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Hello Wizards, I have a video clip which has in/loop/out animation points. So producer would like me to to have it animate in and then 3-point loop; which I have created(manually on the scene director using an event to jump to loop in frame); then at a moments notice he will tell me to play the out animation; which means to simply have it stop looping and to play all the way to the end.

I have searched thru the community board... Is there a way to simply turn "off" the event marker on the scene director, thereby allowing the animation to play til the end of the clip (animate out).

or is there a way to have a script grab the current Frame number of the scene director and have it play from that specific frame number til the end? Thereby over riding the Scene Director loop event?

Thank you.

DON'T LAUGH AT MY SCRIPTING ATTEMPT!

dim scene as XPScene

dim QUAD as xpBaseObject

dim SD as xpSceneDirector

dim POS as integer

'I need to get the current playing frame of the scene director

scene.GetSceneDirectorByName("SceneDirector1", SD)

SD.GetSceneDirector.Position(SD, POS)

'Play the scene director from the current position to the end of the clip

SD.PlayRange(POS, SD.duration)

SD.PLAY

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Cheers

Put the event on its own track and then disable the track. 

Dim scenedir As xpSceneDirector

Dim track As xpSceneDirectorTrack

Self.GetSceneDirectorByName("SceneDirector1",scene dir)

Scenedir.GetTrackByName("Track3",track)

track.Enabled = false

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Simon Redmile
Senior Graphic Programmer & Designer
Ross Video
Bristol United Kingdom

Original Message:
Sent: 08-05-2024 00:25
From: Steve Szeszycki
Subject: use hot key to tell looping video to play to end

Hello Wizards, I have a video clip which has in/loop/out animation points. So producer would like me to to have it animate in and then 3-point loop; which I have created(manually on the scene director using an event to jump to loop in frame); then at a moments notice he will tell me to play the out animation; which means to simply have it stop looping and to play all the way to the end.

I have searched thru the community board... Is there a way to simply turn "off" the event marker on the scene director, thereby allowing the animation to play til the end of the clip (animate out).

or is there a way to have a script grab the current Frame number of the scene director and have it play from that specific frame number til the end? Thereby over riding the Scene Director loop event?

Thank you.

DON'T LAUGH AT MY SCRIPTING ATTEMPT!

dim scene as XPScene

dim QUAD as xpBaseObject

dim SD as xpSceneDirector

dim POS as integer

'I need to get the current playing frame of the scene director

scene.GetSceneDirectorByName("SceneDirector1", SD)

SD.GetSceneDirector.Position(SD, POS)

'Play the scene director from the current position to the end of the clip

SD.PlayRange(POS, SD.duration)

SD.PLAY

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Cheers

Put the event on its own track and then disable the track. 

Dim scenedir As xpSceneDirector

Dim track As xpSceneDirectorTrack

Self.GetSceneDirectorByName("SceneDirector1",scene dir)

Scenedir.GetTrackByName("Track3",track)

track.Enabled = false

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Simon Redmile
Senior Graphic Programmer & Designer
Ross Video
Bristol United Kingdom

Original Message:
Sent: 08-05-2024 00:25
From: Steve Szeszycki
Subject: use hot key to tell looping video to play to end

Hello Wizards, I have a video clip which has in/loop/out animation points. So producer would like me to to have it animate in and then 3-point loop; which I have created(manually on the scene director using an event to jump to loop in frame); then at a moments notice he will tell me to play the out animation; which means to simply have it stop looping and to play all the way to the end.

I have searched thru the community board... Is there a way to simply turn "off" the event marker on the scene director, thereby allowing the animation to play til the end of the clip (animate out).

or is there a way to have a script grab the current Frame number of the scene director and have it play from that specific frame number til the end? Thereby over riding the Scene Director loop event?

Thank you.

DON'T LAUGH AT MY SCRIPTING ATTEMPT!

dim scene as XPScene

dim QUAD as xpBaseObject

dim SD as xpSceneDirector

dim POS as integer

'I need to get the current playing frame of the scene director

scene.GetSceneDirectorByName("SceneDirector1", SD)

SD.GetSceneDirector.Position(SD, POS)

'Play the scene director from the current position to the end of the clip

SD.PlayRange(POS, SD.duration)

SD.PLAY

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Cheers

Simon, thanks again for your help. Unfortunately it does not seem to work for me. I placed it in a hot key on the keyboard map. Compiled it and got the attached error message.

It's wanting me to declare "self"

When I tried to declare it as a variable

dim self as XPScene

The script compiled successfully but did not seem to work.

Not quite sure what I am doing wrong.

(I forgot to mention that I am on XPression v11.5 build 5816 (64 bit))

Put the event on its own track and then disable the track. 

Dim scenedir As xpSceneDirector

Dim track As xpSceneDirectorTrack

Self.GetSceneDirectorByName("SceneDirector1",scene dir)

Scenedir.GetTrackByName("Track3",track)

track.Enabled = false

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Simon Redmile
Senior Graphic Programmer & Designer
Ross Video
Bristol United Kingdom

Original Message:
Sent: 08-05-2024 00:25
From: Steve Szeszycki
Subject: use hot key to tell looping video to play to end

Hello Wizards, I have a video clip which has in/loop/out animation points. So producer would like me to to have it animate in and then 3-point loop; which I have created(manually on the scene director using an event to jump to loop in frame); then at a moments notice he will tell me to play the out animation; which means to simply have it stop looping and to play all the way to the end.

I have searched thru the community board... Is there a way to simply turn "off" the event marker on the scene director, thereby allowing the animation to play til the end of the clip (animate out).

or is there a way to have a script grab the current Frame number of the scene director and have it play from that specific frame number til the end? Thereby over riding the Scene Director loop event?

Thank you.

DON'T LAUGH AT MY SCRIPTING ATTEMPT!

dim scene as XPScene

dim QUAD as xpBaseObject

dim SD as xpSceneDirector

dim POS as integer

'I need to get the current playing frame of the scene director

scene.GetSceneDirectorByName("SceneDirector1", SD)

SD.GetSceneDirector.Position(SD, POS)

'Play the scene director from the current position to the end of the clip

SD.PlayRange(POS, SD.duration)

SD.PLAY

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Cheers