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RE: Phantom Material

Posted By Scott Thomas 03-24-2025 16:06
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Sorry, I missed part of what your were talking about… Yes I have scripts on the Scene Director that control playback. My main problem now is getting the preview to work correctly on the HTML 5 MOS plugin. I've tried adding the material to a track and just leaving the track off, but it still seems ...

RE: Phantom Material

Posted By Scott Thomas 03-24-2025 16:05
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RE: Phantom Material

Posted By Scott Thomas 03-24-2025 15:51
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Hi, thanks for the response. I have a video shader on the material, but apparently you can throw a still image in there and it will still work. That's something I gleaned from another thread here. ------------------------------ Scott Thomas Art Director WINK-TV ----------------------------- ...

RE: Phantom Material

Posted By Scott Thomas 03-21-2025 20:05
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I figured out my "Phantom Material" problem. Somehow with the Video Coder, the AVI file I made wasn't just the one frame from one image. I had a two frame movie with both the CG2 and the CG3 sequential. But now I know, just because it's a holder for a video, it doesn't care if a PNG image is placed in ...

RE: Phantom Material

Posted By Scott Thomas 03-20-2025 21:04
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I think I found my solution. I read through some other threads and found a nugget of info. I replaced the AVI file with a still image. Now to figure out the preview thing… ------------------------------ Scott Thomas Art Director WINK-TV ------------------------------

Phantom Material

Posted By Scott Thomas 03-20-2025 18:36
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I'm working on the same video player scene. I made two short movie clips to be the default slates. "CG2" and "CG3". I have one material for CG2 and I had used the CG3 AVI but then set the video shader back to the CG2 movie. Now even after deleting the material and remaking it, deleting the quad ...

RE: Getting a Material Duration

Posted By Scott Thomas 03-20-2025 18:29
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Hi all, As I've gotten into this more, I'm running into some walls. A little background. I wanted to improve the video player scene we have. What doesn't work now is the producer can not play the preview in the NRCS plugin. I thought that if I could set the preview marker to wherever the clip ...

RE: Getting a Material Duration

Posted By Scott Thomas 03-20-2025 14:23
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Hi Roman, Thank you very much. I see the biggest mistake I made. I wasn't referencing the material on the actual quad being changed, I was just getting the material in the project. Fantastic! ------------------------------ Scott Thomas Art Director WINK-TV ----------------------- ...

Getting a Material Duration

Posted By Scott Thomas 03-19-2025 20:17
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Hi all!, I have a XPression scene that is a simple video clip player. I've managed to add a "pause", "no pause" radio checkbox for the producer that works with VB script. What I want to have happen now is for the preview marker to automatically be set to the end of the clip. I don't know a ...

RE: Datalinq & MOS Plugin

Posted By Scott Thomas 03-27-2024 17:02
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We had the exact same problem today. I don't know if you ever found a solution as there are no responses. We found the answer in the MOS Gateway configuration. I had assumed that it would follow the project file, but it has its own config for DataLinq. It was pointing to the Studio CG box's DataLinq ...

RE: Datalinq & MOS Plugin

Posted By Scott Thomas 03-27-2024 17:01
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RE: CII Gateway and ENPS Elections

Posted By Scott Thomas 12-13-2023 18:18
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Thank you for the link. I did receive confirmation today from AP that the CII commands are hard-coded in their software. ------------------------------ Scott Thomas Art Director WINK-TV ------------------------------

RE: CII Gateway and ENPS Elections

Posted By Scott Thomas 12-13-2023 14:40
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We've repeatedly asked the AP on where the CII commands are being generated and how (or if) they are edited. There is one config file, but the only things you can modify are the serial port setting and what directory your CG files are in. We can chose a different CG… perhaps Dubner or Codi? ENPS ...

CII Gateway and ENPS Elections

Posted By Scott Thomas 12-12-2023 22:32
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Hello. I'm trying to get ENPS Elections to talk with our XPression via the CII Gateway. I'm running into a few issues. One appears to be the hard-coded instructions in ENPS. It's sending keyboard commands in HEX values Immediately followed by a write of a page update. It looks like it's translating the ...

RE: Remote Sequencer vs. Studio

Posted By Scott Thomas 10-16-2023 21:33
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Okay, I think we have a better handle on what's going on. We just need to "Activate" the project that Remote Sequencer deploys to the Studio and the script is there and works. We now have an XML Take Item List saved with the items to import. Thank you all for your help! --------- ...

RE: Remote Sequencer vs. Studio

Posted By Scott Thomas 10-13-2023 14:29
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Thanks Jeff for the clarification. I'll look into the XML Take Item List. We tried moving the Script Action to the Globals, but it stopped working. We'll try that again. ------------------------------ Scott Thomas Art Director WINK-TV ------------------------------

RE: Remote Sequencer vs. Studio

Posted By Scott Thomas 10-13-2023 14:26
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We have a Script Action that was initially placed in the Project Shortcuts. We tried moving it down to the Globals, but then we couldn't get the script to fire. We'll try that again. ------------------------------ Scott Thomas Art Director WINK-TV ------------------------------

Remote Sequencer vs. Studio

Posted By Scott Thomas 10-12-2023 20:55
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We are using Remote Sequencer on a Studio box. With our new graphics package there are keyboard macro scripts and sequence groups we need to run, but when you run the show from Remote Sequencer, it's behavior seems to be to not load any keyboard mapping or sequence items into Studio. So we don't get ...