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  • 1.  Countdown clock/Commercial Block/Visual Logic

    Posted 08-25-2023 13:43

    Hi All, 

    I'm trying to accomplish what in essence will be a commercial block. I have all the videos. I am creating a group that they can auto play. But I'm have a few issues:

    1 - I want to have a clock at the top of the block that counts down from 5 to 0. At 2 seconds, I want the clock to go from visible to not visible (its over black and we will cut after 2 before 0). I know this should be a visual logic trigger but I can't find a video that really captures how to accomplish this. After this clock, it will cut to the first video in the block.

    2 - I have the videos, but I can't get them to auto play. I have been trying to set the group to play by timing but I again can't find a video that really shows me how this is done. 

    Any help or suggestions would be helpful and appreciated! Thanks!!!



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    Anthony Littlejohn
    Network Specialist
    Coppin State University
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  • 2.  RE: Countdown clock/Commercial Block/Visual Logic

    Posted 08-26-2023 11:08

    Try this.   Widget with a 5 second (6 seconds in actuality) timer.    I have a script in the default SD that repeats, looking for the value lesser than 2.    If true, the scene goes offline.   Just re-take the scene again, the clock resets and starts over.

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bC0FxXoWsAXtobx3aczdzwXSsMsJ29iW/view?usp=sharing

    Good catch on Visual Logic not working. I tried using VL and hide the object, but it appears the timer widget sorta locks the value and doesn't reset when on-line.    The take offline though method should work for you. 



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    Alain Savoie
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  • 3.  RE: Countdown clock/Commercial Block/Visual Logic

    Posted 08-31-2023 10:20

    Hey Alain! Thanks for sending that over. It worked but for what we are trying to did it did not quite work BUT I was able to use the logic to start to fix my own. 

    We needed the clock to be over black so that when the clock is no longer visible, we can cut or bring that CG in, from black going into the video or commercial. When I added black background to your scene the clock was visible the whole time and I could not figure out how to fix it from your scene. 

    What I ended up doing was working on the logic. If the clock text is smaller than 2 then the visible attribute is not visible. 
    Clock Text -->> Smaller Than (2) -->> Clock Text Visible -->> NOT -->> Clock Text Visible

    I'm just glad it works, but I will probably try to see if I can simplify this and use less expressions or better logic. 


    Thanks again for the help!



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    Anthony Littlejohn
    Network Specialist
    Coppin State University
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