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  • 1.  Designing and Delivering XPN packages for multple house formats

    Posted 20 days ago

    Hello,

    Apologies if this is a duplicate post.

    I typically design XPN projects for a single, pre-designated format. I'm currently working on a package and have been asked to deliver for 720p 59.94, 1080i 29.97, and 1080p 59.94. Different facilities have different house formats. I'm trying to figure out if this can be done in a single project and "just work" or if I will need to deliver multiple XPression projects. And while building animations based on designs in After Effects comps that came to me as 29.97 fps, I'm guessing I need to double the key frame numbers for a 59.94p comp, so that the animation timing matches the original design?

    Would love any input from people who have done this before.

    Thank you,

    Shane Finley



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    Shane Finley
    Dallas - Fort Worth Area United States
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  • 2.  RE: Designing and Delivering XPN packages for multple house formats

    Posted 18 days ago

    Shane,

    Best practice here would be to design one project in 1080p 59.94 and have XPression output the project in each facilities' house format. The conversion would be handled on the Output Card, which would need to be set to their specific standard instead of <from project>. 

    And yes, if After Effects comps came to you at 29.97, they'll need to be converted to 59.94 before bringing into XPression, otherwise the videos will play out at twice the speed in the project.



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    Jeff Mayer
    Ross Video
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  • 3.  RE: Designing and Delivering XPN packages for multple house formats

    Posted 18 days ago

    Jeff is correct.  One call out that I will give is that this depends on version of xpression as well.  When version 8 had just come out, I was working on an ESPN Project (720p 59.94), but we were a 1080i house.  So then we had the output cards do the conversion.  Did it work, yes.  But there were so many video layers in each of the scenes, that I could easily crash XPression if I put certain scenes online. - It was 2018 and it was the current design of ESPN College basketball, in its first year.

    Since then, Xpression software and video codecs have gotten better.  As well as most all computers have better internals if it was purchased since 2018. - If someone is still trying to run Xpression version 6 or the few people that worked off of version 7, then I would not suggest using the output card.

    Expensive resolution.  Have everyone get a product like a AJA FS4 and run the keys and fills into that and have that do the version before the switcher.  But that adds up FAST.

    There is the conversion tool built into xpression that does good for changing key frames and what not.  But anything you have in that is a video, you would need to bring those material back in in the correct format that you need. - Also working in a 720 space vs a 1080 space, the conversion tool that is built into Xpression, you are going to want to check position key framing as obviously the canvas is a different size.



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    Garrett Hall
    Overtime Elite
    Atlanta United States
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