Overlays or Multiview layers ?

Multiview layers: one currently can position the original input (or virtual counterpart)used in the multiview with shortcuts for the same effect (until your wish is granted)

Overlays: fun things one can do (and some scripting) for something similar


(2 Overlay PIP switching with single shortcut
Overlay1 and Overlay2 PIP inputs changing as usual
Ignored if no two overlays (PIPs) )

no you wouldnt ! one input (or virtual copy if you want to retain the original) where shortcuts have a predefined positions ( just as one would have to with your feature request) unless you can get your position data from somewhere else .



One step further could be a way to use a script to let you specify which input then you only would need one per position

Is hard to envision your real goal (i understand it as being able to reposition)

The video is just something else but similar ( confusing right ) 3 inputs and all these combination posibilities with one shortcuts ( scripted) and a few controls being overlay selection)

Love how Layer Movements work with Merge... and have made great use of Merge. Most of shows are build with many Merge Moves and i often keep Layers ON but Off Screen so they move in nicely.

I'm now wanting to program control panels and scripts to make positioning quicker and easier for my team (both in Australia and worldwide).


I.e. use script to aline boxes - I already know how to do this manually, ie get a position value of a box on the left and just change the panX value to a positive number, or take PanY and use that number to aline bottom of all boxes.

Looking at Virtual Inputs is a way to do this, as it the only way of changing the position via function/script but then would end up many more inputs, like 50 to 100 more inputs, and hard to make all the Moves work (at lease in the way i know how).

So my question is around having a API for setting position [x, y, zoom] of an input Overlay (index 0 to 9) -- I can see how getting data from the active xml sheet and reading the overlay values, along with Dynamic Values (within xml Slots) and scripts could make a next level control panel.

Could we get an Overlay Position API Please

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Could we get an Overlay Position API please?

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