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RE: Dynamic Set Video playback range from Xpression Script?

Posted By Ellis Shen 02-06-2015 14:57
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Hi Daniel, Thank you very much to help me on this. It works and I can set different range to scenes now! Btw, when I use scene director with video, can I dynamic change the video clip from Script? For example if I want to replace "Spring Video" to "Summer video" according to the season, ...

RE: Dynamic Set Video playback range from Xpression Script?

Posted By Ellis Shen 02-06-2015 00:12
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Hi Daniel, Sorry for being late. It took me some time to upload the project and test video. Please download project file from below link and test if you can set specific play range for the video. I hope we can find out the problem. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_W64UoqloIkZD ...

RE: Dynamic Set Video playback range from Xpression Script?

Posted By Ellis Shen 02-05-2015 19:59
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https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_W64UoqloIkbUdocXNpekQwdXc/view?usp Daniel, Very sorry for keeping asking you this stupid question. I attached the screen shot above. You can see how I drag the video into the Scene director. I followed what you instructed that applying material to one ...

RE: Dynamic Set Video playback range from Xpression Script?

Posted By Ellis Shen 02-05-2015 19:41
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Daniel, I tried to drag the avi video to scene director... but I found I can only drag it to "Track 1" to ~ Track 3. And even if I drag the video on Track 2 for example, I cannot see the video from Preview. Seems like the behavior is totally different from setting material to Quad. Did ...

RE: Dynamic Set Video playback range from Xpression Script?

Posted By Ellis Shen 02-05-2015 18:57
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Hi Daniel, Thanks a lot for your reply. Honestly I still cannot make it work... can you explain it more detail? In the scene, I have a Quad whose material is attached to Xpression AVI video. And I tried to set play range for the scene, but no matter which range I set, the video of Quad ...

Dynamic Set Video playback range from Xpression Script?

Posted By Ellis Shen 02-04-2015 22:19
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Hi, I did search on the forum but didn't find any relevant topics. I have a long Xpression AVI video, and I want to apply different play range settings for different scenes. For example, apply start point from 10s and end at 30s for the video at 1st scene. Then apply start point ...

RE: Correct Way to fully close Xpression from API?

Posted By Ellis Shen 09-30-2014 00:49
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Hi Garner, Thank you! It's weird that I didn't see this close() function in library doc. -Ellis #XPression

Correct Way to fully close Xpression from API?

Posted By Ellis Shen 09-17-2014 21:08
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I am using "engine.CloseProject" API to close Xpression from controller app. However, I notice that it usually failed to close the project and report an error. Therefore, next time when users turn on from the app, it will pop up an error message such as "An instance of Xpression is already running,...". ...

Streamline workflow to convert mov files to Xpression AVI

Posted By Ellis Shen 06-13-2014 19:58
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Hi, I would like to improve our current workflow about converting mov files to Xpression AVI. The only way we have now is using Xpression AVI transcoding application, but we are not really satisfied with the procedures it required. I want to write an background software which is somthing ...

RE: Scripting question: How to update an object's material from sequencer take item?

Posted By Ellis Shen 06-13-2014 19:40
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oh oh... I see... #XPression

RE: Scripting question: How to update an object's material from sequencer take item?

Posted By Ellis Shen 06-13-2014 13:24
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Hi Brian, I'm very appreciated for your help. This morning I tried to use the method you mentioned but seems like it's not inside the xpression com library? My xpression version is 5.11 build 2550. Does this SetVolatitleTextureFile method come with newer xpression version? #XPression

RE: Scripting question: How to update an object's material from sequencer take item?

Posted By Ellis Shen 06-12-2014 16:54
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Hello Brian, I have one more quick question about the temporary material. Is it possible to access that temporary material created by Xpression from Scene? My application use the virtual output as its preview monitor. Every time the operator moves the mouse cursor into the control area ...

RE: Scripting question: How to update an object's material from sequencer take item?

Posted By Ellis Shen 06-11-2014 21:13
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Brian, thank you so much for your advice! It works! #XPression

RE: Scripting question: How to update an object's material from sequencer take item?

Posted By Ellis Shen 06-11-2014 19:51
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Hi Brian, Thanks for your reply. The reason I need to create Materials is because I don't want operator to use Xpression GUI but using my application instead. Therefore, before updating the material of takeitems, the application will pop up file dialog to let operator import images (basically ...

Scripting question: How to update an object's material from sequencer take item?

Posted By Ellis Shen 06-11-2014 18:27
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Hello, I write a VB application which can get the current take item from Sequencer, preview it and update the material and text directly. I've done all most every features, but I failed to update the material from take item. I've checked the new material has been created in Xpression, but ...

Any resource for script sample? Where can I find some script sharing place?

Posted By Ellis Shen 04-02-2014 13:44
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Hi, I'm really new to Xpression script. I just start to read the Xpression API Tutorial... though I have experience in programing, it still needs to take some time to know how to use Xpression library. I'm wondering if there's already have people shared their good stuff or experience on script? Then ...

RE: Flip Effect For News Ticker?

Posted By Ellis Shen 04-02-2014 12:47
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Thanks for your advice. #XPression

Flip Effect For News Ticker?

Posted By Ellis Shen 03-27-2014 16:36
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Our news program is used to use basic Crawl effect for news ticker. However, more and more users demand to show the news ticker in "Flip" style. In the user guide, I only know how to do basic Roll and Crawl effect... Does Xpression support Flip effect? Could anyone show me how to make that effect with ...

RE: Framebuffer with low Frame Delay

Posted By Ellis Shen 12-19-2013 12:00
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Hi Garner and Les, Thank you for all your input. When I want to change Carbonite connect to second NIC, I realized that Carbonite's current network cable is connected to its second NIC. Will it be a reason causing this issue? Furthermore I've tried to Ping Carbonite from Xpression, the latency ...

RE: Framebuffer with low Frame Delay

Posted By Ellis Shen 12-14-2013 05:45
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Garner, Thank you for your comment. Our system is on a Gigabit ethernet network... I will keep you updated after I try your suggestion to connect two platforms through second NIC. Thanks. #XPression