Gavel Graphics

• The transition into and out of lower thirds to full screen graphics is a little rough (the lower third cuts out when going into a fullscreen graphic, and replaces the fullscreen out transition with a dissolve when coming from it). (I’m looking into a fix for this, but it will probably be a little while).
• Most other titles should transition pretty smoothly.
  • There’s a smooth transition between “full title” and “full schedule” screens (i.e., they just fade without a whole new wipe) if the logo bar at the bottom of the screen is the same size on both sides of the transition. However, that’s tied to scene names for now (“big bar” and “small bar” are magic phrases), so be careful of changing scene names.
• The web data interface is not aware of which titles are on air. If you change the name for a title that’s on air, it will cut on the air.
• The preview in XPression sometimes shows a strange space at the bottom of the lower third, but it renders fine when you take it.

More details

• The web interface for selecting names from the database
• Set up a group of titles in XPression to be auto-filled from the web database
• Set up legislator titles with DataLinq to Excel