Multiple Videos & Layers
Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2024 8:50 pm
Hello everyone
I haven't been here for a long time, everything worked wonderfully and when there were errors I simply looked for a different approach and found my way.
Now I'm looking for a practical way:
I want to display text panels, you can also call it subtitles.
Simply text against a black background or in front of an image (as a subtitle)
Sure, I can build it all as a film in the external video editor and insert the video.
But there is a lot of movement in the development of the idea and it is tedious to always change the video and re-render it.
I have one concern for playing video:
I can play the video on the second monitor (in the editor), I can move it to a different position with the mouse, but the new position is not saved.
Is there a way to save or view the coordinates so that you can enter them manually in the editor?
There is another problem:
If I make 3 different videos, I can only play one of them at the same time, there are some reports here in the forum that this is not possible.
++ There is a possibility, you can also assign the output to virtual outputs.
The monitor then automatically splits horizontally and vertically.
and many videos can be played there at the same time "as a SubCue"
Unfortunately, the whole video cropping and positioning in SCS is very unreliable, it is extremely time-consuming and requires a lot of detailed work until you can conjure up something sensible.
But at least it works...
Quick insight for 2 simultaneous videos:
You have to know that when you watch two videos at the same time you are trapped in either the left or the right half of the screen.
With 3 or 4 simultaneous videos you are trapped in the window that is split into 4.
You can't run a video in the top left, top right and bottom middle.
For the bottom middle you have to insert the same video at the bottom left and bottom right and crop the left video on the right and crop the right video on the left.
Here too the display is very inaccurate, no WYSIWYG.
Nevertheless, it is helpful for developing a stage program. If everything fits, I definitely recommend putting everything together in a single video so as not to run the risk of something suddenly changing during the performance.
In my example, where I just want to project static email text onto the wall, it would be much easier to have pure text, a text box that I can fill and output to an external video channel (also a virtual channel).
I haven't been here for a long time, everything worked wonderfully and when there were errors I simply looked for a different approach and found my way.
Now I'm looking for a practical way:
I want to display text panels, you can also call it subtitles.
Simply text against a black background or in front of an image (as a subtitle)
Sure, I can build it all as a film in the external video editor and insert the video.
But there is a lot of movement in the development of the idea and it is tedious to always change the video and re-render it.
I have one concern for playing video:
I can play the video on the second monitor (in the editor), I can move it to a different position with the mouse, but the new position is not saved.
Is there a way to save or view the coordinates so that you can enter them manually in the editor?
There is another problem:
If I make 3 different videos, I can only play one of them at the same time, there are some reports here in the forum that this is not possible.
++ There is a possibility, you can also assign the output to virtual outputs.
The monitor then automatically splits horizontally and vertically.
and many videos can be played there at the same time "as a SubCue"
Unfortunately, the whole video cropping and positioning in SCS is very unreliable, it is extremely time-consuming and requires a lot of detailed work until you can conjure up something sensible.
But at least it works...
Quick insight for 2 simultaneous videos:
You have to know that when you watch two videos at the same time you are trapped in either the left or the right half of the screen.
With 3 or 4 simultaneous videos you are trapped in the window that is split into 4.
You can't run a video in the top left, top right and bottom middle.
For the bottom middle you have to insert the same video at the bottom left and bottom right and crop the left video on the right and crop the right video on the left.
Here too the display is very inaccurate, no WYSIWYG.
Nevertheless, it is helpful for developing a stage program. If everything fits, I definitely recommend putting everything together in a single video so as not to run the risk of something suddenly changing during the performance.
In my example, where I just want to project static email text onto the wall, it would be much easier to have pure text, a text box that I can fill and output to an external video channel (also a virtual channel).