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Hi!

I'm trying to pause an animated overlay at different points automatically with triggers. This method shows promise, but it does not work consistently. The first pause happens pretty much every time, but after that it is a crap shoot as to when and if it will happen. I bring it in by using the 1-4 overlay buttons, and then advance it by hitting the play button.

So either I am doing something wrong (probably) or there is a problem with timing.

Thanks in advance for any light that can be shed!
Mike

Hi Andrew, to be clear, I only use overlay button 1, to start the animation playing back. It pauses as expected the first time pretty consistently. To advance, I use the play button near the input. It is at this point that things go wrong. Sometimes it will pause from the programmed trigger, but not where I expect and not every time.

So it is entirely possible that I am misunderstanding how to use it.

I’m not sure how to answer your question about how it will know to trigger correctly. It does seem that either this behavior is simply not currently supported or I’m trying to do this the wrong.

Thanks again for the brain power!

Thanks Martin for the explanation. I now understand why what happens... happens. Out of curiosity, what steps would you suggest to accomplish the effect I'm looking for?

If you think you've got it, you can skip the following long winded explanation and go straight to your answer, if not or you're not too terribly busy at the moment, the scenario is this...

I wish to create a single, animated, overlay graphic file that contains a series of pictures which change once every second in the animation. I wish to have vMix begin playing the animated overlay, programming a pause in at each second. I will then commentate while paused and when finished, I hit a button to proceed to the next graphic at which point it will pause automatically again... and so on...

Why?
In theory, doing it this way will reduce my graphic creation/render time (avoid creating and saving multiple files from Panamation), and make it easier to manage in vMix vs. importing a series of animations that would require either multiple inputs or a playlist to manage.


Since this is unscripted, probably unwatched commentary, (yay internet streaming!) there is no telling how long I will rant on each graphic in the animation, thus the attempted pause trigger. When everyone in the chat room (or my imagination) has finally heard enough about the 1971 Ford Torino sitting in pieces in my garage (or I've run out of breath), it would be nice to hit one button that would advance to the next graphic pause point without me having to ride the pause button, potentially missing my short window before the graphic begins to move on to the next..making me look like some kind of poorly timed streaming idiot. :)


Lot's to unpack here so I'll give you a minute..What time is it there?

All seriousness,
Thanks again for sharing,
Mike

Seems like I'm not alone in this boat.. I'd have this approach.

FR: https://forums.vmix.com/...Out-based-on-time-frames

I can say with certainty that precise timing of events like this is not what Triggers is designed for unfortunately.
It is mainly for production automation such as turning on or off microphones, recordings etc.

I'm not sure I understand the use case entirely though as it sounds like something simple like the Photos input in vMix
should be used if it is a series of still images in a slideshow.

If there are other animations as well, I would make them a separate layer.