Hi, is there way to fade off the countdown when to reaches or soon after it reaches zero. I use a countdown at present which takes the time from a excel spreadsheet. I use the following formula to generate the data =CONCATENATE("{0:",F2, "PM|mm:ss}") for the countdown and the time of the race is in the cell F2. Each event the time is different so the value in F2 changes. What I would like is for the countdown text to go off when or shortly after it reaches zero.

Hi Doggy,

Unfortunately this won't work as I want to automate this for about 10 events a meeting so I pull the time in from a cell in an excel spreedsheet. To use the countdown trigger I need to fill the countdown entry box with a time which I can't fill from a datasource.

Thanks again for the reply.

At present I change to time that the countdown stops at in Excel in cell "F2" on the sheet.

In another cell "F3" there is a formula which takes the time i.e. "2:00" and concatenates it with =CONCATENATE("{0:",F2, "PM|mm:ss}") which creates the following result in the new cell {0:3:00PM|mm:ss}

Then in the Title Editor I allocate the text line in the Title file to the "F3" cell which Vmix then shows as a countdown.

What I would like to happen is shortly after the countdown reaches zero I would like the overlay with the countdown on it to fade off.

If I understand what you are saying you are suggesting running a script which reads the hidden field as a time and when the real time is greater then that value then trigger Overlay Off. To do this I would need to load the spreadsheet or at least the cell containing the time into a VBScript which at present is beyond my very limited ability to write VB.Net.

Or did you mean something else by hidden field?