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Hello. Somewhat of a rookie question. I am on Xpression 12.5 creating simple lower 3rds that are then exported as .png into Carbonite / Touchdrive for playback. 

I create the lower 3rd, dragging a Scene into Sequence, entering name and title into the two Published Objects fields. I then "Export Take Items To / Images.Here, under Item Name is the name of the Scene I used. This is requiring me to retype the "name" text for every lower 3rd. 

I see a "Naming" text box in the export window that gives me "Base Name" and "Use Item Name". Is it possible for Xpression to populate the Item Name field with the text from the "Name" field in Published Objects? 

Thank  you for helping me type less. 

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[Danny] [Skarka] Ross Pilot since Synergy
[Producer, Director, Technical Director]
San Francisco United States
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Hey Danny! This is totally possible with some simple scripting.

I have this script running OnPreviewRender which means the Take Item name will not update until it is focused in the sequencer.I have set mine to also append " - L3" to the name. If you only want the name, then remove everything after name.Text. You can right click on your scene object (top most object), select Edit Script Events, then select OnPreviewRender to get to this point. Paste in the code below and change the text to your text object name you want to reference (mine was just called NAME in the above example).

dim ti as xpTakeItem
dim name as xpTextObject

self.GetTakeItem(ti)
self.GetObjectByName("TEXT OBJECT NAME",name)

ti.Name = name.Text & " - L3"

These are my export settings:

This is what my file name looks like after export:

Hope this helps!

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Brishen Thompson
Senior Demo & Training Solutions Specialist - Prime, Sports Workflow
Ross Video
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