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Hello, I've been using XPression for a couple of months now and have been compiling a list of things I'd like to see that would make things easier and/or more robust (in my opinion anyway). Some of these may have been noted elsewhere, but it appears we're all looking for the same things. I am coming from the VizRT world, so some of these exist in that world.

Masking

More control of what is masked - more "local" (or group) control of what is getting masked rather than everything that is below the mask layer. Additionally the ability to use a quad or other primitive as a mask in addition to an image

Text Controls/Animations

I saw this in another post so I'm including it here; character-by-character animations, etc

Autofollow

This is a VizRT function that allows one object (text, quads, etc) to follow another object. My example would be a quad material "end cap" following a text object

OBJECT MANAGER

Object (Scene tree)

Method to identify objects that contain a script (color coding, "s" near container name, etc)

Ability for parent objects to hide their child(ren); currently items in a "group" hide everything when the group is turned off, but a text layer with children will only turn off the text layer

[I]Transform Tab[/I]

Ability to reset positions to a default value.

0.0 (rotation, scale, pivot), 1.0 (scale)

[I]Published Object Order

Method to arrange objects more quickly; ie: Move to Top, Move to Bottom, ability to manually enter ID order value, drag & drop and/or cut/paste for groups of objects

OBJECT LIBRARY

Base Objects[/I]

-Addition of additional primitives (such as a circle) and maybe a polygon tool where a shape can be drawn "freehand" or use imported paths from an Illustrator file

-Ability to open up the cylinder object - adjust the radius from 0 to 360

MATERIAL MANAGER

Material editing / Texture 2D: Info about what the various parameters do:

Color blending - blend modes, stage modifiers, output modifiers

Alpha blending - blend modes, stage modifiers, output modifiers

PROJECT MANAGER

Ability to multi-select and drag scenes (up) from the Scene Manager to the Project Manager area or a right-click menu per scene that allows a category assignment.

That's all I could think of at the moment. I know there's plenty more...including more script examples and documentation.

These are some great ideas Brian. Thanks for sharing them. Team XPression is always improving the product and we are already ahead of you as far as what the engine will be capable of in the coming months.

Stay tuned, it's going to be a great year for XPression!

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Thanks, Brian! Feedback like this is always appreciated. I'll add these to the development list and see what what we can get done. We are going to be focusing on the XPression engine in 2012, now that most of our workflow tools are complete. You should see lots of "goodies" in coming releases. Again, thanks for your input and support of XPression.

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A search field in the Scene Manager! Like the one in the MOS plugin!

Although, like many of the things I've wished for in Xpression, it will probably come out in the next daily build or something...haha!

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put in with the Font options WORD WRAP for a text box and VERTICAL text justification

ability to edit the text of fields populated by an excel or access document before it goes to air..

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I now see some scripts passing by in the various posts, but I think it is hard for someone to find them, especially when the forums get bigger and bigger. Why not collect these scripts as they are 'published' and put them all separate in the download section of the XPression Downloads section of the community. This way everyone can simply find them if they need them.

And than why not add all sample XPression-projects en sample API-projects as well so eventually a library of samples will be created accessable to everyone with an account.

And we, the users, can also contribute to that library. Whenever someone wants to share some script/source code/XPF we can just send it in and you, the Ross guys, can check it (so only really working stuff is added) and add it to the download section for everyone to see.

I think all users can benefit from this.

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Gerald,

These are good suggestions. We are planing to have better samples videos and scripts with projects for people to review, use and enhance.

Things for Team XPN are very busy right now as we approach NAB and some great new announcements and features, so Stand-by for all of these.

If anyone has suggestions for what we need please email me and I will add them to a list.

-g

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Hello Gerald,

briliant idea. And I would like to give suggestions. Where can I find your e-mail adress?

regards

Tom

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Hi Tom,

I don't work for Ross Video so all I can do is come up with the idea. Please pass your suggestions to the Ross guys (e.g. through this topic).

Kind regards,

Gerard

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Sorry Gerald,

I didn´t mean you, I meant Glen.

regards Tom

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you can send suggestions to gmaxheleau@rossvideo.com

-g

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I would like to see export options for JPG and .mov. Any more options like that coming with the new version of the software??

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