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Issue with ProRes 4444 alpha exported from XPression on macOS Sonoma

Posted By James Hope 05-09-2024 01:13
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Hi. I use XPression Studio SCE 10.5 and export our graphics to ProRes 4444 when needing to use in an NLE. For some reason, the alpha channel doesn't work well with Sonoma. It's basically completely ignored. I first brought this up on the BMD forum because I thought it was a problem with Resolve, but ...

RE: Designer v1

Posted By James Hope 01-08-2024 00:45
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Hi Garner, Does the attached image mean we can upgrade to 10.5 as well? (we're using Studio SCE). James. ------------------------------ James Hope Technical Director 3ABN Australia Inc Australia ------------------------------

RE: Designer v1

Posted By James Hope 01-08-2024 00:44
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RE: How to export a credit roll from a take ID as a AVI

Posted By James Hope 08-09-2023 20:34
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Another option is to have your credits pages under a scene group (layout tab) rather than a group in the sequencer. That way it can be dragged into the sequencer as a single item and then that can be exported as a single video. That's how I always do my credit rolls, but the reason I do isn't related ...

RE: RossTalk Feedback question

Posted By James Hope 07-13-2023 02:49
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Hi Tomer, RossTalk is just for sending commands. There's no feedback or queries. James. ------------------------------ James Hope Technical Director 3ABN Australia Inc Australia ------------------------------

RE: How to pause graphics with equal opposite animations for In and Out

Posted By James Hope 03-01-2023 17:46
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The pause is in the initial SD. After the pause, there's a trigger for the out animation SD. This is the same SD that is used by TL for taking the scene offline. So pressing Take offline just plays that animation, just like pressing Take or Take Next would. They're triggering the same SD. No need for ...

RE: How to pause graphics with equal opposite animations for In and Out

Posted By James Hope 02-27-2023 19:18
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I use pauses in Xpression and then from the Carbonite I just take the scene twice with the same CC that has no hold in it (like Garrett was saying). The second take just unpauses. I also use Transition Logic. So the scene director with the pause just plays the out scene director that TL would normally ...

RE: Get error when try to script

Posted By James Hope 11-01-2022 18:17
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Hi Tue. It doesn't look like "text" is defined anywhere. ------------------------------ James Hope Technical Director 3ABN Australia Inc Australia ------------------------------

RE: Best practice to setup and store multiples chroma keys with different cameras/backgrounds

Posted By James Hope 09-20-2022 21:10
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Les' option 2 definitely works well. We did this for years on our Carbonite. It only had two chroma keyers, so we needed to do it this way. We set up customs that recalled the appropriate memories that would then go into Preview. If you want to reserve your MiniMEs for other things, I definitely recommend ...

RE: Acuity at 59.94Hz accepting 50Hz signals (i.e. Panasonic CX350 23.98 PsF output)

Posted By James Hope 02-15-2022 17:09
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Cheaper than Teranex is the UpDownCross HD Converter also from Blackmagic Design. It uses Teranex technology and doesn't do all the fancies of the Teranex, but will do what you want. I also believe they have an openGear version (that's if you have an openGear frame). ------------------------------ ...

RE: MacBook Pro M1 Max with Parallels Windows 11

Posted By James Hope 02-14-2022 17:06
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Yes, it is 64-bit on Intel/AMD (hence x86), not ARM. The x86 is a term used to refer to Intel and AMD, being that Intel chip codes ended with "x86", i.e. 286, 386, 486, etc. The new MacBook Pros are ARM-based, and Parallels can only run the ARM version of Windows 11, meaning that any x86 (32-bit or ...

RE: Timing a Crawl / Roll in Sequencer using Seconds

Posted By James Hope 02-14-2022 16:45
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Hi Helen, I always do my credit rolls in Layout because of this very reason. I create a scene group, and add scenes for each credit. Then I drag the scene group into my sequencer and run it from there. True, it has to be updated in layout, but I've found over the past 10 years of doing this that it's ...

RE: MacBook Pro M1 Max with Parallels Windows 11

Posted By James Hope 02-14-2022 16:39
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Also, XPression is x86 and would be translated to ARM64. This wouldn't help the issue either, not even considering the massive performance hit that would result (I also have an M1 Pro MBP, and never even considered it for XPression for those reasons). ------------------------------ James Hope Technical ...

RE: Xpression "processing" my graphic in sequencer

Posted By James Hope 01-26-2022 17:32
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This may not be your issue, but maybe the framebuffer is set wrong for the scene? Just check that it's the same one that everything else is going to, and not some disconnected framebuffer such as a RossLinq one that's not set up properly (i.e. pointing to a switcher that isn't running or wrong IP address). ...

RE: Clocktimer Widget Center and not moving

Posted By James Hope 01-26-2022 17:29
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Hi Tristan, It moves around because the font is proportional, where the different characters are different widths (1 is narrower than all the others, for instance). The easiest way to fix it is to turn on fixed-width in the font settings. Without it in front of me, I can't remember exactly where it ...

RE: Xpression "processing" my graphic in sequencer

Posted By James Hope 01-25-2022 00:22
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Hi Pat, Could you look at the performance monitor up the top of the XPression window when you take the scene online and see if it maxes out? What sort of items do you have in the scene? James. ------------------------------ James Hope Technical Director 3ABN Australia Inc Australia ...

RE: Xpression "processing" my graphic in sequencer

Posted By James Hope 01-24-2022 16:41
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Hi Pat, When you said it says "Preparing" and goes bold, does "Preparing" ever change to "Online" (or "Paused" if you have a pause in the scene director)? If not, it could be that the scene is taking too many resources to go online. If it does change, then try cueing it first, not long before you ...

RE: .XPP not taking all folders

Posted By James Hope 11-10-2021 18:43
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Hi Jessie, ZIP Files take everything, even empty folders, and preserves the directory structure. James. ------------------------------ James Hope Technical Director 3ABN Australia Inc Australia ------------------------------

RE: OpenType Stylistic Sets

Posted By James Hope 10-26-2021 20:28
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Hi Taylor, It seems no one has an answer for this one. I haven't got any fonts like that on our XPression machine to see if you can do this, but I'd be very surprised if you could. Maybe with my reply, we may get someone to respond who knows? I'd be very interested to know if this can be done too. ...

RE: What happens when you start a new animation before the previous one has completed?

Posted By James Hope 08-08-2021 23:31
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If you're animating the same elements in each then you're better off waiting, because you'll see those elements jump into the second animation. Also, you need to make sure that the first animation controller is only as long as it needs to be to contain the last key frame, because the second animation ...