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SchoolCast  -  Your School News & Information Channel

         SchoolCast is a complete system for creating
high quality multimedia productions with the impact of television.
SchoolCast can help you communicate effectively with your students,
parents, or community over public access channels, televisions,
computer monitors and networks, kiosks, or over
cable systems.

 SchoolCast uses exciting, colorful, compelling graphics to create your own news and
information channel, specialized teaching materials, distance learning presentations,
educational courseware, morning announcements, slide shows, or an electronic yearbook.
SchoolCast can be used to announce school news, upcoming events, lunch menus, student
honors, sports information, up-to-the-minute schedule changes, special guests, birthdays, and
anything else you can think of.

SchoolCast incorporates technology from the next generation of communication tools which allows you to integrate and control different elements such as text, animations, video, sound, and graphics. Although it is powerful, it is extremely easy to learn and use. SchoolCast is designed to guide you through the process of constructing presentations with straightforward functions that are clear and specific. You'll be able to create professional looking presentations almost immediately.

SchoolCast can be customized for your school with your school logo, and the sites and sounds that are exclusively yours. SchoolCast comes complete with:

  • TitleMotion - powerful title, background, and logo creation software
  • SmartSound - to create custom professional music soundtracks
  • The ability to play audio and data CDs as well as MIDI files
  • More than 20 full motion video and animation clips
  • An extensive collection of over 500 backgrounds
  • 200 typefaces including exclusive fonts
  • On-screen time and date display
  • More than 180 sound effects
  • Over 80 musical selections
  • Over 600 2D and 3D clips
  • Use of any TrueType font

There is no way to explain how SchoolCast catches the eye and stimulates the senses. You must see and hear SchoolCast to understand this new communications medium and to appreciate its significance.

FEATURES
SchoolCast is a complete turn-key system used to create, distribute, schedule and playback media in a broadcast television format. The media can be informational, instructional or entertainment based.

Create SchoolCast includes all the tools you need to produce broadcast quality visuals. Media is assembled, modified and layered using simple graphic techniques in a highly productive environment. A wide assortment of easy-to-use tools and sophisticated video effects promote creativity while offering flexibility. Simple procedures allow you to create screens in minutes using libraries of attractive background graphics, CD quality music, True Type fonts, animations and visual effects.

You can add to your library by creating, digitizing or importing materials using the wide array of supported formats. In minutes you will be playing the professional looking pages and sequences you've created over the school cable network or making a favorable impression with your voters on your local cable channel.

Schedule SchoolCast lets you generate multiple scripts that can be called for playback. Each destination will have one or more scripts and the scheduling to control them. The combination can control the starting and ending time, or the time at which certain elements are substituted or deleted. They can be individual pages, groups of pages or the entire channel by time, day or date. You may request operation to begin at 8:00 AM on weekdays but 10:00 AM on weekends with a different sequence of material for each section or day of the week.

Distribute SchoolCast includes many built-in options for managing, scheduling and delivering the information to your targeted audience. SchoolCast supports distribution over local area networks, wide area networks, Internet, direct connections, dial-up modem connections and data broadcasting technologies. With centralized control over where, when and how communication occurs, you will have the ability to schedule and target specific players or groups of players to receive the information.

Playback SchoolCast has a versatile and adaptable playback engine that allows information to be broadcast to large and small audiences on TVs, cable networks, computers, kiosks, video walls and projection systems. SchoolCast is the communications tool of the next century.

For more information, contact Imperatives, Inc, or email steve@imperatives.com
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