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RE: Transition Logic, not animating in after waiting for out?

Posted By Bill Meems 02-03-2020 03:51
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Hey Aleksander, I took a look at your project, and it made no sense that the transition logic didn't honour the playback of the outgoing transition before it ran the incoming transition for the scene you were going to in your sequencer. I'm still not 100% sure why it doesn't do that, and ultimately ...

RE: Transition Logic, not animating in after waiting for out?

Posted By Bill Meems 02-03-2020 01:27
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Hi Aleksander, You can reach me at bill.meems@gmail.com. I'll take a look at your project and let you know if I see anything jump out at me. #XPression

RE: Transition Logic, not animating in after waiting for out?

Posted By Bill Meems 02-03-2020 01:12
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Hi Aleksander - I don't have experience with the Tessera product, but I'm wondering if your IN scene director for your second scene has it's playhead is parked in a position that isn't at the start of your scene director? I know I've run into weird playback issues when I've modified my SD and forgot ...

RE: Xpression Stream Deck plugin

Posted By Bill Meems 01-27-2020 19:25
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Hey Brandon Derry - Would you be open to sharing a copy of your installer file with me as well? I'm playing around with the Stream Deck using the OS X version of the Stream Deck software, and the OS X version of Dashboard. Ultimately I'll end up moving things to a PC setup, but starting out on MAC since ...

RE: Setting in animation, out animation, and loop for imported video

Posted By Bill Meems 01-26-2020 22:10
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Hi Ben, With your animation sitting static between the in transition and the out transition, why don't you try this. Open the Scene Director for your scene. Drag the animation from the Media Manager, onto a track in your Scene Director, then add a "Pause" event to the frame where your animation's ...

RE: Scripting or Visual Logic

Posted By Bill Meems 01-08-2020 06:26
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Is this what you were thinking: dim scene as xpScene dim fb as xpOutputFramebuffer dim scenedir as xpSceneDirector dim layer as integer engine.GetOutputFramebuffer(0, fb) for layer = -1 to -1 if fb.GetSceneOnLayer(layer, scene) then if Scene.Name = "Locator Flag" then scenedir.Play ...

RE: Scripting or Visual Logic

Posted By Bill Meems 01-08-2020 05:37
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That does make sense Malcolm... And it works nicely with the out transition Scene Director! Now here's another thought, going in a different direction. Say that I wanted to have the Locator (flag) scene in the Sequence, and I have it set up to be triggered by the keyboard shortcut. Is there a method ...

RE: Scripting or Visual Logic

Posted By Bill Meems 01-08-2020 04:42
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Hey Malcolm - One more thing... While I have your attention. If I wanted to modify the script you provided so that the flag Scene Director would execute it's (scenedir.PlayRange(150, 0)) command when the parent scene is taken offline, what would you add into the script to make that action take place? ...

RE: Scripting or Visual Logic

Posted By Bill Meems 01-08-2020 04:31
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Hey Malcolm - Not to worry... If anything my explanation of the issue was the likely culprit to going in a different direction! I appreciate your help, and it's great to now have another tool in my XPression arsenal to apply to introduce scene directors into online scenes. Everything worked out great, ...

RE: Scripting or Visual Logic

Posted By Bill Meems 01-07-2020 23:20
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Hey Malcolm - Thanks again for the explanation. I think what was preventing the script from executing was the visual logic I had set up for the flag scene director. The visual logic was set to look at the visibility of the Group which the flag was within, and then another visual logic setup would look ...

RE: Scripting or Visual Logic

Posted By Bill Meems 01-07-2020 21:39
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Hey Malcolm - I've applied your script as a Script Event in the Keyboard/GPI Mapping section of XPression Designer. I've associated the Scene.Name with the appropriate scene name "Locator Flag", and I've also added the scene director name "Locator IN" to the script. The script compiled properly, so I ...

RE: Scripting or Visual Logic

Posted By Bill Meems 01-07-2020 19:10
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Thanks Malcolm - Now is that script something that should be applied directly to the object group for the flag within the 2-line lower third scene or would this only apply to the scene with the Locator (Flag)? Or, as I've seen elsewhere on the community, would this be a script to apply and associate ...

RE: Scripting or Visual Logic

Posted By Bill Meems 01-07-2020 19:02
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Hey Malcolm, Currently, the Locator (Flag) scene exists both ways, embedded into my 2-line lower third scene, and also as it's own scene on a lower layer. I've included a screenshot of my 2-line scene... Now that being said, I could go either way with this, in that I would like to see the ...

RE: Scripting or Visual Logic

Posted By Bill Meems 01-07-2020 18:27
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Hi Malcolm, I currently have the lower third scene setup to use Transition Logic to smooth out the back-to-back transitions and transitions between other scenes in the project. I included images of the Locator (Flag) Scene Director in an earlier post, which incorporated the pause you are referring ...

RE: Scripting or Visual Logic

Posted By Bill Meems 01-07-2020 03:25
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Thanks Malcolm. I do get what you are saying, but where my understanding in your explanation falls short is how your setup controls the flag coming in and out of the online scene. I gather that you aren't using a separate scene just for the flag, as that would only complicate things. If you are using ...

RE: Scripting or Visual Logic

Posted By Bill Meems 01-05-2020 23:36
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Thanks Malcolm, I'm able to create the flag text and material as you've laid out above, where I'm stuck is how to set up the visual logic so that the when either the Red/Blue Flag is chosen in the radio button, how do I get that choice as the driver for playing my scene director specific to the ...

RE: Scripting or Visual Logic

Posted By Bill Meems 01-03-2020 23:52
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Thanks Malcolm for your feedback. I follow what you are saying, and what won't change within each flag is the material used behind the text of the flag, so I don't know if your suggestion to use a tricode would be effective for what I'm attempting to do. Your suggestion to use a second text input to ...

Scripting or Visual Logic

Posted By Bill Meems 11-25-2019 21:10
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I've been working on a scene that incorporates a lower third and multiple flags to appear with the lower third, depending on when the functionality is needed. I'm trying to figure out how to drive the scene director for each of those flags as a toggle or visibility on/off in the Template Data tab in ...

RE: Alpha Leftovers - XPression Material Whoas

Posted By Bill Meems 08-26-2019 23:11
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I've taken the scene to an on-air XPression system and it appears to play out without the rings appearing at the end of the animation. Could the issue I'm seeing be a result of how the Virtual Output in XPression Designer 9 presents the file or perhaps this is specific to the graphics built-into the ...

RE: Alpha Leftovers - XPression Material Whoas

Posted By Bill Meems 08-26-2019 21:44
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It's a progressive texture Willie... Rendered out at 29.97 fps. #XPression