Hello,

Great idea, Martin. I've recently written a script using power shell to do that kind of thing.

I would suggest adding some basic looping ability (for/while sort of thing) maybe to the script/macro language and maybe the ability to read data from Vmix via the API, plus possible other "basic" sources.

EG: Read a CSV.

So you could ultimately do some of the things possible with a language like powershell or vbscript.

Things off the top of my head you may want to do..

WGET or XML Read a URL - with a well written XPath (to adjust a title) based on the result
Read a File
Run a Powershell or Command Prompt in the background (sleeping) to wait for a returned response

So I would see it common to want to trigger something, fetch data, update title and fade it in, or enable the overlay. I'm sure you don't have time to write your own version of Powershell or VBScript, but maybe being able to execute them in a hidden window expecting a basic result would be useful.

A task I'm about to work on is read a title .. if it's set to xxx eg.. a player number, race number. Grab information from a CSV file and update title information.

Therefore you could use your iPad, update the player number and it populates details like name, image or anything you can think of via the API.

Note: I've already shared some powershell stuff working with your API, it's very powerful as it is, but powershell itself has a bit of a learning curve and something simpler for every day scripting would be very handy.

Regards,

Speegs

Martin

I went through this process with an early competitor of yours 10 years or so ago. I see you have already considered using a sleep command so that a lower third or some such device can be triggered say 2000ms after another event, in may similar systems there is a 'after' and 'before' method, so that you can trigger events relative to the end of a playing clip. This is especially useful when you have clips who's content changes duration (i.e opening news intro, where the the headline clips duration change every for bulletin, but you need to keep video and CG in sync.

Something Like this.....

Input("video.mp4").Cut

Overlay(1).In("title.xaml") <<shows opening titles
After(2000) <<2000ms delay
Overlay(1).Out() <<hide opening titles

Before (2000) <<2000ms before the end of the video file
Overlay(1).In("credits.xaml") <<shows closing credits 2000ms before the video file stops playing

Input("video.mp4").WaitForCompletion()
Overlay(1).Out() <<hide closing credits

API.Function("Fade")

Keith

This is really good news!

To the above suggestions concerning inspiration from other languages, I would like to add http://ahkscript.org. It is open source, and perhaps you could implement it inside vMix, and just add the particular vMix functionality.

Also, it would be nice with some trigger/interrupt functionality. For example, for auto turning off an overlay:
On.Overlay(1) Sleep(5000) Overlay(1).Off

I also join those who ask for the possibility to import (and export) data from/to files.

But, I also realise that it is a tricky task to balance between a decent macro functionality and a full fledged language implementation.

I 2nd the AHK script support! Autohotkey is excellent open source scripting software.

This would be truly awesome.

For one, I would probably use this to automate Replay compilations, for example: Key press "F1" triggers

* Play all items in Events 3
* Fade sound input volume to 0
* Fade Music playlist volume to 100
* Change replay multiview 1 to input x
* turn off overlays
* wait until last item is finished
* Fade music volume to 0
* Fade in sound input to 100
* Null replay multiview 1
* Enable overlay x
* Move all Replay items from Events 3 to Events 4

I know nearly all this could be chained with current shortcuts into one key press, but it looks really messy.

I'd like to dive more into scripting.

It seems I cannot find much information neither here in the help-section or in vMix videos.

Is there somewhere to look for specific syntaxes and examples ?

hm....

https://forums.vmix.com/...86-Scripting-for-Dummies