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RE: VL + Dynamic Material

Posted By Jeff Mayer 08-07-2026 09:02
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Gaurav, Two things you can try. 1. If you're running XPression 11.0 or higher, instead of using VL to feed into the Text property of your TEST text object, send the result of the VL into the Text.Published Value property. This will put the result of your visual logic into template data earlier ...

RE: Adding Material Shader Layers that respect the Alpha of the Texture Shader Layer Below it

Posted By Jeff Mayer 08-05-2026 13:56
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The Dynamic Material would replace the entire material, not just the diffuse color. Easiest way would just be to use Visual Logic to link the hex code from a text object (Datalinq, User Input Control, etc.) to the Diffuse color of the material. Be sure you use a different material in your scene ...

RE: Permissions to Edit Hotkeys

Posted By Jeff Mayer 08-05-2026 04:05
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Administrative permissions are needed to edit the Hotkey assignment of MOS favorites. None of the assignable permissions of a non-admin role will allow users to set or change these. ------------------------------ Jeff Mayer Ross Video ------------------------------

RE: Adding Material Shader Layers that respect the Alpha of the Texture Shader Layer Below it

Posted By Jeff Mayer 08-04-2026 22:26
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Instead of adding another Layer to the material, you can set the diffuse color of your base layer to the specific Team Color, then use the color blending on the Texture shader to get the right look. I took a cutout of the image you posted brought it in as a .png image Texture Shader. Set the ...

RE: Xpression Datalinq Keys and Relid Font Number "0"

Posted By Jeff Mayer 07-22-2026 00:55
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If you have a lot of sequence groups referencing the entire roster (Bios, Game Stats, Season Stats, Full Screens, etc.) it's sometimes easier to place the number "0" at a different row/recall number. For college basketball, we used to place players wearing 0 at row 90, and players wearing 00 at row 99. ...

RE: Mos Plugin and Datalinq

Posted By Jeff Mayer 06-26-2026 11:12
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David, For Datalinq User Input Controls, the MOS plugin reads Datalinq sources from the Gateway's configured Datalinq Server, not necessarily the project's Datalinq Manager. So you'll want to make sure the same Datalinq Server your project is pointing to is also configured here in the XPression Gateway ...

RE: DataLinq Source Requests

Posted By Jeff Mayer 06-24-2026 03:39
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Remote Sequencer's Datalinq status is reporting the Gateway's connection to the Datalinq Server (configured in the Gateway Settings -> Datalinq configuration). This doesn't effect individual objects' connection to Datalinq...those remain defined by their projects' Datalinq Manager setting. However, if ...

RE: DataLinq Excel update: How to refresh the video output directly &,or without pressing Ctrl+S in Excel?

Posted By Jeff Mayer 06-16-2026 11:12
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Jean, It is not possible to update Datalinq in XPression without saving the excel file. Datalinq is reading the file saved to disk, rather than what's live in the open Excel workfbook. The new .xlsx file can be used, but on machines with 64-bit versions of Microsoft Office, you have to install the ...

RE: Xpression License

Posted By Jeff Mayer 06-13-2026 12:45
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Monri, There is an XPression Trial Edition specifically created for training and learning. Reach out the XPression BDM team at XPN_BDM@rossvideo.com for more informaiton. CC: @Phil Englert@Phil Englert ------------------------------ Jeff Mayer Ross Video ------------------------------

RE: %relid% or datalinq key update for crawl scene group secondary scenes

Posted By Jeff Mayer 05-27-2026 21:13
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That makes sense, as the child scene doesn't have a take item ID associated with it, so its %relid% value can't be calculated. Try this instead...when using %relid% in the Datalinq Key, the child scene will calculate the equivalent value by getting the parent scene's Take ID and subtracting the parent ...

RE: %relid% or datalinq key update for crawl scene group secondary scenes

Posted By Jeff Mayer 05-27-2026 10:48
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The only way to set the datalinq key of your child scene to match that of the static parent in a Scene Group is with scripting. Not sure how familiar you are with scripting, but here one you can place on each of your child scenes. It gets the value of the "line" datalinq key in the parent scene, and ...

RE: How to add a text tab in the objectior insepector in XPression?

Posted By Jeff Mayer 05-19-2026 17:52
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In Edit -> Preferences -> Localization, check the box to for standard edit controls under Text Entry. This will allow you to enter text in the Text tab of the object instead of typing into the Text Object itself on the viewport ------------------------------ Jeff Mayer Ross Video ------- ...

RE: Disable Scenes in Sequencer via Scene Names

Posted By Jeff Mayer 05-12-2026 00:35
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This script can run on a Keyboard/GPI shortcut and will find every instance of a Take Item using a specific scene. Depending on the size of your full Sequence, you may want to look in specific Sequencer Groups or at a specific Take Item ID range to limit the amount of items the script has to loop through: ...

RE: Visual Logic for Position with accent marks

Posted By Jeff Mayer 05-05-2026 11:02
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It's a bit of brute force method, but you can use the String Position block to determine if any specific accented characters are included in your last name field. Put as many of those as you need into an Or block, then you can use the result of the Or (will return true if any of the accented characters ...

RE: Custom output on Xpression?

Posted By Jeff Mayer 03-25-2026 12:47
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NDI outputs get their resolution from loaded project settings, so you wouldn't be able to set up different resolutions per output, but the resolutions can change between project loads if needed. ------------------------------ Jeff Mayer Ross Video ------------------------------

RE: API - Widgets bound to xpTextOnject

Posted By Jeff Mayer 02-17-2026 11:18
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There's nothing I see to get the Data Source selected for the xpTextObject, but on a Take Item in sequence, you can retrieve the PropertySourceType for a published object to see if Static, Datalinq or Widget is selected with a script like this: dim takeitem as xpTakeItem dim text1 as xpPublishedObject ...

RE: Xpression scene goes online when other scenes are taken offline

Posted By Jeff Mayer 12-22-2025 06:46
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Jon, The idea of a persistent scene is probably the simplest solution for you, which in the case with XPression, would be using layers. Set your clean 'video feed' take item to a layer below the default Layer 0 of your overlay take items. Layer -1 would work fine, but for safety you can choose a number ...

RE: XML datalinq search AND condition

Posted By Jeff Mayer 11-03-2025 13:42
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Correct Simon. Multiple attributes have to match all search criteria [implemented] the XML/JSON datalinqs can now search multiple attributes or elements to return a node that matches all search criteria. e.g. players ------------------------------ Jeff Mayer Ross Video -------------------- ...

RE: Run Scene Director on Tally/Graphic displayed on switcher

Posted By Jeff Mayer 11-03-2025 13:36
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You can, but you'd need to run an OnRender script on the scene with the animation you want to trigger to always be looking at the tally state of the framebuffer. Here's an example script that will play a scene director called "Play on Tally" on a scene when the Framebuffer the scene is online with ...

RE: Codecs

Posted By Jeff Mayer 10-16-2025 11:24
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INcoder can transcode .mov files. The Quick Animation codec will give you the best result, although many customers use ProRes 4222 or ProRes4444 (with Alpha). I'm not aware of any limitations with Audio. The XPVC and XPVC2 codecs can both handle Audio and Alpha as well as video. If the transode fails ...