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RE: Keyframe Effects

Posted By Dustin Wang 03-13-2019 04:27
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Alternatively, you can achieve a hue shift via animating between one object of a certain hue to another with opacity. #XPression

RE: Xpression Debug Monitor

Posted By Dustin Wang 02-12-2019 08:47
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Make sure "Use Debug Monitor" or w/e is checked in Preferences -> Advanced. Double check your engine.debug syntax in your scripts. If all else fails, can always do it the dumb fashioned way (editing a textobject's text). #XPression

RE: Xpression Dashboard keyboard shortcut

Posted By Dustin Wang 01-10-2019 01:40
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You can set custom hotkeys to pretty much everything via XPression. You can go to edit -> keyboard mapping. If you want to be even more complex, you can also assign scripts to hotkeys as well. #XPression

RE: Scene Director Bug (With clips/animation)

Posted By Dustin Wang 07-19-2018 00:20
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I have never heard of anyone having this issue before. So if you save the project while it's in this bad state, reloading the project keeps it in this bad state? The only fix is to delete the object and start over? (Restarting XPression does not help?) If that really is the case; please send us ...

Scene Director Bug (With clips/animation)

Posted By Dustin Wang 07-13-2018 01:59
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Anyone else get this bug? Periodically, random clips/items in the scene director won't work correctly. Example, i have a video file on track 1 in the scene director. It's a mask that masks off masks on. I have this video on position 40. Normally, if I scrub from 0 -40, or any time ...

RE: Animated Stroke

Posted By Dustin Wang 07-12-2018 21:43
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You achieve this effect by rendering the stroke outline as a mask, for each side in AE. Then you can import it, have each mask mask only one side of your rectangle. If you do your timings right, you can stretch w/e expanding portion of your rect. The velocity should be consistent as long as your ...

RE: [Question] Will the datalinq property ever become public?

Posted By Dustin Wang 04-20-2018 21:50
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Hey Garner, I saw that the xpDatalinq property exists, and I've tried writing to it but I keep getting hit with read only issues. For example, attached is a picture of the xpTextObject.Datalinq property which is read only nvm i'm an idiot, please ignore #XPression

[Question] Will the datalinq property ever become public?

Posted By Dustin Wang 04-13-2018 06:03
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Would love to access and write datalinq values via script, was wondering if this property will ever become accessible? (specifically in studio)

RE: [Question] How do you affect a live scene via api?

Posted By Dustin Wang 04-05-2018 20:14
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I do a similar thing by triggering scene directors when scenes are online. To affect an online scene you have to get the online scene by calling the framebuffer, then layer, then get scene. I created a loop awhile back which searches through both Framebuffers and layers -5 - 5 and check if it is a LowerThird ...

[Question] How do you affect a live scene via api?

Posted By Dustin Wang 04-05-2018 18:25
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Hello, I've been running into a few problems with xpression API. I'm attempting to change the values of different objects in a scene, but it seems like I'm not able to affect the scene when it's taken, but I can change some things in the layout view. Specifically, I'm trying to play ...

RE: [Question] Installing Multiple XPression versions on the same computer

Posted By Dustin Wang 04-05-2018 02:54
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@bford thanks, I'll have to try that and test it myself. #XPression

[Question] Installing Multiple XPression versions on the same computer

Posted By Dustin Wang 04-03-2018 16:58
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Hello. I'm wondering if it's possible to *safely* install multiple versions of XPression on one machine. I usually use designer, but am now delving into using XPression API, which is why I need either studio/dev to quickly test code. I also have had to make packages for other versions ...

RE: Remote HTML template

Posted By Dustin Wang 04-03-2018 16:44
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Yes. You'd need to write a helper program that executes vba. You can use xpression libraries on the XPression CG (provided you have studio). Workflow would be some html5 dashboard -> websocket -> xpression pc helper program -> xpression #XPression

Auto Update Renderviews?

Posted By Dustin Wang 12-13-2017 21:41
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Hello, Is there a function/script that allows one to update the contents of a scene that contains a renderview, prior to take? I have scenes that rely on renderviews, that also have a lot of datalinqs. XPression will hang when playing these scenes on first playout, or playout and update ...

RE: [QUESTION]Ignoring Group Keyframes

Posted By Dustin Wang 09-22-2017 02:50
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Whoops, found the ignore object alpha button, works! #XPression

Default Zoom?

Posted By Dustin Wang 09-20-2017 18:41
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Currently using the new 7.0 release, was wondering if anyone knew (or if it's even possible), to change the default zoom level? Currently it's set to fit, which is inconvenient in some scenarios. Ex. I'm working in a 720p package, so each scene blows up (I'm working on a 2560x1600 setup). Each ...

RE: XPression 7.0 Official Release!

Posted By Dustin Wang 09-11-2017 18:24
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Is there an official changelog somewhere for the other updates? I.e., datalinq server 7.0? #XPression

[QUESTION]Ignoring Group Keyframes

Posted By Dustin Wang 09-06-2017 08:06
Found In Egroup: Graphics \ view thread

Is there a way to ignore the keyframes given from a parent group? Ex. I have a group that contains two layer objects inside, one of which has a mask. When animating the group's opacity, it causes the mask to fade as well, which ruins what it was masking. I want to be able to ignore ...

RE: SetKeyFrameTCB

Posted By Dustin Wang 08-17-2017 01:33
Found In Egroup: Graphics \ view thread

Whoops, found it on another method, disregard.... #XPression

SetKeyFrameTCB

Posted By Dustin Wang 08-17-2017 01:32
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Does anyone know how to properly use SetKeyFrameValueTCB method for the xpAnimControllerObject? Not sure what values should be used for parameter KeyType...the API documentation omits that information

Dustin Wang

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