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    Palette:moviePlaylist

    Summary

    The moviePlaylist is able to loop over images or movies selected via a folder or specified via a Table DAT given as an input. It offers some control over playback, blend- and end- behaviour.

    PythonIcon.pngPallette:moviePlaylist Ext


    Parameters - Player Page

    Playlist Controls

    Help Help - Opens this page.

    Version Version - The current version of the component.

    Mediafolder Mediafolder - Specify the folder on disc containing the media that should be played. This is ignored if a playlist is specified via the DAT input.

    Media Type Mediatype - ⊞ - Select what kind of media can be played.
    • All all - Play movies and images.
    • Movies movies - Play movies only.
    • Images images - Play images only.

    Initialize Initialize - Reset the moviePlaylist to it's start condition.

    Start Start - Start the playback.

    Pause Pause - Pause the playback.

    Speed Speed - Control the speed of the playback. All asset durations and blendtimes are effected by this.

    Still Image Duration sec Imagedur - In case of playing images, specify the number of seconds an image should be displayed.

    Blend Behavior Blend - ⊞ - Specify how the moviePlaylist should blend between playlist items.
    • Crossfade cross - A crossfade between 2 assets.
    • Blend Over Color color - The current playlist item will fade out to the background color before the next playlist item fades in.

    Fade In Out Time Fadetime - ⊞ - Duration of the fade in and out time at the start and the end of the playlist. The fade out is only utilized when fading to color at the end.
    • Fade In Out Time Fadetime1 - Duration of the fade in at the start of the playlist.
    • Fade In Out Time Fadetime2 - Duration of the fade out at the end of the playlist. Only used if On Done is set to Fade to Color.

    Blend Time Crosstime - Duration of the blend between playlist items.

    Next Movie ID Nextid - Specify the next playlist id for use when using the Go to Movie pulse parameter.

    Background Color Bgcolor - ⊞ - Specify the background color of the playlist. This is used if assets have transparency and/or Blend Over Color is the selected blend behavior and/or Fade to Color is the selected end condition.
    • Background Color Bgcolorr - Red
    • Background Color Bgcolorg - Green
    • Background Color Bgcolorb - Blue
    • Background Color Bgcolora - Alpha

    Go to Fade Time Gotofade - ⊞ - Blendtime used when manually controlling the playlist.
    • Go to Fade Time Gotofade1 -
    • Go to Fade Time Gotofade2 -

    Go to Movie Gotomov - Switch to the playlist item specified under Next Movie ID.

    Go to Previous Gotoprev - Go to the previous playlist item. This has looping behavior at the start of the playlist.

    Go to Next Gotonext - Go to the next playlist item. This has looping behavior at the end of the playlist.

    On Done Ondone - ⊞ - Specify what should happen at the end of the playlist.
    • Cycle Last Clip cyclelast - Loop the last playlist item.
    • Hold Last Frame hold - Hold the last frame of the playlist.
    • Fade to Color color - Fade to background color.


    Parameters - Resolution Page

    Use Input Useinput - If enabled the playlist will output the resolution of the currently playling item. If playlist items have varying resolution, the output will vary in resolution as well.

    Output Resolution Outputres - ⊞ - Specify the output resolution if not using the input resolution.
    • Output Resolution Outputresw - Width.
    • Output Resolution Outputresh - Height.

    Fit Fit - ⊞ - When specifying a resolution, this determines how the playlist item is mapped onto the output canvas size.
    • Fill fill - The item is stretched/squashed to fill the output resolution and aspect ratio.
    • Fit Horizontal fithorz - The item is stretched/squashed to fit the output resolution horizontally.
    • Fit Vertical fitvert - The item is stretched/squashed to fit the output resolution vertically.
    • Fit Best fitbest - The item is stretched/squashed to fit the output resolution using the best possible match that does not crop the item. The aspect ration is maintained.
    • Fit Outside fitoutside - The item is stretched/squashed to fit the output resolution using the worst possible match as a opposite to Best Fit. The aspect ration is maintained.
    • Native Resolution nativeres - The item is not stretched or squashed but cropped to the output resolution.


    Parameters - Tune Page

    Pre-Read Frames Prereadframes -

    Frame Timeout Frametimeout -

    Open Timeout Opentimeout -


    Parameters - Audio Page

    Active Active -

    Driver Driver - ⊞ -
    • default (DirectSound/CoreAudio) default -
    • ASIO asio -

    Device Device -

    Volume Volume -


    Operator Inputs

    • Input 0: Playlist definition. - A Table DAT containing the paths to the playlist items in order that they should appear using the column header path. Further parameters that can be specified via header: Imagedur, Fadetime1, Fadetime2, Blend, Crosstime, Bgcolorr, Bgcolorg, Bgcolorb, Bgcolora.
    • Input 1: Blend Mask - A blendmask using the luminance to blend between two playlist items. You can use the output matteValue to control the blend behavior.