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VideoE  
#1 Posted : Friday, July 14, 2023 6:09:39 AM(UTC)
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Unless I'm missing something, I would love to be able to drag and drop an item in the list up and down to re-order the list instead of selecting and using those buttons on the side. (One of the few things I miss from Playback Pro). Maybe even shift-click items and drag multiple items at the same time. Currently I gather the items in a folder in Explorer and append a number at the beginning to get the order I need. Kind of clunky.
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#2 Posted : Friday, July 14, 2023 7:07:07 AM(UTC)
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You dont miss something.This way it works and i also hope vmix guys to do something better. Until then because it is also something i need a way to re-arrange items in vmix lists i made a patent.
See here if you want https://forums.vmix.com/...e-way-for-vmix-scripting
vscheduler for vmix is a better way to do lists. It doesnt have drag n` drop unfortunatelly but it has insert-copy-paste,multiselect with shift or mouse drag and copy-cut-paste. It saves in xml format. Then this xml file you can do with a simple python script a re-format in m3u list. This is the way im using to do re-arrangement in vmix list in a better way than vmix offers until now
This is the python script im using
Code:

import os
import glob
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

xml_folder = "c:\\m3u"
m3u_folder = "m3ulists"

if not os.path.exists(m3u_folder):
    os.makedirs(m3u_folder)

for xml_file in glob.glob(os.path.join(xml_folder, "*.xml")):
    print(f"Processing XML file: {xml_file}")
    tree = ET.parse(xml_file)
    root = tree.getroot()

    video_files = []

    for event in root.findall(".//Event"):
        event_type = event.get("Type")
        if event_type == "video":
            video_path = event.get("Path")
            video_files.append(video_path)
            print(f"Added video file: {video_path}")

    m3u_filename = os.path.splitext(os.path.basename(xml_file))[0] + ".m3u"
    m3u_filepath = os.path.join(m3u_folder, m3u_filename)

    with open(m3u_filepath, "w", encoding="utf-8") as m3u_file:
        for video_file in video_files:
            m3u_file.write(video_file + "\n")
            print(f"Wrote video file to m3u: {video_file}")

    print(f"Finished processing XML file: {xml_file}")

we put the xml file that we make from vmanager in c:\m3u, we run the script and we have in the folder m3ulists the vmix list we need
VideoE  
#3 Posted : Saturday, July 15, 2023 7:26:32 AM(UTC)
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Thanks.
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