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Posted By John Spitznagel 08-28-2024 12:54
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I currently am trying to write a script that plays a scene director whenever a datalinq hits ":05" and anytime above that, it plays out a different scene director. It would also be nice if that animation could pause when the timer pauses, but it's definitely not necessary. This is where I'm at so far: ...
Posted By John Spitznagel 08-28-2024 12:50
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Hey Dylan! In any given text box, you can use Datalinq macros to reference other data on the same XML. For instance, if you're trying to reference a team's rank based on their ID, your datalinq block would look something like this. This is how we're pulling stats for automated lower thirds. ...
Posted By John Spitznagel 08-14-2024 12:14
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Hey there! I'm working on our project for football, and I'm trying to trigger different scene directors when a team takes a timeout. This OnSetText script compiled, but it still won't trigger the directors. Dim textBox As xpTextObject Dim sceneDirector2 As xpSceneDirector Dim sceneDirector1 ...
Posted By John Spitznagel 07-25-2024 11:42
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Hey Stephen! If you make the background a child of the text (I'm assuming the top line), you can have it match the width length of text using the auto scale feature. I have a similar setup for some of my graphics and have attached a picture below. Take note of object manager structure ...
Posted By John Spitznagel 07-01-2024 09:30
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Thanks everyone! Using worked for us. We are on Xpression 11.5. also works for anyone wondering. I appreciate the help! ------------------------------ John Spitznagel Video Production Engineer Elon University ------------------------------
Posted By John Spitznagel 06-20-2024 12:50
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Hey! I'm working on our American football graphics package for this upcoming season. I'm trying to set up a graphic to pull datalinq information for the latest scoring drive. I have all of that data coming in over an XML document already (pictured below), I just need help figuring out how to tell Xpression, ...
Posted By John Spitznagel 01-30-2024 13:05
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Thanks Matt! This worked perfectly. Appreciate the help! ------------------------------ John Spitznagel Video Production Engineer Elon University ------------------------------
Posted By John Spitznagel 01-29-2024 12:07
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I am currently designing baseball graphics and I am trying to use a jersey number to pull stats from multiple columns from this Table. I have the jersey being pulled automatically from Live Stats, and I am trying to tell DataLinq to look at the jersey number and pull a stat from the same row. I have ...