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For a goal summary scene I have data keys setup to populate information. The goal scorer will have an animated headshot. The problem I am having is not overloading the performance when taking it to air. I have tried placing all of the headshots in its own scene director, I have also tried placing all of the headshots as a layer in material and use visual logic to enable and disable that layer. I still have the performace issue though. 

Any one have any advice or thoughts how I can make this work in one scene and not have each player in there own scene?

Did you convert the videos into the Xpression codec using the video coder on the system?  I would also encourage you that anything that can be still to be still.  So like if it is an animated headshot, but most of the background is static, I would build the background into the scene and then have the video as a different quad.

Can you give us more information about headshots number, video resolution and file size?

The number of headshots is 26 total. Video Resolution is 1920x1080 and has been converted to the Xpression AVI codec as I do with any video I receive. I have attached the project package. 

https://pmieg-my.sharepoint.com/:u:/g/personal/jeff_bins_pmiwi_com/EVtu-_zPbIBNkuyXnbJpJJkBTQXUlKzcOlbUan0dVgHKNQ?e=gFBEjs

@garretthall That is how it is all built out. The background is its own layer which is a video material. Then the headshots are on it own quad.

@Jeff.  I will try to download this project tonight and look at it.  Just something that came to mind that affected us at Boston College last year.  We were a 1080 house but running a 720 project, so it put extra stress on the machine to up convert inside of the software.  So are you a 1080 house and then need 1080 videos?  Or are you a 720 house and could down convert the videos a little?

@Garrett 1080i house. Same as the project.

Hey Jeff!

Hope you don't mind, I've been toying around with doing some Xpression tutorials, so I figured I'd respond to you in Video format!

https://youtu.be/eZjvzvOiKpE

Here's the script in the code block:

dim Headshot as xpQuadObject
dim Material as xpMaterial

Scene.GetObjectByName("Headshot", Headshot)
Headshot.GetMaterial(0, Material)
Material.SetPlayMode(PlayMode.pm_Once)
Material.Play()

Let me know if that's not how it's supposed to look or if I should define something differently!

@Zachary Definitely what I am looking for. What type of datalinq source is that, ADODB? I have tried this and when I put in the SELECT function on the table it does not work. 

@Zachary Note I am running 8.5 (4611)

@Zachary NVM. I forgot to label my table. All good now.

Glad it worked!

Just to recap, ADODB datalinq source with Excel (I used XLSX, though it's harder to work concurrently on a sheet with that source).

To name a table, select all the values you need (including headers), go to the Formulas tab, and hit "Define Name" (or Name Manager)