Return-Path: Received: from smtpauth23.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net ([64.202.165.47] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with SMTP id 4577464 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Sat, 31 Dec 2011 02:38:58 +0100 Received: (qmail 18237 invoked from network); 31 Dec 2011 01:45:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (74.235.40.67) by smtpauth23.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net (64.202.165.47) with ESMTP; 31 Dec 2011 01:45:29 -0000 Message-ID: <4EFE6938.3020204@goldfinchdesign.com> Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 20:45:28 -0500 From: KevinRyan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100915 Thunderbird/3.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: AE-List@media-motion.tv Subject: Readable lower third graphics for small mobile screens Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit While uploading cable broadcast videos for youtube and other social media sites and mobile web sites, I have become concerned about the readability of the lower thirds and graphics when viewed on increasingly smaller screens. I have been thinking about the idea of using something like overlay ads found on web site videos as a way of making lower thirds and graphics readable. The idea would be to produce the video without any graphics and then use this overlay function to create fresh graphics for each sized screen. I only just learned about the overlay function that is used in web advertising. I guess it would be part of the html. It would be nice to be able to add cues and the information in metadata to create self generating graphics appropriately sized for the screen it was appearing on. Does this seem to be doable?