intuitive Windows interface, the operator can load in a meeting’s data from the ‘Formbank’ Greyhound Database program, and produce output to fully identify the races and runners in the meeting footage.

Flexible
By employing the supplied templates based on the HTML standard, the overlay screens can easily be adjusted to personalise the output for a stadium or group of stadiums, or to distinguish between Open and Home races, or Evening and BAGS meetings.
Dead-heat images can also be incorporated into the final video stream, as can any other web page.

Sponsor Advertising
In addition to the pages specified above, the operator can arrange for sponsor advertising and web pages to appear at any time in the video stream. Animations and logos can easily be included into the output by adjusting the templates for each page.

Method
The Windows PC and Camera are attached to a Genlock Video adapter, which in turn is attached to either a DVD or Video recorder. As the video footage is played, so the operator can mix in the different pages to overlay that footage, with the resultant display being broadcast and output to the recording device. If the PC has 2 screens attached then the program will automatically use the main screen for the operator input and general program, with the second screen displaying the currently selected overlay page.

Bespoke programming
Adjustments to the program capabilities can be accommodated...at an affordable price. We look to provide exactly what the customer wants rather than our own perhaps limited view of customer expectations. You may have a requirement for an owner information screen, or recent form lines, or more detailed result information. Any information that exists in the Formbank database could be extracted and used on screen. Please call for more information.