Hi DWAM,

no, was fooling around with Panasonic, Ross and Analog Way Mixers :-)
Corona lead me to cope with those online and streaming tools...
which is fine but a new world to discover

thanks so far!

API.function("setpanX",Input:=2, Value:="+0.05")
just defined the final position of my image on X axis
but not to repeated steps by 0.05

Just as Doggy said, it's all about the syntax !
Added my demo video for PoC and clues (about repetitive process)

I don't think Midi Control Change can handle value ranges like 0-63 or 64-128 (to be confirmed) when using the "shortcuts" interface in vMix.

However setting this knob to activate a "script" designed to allow speed control (with a "for" loop) would be my first idea to work on. This would even allow to set dynamic (linear or logarithmic) speeds according to the knob value...

Script will not be able to read the MIDI codes

BTW preferably your question would have been better put in a separate post . Post was started as a way to show basic scripting examples to learn from not discuss various problems and wishes which obscure the useful posts.
Many people would look to the separate post to as many don't use scripts hence are not looking here to give advice on the scripting subject

Wouldn't it be much simpler to simply use the Restart after transition option ?
Or simply add a trigger to force restart on transition ?

one can go through the API XML and pick out all the video inputs , one can even pick them out using the xml data source with the proper xpath
Or just have shortcut duplicated under the same key each doing the restart for each individual video

I've been trying to update a Playback Video timer script I found on this forum.
Many thanks to the whomever posted first.

I would like to update script to reflect proper countdown in a markout point has been applied.

My problem is I can't figure out how to test if markout node exists in the XML file.
I've gone to several paths with xpath without success.

Here's the pertinent code

'Dump XML from API

dim xml as string = API.XML()
dim x as new system.xml.xmldocument
x.loadxml(xml)

'test if markout node referenced below exists

????

' use mark_out point instead of duration for timer

mark_out = (x.SelectSingleNode("//input[@number='"& activeinput &"']/@markout").Value)

Any assistance is appreciated.
I'm doing fairy well with scripting in general but the XML manipulation is still confusing to me.

Jim

Thanks for the quick response

Here's the updated code.

I'm not sure the best way to post update so others might find it easily, so please advise.

---

' PB-timeremaining-Active-New

' Checking time left of active running video and display this as a title.
' and do some stuff at certain time remaining

dim position as string = ""
dim duration as string = ""
dim activeinput as string = ""
dim clipname as string = ""
dim mark_out as string = ""

dim Timeleft as double = 0
dim triggertime as integer = 10 '10 seconds before end
dim triggerduration as integer = 2000 'fade duration, could be different than trigger

do while true

dim xml as string = API.XML()
dim x as new system.xml.xmldocument
x.loadxml(xml)

activeinput = (x.SelectSingleNode("//active").InnerText)
clipname = (x.SelectSingleNode("//input[@number='"& activeinput &"']/@title").Value)
duration = (x.SelectSingleNode("//input[@number='"& activeinput &"']/@duration").Value)
position = (x.SelectSingleNode("//input[@number='"& activeinput &"']/@position").Value)


dim markout_exists as string = "yes"

try
mark_out = (x.SelectSingleNode("//input[@number='"& activeinput &"']/@markOut").Value)
Catch ex as Exception
markout_exists = "no"
end try

if markout_exists = "yes" then
duration = (x.SelectSingleNode("//input[@number='"& activeinput &"']/@markOut").Value)
else
duration = (x.SelectSingleNode("//input[@number='"& activeinput &"']/@duration").Value)
end if

Timeleft= Double.Parse(duration)-Double.Parse(position)

API.Function("SetText",Input:="Grn/Red Rooms Label 1",SelectedIndex:="9" ,Value:=clipname)

Timeleft = Timeleft / 100

dim Timingleft as integer = CInt(Timeleft)
Timingleft = Timingleft / 10

dim Minutes as integer = Timingleft \ 60
dim Seconds as integer = Timingleft Mod 60

dim ThisTime as string
ThisTime = Minutes.ToString("00") + ":" + Seconds.ToString("00")

if Timingleft < 60
'put a response in a title and change color accordingly
API.Function("SetText",Input:="Grn/Red Rooms Label 1",SelectedIndex:="8" ,Value:=Timingleft) ' Value:=":", Value:=Seconds)

if Timingleft < 30
API.Function("SetTextColour",Input:="Grn/Red Rooms Label 1",SelectedIndex:="8",Value:="red")
else
API.Function("SetTextColour",Input:="Grn/Red Rooms Label 1",SelectedIndex:="8", Value:="orange")
end if
else
API.Function("SetText",Input:="Grn/Red Rooms Label 1",SelectedIndex:="8" ,Value:=ThisTime)
API.Function("SetTextColour",Input:="Grn/Red Rooms Label 1", SelectedIndex:="8" ,Value:="white")
end if


sleep(50)
loop

V24 Dynamic Values a most basic example



These dynamic values can be set or changed in a script or with a shortcut and once set can be used with any function or shortcut where these values could apply