Is there a way to set up a trigger to perform an action at a specific time as a video played back during air?

I don't want to perform the action at the end of playback but rather at a specific time. .

Thx. I read that and the scripting documentation.

It did not pop to me how it works or what variables I need to edit. I'll keep looking.

Depending on how many triggers you have for the video, you can delay the trigger to the point in the video to when you want it to kick in.

Just took the sample that Doggy wrote, and edited it so that with 40 seconds left in my video, it does a fly rotate to the preview.

It did not work :(

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' Checking time left of active input
' and do some stuff at certain time remaining

dim position as string = ""
dim duration as string = ""
dim activeinput as string = ""
dim Timeleft as double = 0
dim triggertime as integer = 40000 '40 seconds before end
dim triggerduration as integer = 500 '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)
duration = (x.SelectSingleNode("//input[@number='"& activeinput &"']/@duration").Value)
position = (x.SelectSingleNode("//input[@number='"& activeinput &"']/@position").Value)

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

if Timeleft < triggertime

API.Function("FlyRotate",Input:=activeinput.tostring(),Value:="0," & triggerduration.tostring())
' do whatever one wants to do

end if

sleep(500)
Loop
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Input.Preview.Function("FlyRotate") is what you need.

Thanks! That worked perfectly - but now it keeps looping - I see at the end a LOOP command. How can I get a full stop in there?

Thanks doggy

Right...except I want the music from the video to be playing under my production after I cut away from it.

Yea, I considered trying that. You've inspired me to give it a try.

Thanks.

Thanks for the offer. I should be ok! Thank you so much for your help.