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jaxon  
#1 Posted : Thursday, May 8, 2025 7:30:44 AM(UTC)
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Can't figure out the animation sequencing and timings to do this. It should be simple enough but without a visual timeline I'm lost.

I have a simple title where one line changes contents halfway through playout. I just want to transition the change, fading one out and the other into the same spot at the same time.

So for example INFO is there for say 5 seconds and then is replaced with a quick fade out/in with MOREINFO, which stays for another 5 seconds and then the title animates out.

I looked at using pages, but I don't want to have to trigger the change in vMix just play it and it changes itself.

the data is coming from two columns in a google sheet, I just select the row to fill all the other objects.

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#2 Posted : Thursday, May 8, 2025 8:08:20 PM(UTC)
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In GT Title Designer with the TransitionIn storyboard for the INFO textbox you set a Fade with a Delay of 5 seconds and check the Reverse box (so it fades out).
(If you want a Fade In beforehand, you can use the 1, 2, 3 tabs to have more than one transition.)

For the MOREINFO textbox you just set a fade with a Delay of 5 seconds.

The Duration setting is for the duration of the Fade transition.

See: https://help.vmix.com/graphics/6/Animations.html
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#3 Posted : Thursday, May 8, 2025 11:22:04 PM(UTC)
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Great, that takes care of the transition, except the INFO box reappears as soon as the MOREINFO TransitionIn ends and they’re both on screen. How do I keep INFO hidden for the next 5-10 seconds while MOREINFO is displayed? I’ve looked at the Animations documentation and still can’t decipher that, even after experimenting. I’m sure it’s simple but I guess I am too and just missing it.
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#4 Posted : Thursday, May 8, 2025 11:29:16 PM(UTC)
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On the 2 or 3 tab use Hidden as transition, with the proper delay.
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#5 Posted : Friday, May 9, 2025 12:27:44 AM(UTC)
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Thanks so much for your help, this is my first show using GTD. Now it animates perfectly in Designer, but when I try and run it in vMix, I’m not getting the TransitionOut for the MOREINFO (it stays displayed) or the full layer (want to fade all out after 10s). I’m playing it as overlay 1.
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#6 Posted : Friday, May 9, 2025 7:24:31 AM(UTC)
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You can set up a Trigger on the title input, eg.:

OnOverlayIn / OverlayInput1Out / Input: the title input / Delay: 10000 ms

https://www.vmix.com/help28/Triggers.html
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#7 Posted : Wednesday, May 14, 2025 4:15:11 AM(UTC)
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That works perfectly thank you! Now I have another lower that runs through a series of factoids in a google sheet column. It is attached to the data and I can use the Manage Data window to manually select or Auto Next at a specific interval, but I want to (i guess) use the DataSourceAutoNextOn to automate starting the sequence when i put the gfx in. I can’t get that trigger to work, using OnOverlayIn. Any ideas?
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#8 Posted : Wednesday, May 14, 2025 6:42:44 AM(UTC)
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A screenshot of your trigger settings and your datasource would help. Most common error is a wrong name in the trigger for the data source. Wild guess: There is a space after the comma between datasource name and table name that shouldn‘t be there.
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#9 Posted : Friday, May 16, 2025 1:26:38 AM(UTC)
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May well be as I'm not even sure the proper syntax to reference the sheet. I tried two ways. Capture.PNG (63kb) downloaded 42 time(s).
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#10 Posted : Friday, May 16, 2025 1:30:56 AM(UTC)
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You've got to use the Data Source name from the Data Source Manager in vMix.

Name here eg. would be Excel/CSV

https://www.vmix.com/help28/lib/NewItem244.png

https://www.vmix.com/help28/DataSourcesSetup.html
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jaxon  
#11 Posted : Saturday, May 17, 2025 6:35:25 AM(UTC)
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OK thats working! Now I'm trying to Overlay out after playing through 10 rows.

They're playing at 10sec each, so i tried 100000ms delay on OverLayInput1Out, but it takes it out before that.

I also tried setting a playback time to DataSourceAutoNextOff. And to OverLayInputOut, doesn't work either.
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#12 Posted : Monday, May 19, 2025 6:12:59 PM(UTC)
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The maximum delay setting is 30000 ms (30 seconds), see https://www.vmix.com/help28/Triggers.html

One way to go is adding another title input (or add a hidden field to an existing title) and set a Countdown timer to 1:40 minutes, see https://www.vmix.com/help28/Title.html. Add a OnOnverlayIn trigger to your textbox input to start the countdown, and a "OnCountdownCompleted" trigger on the countdown input with the OverlayOut function.
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