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  • 1.  Various Questions

    Posted 20 days ago
    Have a couple of questions for a show. 
    1. Is there a video tutorial that explains how to create a 1920x1080 video layer that then I can create a transparency of a talent name so that we can see the 1920x 1080 video thru the name. 
    - does the video layer need to be in any particular setting?
    - how can i create a inverted mask transparency for the names?
    - do you have a build that maybe shows this so i can unpack it?
    2. In the scene director below, I broke up the animation for a lower third into intro, loop and outro.For some reason, only the intro plays out and then when it gets to the loop it is just static. Any thoughts on why this is happening?
    3. I added a trigger so that it will continue to play the loop in the middle but it sort of blows past it. What is the best way to play out the intro, then loop until i am done to animate out the outro?
    Thank you!


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    Mona Tessema
    xpression op/designer
    Los Angeles United States
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  • 2.  RE: Various Questions

    Posted 20 days ago

    Hi,

    As a workaround you can trigger other scene the loop the video.
    Create a new scene just with the VIDEO LOOP.
    On main scene use just the INTRO and OUTRO VIDEO on timeline, use a PAUSE or LOOP for timeline and place a trigger to start the video loop scene.
    Place 3 quad for each video (INTRO, LOOP, OUTRO) and make them visible or play with the opacity to see them only to a specific moment (hide the loop quad before outro).



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    Gabriel Rosca
    Bucharest, Romania
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  • 3.  RE: Various Questions

    Posted 20 days ago
    1. Inverted Masks.
      https://rossvideo.community/communities/community-home/digestviewer/viewthread?GroupId=199&MessageKey=bda7d502-f846-4a11-b641-8cd1475dd7dd&CommunityKey=91812bfd-9393-4a3f-8a74-7f8035df130e 
      https://rossvideo.community/discussion/how-to-create-an-inverted-alpha-mask#bm4b3e18c2-4eae-4f5c-978b-9de4c2f0c2a5

      2. Make intro animation scene director and then make an loop animation director which should also include your out animation. You also need an out scene director but this will only contain a script. 
      Place trigger on end of intro to trigger loop/out anim. 
      Have a text object that can be either 0/1 .
      On the loop animation where you want the loop or out to happen place a script. 
      The script will be as follows.
      Dim textObj As xpTextObject
      Dim curVal As String
      Dim sd As xpSceneDirector
       
      scene.GetObjectByName("OutCheck", textObj)
      curVal = textObj.Text
       
      scene.GetSceneDirectorByName("Loop", sd)
       
      If curVal = "0" Then
            sd.Position = 0
      engine.DebugMessage("loop", 0)
      Else
          ' (Do nothing)
      End If

      You'll need a script on the out that sets the text to 0 and a text onOnline that sets it to 1, let me know if you need those as well. 


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    Simon Redmile
    Senior Graphic Programmer & Designer
    Ross Video
    Bristol United Kingdom
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