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Hey all,

Im using version 6.0 (build 3318). I just wanted to know if there is a max number of tracks that you can have in the scene director per scene. If so what is the number?

Thanks

Jen

It should be unlimited. How many tracks do you plan on adding?

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Thats all I needed to know. We are compiling a scene with as many college team logo animations we can fit in it. This way it makes it easier and faster to call up the scene and turn on the logo we need for the L3rd, add the text and save it off to our sequence.

Thanks so much.

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If by animation, you really mean video clip, you aren't going to want to do it that way.. It will easily use up too much memory and cpu performance as it needs to cache all of those video clips (even if the track is turned off).

The better way to do this would be to have a text field with something like a TRI CODE in it, and based on what tricode you enter you could have a script that automatically swaps out the material.

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IM not even sure how to set that up. that sounds great. is there anyway you could walk thru a sample setup for me?

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I tried to make a small sample: https://ross.brickftp.com/f/03569a688

Look at the scene in the sequencer and you can edit the tricodes between CHI, WIS, and COL and you'll see the logos change in preview. Those tricodes match materials that must exist with the same name.. (You can just make the text objects hidden in the scene so the tricode doesn't appear on the output).

In the scene itself you will find a script on the two text objects that represent the tricode. The script will grab a material with a name that matches the text in the text object and assign it to the quad that has the same name as the textobject but with the word Logo appended to it.

Hope this helps.

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Brian, thank you for putting this together for me. I got the package and opened it. I can see the tri codes and logos but they are not switching when I change the tri code. can you confirm for me where exactly I change the tri codes? I may be changing them in the wrong spot. thanks :)

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You should be setting the tricode in the Template Data tab in the sequencer.. Changing it in layout mode won't do anything as that doesnt run the OnSetText script.

You should see the preview update with the new logo as soon as you type a valid tricode into the template data.

(note this won't work if using XPression Prime as it does not support scripting)



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that's my problem!!!! I have Xpression Prime :(

what would I have to upgrade to to get the scripting capabilities?

did you see my last post to the forum about masking? I cannot get that to work correctly either. can masking not be accomplished in prime as well?

thanks

Jen

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You need to upgrade to XPression Studio SCE to enable scripting. The part number from your sales rep will be XPR-UPG. When you purchase this part a knew XPression USB license dongle will be sent to you and Tech Support will send you XPression Studio SCE software to install.

Prime should be able to perform masking the same way as all other XPression systems.

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ok thanks so much! appreciate it! :)

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