Grass Valley After Effects Plug-in Vertigo Suite v.4.9 User Manual
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Miranda Animation (Merge Mode) option
4.
Click the Ellipsis button
in the I
NPUT
- D
ATA
SOURCE
FILE
NAME
field to navigate to
and select the Excel spreadsheet created in step 1.
5.
Specify an Output destination where the animation files will be saved to.
• E
XPORT
TO
DIRECTORY
- Enable and then click the Ellipsis button
to
navigate to and select the directory in which to save the output files.
• E
XPORT
TO
XMS
SERVER
NAME
/ IP - Enable and then type either the Xmedia
Server’s hostname or the IP address of the XMS device where the output files
will be ingested into.
6.
Enable O
VERWRITE
EXISTING
FILES
/
ASSETS
if you wish to automatically replace an existing
video file that may already exist using the exact same name in the exact same location.
7.
Select the O
PTIONS
button to expose advanced options, which specify how the
animation and video files will be created. For example, you can specify your
animation’s looping settings. See
“Export Options panel” on page 2-4
for more
information.
8.
To ensure that the animation files are generated correctly, you can preview the
animation before you generate the files.
To preview an animation:
a.
Click the P
REVIEW
button and the E
XPORT
M
IRANDA
A
NIMATION
dialog box expands
to expose the M
ERGE
P
REVIEW
section (figure
).
Figure 3-16. The Merge Preview section appears
b.
To preview each of the animations that will be created in the merge process, click
the
or
buttons or use the a slider to scrub through the animation.