[SOLVED] Grid of Shifting Videos (both pre-cut and live)
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Here's an updated version of @DusX's video sequencer
Also here's a link to his tutorial for it.
Hope that helps.
Best wishes,
Woland
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That sounds like it could work, thanks so much. Never realized I could access additional properties by clicking on the Eye. That's really useful.
If I understand correctly, that means I'll need 16 selectors (each with 16 inputs) and 16 projectors. Then each selector would receive a mix of 16 Movie Players/Video In Watchers/Syphons to choose from.
Let me know if I misunderstood.
Sounds complex but doable. Really appreciated.
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@woland Thanks for your reply. I noticed that the SELECTOR actor is not accepting Video input whenever it is contained within a User/Macro instance. Is this a bug?
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@woland Update: was able to get the selector to accept vid-gpu if I connected it to a movie player in the main-level patch and then copy-pasted it into a Macro. But it's still giving me trouble when I'm trying to route it through a User Output. It wants to convert it to a float.
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@woland Ran into another issue.Hey sorry for all the posts. I'm nesting Macros to make everything cleaner and easier to manage, but it seems that the 'Gate' functionality of the 'Selector' doesn't work when the video inputs are coming in through a 'User Output' from a macro. When I go into the Video Input macro I made, all the videos are sending data
Any fix for this? Worried it's going to make playback super slow.
You'll see below I'm sending the video through the VIDEO INPUTS macro through to the Selectors within the SELECTORS macro, and then routing it all to the projectors in the PROJECTS macro.
Let me know if anything is unclear. Thanks again!
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@jsegal99 said:
@woland Update: was able to get the selector to accept vid-gpu if I connected it to a movie player in the main-level patch and then copy-pasted it into a Macro.
The Selector has inputs and an output that are "mutable" meaning they accept multiple data types. The first thing you connect to them will mutate them to that data type. For example, if you connect a Calculator to a Selector's output first it will mutate the Selector to accept only numbers in the inputs and outputs. If you leave the Calculator connected to the output and try to connect a Movie Player to the input of the Selector, it will not let you because the Calculator is preventing it from mutating to vid-gpu.
Thus, you just have to mutate the Selector to use the vid-gpu data type by making the first thing it attaches to something that uses vid-gpu. You can also double-left-click a User Input or User Output actor inside a User Actor or Macro to select "vid-gpu" as the data type you want these actors to use (since they are also mutable). Here you can see I've mutated Selectors to accept vid-gpu, boolean (on/off), and color.
Best wishes,
Woland
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@jsegal99 said:
Any fix for this? Worried it's going to make playback super slow.
Put your Selectors inside your "VIDEO SOURCES" Macros. The gated exec src function isn't working for you because the video sources are on a different "level" than the selectors (the sources are inside your "VIDEO SOURCES" Macros and the Selectors are on the outside of the Macros).
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@woland Thanks for all the great support!
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No problem. Is there anything else I can help you with?
