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I'm trying to have a scene that will it is put into the sequencer it will create a group in that location and add another scene to that group. To go further, it will look at a text field in its scene to determine the number of scenes to create while changing their datalinq keys.

But first, I have to get it to create a group and call up another scene into that group. Does anyone have any examples of this?

This is what I have. It will create the new group (but not name it NewG) and then hang the program.

dim BaseTakeItem as xpBaseTakeItem

dim NewG as string

dim NewGroup as xpTakeItemGroup

'get current item by name

'Engine.Sequencer.GetFocusedTakeItem(BaseTakeItem)

'create a group after the story

Engine.Sequencer.CreateGroup(NewG, BaseTakeItem, NewGroup)

'put Another Scene into the group

dim Template as xpScene

dim Page as xpTakeItem

Engine.GetSceneByName("Another Scene", Template)

Engine.Sequencer.CreateTakeItem(Template, NewGroup, page)

Does anyone have any ideas or examples of adding a scene to the sequencer?

Thank you!

I put your script into a Keyboard Macro and fixed a few issues, and it now creates a take item/group..

Check the docs on the CreateGroup call, the second parameter requires an xpTakeItemGroup, not an xpBaseTakeItem. A group can not be created in the middle of an existing group, it needs to be created at the end of an existing group.

Also, the line where you GetSceneByName, should have a false at the end to indicate you don't want it to create a copy of a template, but you want to get a handle to the original template which is to then be inserted onto the sequencer..

I'm not sure this will work inside of an existing scene (like OnOnline or anywhere like that; as it's probably not safe to be modifying the sequencer in the middle of a scene going online; but it should be ok on a Keyboard Macro script).

`dim BaseTakeItem as xpBaseTakeItem

dim CurrentItem as xpTakeItem

dim CurrentGroup as xpTakeItemGroup

dim NewG as string

dim NewGroup as xpTakeItemGroup

Engine.Sequencer.GetFocusedTakeItem(BaseTakeItem)

CurrentItem = BaseTakeItem

CurrentItem.GetGroup(CurrentGroup)

Engine.Sequencer.CreateGroup("New Group", CurrentGroup, NewGroup)

dim Template as xpScene

dim Page as xpTakeItem

Engine.GetSceneByName("LOWERTHIRD", Template, False)

Engine.Sequencer.CreateTakeItem(Template, NewGroup, page)

`

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Thank you for your help!

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