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Pushing an updated project to live engines

Posted By Kenny Meade 01-07-2025 11:51
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We use an XPression system in the live production environment. Graphics are created in a newsroom computer system (ENPS) and loaded via MOS into engines through Overdrive. When I make a change (typically adding a new scene) to that existing project, then publish to server, it shows up in ENPS (the MOS ...

RE: Metadata and scripting issue with a sports graphic

Posted By Kenny Meade 11-03-2023 14:13
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I should also add the reason I'm trying to carry this further is because we have occasionally had logos that get their metadata deleted or corrupted and have recently started getting images on-air of two NFL teams with it actually showing the NCAA logo. I figured the best way to "prevent" this was simply ...

RE: Metadata and scripting issue with a sports graphic

Posted By Kenny Meade 11-03-2023 13:57
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I just realized that the script only goes to a folder and "pulls" the logo based on a string value assigned in a visual logic. Here's the logic: So I guess what I'm trying to do is find a way to analyze the value of either "League_L" or "League_R" and only run the green part below, IF they ...

Metadata and scripting issue with a sports graphic

Posted By Kenny Meade 11-03-2023 12:00
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I have a scene file that allows our users to select two sports team logos from Streamline that have information embedded in three metadata fields. One is the location of the team (or the name of the university, in the case of colleges), the second is the name of the team (or mascot) and the third is ...

RE: Visual Logic to change a background on full screen

Posted By Kenny Meade 11-02-2023 16:00
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This seems to work ------------------------------ Kenny Meade ------------------------------

RE: Visual Logic to change a background on full screen

Posted By Kenny Meade 11-02-2023 15:43
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Now that doesn't seem to work. It worked one time, then stopped. ------------------------------ Kenny Meade ------------------------------

RE: Visual Logic to change a background on full screen

Posted By Kenny Meade 11-02-2023 15:39
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I think I figured it out. You use ORDINAL not LESS. Duh. ------------------------------ Kenny Meade ------------------------------

RE: Visual Logic to change a background on full screen

Posted By Kenny Meade 11-02-2023 15:27
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I tried this, but it doesn't seem to work. It only selects the background based on the SPORTS 1 text. ------------------------------ Kenny Meade ------------------------------

Visual Logic to change a background on full screen

Posted By Kenny Meade 11-02-2023 14:51
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So, I have a sports scene that will be used to compare two players. The images used will be inserted through Streamline and they use metadata fields to specific things like their names, what team they play for and and what sport they play. (colleges could have multiple sports). I have the strings ...

Centering groups

Posted By Kenny Meade 08-20-2020 15:46
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I have a graphic that needs to have a "legend" at the top. There could be anywhere from 1 to 5 items in the legend. Each one is a group containing a quad with a solid color and a text object that will vary. I would like for the legend to automatically center along the top line like this:

RE: Working with image metadata in a script

Posted By Kenny Meade 08-19-2020 04:31
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It would seem that when I talk about "metadata" in terms of Streamline, that it is something different from image metadata in the the more basic sense. I tried to download images from our Streamline system and search for these "user-defined" (in Streamline) tags using EXIF Pilot. I failed to find them. ...

Working with image metadata in a script

Posted By Kenny Meade 08-17-2020 21:55
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I have this graphic that has a replaceable image (a sports team logo) that will eventually come from Streamline. All those images contain three meta tags, 1 is the team location (city), 2 is the team name (mascot) and 3 is the league or conference. I tried at first to approach it from Visual Logic ...

RE: Visual Logic question

Posted By Kenny Meade 08-10-2020 20:54
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Whatever you think works the best. I don't personally know as much about scripting yet, but if it's a better approach to accomplish something like this, by all means. Perhaps I can learn something from that. #XPression

RE: Visual Logic question

Posted By Kenny Meade 08-10-2020 16:29
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I somewhat figured this out, but it's not very "clean" logic. Maybe someone else can help? So, I ONLY want the part in red to run IF both variables (circled in green) contain data (strings). Otherwise, I would like to simply pass the value of the first string to that "LEAGUE_MASTER text object. ...

RE: Visual Logic question

Posted By Kenny Meade 08-08-2020 00:26
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Sorry. It's kind of confusing, I know. I understand it in my head but have a difficult time explaining what I want to accomplish to others. Basically I want to look at both metadata tags and if they are the same, then assign that logo to the third image object. So, yes, if both teams are SEC, it would ...

Visual Logic question

Posted By Kenny Meade 08-07-2020 20:06
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I have this graphic that has two sports team logos that contain metadata. The third tag stores the name of the league/conference they are in. I'm pulling the values in visual logic and trying to compare them. If they are equal, I would like to pass the actual string to a selector that would choose a ...

RE: How to "scroll" some text within a larger scene

Posted By Kenny Meade 07-27-2020 16:22
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Zachary, I owe you one! I've literally only been using XPression for about 3 weeks and figured this was pretty deep over my experience level at this point, but your tutorial was easy to follow and understand. I had been messing around with continuous animations and thought that might be the approach ...

RE: Pie chart question

Posted By Kenny Meade 07-24-2020 15:02
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Thanks for the help, all! I should have described my project goals a bit more thoroughly. You see, I work for a television station and my plan was to create this pie chart as a template scene that could be used by news producers live in a newscast. It would function through a MOS environment. The ...

Pie chart question

Posted By Kenny Meade 07-23-2020 21:37
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So, we just started using an XPression and I only received training a couple weeks ago. Unfortunately, my news department is already asking me to do things that are turning out to be fairly complex and over my present level of experience. I managed to follow the tutorial on pie charts and got ...

RE: How to "scroll" some text within a larger scene

Posted By Kenny Meade 07-21-2020 15:03
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Thanks so much! This "somewhat" tackles my problem. The only issue is my text has to be generated by image metadata from within the main scene. Not sure how to get THAT into the crawl scene. #XPression