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RE: Questions of Xpression virtual output

Posted By Garrett Hall 03-09-2021 16:46
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So in my opinion, in order to play 2 scenes online at the same time, the best way to do that is 1) make a custom dashboard button and trigger from dashboard, or 2) if you just the "." key on your num pad of your keyboard, you can "cue" items in Xpression. So, you can cue the 2 scenes and then you would ...

RE: Send file names via datalinq for a video material.

Posted By Garrett Hall 03-09-2021 16:41
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Just throwing out an idea. If you cannot script in Prime, you may have to render out alpha onto your video and have it auto start just with alpha at the beginning. - I will admit that I am not familiar with prime so I cannot speak too much to it. I think where you are going to get stuck is trying ...

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

Posted By Garrett Hall 08-06-2020 15:52
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372662259092 let me just say the YouTube video that you uploaded has to be one of the best ever responses on this forum in the form of a response. To not only show your script, but to visually break it down as well. I wish there was some award system to give you something for that response. #XPr ...

RE: Potential Bug: Datalinq Key Macro Equations no longer working with Datalinq Comparison Key

Posted By Garrett Hall 08-05-2020 19:09
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Could you just do %relid% instead of an equation. So if your group is 1200 and your take ID is 1201, if you enter %relid% it would be the equivalent of doing TakeID-GroupID number to give you an output of 1 in this case. This limits you to 99, but most things usually happen less than 100 times. # ...

RE: Xpression Live Inputs, Mini Switcher

Posted By Garrett Hall 08-05-2020 19:06
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Ryan, if you can build a dashboard, if you have a carbonite or other Ross switcher, why not just use dashboard to cut your show and trigger any macros. Then sure you could use the video input and throw up a virtual output and be watching a multi viewer or something like that. It will tax the Xpression ...

RE: Hide/show framebuffer layer

Posted By Garrett Hall 07-22-2020 18:34
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Hi Ole, So I think that I have the script that you need to make this work. You would need to use dashboard, or some form of keyboard shortcut in order to trigger this. If you have a carbonite, it could trigger a GPI on the XPression as well and you would get your result. Script: dim fb ...

RE: Text Width Adjustment

Posted By Garrett Hall 06-04-2020 19:09
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**edit - Apologies, I just saw the message about 6.5. I am not sure that that value for bounding box was available in 6.5, it might have been a version 7 or 8 addition to Xpression. Have you tried using visual logic? You can take the bounding box width of Text 1 and do an add block. So take position ...

Scripting Help - Position and Animation Controller

Posted By Garrett Hall 06-02-2020 03:09
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Hi, I am trying to make a scene be dynamic as possible. I have the below script on a text object in my scene. The script is working to set the width of my quad correctly. Now I am trying to do 2 more things. I want to set the position of a text box based on the one text. That is what T1 is. Then ...

RE: Use Visual Logic to search though datalinq

Posted By Garrett Hall 03-27-2020 22:27
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Sorry for delay. - So I retyped your XML information into XML notepad to make a local XML file. Makes it tough to not have the original. You will see what I mean with Datalinq Key to add in the state name in order to type in a name and then pull that data. There are newer features in v9.0 that allow ...

RE: Use Visual Logic to search though datalinq

Posted By Garrett Hall 03-27-2020 21:32
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Could you not just use a datalinq key and enter the state name into the field to get the information you want? Send a link to the XML, and I should be able to tell you how to pull whatever data you want. While the id may not be unique, the state name is going to be accurate. - So it is not even visual ...

RE: Visual Logic to Select Number of Rows

Posted By Garrett Hall 03-10-2020 00:37
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Why don’t you use input selector. Attach your datalinq to the top and then do your 4 outputs. Just set your selector to start at 1 instead of 0 #XPression

RE: Alpha Inverted Matte Generated by Text

Posted By Garrett Hall 03-02-2020 23:50
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Finally one that I can answer. The step you are probably missing is having both your quad and the text box inside of a layer object. Once that is done, on your scene font that you are using, select it, go to Edit Material. Then towards the bottom of that new window select subtractive in the blending ...

Text Macros updating with visual logic

Posted By Garrett Hall 02-25-2020 17:41
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Attached you will see a picture of what I am working on. Do not worry, this is just a proof of concept and not the final look. In the center of the screen in the vertical numbers you will see 5 lines of numbers. Top line is just a text box that is getting data from a simple dashboard counter that counts ...

RE: Seemingly simple package running very heavy

Posted By Garrett Hall 10-23-2019 16:10
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But off the top of my head right away, if the videos are 24fps, that means that you did not convert them to the Xpression codec before you played them out. So that very well could be causing it. I would also ask, are the videos sized for the area they are being played in or are they still full resolution? ...

RE: Video Headshots all in 1 Scene

Posted By Garrett Hall 10-08-2019 19:59
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@Jeff. I will try to download this project tonight and look at it. Just something that came to mind that affected us at Boston College last year. We were a 1080 house but running a 720 project, so it put extra stress on the machine to up convert inside of the software. So are you a 1080 house and then ...

RE: Video Headshots all in 1 Scene

Posted By Garrett Hall 10-08-2019 19:12
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Did you convert the videos into the Xpression codec using the video coder on the system? I would also encourage you that anything that can be still to be still. So like if it is an animated headshot, but most of the background is static, I would build the background into the scene and then have the video ...

RE: Scripting from a datalinq

Posted By Garrett Hall 08-30-2019 15:23
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I got this to work. I was stupid. I have the 0 or 1 coming into Xpression. There was a visual logic cube to make this work of selecting one or the other. So the input selector made that work. #XPression

Scripting from a datalinq

Posted By Garrett Hall 08-28-2019 08:41
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Hi. I am trying to take text based off of a script and make it go somewhere else. Scenerio is for football. I am going to have an operator enter a digit inside of a dashboard panel. That digit will pass its value over to Xpression. There is then a check box that is passing a 0 or 1 depending on if it ...

RE: Xpression Video Codec

Posted By Garrett Hall 08-06-2019 18:38
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Yeah I am trying to have the codec on a separate computer from where my Xpression Studio is installed. #XPression

Xpression Video Codec

Posted By Garrett Hall 08-06-2019 15:46
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Hi I searched for this and I found the last time someone linked to the Xpression Codec was 4 years ago. I wanted to make sure that I had the most up to date codec to use in premier for converting videos. I was wondering if there was a download link to the latest version of the codec?