Ross Video XPression U

Maps Touch animations are based on presets known as FLIGHTS. Each Flight can be a specific shape or geographic region, as well as a HOME position, focusing the viewer’s attention to a desired location.
Create buttons with macros to define Presets to be placed on the screen. Use the buttons to allow on air presenters a way to fly your viewers to each present location quickly.

Want to make a Maps Touch workflow where the animation can fly into a specific shape (country, state, city, etc.) and highlight it and blend out the surrounding shapes?
Easy. Peasey… Watch and learn. Then use this workflow to really focus the viewers into the place you want their attention on.

It is possible to set a shape style on a geographic region while interacting with XPression Maps Touch. Define a macro button for each shape style as well as a way to return the shapes to their default shape style. Visualize your data in real time for your viewing audience.

Did you know you could extrude a shape or group of shapes in XPression Maps to highlight a geographic region? Imagine in a Maps Touch workflow, you could extrude a selected shape or group of shapes to draw the viewer’s attention to that shape as a highlighting workflow. Learn how to use a button as well as DataLinq™ to control extrusion in your Maps Touch workflows.

Wanna use a live video input on your interactive maps? Not only that possible, but it is possible to animate the video input signal, as a drawing tool object (which requires capable hardware) to fly full screen.
Set the video input object to appear and as a toggle to fly full screen or fly off screen. Use this feature to do things live fly to live shots in the field or video about the location.

Imagine being able to assign a different macro onto a shape than what it was starting with. Change Shape styles when touched or reset them. Create a shape or shape group and some buttons, and the button can have an action to assign a new macro to that shape or shape group.

XPression Maps Touch also has simple telestration built into it. Add a button onto the Maps Touch UI to enable drawing, pen color, pen thickness, even some basic shapes.
Add buttons to hold the map from moving while telestrating and erase the drawings when ready to return to running the map flights and presets.

In a prior video we showed you how to add a telestration pen to XPression Maps Touch. This video will show you how to add a button for pen colors and how to build the macros that let youchoose a color (as well as define the color in the application). Yes, you can have multiple colored pens, but you can only use one at a time. Let’s not get greedy.

XPression Maps Touch can perform a couple modes of telestration: Free draw and simple shapes (empty or filled with color).
In this video learn how to build the macros which allow buttons to enable the different drawing types and how to add them to your system.

Shape Groups is a way to put a bunch of shapes into one container or a single trigger. Set a button to change the shape style of a group of countries or states at the same time. Reduce the need to select individual shapes and alter functions like their shape style or visibility.