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Elect-It! 102 - Preparing Your XPression Scenes for Elect-It! Workflows

Creating XPression Scenes for Elect-It! is very simple. This video will walk your graphics team through how to set them up for use on Election night. Binding election data to templates is very easy to do and makes using template workflows straight forward for all the races throughout your election coverage.
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Elect-It! 103 - Preparing in The Newsroom to Show Election Races Using XPression

One of the most important parts of an election, is setting up critical races and making sure that all the candidate information is ready and available. With XPression Elect-It!, using subscription provider services like the Associated Press Election Wires or Decision Desk HQ, races can populate themselves, or you can also manually build and maintain your own election races. Check out just how easy it is with XPression Elect-It!
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Elect-It! 104 - Building Election Night Rundowns using XPression Elect-It!

Use XPression Elect-It! to create rundowns for election night. Create playlists for lower-thirds, tickers, and full screens that can run all night long, or specific Take IDs that show up as required by the XPression Playout Operator.
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Elect-It! 105 - Election Night XPression Playout with XPression Elect-It! Player

Wanna see how easy it is to play out graphics on election night? We don’t want to marginalize your XPression operators, but we maybe after you watch this video you might be able to lend them a hand? Maybe let them run to the restroom during the long evening? Ok, maybe not. Let’s just say this video is for the XPression operators, ok?
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Maps 101 - XPression Maps Overview

XPression Maps is a powerful tool for creating detailed maps for your video productions. XPression Maps Design Workstation allows designers to create world, regional, or street-level maps using aerial imagery accessed in real-time from Microsoft® Bing™ Maps or NASA’s Blue Marble. The final output can be still images or video animations in a variety of formats. XPression Maps does not have any monthly fees associated with map contents or map creation. The server is located inside the station, and not in a data center in the cloud.
Maps may also be designed as templates and saved for use in a MOS enabled newsroom. The templated maps provide tools for journalists to create their own maps using the defined styles of the station, in a matter of seconds. This empowers journalists to create their own maps around the clock, even if the artists are not available.
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Maps 102 - Creating Animations in XPression Maps

Creating an animated map in XPression Maps is as easy as selecting a starting and ending location or position and then storing them as keyframes on the timeline. It is possible to keyframe items such as the zoom level, region and even the type of map used. Select from Microsoft® Bing™ Maps or NASA’s Blue Marble maps. Add details such as street names, titles, icons, etc.
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Maps 103 - Creating an XPression Map Template for MOS Workflows

Creating a Map template for use in the self-service XPression MOS Plug-in workflow is really easy. Select a map style and set a starting Flight Point and then upload it to the template database. It is now available to the newsroom use. The designer can define the map style, starting point, potential icons that can be added by the newsroom user and the animation duration. All the journalist needs to do is define the final destination.
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Maps 104 - Using Smart Templates to Reduce the Number of Them in the ActiveX Plug-in

Using simple tricks, XPression designers can create templates with options to reduce the number of templates required to produce a newscast. Rather than build variations of the same template for each position on the screen, or animated or static templates. By entering in an L for Left-Side or R for Right-side, two OTS templates can become one. Make it easier for your busy newsroom staff to select the right templates and reduce the number of templates they need to browse through.
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Maps 105 - XPression Maps New Text Styles

One of the most important part of keeping viewers tuned in is a consistent use of typography to create branding. XPression Maps allows users to use TrueType typefaces and shapes to extend the branding capability of fonts across the broadcast graphics presentation. XPression Maps has a very powerful text tool which allows users to create text boxes, pointers, and effects in order to help illustrate the key items on the map.
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Maps 200 - Creating Shape Styles in XPression Maps

In XPression Maps, Shape Styles allow users to highlight a geographic region to draw the viewer’s attention to that region. It is possible to define and create Shape Styles as well as assign them as the default appearance for countries, states or regions when searched and added to an XPression Map. In this video, learn how to create XPression Maps Shape Styles for your XPression Maps design and branding requirements. In later videos, learn how you can share the Shape Styles with XPression MOS newsroom users so they can create more compelling maps, without requiring a designer for each one.
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