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I talked with your team today and got all of my questions answered! Thanks again for the continued support.

Hi John,

I wanted to address your concerns regarding HD video playback with XPression. XPression can indeed playback HD video and image sequences with embedded alpha, this can be done on both channels simultaneously and can also support the playback of multiple clips per channel. additionally, you can cue and play clips virtually instantaneously due to XPression's dynamic caching mechanism, eliminating the recall delays you may have experienced on other systems. There are limitations in terms of quantity of clips but you will find these same limitations with any "real time" graphics system including Chyron. XPression can decode a variety of video formats natively as well, but it is recommended that you playback using the XPresion video codec supplied with the system. Clips can be converted to this format using our automated in-coder tool or manually using the XPression Video coder. Additionally you can install the XPression codec (without additional licenses) on PC workstation where you may be using cinema 4D or Adobe Suite products allowing you to author and export directly to the XPression format.

XPression Clips is a suite of products that takes our existing video playback technology and packages it in a more focused videos server style of interface, which includes features like trimming tools, record functionality, VDCP control etc.

As far as the real time 3D side of things is concerned, I agree that visually speaking you cannot achieve the same things that you can with products geared towards post production (Cinema 4D, AE and so on). However, a real time product like XPression was never designed to replace those products, but rather compliment them as a real time compositing tool. Allowing you to take assets developed in external applications and make them dynamic. replacing team and player artwork on the fly, updating statistics with dynamic animations, creating intelligent transitions between graphics content, all of this can add very elegant and modern enhancements to your productions.

Cheers,

Andrew

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John there should be no issue with that

Just so you know XPression is not limited to playing back full raster clips either. all clips are played as textures assigned to 3D objects and can be utilized in virtually any size. For example, you might have one full HD clip playing in the background and 2 animated logo clips in the foreground that are only 500x500 (example size) by separating these into two individual video elements you gain the flexibility of replacing them independently and also making the system run more efficiently.

Andrew

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