Ross Video XPression U

Quick Tips 123 - Creating a Pie Chart in XPression Using Visual Logic

Who doesn’t love pie? Well, next time a producer asks if you can create a Pie Chart, you can say, “I’d love to!”. This tutorial video shows how to use the XPression 3D primitive geometry cylinder and XPression Visual Logic to back a basic Pie Chart. At no time, will a script be required to generate this visual delicacy of data. Follow along and see what else you can add to make your pie and realize that everyone makes their pie differently. Take this information and see what little tidbits you can add into the pie chart to make it do what you want it to do.
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Quick Tips 125 - Building XPression Scenes with Non-Looping Replaceable Videos

XPression allows users to place either still images or videos as materials on the surface of geometry. By default, video materials loop in XPression. To change the settings so that a video added to the XPression Scenes in a MOS workflow don’t loop, it’s pretty simple. Follow along with this tutorial and learn how to make an OTS Scene which can hold stills or videos and doesn’t allow the video to loop.
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Quick Tips 126 - Sharing Take IDs between Two XPression Engines in the Same Production

If you are lucky enough to have two XPression operators working on their own engines for the same production, you have wondered how to share a Take ID from one system to the other. It is possible, as a matter of fact, it’s pretty easy. Once you know how. Exporting a Take ID as XML allows users working on more than one machine, each using the same project as the other, to Import the XML file as a new Take ID on their XPression engine. File sharing for XPression.
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Quick Tips 127 - Zooming in on the XPression Viewport

Need to work on a small detail in an XPression scene, and want to zoom in really close? Top-notch operators would add another camera to the scene and move it very close on the Z-axis. Then forget about it and it might wind up on-air later. Now, it is possible to just zoom in the viewport while you work on it, as well as pan-and-scan the viewport to see exactly the detail you wanted, without having to use additional cameras or anything. Zoom through this video to get the details on how to do it.
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Quick Tips 128 - Kerning Text in XPression

One of the most important parts of being a Graphics Operator is making sure that everything is neat and tidy on the screen. This includes intercharacter spacing, or kerning. While kerning is often part of the TrueType or OpenType Typeface, the kerning pairs on some typefaces still require a little manual intervention. Did you know that XPression does allow the operator to kern characters? It is a very simple trick, once you know how. Watch…
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Quick Tips 129 - Using the XPression Clock and Timers Widget

Time is something that escapes all of us but adding time to a scene in XPression is something everyone should have a handle on. For adding clocks such as game clocks to an XPression scene, Widgets are the right way to do it. This tutorial shows how to add a scoreboard game clock and use the keyboard to start and stop the clock, if needed. Hurry up and watch now, so you don’t run out of time…
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Quick Tips 130 - Using the FILL2 Option on XPression Studio GO!

In situations where two monitors need to be fed video only, and no alpha is needed, adding the XPression option FILL2 allows the user to repurpose the alpha channel output of the XPression Studio Go! as another video output channel. This provides two RGB outputs, the Alpha signal is dropped. Now there are two video streams, to drive two monitors or cross-points on your Ross Video Switcher.
 
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Quick Tips 131 - Using Audio Files on XPression

Everyone knows that XPression is the fastest Real-time motion graphics engine in the industry today, but did you know it handles audio files, also? The best format for audio files is a WAV file sampled at 48KHz (16-bit). The WAV files can be added to a Scene Director to trigger at a specific time, and it is even possible to add keyframing to adjust audio levels. Monitoring the WAV files on the timeline is also possible. To find out more, watch (and listen) this video.
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Quick Tips 132 - Creating a Simple Credit Roll on XPression

In school, the teachers always said to, “Give credit, where credit is due”. So, we at XPression U want to help you out with that. Simon created a quick tutorial on how to create a simple credit roll in the XPression Sequence view, where users can link together multiple scenes to create a roll. He also shows users how to use an event marker and some cool functions of inertia and speed. He even shows users how to add an image into the roll and make the roll pause with the image as a full screen on the roll.
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Quick Tips 133 - Creating a Roll with Masks in XPression

In the Previous tutorial (QT132), you learned how to Create a Simple Roll in XPression. Now, let’s get a little trickier. How about adding a Mask to gently blend the roll into the screen and back out again. Simon will show you not only how to create the soft fade or feathered mask, but also remind you that using Parent-Child tools in XPression is very powerful, but simple to do.
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