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.

Pallette: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.

A form of DATs (Data Operators) that is structured as rows and columns of text strings.

An Operator Family that manipulates text strings: multi-line text or tables. Multi-line text is often a python Script or GLSL Shader, but can be any multi-line text. Tables are rows and columns of cells, each containing a text string.

The term "Frame" is a measurement of time used (1) in the Timeline, (2) as a time-unit in CHOPs, and (3) as a time unit in movie files that are read into TOPs and written out from TOPs. The frame rate is the frames per second (FPS).

The width and height of an image in pixels. Most TOPs, like the Movie File In TOP can set the image resolution. See Aspect Ratio for the width/height ratio of an image, taking into account non-square pixels.

A built-in panel in TouchDesigner that contains a library of components and media that can be dragged-dropped into a TouchDesigner network.