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Example

Playback - Set fade-in time

by: Sebastian Beutel
published: August 2018
description: Set a playback's fade-in time
remarks:

This is also an example how time:x is parsed into a time value.

See Playback - Set fade-in time - modular for a more versatile version using newer syntax.

functions

affected properties

control structures

Code

SetPBFadeInTime.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<avolites.macros>
  <macro id="Wiki.Macros.Fadeintime3" name="PB Fade-In Time 3s">
    <sequence>
      <step>Handles.ClearSelection()</step>
      <step>ActionScript.SetProperty("Playbacks.Editor.SelectedPlayback", null)</step>
 
      <step>Handles.SetSourceHandle("PlaybackWindow", 0)</step>
      <step condition="Playbacks.IsCueHandle(Handles.SourceHandle)">
        ActionScript.SetProperty("Playbacks.Editor.SelectedPlayback", Handles.SourceHandle)</step>
      <step>Playbacks.Editor.EnsurePlaybackCueSelected()</step>
      <step>ActionScript.SetProperty("Playbacks.Editor.Times.CueFadeInTime", time:3)</step>
 
      <step>Handles.SetSourceHandle("PlaybackWindow", 1)</step>
      <step condition="Playbacks.IsCueHandle(Handles.SourceHandle)">
        ActionScript.SetProperty("Playbacks.Editor.SelectedPlayback", Handles.SourceHandle)</step>
      <step>Playbacks.Editor.EnsurePlaybackCueSelected()</step>
      <step>ActionScript.SetProperty("Playbacks.Editor.Times.CueFadeInTime", time:3)</step>
 
      <step>Handles.ClearSelection()</step>
      <step>ActionScript.SetProperty("Playbacks.Editor.SelectedPlayback", null)</step>
    </sequence>
  </macro>
</avolites.macros>

Explanation

This explains the functional steps within the sequence. For all the other XML details please refer to Formats and syntax

  • The first and last two lines Handles.ClearSelection() and ActionScript.SetProperty(“Playbacks.Editor.SelectedPlayback”, null) make handle and playback selection empty so that no other handle/playback is affected by accident.
  • Handles.SetSourceHandle(“PlaybackWindow”, 0) selects a playback as source handle
  • <step condition=“Playbacks.IsCueHandle(Handles.SourceHandle)”>: only if this is a cue playback handle (and not maybe a macro or group handle which would break the macro)…
  • ActionScript.SetProperty(“Playbacks.Editor.SelectedPlayback”, Handles.SourceHandle) derive the playback from the given handle (the playback holds the time, not the handle)
  • Playbacks.Editor.EnsurePlaybackCueSelected() is required for single-cue playbacks to make sure the cue itself is selected/in the editor
  • ActionScript.SetProperty(“Playbacks.Editor.Times.CueFadeInTime”, time:3) finally sets the fade-in time to the value. time:3 tells the parser what to do with the number 3, i.e. parse it as time value.

Note that this requires the first playback to be a single cue. If it is e.g. a cue list or a macro then the property Playbacks.Editor.SelectedPlayback isn't set and the macro fails.

How to use it

  • while it's well possible to create some macros to set some playbacks to a given fade-in time, it does make more sense to integrate this into a bigger context like Create Workspaces in order to setup a known show environment.
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macros/example/setplaybackfadeintime.txt · Last modified: 2021/07/21 15:28 by icke_siegen

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