Hello,
We're trying to trim down our opens in XPression to a few scenes instead of over the 100 plus scenes just for our opens. We're currently running ver. 6.2 build 3534 and want to get the best way to do this, so the producers can easily select their open and have the video/audio attached and play within a MOS environment.
Here's what we've come up with to accomplish this: (although not sure this is the very best way to achieve what we want)
We've created an Excel sheet with the path of the audio and video (all files are stored on the local play out machines). We'll go in every time to the Excel sheet when we get a new open and add the path of both the audio and video to a new line and of course render the video out to the XPression format storing them in the video folder or audio folder of our project. From there we've taken the Excel sheet as an ADODB data source that we've paired with the User Input Controls to give the producer a drop down menu on a global list that they can pick and choose the open they want.
In each scene we have a "video material" and "audio material" that gets replaced through scripting that will read the file names off of the Excel sheet and play both. So far we've done this and had very slight performance increase to our project.
Even though this seems to work pretty decent, is there a better way to accomplish this in fewer steps?
On the Studio machine that our opens play on, we sometimes have full HD clips playing out of the other channel when attempting to play an open. We have come across 1 file that causes these new open scenes to stutter on occasion, but that file has the XPression performance at 50% all by itself, so we're figuring that it needs to be re-rendered. Is there anything we need to consider when playing 2 full HD videos on both outputs of XPression? Any other suggestions or tips to accomplish this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!