Graphics

Is there chance that in the not to distance future we'll have an upgrade that will give us more than 6 color options that we can apply to the Take Items in Sequence?

I very much like the option. Additionally I like how the strength of a color alternates line by line because it does help distinguishing the information your looking for on that particular line from the one above and below it. Moreover, this makes it easier for me to separate items that I have Grouped together even though they have different distinctions for how we use them in a show. For example, we designate a color for L3rds, FS, CG Bugs, Split Screen and New graphics but it would be better for me if I could parse some of those graphics even further with other colors.

Additionally, I understand the intention of making the colors light/pale but when I've got several different types of Items with varying colors stacked side by side in the line up, they all start to blur together. I use the colors primarily when I'm editing a project and not so much during a taping, but it is something that is a little frustrating and even annoying sometimes. It'd be nice to have a wider range of colors to chose from and/or an option to control the intensity of a color.

Am I the only one that feels this way?

Nu

Bueller... Bueller... Bueller...

Is this something that's not an issue for anyone else?

Nu

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"Um, he's sick. My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Ferris pass out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it's pretty serious."

Sorry I couldn't resist. I see your point but so far I haven't had much of an issue with the limited number of colors. When I set up a sequencer for our operator, I usually use red for "Check the data" and orange for "in case you need this" but we aren't using colors that much. NBA game Jumbotron doesn't really make the Xpression even breath heavy.

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Hey NuRelic, I've been reading this board for a while. Have to admit the color issue really hasn't come up. I use different colors to distinguish the differnt topics in my shows. I also use NO COLOR as a color. Maybe making more groups will help you distinguish your elements.

Perhaps you can make a wishlist request to Ross to add colors or the option to make our own colors?

Cheers

Steve

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Malcolm, I threw it low and outside hoping someone would take a swing and knock my Ferris Bueller set-up outta the park and you nailed . Gratitude! ;-)

I've been out of the office a few days and haven't had a chance to check back here until now and as I've thought about it over that time I think I was prolly approaching this wrong and part of that has to do with my minimal experience coming into this particular role and my trying to appease my producer who may be a bit... I think overtaxed could be a good, maybe even kind word to use here.

Frequently, I found myself in an undesirable situation where my producer would ask me to change the numbers to certain graphics minutes/seconds before a show. This was because the ROS was almost never fully complete and a reoccurring level of miscommunication hampered progress. Additionally, I'd be told to change framebuffers on several graphics during the shows.

Worse still, the ROS wasn't always updated. Then when the producer or director called for the number of a particular graphic, I'd have to check and verify the graphic, the framebuffer and whether that particular buffer was live or not since there was a probability that I might accidentally step on a live graphic. Using a color legend to quickly distinguish graphics was something I made part of that process because I didn't know what else to do. It was only fractions of seconds lost, but it was taking too much time and I was getting called out for it.

I finally got the producer to agree to let me build the graphical ROS myself and as result - fewer last minute number changes, fewer [I]'LIVE'[/I] buffer changes and I am finally regaining confidence in Fast Recall. So now I'm starting to see my dependence on the colors was not necessary. I'm much happier about that.

Nu

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Hey Steve,

Using NO COLOR is also something I did and that helped but only to a point. However, as you can see in my previous post, my lack of experience in this role prolly magnified the problem more than anything else.

Coming to the Forum with this question, I had a predisposed feeling about the layer colors and I wanted to voice it, but in thinking about it since the post and comparing my feelings to how we're running the shows differently now [I](we've only made the change up spelled out above for two shows)[/I], I don't think my objection is as strong as I originally thought.

I have to admit, the pale colors still get to me. But I'm much cooler with them than I was before.

Nu

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If you are doing lots of last minute framebuffer changes, you'll definitely want to make sure you know how the keyboard mapping menu works, and set yourself up some quick keyboard shortcuts.. You can make shortcuts to take items to a specific framebuffer, or shortcuts to just change the framebuffer assignments so that you don't need to use the mouse to click in the framebuffer column and do it with the mouse.. The keyboard is way faster..

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"You can make shortcuts to take items to a specific framebuffer, or shortcuts to just change the framebuffer assignments..."

That would have really helped me this morning! Having to jump into and out of Edit Enabled mode with Fast Recall on using the mouse burned me when the pressure was on. I'm watching the XPression 201: Keyboard Mapping tutorial video now and getting myself better familiarized with more of the shortcuts.

While I'm on the subject, is there any more XPression tutorials outside of the ones here at Ross?

Nu

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