SHOMAN Posted September 12, 2015 Report Share Posted September 12, 2015 Is it just me, or am I the only one who is craving to use Generic Outputs mapped to either Formulas or Even to Generic Inputs? An "insane" amount of control and time saving could be added with this feature. This might include the ability to : Define Effect Presets Decouple Tween Tracks from a single piece of media and then multipurpose the tweens to be used in numerous places. A simple example of this might be to have a fade occur on all elements in an Aux Timeline whilst fading another in perhaps. I could go on and on about the uses here... I have been using similar techniques by sending String Outputs to Localhost and controlling inputs including fade rates within the same file. It works, but requires a couple of trips to the network stack and through the UDP/TCP listener on 3040. Functional but not elegant. That would also, perhaps, enable an easy visualization of animated input sliders the same way as I can watch them when I send a datastream in via 3040. Thoughts? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vollmers Posted September 13, 2015 Report Share Posted September 13, 2015 I agree. and also a compendium of input strings, regarding more advanced processes. I'm designing a huge new TV studio for a 24 hours news station, and at the moment I've achived to use string outputs to control almost all the graphic equipment. But what triggers what? In order to achieve the best timing between calling an effect in WO, and run a realtime graphic element, it matters what element is triggering what. It would also be nice if the compendium included all the combinations when triggering layer conditions with string inputs :-) Best regards Christian 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHOMAN Posted September 13, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 13, 2015 I agree. and also a compendium of input strings Maybe a way to query strings via port 3040.. something like "getInput" or "getOutput" or "getInputArray" to evaluate them in another program. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJ Myers Posted September 18, 2015 Report Share Posted September 18, 2015 @NYC Todd - very well said. I could not have articulated that any better! I highly second NYC Todd's suggestion. In fact, other than a blur effect track, this is probably at the top of my wish list. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ectoplasmosis Posted January 24, 2019 Report Share Posted January 24, 2019 Any update on this? Would love to have this simple yet obviously useful function... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator jfk Posted January 24, 2019 Moderator Report Share Posted January 24, 2019 On 9/12/2015 at 11:59 AM, SHOMAN said: Is it just me, or am I the only one who is craving to use Generic Outputs mapped to either Formulas or Even to Generic Inputs? ... Well, you can map a serial output to a generic input. Just setup one of each and set the output IP address to 127.0.0.1. Make the output port number 3040 for production mode or 3039 for cluster mode. Enter a setInput command for the cue (i.e. setInput "uno" 0.5) and the output will set the input. I have also tried this with DMX out / in, and the input value did respond to output changes, but it did not seem to work in a formula. Reported it as a bug but it seemed to get ignored. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dataton Partner RBeddig Posted January 25, 2019 Dataton Partner Report Share Posted January 25, 2019 Hi Jim, I just tried three DMX values in a formula for opacity and position. Both worked fine for me. Actually, since the limitation for one universe in/out has been dropped, DMX values are quite a good work-around for in-out-variables. BR Rainer 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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