I'm interested in a way for vMix to automatically perform another action after my rolling credits complete.

I currently import information from a spreadsheet data source to fill a GT title overlay for rolling credits. The credits scroll vertically at the end of each livestream. The number of entries from my source spreadsheet is different for each program, so the amount of credits information to roll is different.

Doggie suggested a script approach that estimated the time required based on the number of populated lines in the spreadsheet. That is too complicated for me, so I currently just use a fixed delay in Companion before starting another action. I typically have significant dead time to make sure the rolling credits have time to finish. It would be so much easier if vMix had a way to trigger another event when the rolling credits finish, or perhaps when a special "end" character combination appears in the data source, or perhaps something else?

I suspect that anyone else using vMix's rolling credits has faced this same challenge.

The overall request is to add some automation to vMix that can automatically identify when rolling credits finish, and then trigger a new event.

Perhaps something for vMix 27???? I'd be happy if it was even added to 28.

Thanks,
David

PS -- If there is already a simple way to do this, I'll beg forgiveness for my lack of knowledge, provided someone explains how to do this simply.

Hello. If your title is GT Title and you can have at end a special character or a phrase or any special word,try to use companion to do this as follow
1.create a new trigger at companion
2.Events-->on condition becoming true
3.Condition-->Internal:Variable:Check Value and then Use "" to find your input -->"your gt title" and select layer0 Title.Text (or else you name the field that has your titles) and at operation = -->give as value the special character and then do your action you need
In theory it must work ok

Nikosman88 -- I currently use Companion to turn on a vMix overlay with a GT title rolling credit. I use a vMix overlay trigger to select the initial input data field in the spreadsheet, and than use another vMix trigger to start reading the data. When I close the overlay, another trigger stops vMix from reading additional data. But closing the overlay is controlled by a delay in Companion. So my use of Companion is only to call up the overlay and then turn if off after a fixed amount of time.

I appreciate your suggestions to use Companion to more actively manage the rolling credits. I'll look into this more. I certainly value the power of Companion!

Overall, I hope vMix will consider improving their implementation of rolling credits. It is a little tricky to configure vMix to do vertical rolling credits, but it does work. I just wish vMix had some capabilities to manage the end of of a rolling credit. I expect I'm not the only vMix user who has been frustrated by this.

Thanks again, Nikosman88!

David

Nikosman88,
Thank you so much for your suggestion. It took me a couple days to get around to working on this, but your suggestion of using a Companion trigger worked perfectly to automatically end rolling credits.

I was able to set up a simple Companion trigger that looked for "* * * * *" in my rolling credits data. I was already using those characters at the end of my vertically rolling credits anyway.

I initially called the GT Title rolling credits overlay with a Companion button press on button step one. This allowed the rolling credits to start. I used a vmix trigger for the "overlay on" to set the first line of data in my spreadsheet, and then a second vMix trigger to start reading the data.

When the Companion trigger fires it sets the Companion button to step 2 and then "pushes" button 2. This starts the "termination" of the rolling credits. I had to add a delay at the beginning of step 2 to allow the rolling credits to scroll off the screen, but I then turn off the rolling credits overlay with a Companion command. A vMix "overlay off" trigger stops the reading of data when the rolling credits overlay is turned off.

Overall, this works fabulously. I can now change the amount of content/lines in my rolling credits to any amount, and the overlay is still turned off exactly when the credits have completed.

From the larger perspective, you opened my eyes to Companion triggers, which are so powerful and useful. Although it would be nice for vMix to be able to control rolling credits more completely, you solved my particular problem well by suggesting using Companion triggers. I'm sure I will find other uses for them. Using Companion and an Elgato Streamdeck with vMix is an incredibly powerful package.

Thanks again,
David