Production Switchers

For reasons too silly to explain, I want to capture an Xpression lower third (with altha) in Carbonite Media Manager and save it as a Capture or Still. For very obvious reasons, Media Manager is not an input source in .... Media Manager (where you do that capture). I can send the graphic to Carbonite the traditional way (Device Configuration and CC), but from there I can't get it into Media Manager / Capture or Still. 

Thoughts (besides "he's nuts")?

------------------------------
[Danny] [Skarka] Ross Pilot since Synergy
[Producer, Director, Technical Director]
------------------------------

you can also "export take item" as an .avi, a sequence of stills or you can pick the exact frame you want. Save it to a thumb drive and add it to your switcher. or ftp if you have that set up.

------------------------------
Malcolm Thorpe
Free Lance Xpression Designer/Carbonite TD
------------------------------

Original Message:
Sent: 10-04-2022 20:59
From: Danny Skarka
Subject: Capture Xpression GFX in Carbonite

For reasons too silly to explain, I want to capture an Xpression lower third (with altha) in Carbonite Media Manager and save it as a Capture or Still. For very obvious reasons, Media Manager is not an input source in .... Media Manager (where you do that capture). I can send the graphic to Carbonite the traditional way (Device Configuration and CC), but from there I can't get it into Media Manager / Capture or Still. 

Thoughts (besides "he's nuts")?

------------------------------
[Danny] [Skarka] Ross Pilot since Synergy
[Producer, Director, Technical Director]
------------------------------

What are the steps to do that export and does it get me alpha?

------------------------------
[Danny] [Skarka] Ross Pilot since Synergy
[Producer, Director, Technical Director]
------------------------------

Original Message:
Sent: 10-04-2022 22:07
From: Malcolm Thorpe
Subject: Capture Xpression GFX in Carbonite

you can also "export take item" as an .avi, a sequence of stills or you can pick the exact frame you want. Save it to a thumb drive and add it to your switcher. or ftp if you have that set up.

------------------------------
Malcolm Thorpe
Free Lance Xpression Designer/Carbonite TD

Original Message:
Sent: 10-04-2022 20:59
From: Danny Skarka
Subject: Capture Xpression GFX in Carbonite

For reasons too silly to explain, I want to capture an Xpression lower third (with altha) in Carbonite Media Manager and save it as a Capture or Still. For very obvious reasons, Media Manager is not an input source in .... Media Manager (where you do that capture). I can send the graphic to Carbonite the traditional way (Device Configuration and CC), but from there I can't get it into Media Manager / Capture or Still. 

Thoughts (besides "he's nuts")?

------------------------------
[Danny] [Skarka] Ross Pilot since Synergy
[Producer, Director, Technical Director]
------------------------------

From the sequencer, right click on the scene you want to export. If it is a single frame the. Select that box and decide which frame you want. Alpha SHOULD follow to the exported frame.

Sent from my iPhone


Original Message:
Sent: 10/5/2022 8:05:00 PM
From: Danny
Subject: RE: Capture Xpression GFX in Carbonite

What are the steps to do that export and does it get me alpha?

------------------------------
[Danny] [Skarka] Ross Pilot since Synergy
[Producer, Director, Technical Director]
------------------------------

Original Message:
Sent: 10-04-2022 22:07
From: Malcolm Thorpe
Subject: Capture Xpression GFX in Carbonite

you can also "export take item" as an .avi, a sequence of stills or you can pick the exact frame you want. Save it to a thumb drive and add it to your switcher. or ftp if you have that set up.

------------------------------
Malcolm Thorpe
Free Lance Xpression Designer/Carbonite TD

Original Message:
Sent: 10-04-2022 20:59
From: Danny Skarka
Subject: Capture Xpression GFX in Carbonite

For reasons too silly to explain, I want to capture an Xpression lower third (with altha) in Carbonite Media Manager and save it as a Capture or Still. For very obvious reasons, Media Manager is not an input source in .... Media Manager (where you do that capture). I can send the graphic to Carbonite the traditional way (Device Configuration and CC), but from there I can't get it into Media Manager / Capture or Still. 

Thoughts (besides "he's nuts")?

------------------------------
[Danny] [Skarka] Ross Pilot since Synergy
[Producer, Director, Technical Director]
------------------------------

Hi Danny,

I'm not sure of your end goal here.  but for a quick XPression graphic > Carbonite i recommend using the Rosslinq feature.  Rosslinq allows you to set up a channel in XPression to directly FTP a graphic to a Carbonite still store.  you just set this up under Edit > Hardware, add it to the channel list, put in the carbonite frame IP and pick which Media Store channel to load the still into.  You can create a channel for each still store if you would like.

I have also in the past built a custom control to capture a media store.  MS 1 & 2 allow you to capture a still with alpha, it will save it to your USB drive then load it into the MS channel you stored it too.

Hope this helps

------------------------------
Brandon Rhoda
Ross Video
United States
------------------------------

Original Message:
Sent: 10-04-2022 20:59
From: Danny Skarka
Subject: Capture Xpression GFX in Carbonite

For reasons too silly to explain, I want to capture an Xpression lower third (with altha) in Carbonite Media Manager and save it as a Capture or Still. For very obvious reasons, Media Manager is not an input source in .... Media Manager (where you do that capture). I can send the graphic to Carbonite the traditional way (Device Configuration and CC), but from there I can't get it into Media Manager / Capture or Still. 

Thoughts (besides "he's nuts")?

------------------------------
[Danny] [Skarka] Ross Pilot since Synergy
[Producer, Director, Technical Director]
------------------------------

The reason for this is to work around the delay and how sometimes the see the graphic build when send to the Media Player from Xpression via FTP. My idea is to store these in Media Manager and play them back using CC, which gives an immediate, clean take.

------------------------------
[Danny] [Skarka] Ross Pilot since Synergy
[Producer, Director, Technical Director]
------------------------------

Original Message:
Sent: 10-05-2022 11:06
From: Brandon Rhoda
Subject: Capture Xpression GFX in Carbonite

Hi Danny,

I'm not sure of your end goal here.  but for a quick XPression graphic > Carbonite i recommend using the Rosslinq feature.  Rosslinq allows you to set up a channel in XPression to directly FTP a graphic to a Carbonite still store.  you just set this up under Edit > Hardware, add it to the channel list, put in the carbonite frame IP and pick which Media Store channel to load the still into.  You can create a channel for each still store if you would like.

I have also in the past built a custom control to capture a media store.  MS 1 & 2 allow you to capture a still with alpha, it will save it to your USB drive then load it into the MS channel you stored it too.

Hope this helps

------------------------------
Brandon Rhoda
Ross Video
United States

Original Message:
Sent: 10-04-2022 20:59
From: Danny Skarka
Subject: Capture Xpression GFX in Carbonite

For reasons too silly to explain, I want to capture an Xpression lower third (with altha) in Carbonite Media Manager and save it as a Capture or Still. For very obvious reasons, Media Manager is not an input source in .... Media Manager (where you do that capture). I can send the graphic to Carbonite the traditional way (Device Configuration and CC), but from there I can't get it into Media Manager / Capture or Still. 

Thoughts (besides "he's nuts")?

------------------------------
[Danny] [Skarka] Ross Pilot since Synergy
[Producer, Director, Technical Director]
------------------------------

To answer though your question about how to capture. 

in dashboard live assist menu go to the media tab and there you will have the sub tabs including the capture tab. 

note that you can only capture a still not a sequence of images. 

mid you need the animation Mal points to using the sequence to export to images - then you can select range of the scene (in case it was built with a longer scene director than the sequence - don't want to load extra black frames and waste ram ). Export to PNG and make sure you select with alpha. 

------------------------------
Les O'Reilly
Director - Switcher Product Management
------------------------------

Original Message:
Sent: 10-04-2022 20:59
From: Danny Skarka
Subject: Capture Xpression GFX in Carbonite

For reasons too silly to explain, I want to capture an Xpression lower third (with altha) in Carbonite Media Manager and save it as a Capture or Still. For very obvious reasons, Media Manager is not an input source in .... Media Manager (where you do that capture). I can send the graphic to Carbonite the traditional way (Device Configuration and CC), but from there I can't get it into Media Manager / Capture or Still. 

Thoughts (besides "he's nuts")?

------------------------------
[Danny] [Skarka] Ross Pilot since Synergy
[Producer, Director, Technical Director]
------------------------------

Les,
I understand all but the last paragraph. What source would I select to capture as none seem to carry the alpha. I am looking to capture lower 3rds with alpha from Xpression and add them to the Media Manager for playback via CC to bypass the delay and sometimes rough transfer when using XP as a device FTPing to the MediaManager.

------------------------------
[Danny] [Skarka] Ross Pilot since Synergy
[Producer, Director, Technical Director]
------------------------------

Original Message:
Sent: 10-05-2022 12:13
From: Les O'Reilly
Subject: Capture Xpression GFX in Carbonite

To answer though your question about how to capture. 

in dashboard live assist menu go to the media tab and there you will have the sub tabs including the capture tab. 

note that you can only capture a still not a sequence of images. 

mid you need the animation Mal points to using the sequence to export to images - then you can select range of the scene (in case it was built with a longer scene director than the sequence - don't want to load extra black frames and waste ram ). Export to PNG and make sure you select with alpha. 

------------------------------
Les O'Reilly
Director - Switcher Product Management

Original Message:
Sent: 10-04-2022 20:59
From: Danny Skarka
Subject: Capture Xpression GFX in Carbonite

For reasons too silly to explain, I want to capture an Xpression lower third (with altha) in Carbonite Media Manager and save it as a Capture or Still. For very obvious reasons, Media Manager is not an input source in .... Media Manager (where you do that capture). I can send the graphic to Carbonite the traditional way (Device Configuration and CC), but from there I can't get it into Media Manager / Capture or Still. 

Thoughts (besides "he's nuts")?

------------------------------
[Danny] [Skarka] Ross Pilot since Synergy
[Producer, Director, Technical Director]
------------------------------

Here is what i would do now that i understand this a bit better and knowing this is a pre-production workflow.

In XPression I would select all the sequence items i need for the show and the export them as images.

In export to images select "Single Frame." Select the target folder to export all the images too, and make sure the format is PNG or TGA. Then hit export.

If you want the full animations then you wouldn't select single frame, just know you only have so much Cache and it will fill up quickly. you don't want to be waiting for graphics to load during a show.

From here FTP into carbonite USB.  User name: user  Password: password

go to the usb folder and transfer your folder here.

Then in Media Manager

*You can also upload in Dashboard in media manager as seen in the image

If you are layering graphics and actually need to capture, you are correct that you can't select a Media store as a capture source, so your best bet is to export your scenes and import them into carbonite.


------------------------------
Brandon Rhoda
Ross Video
United States
------------------------------

Original Message:
Sent: 10-05-2022 20:07
From: Danny Skarka
Subject: Capture Xpression GFX in Carbonite

Les,
I understand all but the last paragraph. What source would I select to capture as none seem to carry the alpha. I am looking to capture lower 3rds with alpha from Xpression and add them to the Media Manager for playback via CC to bypass the delay and sometimes rough transfer when using XP as a device FTPing to the MediaManager.

------------------------------
[Danny] [Skarka] Ross Pilot since Synergy
[Producer, Director, Technical Director]

Original Message:
Sent: 10-05-2022 12:13
From: Les O'Reilly
Subject: Capture Xpression GFX in Carbonite

To answer though your question about how to capture. 

in dashboard live assist menu go to the media tab and there you will have the sub tabs including the capture tab. 

note that you can only capture a still not a sequence of images. 

mid you need the animation Mal points to using the sequence to export to images - then you can select range of the scene (in case it was built with a longer scene director than the sequence - don't want to load extra black frames and waste ram ). Export to PNG and make sure you select with alpha. 

------------------------------
Les O'Reilly
Director - Switcher Product Management

Original Message:
Sent: 10-04-2022 20:59
From: Danny Skarka
Subject: Capture Xpression GFX in Carbonite

For reasons too silly to explain, I want to capture an Xpression lower third (with altha) in Carbonite Media Manager and save it as a Capture or Still. For very obvious reasons, Media Manager is not an input source in .... Media Manager (where you do that capture). I can send the graphic to Carbonite the traditional way (Device Configuration and CC), but from there I can't get it into Media Manager / Capture or Still. 

Thoughts (besides "he's nuts")?

------------------------------
[Danny] [Skarka] Ross Pilot since Synergy
[Producer, Director, Technical Director]
------------------------------