Ross Video XPression U

Shortcuts are awesome. XPression FX workflows get even easier when you use Global Macros to speed up your work because they are simply shorthand for the names of commonly used terms. Once you watch this video your life will seem much less complicated. 

Concerned about who is accessing your XPression Maps Server in the newsroom or how many slots you have available for newsroom users? Want to see who is working on creating Maps in the Newsroom? Well, there is now a way for the XPression Maps Administrator to view all that information.

If you were worried about what happens if your XPression Maps Server needs a service window, or you want to add more concurrent newsroom users to your system, we can support that. Watch this video and learn how it’s done.

Customers with a Ross Platform Manager (RPM) Server installed in their facility can get their XPression Licenses set up to be converted to Ross Platform Manager software-based Product Keys and then take the final step on their end to install the Product Key into their RPM Server and then to their XPression systems.
This video shows the steps required at the customer end once the licenses have been prepared for the conversion. For more assistance, reach out to Ross Video Technical Support.

Just getting started with XPression Maps? This video will show you how to get started with the Interactive Mode of XPression Maps Touch. Configure the system to run in Interactive Mode and show the proper toolbars and menu panels. Then learn the basics of how to use them via this tour of the user interface.

It is possible to specify when a group of actions to occur when something happens. This is defined as EVENTS. It is possible to define something to trigger a bunch of actions to happen, by defining what event triggers them. This can be a button press or even a state of the application itself.Confused? Watch and find out. Become a Maps Touch Expert!

Did you know you could create a grouping of buttons which you can show and hide based on the state of another button?This allows you to do things like hide pen color buttons until the Pen button, which you created, is pressed. Then Hide them when you press the Pen button again, later. These are part of the button group, which can also be macros which do multiple actions at once.

Sometimes, when using XPression Maps Touch, youmight not want the map itself to move when doing things like telestration.This is a function which can be added to macros, to hold the map in the current position. Or create a function which allows the map to be moved, if that is what is required.

XPression Maps Touch allows a presenter to animate the map from a home position to any of 10 preset destinations. Learn how to create the Home and Preset locations and then go back and add Macros to define actions and buttons to provide a navigation workflow for your presenters to work the map flights to capture the viewer attention.

If you need to change from one map style to another, this video is for you. Create a button to switch the base map style from Satellite to vector-based colored base maps while in touch screen mode. for the current map scene or all the map scenes in your scene group.