Please do a search in tis forum as this has been addressed a few times and solved
it involves scripting and display it somewhere like a title . That in turn can be send to an output and as NDI signal etc

I'm new to the scripting side of things and don't understand how to get this to work. Would someone kindly point me in the right direction?Here are the steps I have taken.

1.) Went to Settings > Scripting > Add New Script
2.) I named the Script Countdown and pasted the code from Doggy.
3.) On the video I want to do the countdown on I added a trigger OnTransitionIn ScriptStart Countdown

From there I'm not sure what to do. I don't see anything being displayed. Am I supposed to create a new Title input? What is the syntax?

As DWAM also commented, i have created a free utility app for vMix for this exact purpose. It is called vinproma, and is focused for users without scripting skills. You can download it on https://github.com/jensstigaard/vinproma/releases
and give it a try.

This was very helpful everyone! Thank you this script worked for me!

However, I am having a hard time amending one thing. I would like the countdown timer to trigger not just on media files on their own but also on video media files when they are placed inside a virtual set (Blank, 4 layer) for example.

In the image attached you see that the video media is inside a layer, in this case Layer 2.

Can someone please point out what I have to add/change to the code so the countdown timer also actives when inside a virtual set layer.

Thank you kindly,

Cyprian
virtual set.png (579kb) downloaded 6 time(s).

You can only nest 2 layers deep.
I had the same problem. When I have the the third nested layer it will not show up.

I have been looking at this thread this afternoon in order to get the time remaning of a VT to countdown. I've had my brother look at the code and help me edit it so it now shows 00:0# as it gets below 60s and then below 10s into single digits. We have added in "VT Time Remaining -" as well. There are also a few comments in there explaining to change the label for the title to the input label you have in your project.

The only thing we didn't get fully working was getting the script to stop once the countdown hit zero, it was working and then started doing something weird so I resorted to entering a stop script command on the streamdeck once the VT has finished and we fade to the next input. Hope this helps someone anyway!

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' Checking time left of active running video and display this as an title.
' 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 = 10 '10 seconds before end
dim triggerduration as integer = 2000 'fade duration, could be different than trigger

dim DoLoop as boolean = true

do while DoLoop = 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)

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

'used at debugging stage
' console.writeline(Timingleft)
' console.writeline(Seconds)

'Edit VT Time Remaining Label to suit
dim ThisTime as string
ThisTime = "VT Time Remaining - " + Minutes.ToString("00") + ":" + Seconds.ToString("00")


if Timingleft < 60
'put a response in a title and change color accordingly

'Change value of this variable to match the label of your input
dim TimeRemaining as string
TimeRemaining = "VT Time Remaining - 00:" + Seconds.ToString("00")

API.Function("SetText", Input:="vttimer.gtzip", SelectedIndex:="0", Value:=TimeRemaining)

if Timingleft < 30
API.Function("SetTextColour",Input:="vttimer.gtzip",Value:="red")
else
API.Function("SetTextColour",Input:="vttimer.gtzip",Value:="orange")
end if
else
API.Function("SetText",Input:="vttimer.gtzip",SelectedIndex:="0" ,Value:=ThisTime)
API.Function("SetTextColour",Input:="vttimer.gtzip",Value:="green")
end if


sleep(50)
Loop

Hi

Really sorry and I hope i've not caused any offence, I figured with the code being shared that it was ok to share any adaptations.

I adapted the code to include a few labels etc and to also display as 00:00 which the original code did not do. My brother and I managed to get it to stop looping when it got to zero but it started doing somehting weird in VMIX where on some occasions the script would work and display correctly but other times not, so went back to the original adaptation.

There are many tutorials regarding vb.net coding, all one has to do is a little google searching

The again this so called issue came up just a day ago in the "scripting for dummies" topic !

I don't suppose anybody would take pity on me as I learn and explain why the ampersands are around activeinput in the following lines?