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RE: Bounding boxes and text height

Posted By Jeff Hinkle 06-18-2019 17:27
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Peter, thanks for the response. Sorry, been a busy couple days but here at last is my insanely messy work-in-progress VL. I apologize in advance for the damage done to your eyes and brain as you try to trace out my thought process as I tried solving the issue. #XPression

Bounding boxes and text height

Posted By Jeff Hinkle 06-12-2019 22:21
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Slowly going crazy. Helping a co-worker set up a stat page that can have between three and six lines. The font size increases based on number of lines. Got that set up pretty well, but the lines also need to distribute themselves within the background frame, and that's where the trouble comes in. ...

RE: Counter widget start on second Take?

Posted By Jeff Hinkle 04-26-2019 20:35
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Many thanks! Scene.Project.GetWidgetByName() was the magic bullet. Both fixed the problem and made our IT guy say some very interesting new words. Guess I need to learn VBScript. #XPression

RE: Counter widget start on second Take?

Posted By Jeff Hinkle 04-26-2019 16:17
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Script is there and compiled. Widget name matches. Works fine on our design station but after pushing it to the project server, it doesn't run in the control room. Take puts the scene online, but hitting Take again does not start the counter like it does on the design station. Didn't know if there was ...

RE: Counter widget start on second Take?

Posted By Jeff Hinkle 04-25-2019 18:28
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I spoke too soon. Works fine on our authoring station, but doesn't in the control room. The scene loads, but then hitting the Take/Enter key in there has no further effect. Does the script need to be moved as well? #XPression

RE: Counter widget start on second Take?

Posted By Jeff Hinkle 04-25-2019 15:04
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Actually, with some trial and error and your last screen shot, we managed to make it do what we wanted (the secret? Compile). Appreciate all the help! On to the next issue. #XPression

RE: Counter widget start on second Take?

Posted By Jeff Hinkle 04-25-2019 14:01
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Sorry for the delay. Few fires cropped up yesterday. I have the project collected. Purged out everything but the clock scenes to keep the file size down (although I think I accidentally deleted the scene where we had set up the script). What's the best way to send it to you? We have a file transfer service ...

RE: Counter widget start on second Take?

Posted By Jeff Hinkle 04-24-2019 18:07
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Sadly, the script approach didn't work. Even pulled everything out of the Scene Director except for the script event, thinking it would then be the only thing to play, but the Timer stubbornly refuses to start no matter how many times we hit the Take key. #XPression

Counter widget start on second Take?

Posted By Jeff Hinkle 04-23-2019 19:28
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So we have an existing segment with a 90-second countdown timer. The producers are used to hitting Take to put the scene online, then Take again to start the counter. They're not going to want to start hitting CTL-1 (or similar) to trigger the countdown. Is that something that can be set up in Visual ...

Visual Logic to drive keyframes?

Posted By Jeff Hinkle 04-19-2019 17:33
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I'm guessing the answer to this will be "use scripting" but I don't speak VB. I've set up a credit scroll that reads from an external Excel file with the generous help of Peter Piccioni. I set up a Scene Director to scroll the credits bottom-to-top. All good. But I want to future-proof the animation ...

RE: Easy credits with external text file?

Posted By Jeff Hinkle 04-18-2019 19:04
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Thanks for taking a look! It's not CSV, just plain text, but I just fired it over to you. #XPression

Easy credits with external text file?

Posted By Jeff Hinkle 04-18-2019 18:21
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I feel like this should be easier so figure I must be overlooking something. I've watched videos and searched the forums, but I'm not finding the answer. We have several local productions that need credit scrolls. My plan was to build a scene with a bottom-to-top animation and a copyright date widget, ...

RE: Transition Logic not logical?

Posted By Jeff Hinkle 04-11-2019 14:50
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I think we sorted it out. Can someone tell me if this is right: If Transition Logic resolves a rule as True, it stops looking? So if all Rule #1's conditions resolve True, it never looks at Rule #2? Therefore each Rule must have a condition comparing all elements? You can't have, say, a Rule that checks ...

RE: Transition Logic not logical?

Posted By Jeff Hinkle 04-10-2019 21:13
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They look fine. Both have just a single animation controller that moves the text up on the Y axis: middle-to-top for Out, bottom-to-middle for In. Like I said, I figured she had too many moving parts and I was trying to distill everything down to its most basic. #XPression

Transition Logic not logical?

Posted By Jeff Hinkle 04-10-2019 17:43
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Normally I'm good at this logic stuff, but I've hit a wall. A coworker was setting up a fairly complex lower third and asked for my help because things weren't working as expected. Thinking there were too many moving parts (top line same/different, image same/different, bottom line same/different, franchise ...

RE: Font tag after a specific character?

Posted By Jeff Hinkle 04-05-2019 17:28
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Simple, elegant, effective. Many thanks! Saved me a load of time. #XPression

Font tag after a specific character?

Posted By Jeff Hinkle 04-04-2019 15:05
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Haven't experimented much with this but we have a deadline barreling down, so figure best just to ask for the answer in advance to save time. Thanks to earlier posts, I understand font tags and using Visual Logic to concantenate them with strings. Is there a way, possibly with something like the Left ...

RE: Video materials: what am I missing?

Posted By Jeff Hinkle 03-26-2019 14:26
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Problem solved. One of my coworkers (whose punishment shall be swift and brutal) changed the setting on the Incoder to RGB only. But while we're on the subject, can a video added directly to a scene director have animation applied to it? Or must it be applied to an object and then keyframes added ...

Video materials: what am I missing?

Posted By Jeff Hinkle 03-25-2019 20:30
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My problems with video materials are many. 1. I apply a video material to a quad and the alpha shows as black in both Designer and Sequencer. Is it actually alpha? Can't tell. If I group it with a Layer Object to try to force the transparency display, I can't see anything. 2. Same quad, ...

Bounding box height not 0?

Posted By Jeff Hinkle 03-22-2019 16:53
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Hopefully this is an easy one. I have a set of bulletpoints with a background box. The height of the box is driven through Visual Logic by the sum of the texts' bounding box heights, plus a line gap. Everything works great until I remove all the text from a line or two. The bounding box height of the ...