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Hello. I'm a Motion Graphics Designer who primarily works in Cinema 4D and After Effects.

Disclamer: I have no experience with using Ross Xpressions and I've got minimal experience in a live studio production setup. Yep... you've read that right. I'm here because I need some help and there aren't too many resources that could provide insight on the following...

At the company I work for, our latest project is to create a new graphics package for the news organization. While designing the graphics package, a frequent road block in designing would be the technical issues and language barriers between our primary design tools (Cinema 4D, After Effects, and Illustrator) and Ross Xpressions (the primary broadcasting graphics software that also talks to ENPS through the MOS plugin).

Yes, one way to solve this issue is for me to learn Xpressions, but budget wise- that would not be possible.

I'm looking for anyone that has experience with working in broadcast design using Xpressions, Cinema 4D, and After Effects and can speak to their workflow process. I'm up for a phone / video call if it would be easier to chat about this that way.

I look forward to this conversation and hearing more about Ross Xpressions! Thank you!!

Hi,
Usually people export from cinema 4D as .obj files with a png texture map. Then you can import the model into XPression and apply the texture map as a material.
If you're running After Effects on a PC you can install the XPression Codec for free and export the videos from After Effects as XPression AVI Codec files. These files will playback in XPression with the best possible performance. If you're using After Effects on a Mac the best option is to export the video files as MOV Quicktime Animation or MOV ProRes. Then convert the MOV files to the XPression AVI codec using the free PC XPression application XPression Video Coder (this application is also pre-installed on most Ross XPression hardware). PreRes requires Qucktime Pro to be installed.
XPression will play MOV files, but you get significantly more performance overhead using XPression AVI codec files.

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