Hey Guys,

First time here, but been playing with Vmix for a few months now as we've transitioned to production from home only and so far its been a really good experience.

Anyway, I've been trying to automate the simple process of jumping around within a video clip input so that we don't have to chop it up and have multiple inputs.

1. I want to create shortcuts for different parts of a given video clip. One shortcut to set the clip start/end point, and another to play it. Also, maybe just one shortcut that sets up the next clip and then one to play could work too.
2. Don't want to update shortcuts, so grabbing start/end points from a data source like Google Sheets would be ideal.

So basically, I want to show a clip from say :05-:10, then jump to :30-:40, then maybe jump back to :15-:20. After looking up some script samples, I came up with this.

Clip-1-TimeCode - Title/XAML input with data pulling from the a google sheets datasource.
Clip-1 - Input for the video file

We'll start by setting Markout first, so that Markin will leave the clip ready to play after.

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dim i as object = Input.Find("Clip-1-TimeCode")
sleep(1)
api.Function("DataSourceNextRow",Value:="Google Sheets,Clip-Info")
sleep(1)
dim ClipInput as string = "Clip-1"
dim ClipIn as string =i.Text("in-x.Text") + "000"
dim ClipOut as string =i.Text("out-y.Text") + "000"

api.Function("MarkReset", Input:=ClipInput)
sleep(1)
api.Function("SetPosition",Value:=ClipOut, Input:=ClipInput)
sleep(1)
api.Function("MarkOut",Input:=ClipInput)
sleep(1)
api.Function("SetPosition",Value:=ClipIn, Input:=ClipInput)
sleep(1)
api.Function("MarkIn",Input:=ClipInput)

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I ran into some problems where certain video formats like MP4 & MPG files had weird issues with Setposition & MarkIn not behaving properly, however Quicktime(prores) seems to work consistently.

I have a few questions for the group.

1. Although, this seems to work. Is it efficient? is there another simpler way to accomplish this that maybe i missed?
2. Is there really no way to initiate a video clip with predefined in & out points, without having to manually set them?

Thanks!

Thanks Doggy, that's what i figured. Does anyone know if there is any other video format besides proress that might work as well? For our workflow dealing with a format that would have a smaller file size would work best. I did get a chance to test out prores HQ,LT,Proxy from premiere, and all worked fine so in the meantime we'll probably just work with the Proxy codec.