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I'm just getting started with VMIX, with a couple days of practice under my belt. My church just handed me a Service Run Sheet for next week's Sunday service. It's an excel sheet that basically tells me what to queue up, what to display, and in what order, and when to add overlays and when to advance a powerpoint slide if ppt is being used.
I'm an old programmer, so it seems to me that given a spreadsheet like that that lists all the transitions, there ought to be a way to automate it. Has someone already done this, where a spreadsheet can basically drive an entire VMix session? Or is it something I have to invent? Or is there a better way than using a spreadsheet?
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Originally Posted by: DThompson55  I'm just getting started with VMIX, with a couple days of practice under my belt. My church just handed me a Service Run Sheet for next week's Sunday service. It's an excel sheet that basically tells me what to queue up, what to display, and in what order, and when to add overlays and when to advance a powerpoint slide if ppt is being used.
I'm an old programmer, so it seems to me that given a spreadsheet like that that lists all the transitions, there ought to be a way to automate it. Has someone already done this, where a spreadsheet can basically drive an entire VMix session? Or is it something I have to invent? Or is there a better way than using a spreadsheet?
am not looking at possible existing production automation software here It looks like for each step a shortcut function would be available That said this would be lot of buttons ;-) Now each of these functions ( i assume the spreadsheet is really sequencially ordered) could be translated to a script function or web API call ( even within that same excel) and put in a data source A button could let you go step by step through the data source (even displaying the step into a title input for you too keep track off) and then hit a button ( so you control the time of said step) to perform said step (through small script) You haven't mentioned the vMix license though (important if scripts are to be used and wants that to keep within the running vMix ) imo a very basic and simple approach( and wild thought) call is a batch(file) operation of what you have to do manually now
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Yes, I think APIs are the way to go, along the lines you suggested. I'll just have to make sure we're licensed for them. If this is done the way I envision it, it only needs a forward and a back button to navigate through the scenes defined in the spreadsheet.
Shortcuts seem like a great way to start with automations, but not a great developer experience, although good enough for non-programmers, and as you pointed out, it turns into a lot of buttons or keys.
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