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Help with Zodiak 2.5 macros!

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Fri, 05/19/2006 - 14:28
tvnikki
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Our station bought a new Zodiak 2.5 about a year ago and I have a very limited knowledge of how to make certain things work. I have the basics down. The problem is I would like to incorporate some animated wipes (or swipes as my EP would call them). Our art dept. has designed a logo fly in and I have captured the movie clip in the internal SS. I would like to have the clip fly in over a piece of video come almost full screen and mix to the next video.

I am confused as to whether I need to use a GPI trigger, a macro, both, timeline, have a PA cime in and stand on one leg. I don't know.

I setup a macro today but it only transitions between prgm and pvw. It does not play the SS clip. I know I probably sound really stupid and I am probably over thinking the process I need a little direction. Our ENG dept. doesn't have a clue how to help me either.

Any help I could get would be appreciated!!!

Thanks,
Nikki

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Fri, 05/19/2006 - 14:44
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Scott Dailey
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Hi Nikki, There are couple of ways I can think of to run your effect. If you want to go the timeline route then enable your still stor level on the timeline. When you want the effect to run do to the still store menu, select the still you want to play and activate the button that says Start at KF. Insert a keyframe and complete your timeline. You will want to set your loop on the SS animation to a negative number(endless loop) so you can run the effect wothout having to call it up again. If you want to do it with macros then build a macro that selects the proper still combination and hits the play button in the still store menu. Give it an appropriate wait time and hit the recue button. If you know how to put macros in a timeline then you can seperate your macros and insert them in at the proper place. Hope this helps, Scott
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