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Miranda’s After Effects Plug-in uses base After Effects projects to pre-render graphics into
animation or video clip files that can then be used on a variety of Miranda playout devices.
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.oxi - OXI animation files for Intuition Classic devices
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.oxa - OXA animation files for Imagestore 750 and LGK -3901 devices
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.vaf - VAF video clip files for Intuition XG and Vertigo XG devices
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.mxf - MXF video clip files for HMP-1801 devices
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The After Effects Plug-in can also embed a .VAF inside an .OXI or .OXA file by enabling a setting
within the Oxtel Export Options in Merge Mode. This allows the asset to be used on Intuition
Classic, Intuition XG, and Vertigo XG devices. See
“Embed VAF in OXI” on page 2-6
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The Affects Effects Plug-in consists of two (2) options for rendering graphics files from an
After Effects project:
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Miranda Animation - The M
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option is the basic mode that simply uses
the currently loaded After Effects project to generate and save the After Effects project as
an animation or video file. See
for further instructions and information.
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Miranda Animation (Merge Mode) - The M
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option allows you to prepare
multiple versions of graphics by using traffic data from an Excel spreadsheet to feed an
Adobe After Effects Project template. The plug-in then combines the data and the
template to generate multiple versions of the promo, as animation or video files, for
different channels, days and times.
In addition to creating animation and video files, Merge Mode also allows you to output
an Intuition template with the newly created animation inserted based on an original
Intuition template.
Another practical use of the Merge Mode option is to transcode Targa (TGA)
sequences from disk to OXI/OXA animations and/or VAF video clip format.
See
“Miranda Animation (Merge Mode) option” on page 3-1
for further instructions and
information.