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"normal way we would design it, where normally you create B2B In and B2B Out scene directors and the normal In Out scenedirectors also, and the default scene director is just left empty. Then rules are created for the In, Out, and B2B cases."

https://discussions.rossvideo.com/forum/default-forum-gc1/xpression-cg-and-graphics-system-gc12/16965-transition-logic-audio-error

I found the quoted text on the above link.

Why is the default scene director left empty?

I am modifying a previously built Xpression project built by my colleage. It has a lot of transition logic. When I open a scene in Layout, I can't see all the text because it animates later along the timeline in the scene director. I have to open the Scene Director, click on the In animation, and scroll it to the end to see my text. I am changing a lot of pages and it's a PITA to open the Scene Director for each page just to be able to see where the text objects are on the page.

I discovered that when I put the In one as the "Default" then I can see it when I open it in Layout. But will this cause problems later? I don't see any issues so far.

The default scene director runs anytime a scene goes online. So even when you have a back to back rule that specifies a specific back to back scene director which gets run, the default scene director will ALSO run. If you make your IN scene director your default, then when going back to back you'll have both IN and the B2B running; which is probably not good.

The default scene director in these cases should be used for things like a background audio track that you always want running; or to reveal bullet points in a fullscreen graphic. It should generally not be where you put "transition" animations.
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