Graphics

Hello All,

Wondering if it's possible to make "smart" animations in Xpression 5.7

I have avi files as my background in my lowerthirds and fullscreens but sometimes we have to play out multiple of those back to back. When we do this, we see the animation play out everytime unless we create those templates with multiple pages in the same template. Is there a way around this?

Maybe a macro that tells it to just update the text if there's same templates back to back.

I would really appreciate the help. Thank you in advance.

As far back as XPression 5.0 (which I have), it's possible to play the AVI and select another template while the AVI is still running and only the text animates on. Just make sure they have the same background AVI. If you want it to play once (i.e. if you set that in the material settings), then the AVI's duration needs to be longer than the time you expect it to take to go to your last template, otherwise the AVI will start from the beginning again (or stay on the first frame). If it's set to loop, then you don't need to worry about that.

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