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  • 1.  Material Change Based on Scene Director

    Posted 28 days ago

    Good morning/afternoon depending on where you are in the world!

    I am trying to figure something out and hoping someone in here can help me out.

    In Xpression I'm doing animated materials(transparent lower thirds) from after effects.  My question is, is there a script or some other way to change what material is played based on what scene director is triggered?



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    Allen Evans
    Production Editor
    Milestone Church
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  • 2.  RE: Material Change Based on Scene Director

    Posted 26 days ago

    You can put a script on each scene director to assign a specific material to one of your scene's objects, but that could open up other issues about getting the material to play the way you intend among others.

    How are you choosing which Scene Director to trigger? Is there some Transition of Visual Logic at work? There may be other ways to select the material based on how you're driving the scene director decision. Dynamic Materials may be a good option here too.



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    Jeff Mayer
    Ross Video
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  • 3.  RE: Material Change Based on Scene Director

    Posted 25 days ago

    I'm using transition logic for my IN/OUT and back to backs.  I've tried to use some scriptinging, but I can't seem to get them to work.  I can get the scripts to compile "correctly" but still nothing seems to work. 



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    Allen Evans
    Production Editor
    Milestone Church
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  • 4.  RE: Material Change Based on Scene Director

    Posted 25 days ago

    I would love to explore the dynamic materials option if you think that would useful.  I've exhausted my limited knowledge base on how to solve this.  Any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated!



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    Allen Evans
    Production Editor
    Milestone Church
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  • 5.  RE: Material Change Based on Scene Director

    Posted 24 days ago

    Here's a good tutorial on Dynamic Materials: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfeXnFgSmPA

    Keep in mind when swapping video materials that aren't originally bound to the scene, you won't be able to play them using the scene director. You'll have to set your video material to Auto Start on the Material's Video Shader Property.



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    Jeff Mayer
    Ross Video
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