thank you for your great explanation and support.

Are there anything new about this topic?
i mean some control panels like the following examples

Are there any suggestions for this type of media files playback controlling method?

We don't have such thing out of the box, but we have a simplified playlist control though.

Please check this xcomp file as an example:

[Common_Studio]:Compounds\Overlays\Overlays_Vid_Ins_Logo_Crawl_Green.xcomp

It is possible that it has enough logic for your needs. Of course you can open it an check how it works. Maybe you can even alter it a little bit to fit your needs even better.

I have tested [Common_Studio]:Compounds\Overlays\Overlays_Vid_Ins_Logo_Crawl_Green.xcomp

but i need the ability to rearrange the media files playing orders and and the functionality to:

1-when finish stop on last frame

2-show first frame without playing

3-option to auto play next media file

4-auto expanding playlist item number as user add media files

5-change display mode instead of big icons 

Also if these idea extended to do playlist based CG scenes controlling for example list contains:

1-Start in animation sequence for 3d scen

2-Do camera 1 animation

3-zoom in to main actor

4-show news ticker

to make my idea more clear some like this

https://youtu.be/HGX4ykdTEHI?t=86

Any updates for my suggestion for video playlist control panel?

Hi,

A Playlist feature has been added in the latest version of Aximmetry (2023.1.0):
https://aximmetry.com/learn/software-version-history/#%E2%96%BA-latest-2023-1-0

• Added Playlist module and Playlist Editor to allow creating a sequence of automated scene changes. See more info.
  
• Removed Macros functionality, it is now replaced by Playlist.

It is not exactly a video playlist. But it might satisfy some of your needs here.

Warmest regards,

Can aximmetry extend the playlist feature to support other cases like

1-video playlist editor 

Which have cue -play -play next - loop features

2-CG playlist editor to control LOWER THIRD -BUGS-TICKERS- ETC 

Hi Ahmed,

What you are suggesting can be done using the Playlist Editor and the Flow Editor.
However, you probably need to set up some modules and connections beforehand in the Flow Editor depending on what you want to achieve.

If you can tell me what you missing from the Playlist Editor or what you want to achieve, I might be able to help you do it in the Flow Editor or add it to our request list.

Warmest regards,

Hi Eifert

Firstly thank you for your help with answering users questions in this forum.

Secondly we have created this topic to request playlist editor module that support video playback and solve the problem with aximmetry software which dont have good control board for video playback controlling dashboard.

You can review the above screenshot which show some tupe of production playlist control dashboard.

Hi Ahmed,

You can use the previously mentioned [Common_Studio]:Compounds\Overlays\Overlays_Vid_Ins_Logo_Crawl_Green.xcomp compound in tandem with the Playlist Editor:

1-when finish stop on last frame
2-show first frame without playing
3-option to auto play next media file
5-change display mode instead of big icons
If needed, I can show you how.

This is however not possible:
4-auto expanding playlist item number as user add media files
You have to set how long your Control Board video list will be in the Flow Editor beforehand. A playlist can of course be arbitrarily long, however, you can not add videos to a playlist. Other than changing the video file pin with a playlist, however, that is unfavorable, as it would mean that the video is not loaded when the pin is changed.

I am not sure what you are missing under the "CG playlist editor" control.

We are aware the playlist editor is not a fully-fledged playlist editor and you can probably expect improvements to it in the future. However, what you may need at this point might be better Control Board panels, Control Board functionality, or premade compounds. That is why I want to understand what you needed or what could be changed to be more user-friendly.

Note, that Playlist Editor, can loop, play from an arbitrary position, and you can change the order by drag and dropping playlist items:

And you can change the order of video in the Control Board using this trick: https://aximmetry.com/learn/virtual-production-workflow/preparation-of-the-production-environment-phase-i/scripting-in-aximmetry/flow-editor/pin/#drag-and-drop-pin-value 

Warmest regards,

My approach to workaround the limitation of 16 slots (which is not that big of a limitation) is using bitfocus companion + osc commands to communicate with Composer.

The solution is as follows. Have a button for each 16-filename list you want. It will send the filenames through OSC to Composer.
Want to switch to the next 16? Just press the next button, it will send the next 16. 

You can create those 16 filename batches either by getting the contents of a filepath, if the order is prescribed by filename, or use a text file that has the files in the order you want. I always use powershell to do those things, since its installed in any windows machine.

Hi,

There is no 16 hard limit. You can actually use the Pin Collector with more than 16 video/image file pins. And you can have Switch Video modules chained together to have more than 16 pins: https://my.aximmetry.com/post/2196-switch-with-more-than-16-value-pins
Or you could even just use the Transmit Video module instead of Switch Video modules, and switch between videos using Subtunnel pins:

To actually see all the 20 videos in the Control Board, all Video File pins have to be connected to a Video Player module, there can not be a gap between them like in the above screenshot.

Warmest regards,