Character generator
Device for adding text and graphics to a video stream / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about video technology. For hardware character generators in computing context, see text mode. For the Internet service, see Character Generator Protocol. For Chinese character generator, see Chinese character description languages. For other uses, see Character generation (disambiguation).
A character generator, often abbreviated as CG, is a device or software that produces static or animated text (such as news crawls and credits rolls) for keying into a video stream. Modern character generators are computer-based, and they can generate graphics as well as text.