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RE: New Desk Monitor Graphics/Transitions Question

Posted By Tai Newman 02-19-2024 23:10
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Tough situation to walk into, sounds like you really need to clear up one of the frame buffers of graphics to dedicate to the video screen then. The right way to do it is go through all the graphics templates and put them all on Frame buffer 1, which will likely mean in some instances having to ...

RE: New Desk Monitor Graphics/Transitions Question

Posted By Tai Newman 02-14-2024 19:21
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For your set up with two channels of CG, can the production handle having all the show graphics in CG 1, while CG 2 takes the monitor graphics? Do the current scenes use transition logic? If so, changing the later priority and outputs should be a relatively simple task (if lengthy depending on how ...

RE: How to Script Quad material change from text input?

Posted By Tai Newman 06-05-2023 20:56
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Thanks Simon, I ended up using Self.Project.GetMaterialbyName ("name".Text."textname") However I could not have gotten to that point without your assistance. Thanks for your time! ------------------------------ Tai Newman Xpression operator/designer Melbourne Australia ...

RE: How to Script Quad material change from text input?

Posted By Tai Newman 06-01-2023 16:53
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Ah, unfortunately the workstation is a Graphite 8.5 4567 build. Otherwise this option would be ideal ------------------------------ Tai Newman Xpression operator/designer Melbourne Australia ------------------------------

How to Script Quad material change from text input?

Posted By Tai Newman 05-31-2023 18:49
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Hi All, I was asked how to use a text object to select a material in a quad, and that material needs to exist in the material manager already. The different syntax for this has stumped me. I can structure a material change with text input for images or videos not already existing in the project ...

RE: Scripted Line graph materials back to back

Posted By Tai Newman 05-24-2023 18:53
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Tested and works like a charm. Much appreciated! ------------------------------ Tai Newman Xpression operator/designer Melbourne Australia ------------------------------

RE: Scripted Line graph materials back to back

Posted By Tai Newman 05-24-2023 17:33
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Thanks Roman! I will give this a go, honestly never thought of having just a preview material and one for working online, brilliant. Cheers ------------------------------ Tai Newman Xpression operator/designer Melbourne Australia ------------------------------

Scripted Line graph materials back to back

Posted By Tai Newman 05-23-2023 19:12
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Hi there, currently have a script which is providing output of line graphs for AFL player stats, using Xpression Graphite v8.5 4567 (64bit) (script below). 'create a new XPression engine instance 'dim Engine as new xpEngine 'dim a material variable dim Mat as xpMaterial 'dim an APITexture shader ...

RE: Scripting VolatileTextureFile playout

Posted By Tai Newman 11-28-2021 18:51
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Thanks Garner! I have tested both options and they both work, the dumby material is the easiest to implement however so I might stick with that. Cheers T ------------------------------ Tai Newman Xpression operator/designer Melbourne Australia ------------------------------

Scripting VolatileTextureFile playout

Posted By Tai Newman 11-25-2021 20:08
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Hi there, I am in the midst of learning and testing using scripts to bring video content into a project without having it within the Material Manager. However, the videos loop, and I am looking for them to be "forced" to play once. Looking at the SDK file I cannot see how formulate this request ...

Where to add script?

Posted By Tai Newman 02-04-2014 01:17
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Hi all, Just trying to create a script for lower third, where we want a material in a quad within a "layer object" to be visible, but when it is, we want a logo, which is a video clip, in a quad within a seperate "Group" to not be visible. I think I know the script I need to attach, but ...

Sequencer Issues

Posted By Tai Newman 11-04-2013 03:01
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Hi, is there any way to automate colour coding of slugs for the sequencer? The graphics dept at the moment has to manually change each scene colour, but we would prefer if there was an option in inews. Would this require scripting? I am not sure where to begin. Cheers Tai

RE: Copying Scene between two projects in a project group

Posted By Tai Newman 09-19-2013 21:21
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Thanks Garner, This worked like a charm. Don't know how I forgot this from my trainning! Cheers Tai #XPression

Copying Scene between two projects in a project group

Posted By Tai Newman 09-18-2013 23:31
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Hi, Can anyone tell me if I can Copy a Scene between two projects in a project group? Currently it seems I need to re-build the scene, but I would like to avoid that if at all possible. Thanks

RE: Scripting Text Y position move

Posted By Tai Newman 09-02-2013 23:24
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Thanks for that! I was a bit stuck without that code. I had a play with what you gave me and came up with this tweak. dim text1 as xpBaseObject scene.GetObjectByName("Top Line Text", text1) if Len(text) > 0 then text1.posY = -405.00 else text1.posY = ...

Scripting Text Y position move

Posted By Tai Newman 09-02-2013 04:38
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Hi all, I have the following script on my Lower 3rd text to bring on a quad when text is typed into the text box dim bar as xpBaseObject scene.GetObjectByName("BASELINE_D", Bar) if Len(text) > 0 then Bar.visible = True else Bar.visible = False ...