Jump around movie player

[eamon]

Hi all

I have an upcoming live orchestral event that is running playing to a projected video. 

This is all fine and I have this aspect sorted.

I am sending out two signals from the one player. The first is the public view and the second is the conductors monitor complete with timecode.

I am planning to use the trigger value actor to be able to jump around the movie track and in rough testing this seems to work fine.  I am just wondering is there another better or cleaner way to do this?

My approach seems to work but no doubt someone has a smarter way of doing this. I am just curious as to what people have done in this situation before.

Note, this jumping about would only be for rehearsal stop/starts. During the live performance, it would be press play and sit back.

eamon

[Woland]

@eamon

My suggestion:

1. Initialize the 'position' input property of the Movie Player actor at '0'.
2. Open the Control Panel.
3. Place a Slider Control.
4. Edit the Slider to make it bigger (possibly even making the Font Size bigger).
5. While editing the Slider, check the 'Display Value' box so that you can see the value and type into that field.
6. Give the 'position' input property of the Movie Player actor the Control ID of the Slider.
7. Now you can use the Slider to scrub or type in a value below the Slider to jump to a specific location.

You can connect the 'position' input to a Slider Control

[dbini]

@eamon
This is the method I have used to create chapters in a showreel. It takes a little time to set up the correct values for the Trigger Value actors, but is easy to use once it is set up. 
You can change your Movie Player to use timecode, if this is easier than percentages.

[eamon]

Hi all

Thanks for both points and the pointers.

I will have a play with before ways. Due to the long nature (spread over a few weeks) of the rehearsals, there may be other people looking after the video.

I have had a quick look with the control panel/slider and it is very handy?

Would it be possible to have a slider that follows the play head e.g. if it is playing along and you need to grab the slider, the playhead jumps to the position of the slider which might not be the position of the playhead etc?

If not, could I put in a feature request!?!

Many thanks all, I will have a good play and see how I get on. I might do a combination of the two methods.

eamon