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Playing videos in certain order from Playlist

Hi,
I'm trying to understand the playlist feature. Which type of action do I have to use, to play videos in a certain order from a Playlist? I've added the videos to certain times into the playlist, but they are not playing. Is it enough to throw a playlist-compound into my scene-flow or do I need to connect it somewhere?

Thank you for any help you can provide!

Cheers
Marc

Play videos in certain order from Playlist

https://aximmetry.com/learn/virtual-production-workflow/preparation-of-the-production-environment-phase-i/scripting-in-aximmetry/automation/playlists/#press-control-board-button
Adding Actions to a Playlist

There are three types of actions you can add to a playlist:

mahankel

Eifert@Aximmetry

Hi,

It seems you want to play back video files and not control the camera compound with the Playlist module. Note that the playlist module wasn't designed to be a playlist of different videos, but rather to be a playlist of actions in Aximmetry.

Nevertheless, you can use it as a playlist of videos with some additional logic. First, you should add the [Common_Studio]:Compounds\Tools\Video_Menu.xcomp compound to your project's compound. Then expose its video Out and add a Control Board. You can read about control boards here: https://aximmetry.com/learn/virtual-production-workflow/preparation-of-the-production-environment-phase-i/scripting-in-aximmetry/flow-editor/special-compound-control-board/

Next, open the Video_Menu compound for editing:
Playing videos in certain order from Playlist

Double-click on the Video_Menu compound to enter it. Inside, add the INSERTS pin collector to your Control Board:

In the Control Board, you can easily add the videos you want:

Then you can use Playlist to easily switch between these videos:

However, if you want the videos to play fully until the end and then automatically switch to the next video, you shouldn't use the playlist module. Instead, you should use some Flow Editor logic, which I can show you if needed.

Warmest regards,

mahankel

As always a massive thank you, Eifert@Aximmetry for giving me a solution and leading me into the correct direction!
I know you have alot to do with handling the questions inside this forum. But of course, in terms of the "flow editor logic" solution, it would be great to see how you would handle this with the flow editor logic. This is not urgent, right now, but I'm coming to this phase in the project soon. :D

Best regards
Marc

Eifert@Aximmetry

Hi Marc,

It's not a hassle at all. I quite enjoy doing these in the Flow Editor. Additionally, it helps us better understand people's everyday use cases within the Flow Editor.

You can make all the videos play sequentially by using the following logic with Switch and Incremental modules. In the Incremental module, you must set it to Looping and set the Max Value to the number of videos:

However, this logic will not stay in sync with actions performed on the Control Board using the INSERTS pin collector's buttons. For that, you can add the following logic with the Delta module, which will detect and apply changes from the INSERTS panel to the Incremental module:

Note, that there is a Switch Video Smooth module if you want smooth transitions. Additionally, there are various custom transitions found in the [Common]:Compounds\Transitions folder. These will be actually updated in the next release of Aximmetry.
There are also some complex versions of the Video_Menu compound, such as the [Common_Studio]:Compounds\Overlays\Overlays_2-Scr_Vid_Ins_Logo_Crawl_Green.xcomp compound.

Warmest regards,

mahankel

Hi Eifert@Aximmetry,

Thank you so much for giving me a basic understanding of how that works. Way to go for me regarding Aximmetry but your support here makes it so much easier.
Thanks again for the great support!

Btw, my company gave me the greenlight to buy Aximmetry Broadcast. Great times.

Best regards
Marc

Gadget

This was awesomely helpful!!

Playing videos in certain order from Playlist

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