Graphics

Hi!

Running into a periodic issue that I cannot reliably recreate and curious if anyone else has experienced this and has any advice. Our graphics packages have Full Screens on FB2 L0 and we have a separate scene for Wipes on FB2 Layer 10 that are triggered from the full screens. The wipe scene is a single video playing back with a takeOffline at the end. The Full Screens have WipeOn/WipeOff SDs that have a simple script TID trigger & an Anim Controller to cut the "content" group on/off under the wipe. This all works well as intended......until it doesn't. 

For some reason periodically (usually 1-2 times per day) we will get this message: "Material [name of wipe] has been unloaded. -1" and suddenly wipes no longer show up. The video is just blank (fully transparent). I should add this happens on several of our graphics packages that do not share elements or even sometimes their structure but its always the wipes that die, never the backgrounds. Video files are XPVC2 with alpha usually rendered at 80% quality (our backgrounds are XPVC2 and usually without alpha but I've seen our design team occasionally render them with alpha by accident. Doesn't seem to affect anything other than a slight performance hit but they are still stable compared to wipe).


What causes this to happen? Is this a video memory full issue? I was experiencing it on a 4090 build just as often as I've experienced it on our 3070 Designer workstations. 

XPression version 10.5 v5541 happens equally often (1-2 times per day) on Studio, Flex, Designer & Developer.

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Nick Huntley
ESL Faceit Group - XPression Devleoper
Irvine United States
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Did you ever get an answer to this? 

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Simon Redmile
Senior Graphic Programmer & Designer
Ross Video
Bristol United Kingdom
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Original Message:
Sent: 08-06-2025 12:13
From: Nick Huntley
Subject: Videos Unloading

Hi!

Running into a periodic issue that I cannot reliably recreate and curious if anyone else has experienced this and has any advice. Our graphics packages have Full Screens on FB2 L0 and we have a separate scene for Wipes on FB2 Layer 10 that are triggered from the full screens. The wipe scene is a single video playing back with a takeOffline at the end. The Full Screens have WipeOn/WipeOff SDs that have a simple script TID trigger & an Anim Controller to cut the "content" group on/off under the wipe. This all works well as intended......until it doesn't. 

For some reason periodically (usually 1-2 times per day) we will get this message: "Material [name of wipe] has been unloaded. -1" and suddenly wipes no longer show up. The video is just blank (fully transparent). I should add this happens on several of our graphics packages that do not share elements or even sometimes their structure but its always the wipes that die, never the backgrounds. Video files are XPVC2 with alpha usually rendered at 80% quality (our backgrounds are XPVC2 and usually without alpha but I've seen our design team occasionally render them with alpha by accident. Doesn't seem to affect anything other than a slight performance hit but they are still stable compared to wipe).


What causes this to happen? Is this a video memory full issue? I was experiencing it on a 4090 build just as often as I've experienced it on our 3070 Designer workstations. 

XPression version 10.5 v5541 happens equally often (1-2 times per day) on Studio, Flex, Designer & Developer.

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Nick Huntley
ESL Faceit Group - XPression Devleoper
Irvine United States
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