05/05/2022
At this point, I'm willing to blame DataObject and NOT a producer using MOS. Mark your calendars appropriately.
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Broadcast graphics training & consultation, specializing in ChyronHego & Ross Video graphics systems. The Academy of Lower Thirds, Inc. is focused on helping clients achieve the best results and receive the highest return on investment from their Chyron graphics systems.
With 20 years of broadcast experience, ranging from local stations to the largest sporting events in the world, J. Marty Dormany doesn't just know the product, he understands production! Customized packages range from day-long consultations and "refreshers," tailored to your company's individual requirements, to week-long courses designed to enhance your creative capabilities and maximize your wor
With 20 years of broadcast experience, ranging from local stations to the largest sporting events in the world, J. Marty Dormany doesn't just know the product, he understands production! Customized packages range from day-long consultations and "refreshers," tailored to your company's individual requirements, to week-long courses designed to enhance your creative capabilities and maximize your wor
Operating as usual
05/03/2022
For the last 5 weeks, I have been troubleshooting an issue (with shockingly little help or progress). Today while walking to a dentist appt. and emailing the client, I was given a sign... okay, I *saw* a sign that looks a lot like the troublesome #TVGraphics. It gives me hope. I *WILL* un-***k this debacle; then I will beat myself up for not thinking of the solution earlier.
04/28/2022
J Marty Dormany-Keenan is celebrating being out of quarantine with new work pics... #TVGraphics
04/20/2022
#Chyron Mystery: periodically but frequently, recalling a LyricX 3.4.4 message using DataObject (DO) to pull information from an XLSX fails to update and returns an error: "No Update Pending; Preview Aborting."
What I know:
• it only happens on one of two identically configured Mosaics, not the other; it also doesn't happen on my offline.
• this has never happened to us before, but not only new messages do it; so do ones we are recycling from last year.
• it only happens on the DO reading from Excel, not from the Dak-populated XML or MDB.
• it's the same spreadsheet as the last 5 or 6 years, but it happens with new spreadsheets as well.
• it has all the hallmarks of a sharing violation, but the workbook is shared; also, this happens whether or not the XLSX is open.
• it happens on every 5th or 6th read. I have to erase the canvas and re-read it a couple of times to get it to work.
• updating the machine from MS Office 2013 to 2016 to 365 made no difference.
• all machines have the correct MS Access Engine, as well as Microsoft Access Runtime 2013.
• reinstalling LyricX, no change.
• uninstall & clean install of LyricX, no change.
• no Windows updates since Feb, 2020.
• no malware or viruses detected.
• drives are defragged and healthy.
Interesting note: there is an older install of Pro 8.8 on the device, so for giggles, I made an LYR with DO in that, and it worked fine, not only in Pro, but in X.
I don't say this often, but I. Am. Stumped. Any thoughts, #TVGraphics Hive Mind?
04/19/2022
AcademyL3 on Twitter
JMD is down with the 'Vid for a few days... avoided it for 2 yrs, 1 month, and 6 days! Fortunately, I am vaxxed & boosted, so it's a mild ride so far. I am working behind-the-scenes and all #TVGraphics projects are still on track. Stay healthy & get your damn shots!
“JMD is down with the 'Vid for a few days... avoided it for 2 yrs, 1 month, and 6 days! Fortunately, I am vaxxed & boosted, so it's a mild ride so far. I am working behind-the-scenes and all projects are still on track. Stay healthy & get your damn shots! https://t.co/CleVF7G4kI”
04/08/2022
⚾🏟 NYY Opening Day! (and JMD is still fighting with Data Objects :/)
Still, the moment of silence & Ukrainian national anthem was a touching way to start the game. 🇺🇦
04/06/2022
Hey #TVGraphics Team! In need of last minute coverage of a sporting event in #SanAntonioTX this weekend. If you're a #Chyron Op already in Texas, please shoot me a message for referral.
04/02/2022
Hey, NYC/Metro-based #TVGraphics Pros! A client is looking to expand their design team. If you're an "expert level designer" on #RossXPression, get in touch, and I'll pass your info along!
03/28/2022
YAY! J Marty's #baseball (pre)season starts today... scoreboard ain't gonna build itself. #TVGraphics ⚾
03/23/2022
For anyone wanting access to #BBC News in #Russia, the BBC tells us that 'The Russian authorities have restricted access to BBC websites in Russian and English, as well as other international and independent media, accusing them of circulating "false information" about what is happening in #Ukraine.
In response, the BBC said "access to accurate, independent information is a fundamental human right which should not be denied to the people of Russia, millions of whom rely on BBC News every week".
Record numbers of people have read the BBC's Russian language news website since the invasion. To get around the BBC ban in Russia: download the Psiphon app from the AppStore or Google Play Store. Look for the dedicated BBC site on the Tor Browser. Note that this URL only works using the Tor Browser or the Onion Browser (on iPhones).
If access to the apps is restricted then send a blank email to [email protected] or [email protected]. An email will be sent in response with a direct and safe download link.
The BBC has also launched two new shortwave frequencies broadcasting World Service English news for four hours a day to Ukraine and parts of Russia:
15735 kHz from 14:00 GMT to 16:00 GMT
5875 kHz from 20:00 GMT to 22:00 GMT'
03/18/2022
Since I somehow undid the relaxation from my vacation in about 48hrs, please accept this as my out-of-office... see y'all on Tuesday! #TVGraphics 🥂
03/16/2022
Help TV Rain Survive the Freeze, organized by Julia Ioffe
👇🏼 A voice worth saving... please donate if you can; we will.
#TVRain #дождь
Hi, my name is Julia Ioffe. On March 3, 2022, TV Rain, Russia's last independent TV ne… Julia Ioffe needs your support for Help TV Rain Survive the Freeze
03/13/2022
22°F, but clear & beautiful... perfect day for the #NewHaven #StPatricksDay parade with our friends at #WTNH (our 1st COVID cancelled gig of 2020, so this feels like a triumphant return).
🍀🇮🇪 #TVGraphics
03/12/2022
After a delightful week showing Dr. Tom the haunts of my youth while on vacation in Florida, I'm on the road again...(time to make the #TVGraphics).
03/06/2022
You may consider this my "out of office" notification...
03/04/2022
RT America ceases productions and lays off most of its staff | CNN Business
#RTNews ceases all US operations...
https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/03/media/rt-america-layoffs/index.html
RT America will cease productions and lay off most of its staff, according to a memo CNN obtained from T&R Productions, the production company behind the Russian state-funded network.
03/02/2022
Ross Video and its CEO of Ukrainian Heritage to Donate $100,000 to Ukraine Humanitarian Relief Efforts, Sever All Business with Russia and Call on Other CEOs to Help
#RossVideo donates $100,000 to humanitarian efforts in #Ukraine & severs business ties with Putin's Russia. David Ross is not just an admirable CEO, but a great person. I hope that other #TVGraphics vendors will follow this leader. #PutinisaWarCriminal
March 2, 2022, Ottawa, Ontario – Ross Video strongly condemns Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and is supporting humanitarian relief efforts. Last week, prior to international sanctions being imposed, Ross halted all shipments to Russia and severed support for Ross products...
03/02/2022
25(ish) years ago at my first TV station, WFLA, I met Todd Sullivan. When I said, "Nice to meet you," he responded, "No it isn't; in 6 months, you'll think I'm an asshole, just like everyone else."
Not inaccurate I suppose; yet despite this, or perhaps because of it, my first great director became an even greater friend. Happy Retirement, Todd! You deserve it!
02/24/2022
You're most welcome, Luke!
(hand-written 'thank you' cards are a delightful lost art)
02/23/2022
Hey #XPression Ops! Who's available for a gig 2/27-3/2; travel, hotel, per diem covered? That's all the detail I have but am happy to pass your info along. #XPressYourself #TVGraphics
02/18/2022
Scott Flato on LinkedIn: #Graphics #Broadcast #MotionGraphics
Paraphrased from our friends at #GamedayCreative
"Huge thanks to Ben Christoffel, Andria Hart, and the rest of the Mecum Auctions crew for giving Gameday Creative the opportunity to create the new Mecum Auctions on-air graphics package.
The full refresh included the graphic Open, Bumpers/Cappers, Transitions, Interstitials, Monitor Loops, and the full Insert system, integrated and executed by the great Dave Bachman and J Marty Dormany-Keenan [#AcademyL3].
Check out Mecum Auctions on MotorTrend Group TV!"
#TVGraphics #Broadcast #MotionGraphics #Animation #TV #3D #SetDesign #Chyron
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/scott-flato-6021a962_graphics-broadcast-motiongraphics-activity-6900445357780611072-JY2k
Huge thanks to Ben Christoffel, Andria Hart, and the rest of the Mecum Auctions crew for giving Gameday Creative the opportunity to create the new Mecum...
02/12/2022
Weather was lovely enough to enjoy lunch on the roof deck today... Day 26 of 35. 🥇#TVGraphics
01/17/2022
Who caught the Mecum Auction in Kissimmee? Fabulous #Chyron #TVGraphics for their new package by Gameday Creative & realized by AcademyL3's team (great job, Dave!).
01/11/2022
YAY! I finally. Put up that privacy shade that's been sitting in the corner of my office since Summer 2020.
12/31/2021
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#TVGraphics People of Earth! #HappyNewYear, and don't forget to change your ©opyrights. May #2022 bring you health, happiness, and prosperity 🥂
#Chyron #RossXPression #Vizrt #NewBlueFX
12/25/2021
#MerryChristmas from AcademyL3 & J Marty. 🎄🎅🏽☃️
12/16/2021
Off to Hartford, CT, for a quick #Vizrt #TVGraphics deployment. (Thanks, Dave!)
I'm cautiously optimistic that this is the last thing I have to do before Christmas break 🎄🎅🏽 but for realz yo, I haven't really backed away from my work email in 25 years.
12/15/2021
AcademyL3 has wrapped up its last class of 2021! J Marty had a phenomenal #TVGraphics trainee who challenged him (well, me); it's so much fun when we both can learn.
Now I'm just in time for the office holiday party 🎄🎅🏽
12/06/2021
Time for a lil' #Chyron #TVGraphics training with that goofball J Marty!🧐
11/27/2021
#ShopSmall #ShopLocal #smallbusinesssaturday
11/26/2021
On #BlackFriday 2021, whether you're looking for gifts or services, remember to #ShopSmall, #ShopLocal, and support #SmallBiz.
#BuildBackBetter
10/15/2021
This one still hurts... 😔
Tonight at 11:58pm, #Tampa's 2nd #PBS station, #WUSF TV16, will sign off for the last time. The University of South Florida made the shortsighted decision to auction the frequency off ending the station's 50 year run. This action robs the community of 50% of its non-profit, non-commercial TV broadcast; worse, it robs the communication students of USF of the most valuable asset to young media professionals: the opportunity to volunteer, intern, and work in a "real world" broadcast environment.
In the early days of my career, having burned-out on news, a colleague & friend, Scott Ginniman (RIP), offered me the chance to come to WUSF, to leave behind the pace of news, and to learn television-as-craft under my favorite TV director, Clyde McCain.
WUSF entrusted me with building a graphics department in a new, multi-million dollar broadcast center. I was able to rely on my experiences at #WFLA and their (it'll all be better in the) new building transition to offer TV16 workflows and technology they'd never had before. I took the station from MS PowerPoint run thru a Targa card (I know) and an antiquated Dubner 20K, to a full Adobe suite, #Chyron iNFiNiT!, and a fancy new Chyron device called a "DuetSD" with Lyric 3.0 (we know how that worked out!).
From 2000-2002, TV morphed from industry to art for me. Aside from core professional staff, many of the crew were communication college students getting their first taste of live broadcast. My previous experience working with students at HCC augmented my broadcast skills, as I helped train wave after wave of incoming students and watched them blossom; many are still friends and amazing professionals.
In its 50 years, WUSF gave us NBC's Kerry Sanders and Space Ghost's George Lowe. Channel 16 is a part of me. The crew of WUSF was very much a family to me. We made great TV together. As a family, we saw death together. We watched as our younger generation learned and grew and moved on to start new families.
Tonight, that legacy goes dark forever, the frequency being adapted over to smartphone data bandwidth. How staggeringly sad for Tampa Bay.
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Today's #TVGraphics Agenda - 10am: #Chyron #LyricX meeting - 11:30am: #Vizrt meeting - 12pm: #XPression meeting - 12:30pm: commence #LaborDay weekend protocols... 🍻🍔 #Elections2020 #TNMLTLM
So it begins... #Elections2020 #TVGraphics
I am in love with not being tied to any one #TVGraphics vendor. You're all fabulous... now bring on 2020 Q3 & Q4 (and omfg 2021, please)!!! #Vizrt #XPression #Chyron #AvidMaestro
Proposal Marathon these last two weeks!🤞 #Hope #TVGraphics
Christmas 2019
The sound is a recording of the Heirloom "Spincraft" rotating, musical Christmas tree stand (1957)... it belonged to my grandparents and parents, and the sumbitch still works 60 years later! I grew up with this wonderful sound of decaying yuletide kitsch emanating from our 🎄
For #Pride2019, this Trekkie volunteered some time & skills making a nice 3D monitor graphic for his friends over at Gaaaysinspaaace. 🏳️🌈🖖🏼 I forgot what a pain it can be to seamlessly loop some things without features that compensate automatically... luckily, I have a few dusty synapses that are still dedicated to calculating fps, time, & key frames manually.
As we head into #Halloween weekend, J Marty Dormany's favorite season, I remind you to have a blast, be spooky, and stay safe! If you're a small business in need of free-to-moderately priced, great quality stock footage, check out www.vidsplay.com!
AcademyL3 The "Diamond" Package
ACADEMYL3 celebrates a milestone in its evolution as a #TVGraphics service provider. In partnership with a phenomenal design team, led by ZACK MILLICAN and supported by talent including KRISTY WEIR and ADAM SNOW, AcademyL3 has deployed its first end-to-end creative services package. The "DIAMOND" package, conceived by Zack Millican and realized in ChyronHego LyricX for the CAMIO workflow, enjoyed a textbook launch at #WRCB-TV in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on August 6th. What a pleasure working with WRCB's creative team: Ronnie Minton and John Collins! And a ginormous 'Thank You' to ChyronHego's Joseph Turner for all his hard work during launch! Moving forward, AcademyL3 will offer original, custom creative services packages. Unlike many larger design agencies, however, we will provide not only original concepts, but those designs will be "realized" in plug-n-play, ready-to-air graphics packages for #ChyronHego #LyricPRO / #LyricX and #RossVideo #XPression. This model benefits clients in two key ways: - in a typical scenario, a client purchases a design from an agency, then must hand those designs off to an integrator for template realization & data integration. This is followed by the inevitable back-n-forth: Expectation vs. Managed Expectation. This process burns both time & money. By working with designers who are initmately familiar with, in this case, LyricX's capabilities & strengths, months of intermediary process are eliminated, and the client saves time & money; this is especially important for non-network/O&O and non-group stations, where budgets are potentially of much greater concern. The DIAMOND package also represents the genesis of what will become AcademyL3's Evergreen Market. The Evergreen Market, expanding over time, will allow budget/time-conscious customers to browse a variety of pre-created looks available to re-skin, re-color, and re-brand to local non-adjacent markets, with deployment available for multiple CG platforms. No market or job too
Remembering our dear friend and colleague Janice Devine for her birthday. We're better for having known you. #RIPJanice #CancerSucks
Merry Christmas!
The sound is a recording of the Heirloom "Spincraft" rotating, musical Christmas tree stand (1957)... it belonged to my grandparents and parents, and the sumbitch still works 60 years later! I grew up with this wonderful sound of decaying yuletide kitsch emanating from our 🎄
When you stifle a sneeze for 90 seconds, but your sneeze knows EXACTLY when the camera is on... #LivePD
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Ventuz Class Day 2 with #MixonDigital and #AcademyL3!
Lyric PRO & XPression Servces Now Available!
Exciting News! After 3 weeks of immersion training, AcademyL3 has booked the entirety of Q4 2015 with a couple of collaborative #RossVideo #XPression design & support projects!!! I am looking forward to serving a growing set of clients, in addition to my traditional #ChyronHego #LyricPRO customers, in 2016... • impartial consultation on which platform is right for your facility • cross-platform package migration • creative services, NRCS/automation & data integration, and deployment are now available for *both* of these amazing workflow solutions • top level designer training available for Chyron products ...as my services expand into this shiny new world, I anticipate a long & prosperous future working with both of these fabulous vendors!!! Q1 2016 is booking now, so don't wait!
Freedom of #XPression
Happy Freedom of #XPression Friday (brought to you by my friends at #RossVideo)!
Happy Tuesday, Gang! One of my favorite graphics operators just shared a video with me from our friends at the #MeredithVieiraShow (http://meredithvieirashow.com/) about Meredith's first exposure to #Chyron... it's funny and charming... bring a smile to your face.
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Many, many thanks to J Marty Dormany-Keenan and The Academy of Lower Thirds, Inc for the help getting #Chyron running smoothly. Always appreciated!
Marty to the rescue! The Academy of Lower Thirds saves the day when #chyron could not. #tvgraphics #martyisthebest
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J Marty Dormany-Keenan, thank you for your sage advice. I really appreciate you taking the time to talk with me this morning...
Any #chyron experts know why a #LyricX transition with a wav file produces a click sound on ctl+play? Any way to fix this?
The Academy of Lower Thirds, Inc. #TVGraphics
A quick shout out to Marty of The Academy of Lower Thirds for his help today with our Chyron MosaicXL2 graphics machines. Marty is a true professional with a deep knowledge of the products he supports. Thanks Marty, and look forward to working with you again sometime!
J Marty Dormany and The Academy of Lower Thirds is always there to help in any way possible, even when the company of the product I'm trying to use can't. And today, yet again, solves another #chyron mysterious issue. Thanks Marty!!!
Good afternoon. Someone asked me about #XPression training for freelancers yesterday. Do you guys offer this? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Here are some screen grabs of the virtual commencement interface between NewBlue and Excel Spreadsheet that we have developed in our partnership with designer The Academy of Lower Thirds, Inc.! It is this interface that powers the package and allows us a huge capacity to produce commencements! Reach out and learn what we can do for your school or organization!
#2020strong #inthistogether #goingvirtual #virtualcommencement #virtualgraduation #commencement #graduation #videoproduction #skeeterbuggins
Thanks for the shoutout The Academy of Lower Thirds, Inc.! Great working with you J Marty Dormany-Keenan! Been working on the finishing touches of the NewBlue and Website! Should be up tomorrow, stay tuned!
Hi All!
I have a #Vizrt coding question I'm hoping someone can help me with.
I've got a script that calculates points as an individual advances through competition, followed by a comparison that will flip rows if they jump someone in the standings.
Because the software we normally pull this info from uses commas in any number over 999, I also need this script to add the comma after calculating the new points total or the comparison doesn't work.
I've exhausted all of the scripting I know to attempt to add the comma, but keep failing. Does anyone know how I can do this?
Thank you! #TVGraphics #Vizrt