{"id":4017,"date":"2016-10-17T18:08:50","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T18:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/character-generator\/"},"modified":"2016-10-17T18:08:50","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T18:08:50","slug":"character-generator","status":"publish","type":"definition","link":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/4697\/character-generator-cg-graphics","title":{"rendered":"Character Generator"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span id=\"what_does_character_generator_mean\">What Does Character Generator Mean?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>A character generator adds characters or animated text to video in video-editing applications. A character generator can be hardware or software based. Character generators are largely used during the broadcast of live television presentations or events.\n<\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"techopedia_explains_character_generator\">Techopedia Explains Character Generator<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Most modern character generators are computer-based, and are capable of generating both text and graphics. Before the advent of character generator technology, adding titles to video images was done with help of a dedicated camera shooting white letters on a black background, and then combining it with the video from the live-action camera to form a single image with white letters superimposed over it.\n<\/p>\n<p>Most character generators can produce different type sizes and fonts. Hardware-based character generators are mostly used in video editing suites and studios such as television production studios. Hardware-based character generators generate graphics or text which are then encoded into high-quality video, digital video or RGB video signals. 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