Thank you, Chris, for your reply.
Just to add some small details: the TD selected a CG to play, while obviously having another shot prepared, and when he pressed Space he accidentally pressed twice, just 80 milliseconds apart, and the Overdrive played the CG element but it also advanced the rundown.
My workaround apparently works, windows does prevent pressing the same key in quick succession.
But since you mentioned you talked with the product team about requests, I have two others. I don't know if this is the place to write them down, but still: first, it would be great to attach icons to custom control area, or at least change the color of the buttons. And second, it would be useful to have the option to increase font size in rundown control area. Right now, only the Story Text area has font size option.
Thank you for your support!
Sorin
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Sorin Podeanu
technical director
Euronews Romania
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Original Message:
Sent: 10-02-2025 09:56
From: Christopher Kelly
Subject: Adding "safety" when playing CG elements inside Overdrive
Hi Sorin,
Unfortunately there's no way in OverDrive to do this today. The only reason it works with normal take-prep is as the error describes, the switcher is mid-transition. So for those 10-20 frames or however long your switcher action is, you can't really do another switcher action because the switcher is still transitioning from one shot to the next. In CGs, there is no transition time, we issue the command to the CG and that's the end of our transition. It's very much like a 0-ME Template. I have let the product team know of your request, though.
Chris Kelly
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Christopher Kelly
Ross Video
Original Message:
Sent: 10-02-2025 06:10
From: Sorin Podeanu
Subject: Adding "safety" when playing CG elements inside Overdrive
Ok, in case anyone has the same problem, I found a workaround: I have enable Bounce Keys in Windows, which prevents double press of a key, and set it to 0.3 seconds. Hopefully this will prevent unwanted incidents. But it would be nice to have this as an option in Overdrive.
Thank you
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Sorin Podeanu
technical director
Euronews Romania
Original Message:
Sent: 10-01-2025 06:03
From: Sorin Podeanu
Subject: Adding "safety" when playing CG elements inside Overdrive
Hello everyone!
Is there a way to add a safety measure when manually playing CG elements inside Overdrive, to prevent accidental double space and advancing the Rundown?
Normal take/prepare transitions have this: if I press double space there will be a warning saying another transition is taking place. It would be great to have this for CG elements also.
Thank you!
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Sorin Podeanu
technical director
Euronews Romania
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