Video Mixing and Graphics Overlay
Mixing video signals may be as simple as switching between two video sources. This is adequate if the resulting video is to be displayed on a computer monitor.
For most other applications, a technique known as alpha mixing should be used. Alpha mixing may also be used to fade to or from a specific color (such as black) or to overlay computer-generated text and graphics onto a video signal.
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Alpha mixing must be used if the video is to be encoded to composite video. Otherwise, ringing and blurring may appear at the source switching points, such as around the edges of computer-generated text and graphics. This is due to the color information being lowpass filtered within the NTSC/PAL encoder. If the filters ...
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