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Is it possible in the sequencer to accurately trigger the next scene by using a script on a scene director timeline? I mean frame accurate.

Does it have to be the next item in the sequencer? Or can it be a static take item in the sequencer?
If you want to trigger a static take item # then yes it would be possible.,
If you want it to be the next item in the list of the trigger scene that is harder.

Hmmm...maybe if we use the keyboard take next shortcut...
Possibly you could have the scene director event trigger "take next" in the sequencer - so it would take the highlighted item and move down again. Only way to do that is to have the scene director event send a RossTalk Take Next message back into the XPression, might not be super frame accurate though.
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thanks for the head scratch Garner. Without going into a month of detail, we want to animate from scene to scene but have total modularity so we can drag and drop random scenes into the sequencer to play out in 3d BUT the scenes would need to match up frame accurate.
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Would have to go with the scene director event spitting out a RossTalk Take Next command back into the same XPression then.

Edit > Hardware Setup > GPI Boards > RossTalk > configure the Outgoing Network Settings to be IP of the XPression system


Script in the Scene Director:

dim rosstalk as xpGPIBoard
Engine.GetGPIBoard(0, rosstalk)
rosstalk.SendMessage("NEXT")

'The "0" in the GetGPIBoard is the index of the GPI board in Hardware Setup > GPI Boards
'(Board #1 = Index 0, Board #2 = Index 1, etc..)

All XPression RossTalk Commands:
https://rossvideoltd.sharepoint.com/sites/marketing/communications/_layouts/15/guestaccess.aspx?docid=0677c14e1c6ff4bff9479204b29adfe3f&authkey=ARDdRVKWx6Y3Eg4-6Zh8_sc
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Thanks garner, I'll dive into this one.
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Garner, this worked once I put rosstalk.SendMessage("READ") after the NEXT message. Now that that is solved, it only brings up a dozen more problems.

Thanks Garner
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Good. Is it frame accurate enough?
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We haven't done the final design but I think we can build a frame or two into the design so that this will work. Thanks again.
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One last question, Garner. Will this cause any communication conflict with our switcher?
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No, it should be fine. If issues do arise you can just add a second RossTalk GPI Board to XPression and have the switcher use one and the scripts use the other. But I think it's very unlikely you'll have any problems.
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