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  • Excalibur 6 update for Vegas Pro 13

    Posted by Edward Troxel on August 17, 2016 at 3:06 pm

    I’ve been working on Excalibur in preparation for the anticipated move to Vegas Pro 14. With the new OFX Titles & Text media generator, it is now possible to write text via a script to the text box. While this has been available in a couple of previous versions, there was a new option added in 13 that really helped with the implementation of QuickLabels. So a new version of Excalibur 6 is available but it will only work in Vegas Pro 13 and now uses Titles & Text for QuickLabels. The updated version can be found here:

    https://www.jetdv.com/scripts/Excalibur6-13-0.exe

    In addition, it will use smart alignments. If you place the text on the left side of the screen, each label will be aligned on the left. If you place it on the right side of the screen, each label will be aligned on the right. Similarly, if you place it toward the center of the screen, the labels will be centered.

    This is a free update for Excalibur 6 users.

    Edward Troxel

    Graham Bernard replied 9 years, 9 months ago 3 Members · 9 Replies
  • 9 Replies
  • Graham Bernard

    August 17, 2016 at 3:29 pm

    Thanks Edward.

    I can’t get the Text Colour or Background Colour to work to take effect.

    Cheers

    * Grazie

    Video Content Creator and Potter
    PC 7 64-bit 16gb * Intel® Core™i7-2600k Quad Core 3.40GHz * 2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 Ti
    Cameras: Canon XF300 + PowerShot SX50HS Bridge

  • Edward Troxel

    August 17, 2016 at 3:52 pm

    It was working great in my testing with the selected font and font color. I purposely changed those in my testing to make sure all was fine. I’ll take another look at it but may need you to e-mail me an example.

    Edward Troxel

  • Edward Troxel

    August 18, 2016 at 2:25 am

    Grazie, please download and install again. It’s the same file name but the version is now 6.13.0.38003

    The colors will now properly work.

    Edward Troxel

  • Graham Bernard

    August 18, 2016 at 6:11 am

    [Edward Troxel] “The colors will now properly work”

    Erm, not here they aren’t:

    What am I doing wrong?

    * Grazie

    Video Content Creator and Potter
    PC 7 64-bit 16gb * Intel® Core™i7-2600k Quad Core 3.40GHz * 2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 Ti
    Cameras: Canon XF300 + PowerShot SX50HS Bridge

  • Graham Bernard

    August 18, 2016 at 7:12 am

    I can prove that colours correctly reflected in your “SAMPLE” view, are NOT what comes out at the other end.

    This is correct:

    This is not correct:

    I then went through ALL the options for the Colour Selection Grid:

    As we can see there are 6×8 = 48 options.

    I then preceded to methodically repeat each and every selection and made a spreadsheet of the results. “y” = Correct and “x” = Incorrect:

    What I found was that only 8 of the 48 colours were correctly reflected in the QuickLabels.

    Now, in my opinion, Edward, this leaves you with a dilemma. EITHER leave as it is with a warning OR get together with Madison to establish if there IS a bug and have them squash it. What I really don’t understand is if your QL Preview SAMPLE is correct, why isn’t THIS being carried through to the final operation?

    I hope my testing helps you in your efforts to get this sorted out.

    * Grazie

    Video Content Creator and Potter
    PC 7 64-bit 16gb * Intel® Core™i7-2600k Quad Core 3.40GHz * 2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 Ti
    Cameras: Canon XF300 + PowerShot SX50HS Bridge

  • Steve Rhoden

    August 18, 2016 at 8:01 am

    Good Job Edward….

    Steve Rhoden (Cow Leader)
    Film Maker & VFX Artist.
    Owner of Filmex Creative Media.
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  • Edward Troxel

    August 18, 2016 at 11:09 pm

    Ok, version 6.13.0.32480 is now available at the same link and same file name. It was an issue where Vegas is using values of 0-1 instead of 0-255 and I was passing the standard 0-255.

    Edward Troxel

  • Graham Bernard

    August 19, 2016 at 8:14 am

    I’m glad that my efforts were of assistance. Such are the joys of being a User-tester.

    I’ll upload your corrected Xcal later today.

    * Grazie

    Video Content Creator and Potter
    PC 7 64-bit 16gb * Intel® Core™i7-2600k Quad Core 3.40GHz * 2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 Ti
    Cameras: Canon XF300 + PowerShot SX50HS Bridge

  • Graham Bernard

    August 19, 2016 at 4:44 pm

    Thanks Edward, the colours are working correctly.

    * Grazie

    Video Content Creator and Potter
    PC 7 64-bit 16gb * Intel® Core™i7-2600k Quad Core 3.40GHz * 2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 Ti
    Cameras: Canon XF300 + PowerShot SX50HS Bridge

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