I have a google sheet with the names of 22 soccer players, pointers to images of their shirts, and some basic stats. Before the start of the game I have a title that scrolls through this list displaying the players name, an image of his shirt, and some basic stats, each for 8 seconds. All using Data Sources, and Data Source Manager.

Its all a bit clunky, cutting between each player, what I would like to do is fade each one up and down in turn, with something like a 250mss fade down and a 250ms fade up.

Anybody got any clever ideas how I could achieve this? Is their a trigger (On Data Source Change - or something similar) I could set up?

Not sure what will be the easiest way?

All The Best

Keith

@ kgoodyer

Although it is possible to do something like this with "Triggers", it's not the best solution but will work if executed properly, but I wouldn't recommend it.
It will take some time to set-up and it's not exactly fool proof, as timing is critical since Trigger timings and DataSources timings are independent or each other...

-Step one is to select the desired "Transition" and "settings" for the Overlay channel you want to use, I'll choose "1" for this example (Overlay Settings Button lower right)
-Step two is to choose which Input (background image) you want to set-up the "Trigger" on (I suggest using a Virtual Input or one that will only be used for this effect)
-Step three is set-up the first "Trigger" ->
Trigger: OnTransitionIn -> Function: OverlayInput1In -> Input: Graphic connected to DataSources -> Duration: n/a -> Delay: 500 (you can play around with this if necessary)-> Value: n/a
-Step four is to set-up the second "Trigger" ->
Trigger: OnTransitionIn -> Function: OverlayInput1Out -> Input: n/a -> Duration: n/a -> Delay: 7500 (you may have to adjust to accommodate DataSource timing )-> Value: n/a
-Step five is to repeat (copy or add) the previous two Triggers for each player (item) in your list.

I would suggest testing the timing with 4 or 5 Players (Trigger sequences) first before adding all 22 (or 44 Triggers) as making adjustments or tweaks will be easier since the Overlay Trigger can't be stopped once initiated (one of the down sides to automation). The biggest challenge is matching the timing sequences and why I wouldn't recommend doing it this way, but it is possible... sort of.


Ice

Hi Keith

I found a working method to animate text only (I don't want my background title to move) and it can only work with manual trigerring (won't work with AutoNext function active). To do this I use vMixUTC, but it can also be done by vMix only with triggers.

- Create your xaml with text fields only
- create a multiview input with your title background image on top of your cam input (this is a limitation, see http://forums.vmix.com/d...aspx?g=posts&t=8622)

- then create a trigger for your xaml input that will use DataSourceNextRow with OnOverlayIn
- choose the transition effect you wish for this overlay #

Now
- send your multiview with background image to PGM
- each time you press the overlay button for this title you should get a text only transition effect.

Not perfect and far from what we do with professional tools but no xaml coding necessary.

Guillaume

All good, figured out the data change in and out set to fade.

Although it doesn't function properly. It's wacky! It does a fade and then the data cuts?

And I'd love a dissolve option rather than 'Fade' that way if a value doesn't change, you don't see a transition because it is dissolving from and to the same text so invisible. Fade makes it fade on and off. Still clunky

And is there a way to remove any applied animations and start again?

Seems very half baked!

Yeah good point, to do a dissolve between the two data fields would mean briefly reading from two rows which data sources don’t do. Cuts it is then!