Overlay Text software

Hey buddy,
Besides the Device or Overlay Mixer we need it to overlay the Text on the Video ,any other method??
Any software that can solve this problem??
Let say i have a LCD projector, a Macbook Pro and a Mini DV cam for live shooting purpose! Is that any software that cam provide Text overlay fucntion to output Through VGA to the LCD and combine with the RCA from Cam to LCD??
Is that posible??
Thanks
Ray

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import com.sun.image.codec.jpeg.JPEGCodec;
import com.sun.image.codec.jpeg.JPEGEncodeParam;
import com.sun.image.codec.jpeg.JPEGImageEncoder;
import com.sun.media.sound.Toolkit;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
import javax.media.*;
import javax.media.control.FrameGrabbingControl;
import javax.media.format.VideoFormat;
import javax.media.util.BufferToImage;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JComponent;
import javax.swing.JTextField;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Component;
import java.awt.Font;
import java.awt.Graphics2D;
import java.awt.Image;
import java.awt.Panel;
import java.awt.Shape;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.event.WindowAdapter;
import java.awt.event.WindowEvent;
import java.awt.font.TextLayout;
import java.awt.geom.AffineTransform;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.Timer;
import java.util.TimerTask;
public class SwingCapture1 extends Panel implements Runnable, ActionListener
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     public CaptureDeviceInfo di = null;
     public MediaLocator ml = null;
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     public JButton stop = new JButton ("STOP NOW");
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     public JLabel timerLabel = new JLabel("Timer: ");
     public JTextField timerInputField = new JTextField(5);
     public JPanel southPanel = new JPanel();
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     public static Image img = null;
     public VideoFormat vf = null;
     public static BufferToImage btoi = null;
     public static ImagePanel imgpanel = null;
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     static int theFrameRate = 0;
     static int theTimeLength = 0;
     static int i = 0;
     static int interval = 0;
     int count = 0;
     static int timeLength = 0;
     static String filePrefix = "";
     static String imagesDirectory = "c:\\images\\";
     static boolean timerBoolean = true;
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          player.close();
          player.deallocate();
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          }, 1000, interval);
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          catch (final java.io.FileNotFoundException io)
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          final JPEGEncodeParam param = encoder.getDefaultJPEGEncodeParam(bi);
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          encoder.setJPEGEncodeParam(param);
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               encoder.encode(bi);
               out.close();
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               System.out.println("ERROR 3");
               System.out.println("IOException");
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               capThread = new Thread(this, "Capture Thread");
               capThread.start();
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          btoi = new BufferToImage((VideoFormat)buf.getFormat());
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     @Override
     public void run() {
          // TODO Auto-generated method stub
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Sorry guys, I haven't looked at your links yet but I will, once I get some time to sit down and code again. I just wanted to provide this piece of code that uses the Graphics2d you're talking about to overlay text onto an image but I haven't been able to plug it into my code at all. If you're links answer the question, I'm sorry, just providing it until I can actually sit down and spend time on the research you've given me. Thanks.
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import java.awt.font.*;
import java.awt.geom.*;
import java.awt.image.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
import java.text.*;
import java.util.*;
import javax.imageio.*;
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