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hello experts, in my company, we have xpression studio and xpression designer. now my company is organizing some live sport evet which is too far from my office. we want to use xpression for this live sport event. we cannot take our server (xpression studio) in live location and we dont want to buy another xpression studio for live event only . is there any other lite version  or any other software to play xpression design that i have made in designer.? thank you 

Hi Sunil,

I'll start with your second question first, there is no other software available to render your XPression design, other than XPression.

However, if you can't take your XPression Studio with you, you can always try to rent a machine.

Another option you can try, is to use a (gaming )laptop with an external videocard. There are different solutions available, such as the AJA IO XT (https://www.aja.com/products/io-xt) or a custom solution using an external exclosure such as a Sonnet Echo Express for example, together with an existing videocard that you may still have lying around.

Do note that both solutions require a USB-C or Thunderbolt-connector on the laptop.

In order to run Xpression on it, you will need to use the USB-dongle which holds the XPression-license on it. This USB-key usually is inserted on the inside of the PC-case, but you can remove it temporarily to use on your laptop.

Just to be clear, I'm talking about the Studio-license because with the Designer-license you can not render to a video-output.

I travel quite a bit for events all over the world and I have assembled a travel-kit using an MSI gaminglaptop (which has an Nvidia-card built in) together with a Sonnet Echo Express II with an AJA Corvid 88 inside. I also use a StarTech convertor from USB-C to Thunderbolt.

Hope it helps!

Thank you. 

Hello Sunil,

You could alternatively build an custom dashboard panel to trigger the xpression remotely.

You will need VPN access to the remote system, and this will require alot of setup.

Peter

thank you i did it with making another transaction scene and offset few frames of transition. and use dashboard single button to control 2 layer i mean background layer and transaction layer ......