Image fade in and out (in 10.5.0)

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Adair
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Image fade in and out (in 10.5.0)

Post by Adair » Fri Mar 13, 2009 9:29 am

Hello. I would like to request adding the feature to fade in and out the image on an image cue.
I noticed the controls are on the screen, but are grayed out.
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Re: Image fade in and out

Post by enigmatheatre » Sun Mar 15, 2009 7:44 am

I second that. This would be a great thing.
Fade to black would also be good. :D

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Re: Image fade in and out

Post by Mike Daniell » Fri Apr 17, 2009 6:49 pm

This will be in 10.4.2, and you can now download 'release candidate 1' (ie a pre-release) of 10.4.2 from the Members' Download page.
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Re: Image fade in and out

Post by Hornett » Mon Apr 20, 2009 4:19 am

Hello mike! great news about the fade in and fade out options on images. will be using this in a show on wednesday (With powerpoint on another laptop just in case) so will report back. I have tested it on my laptop at the moment and it seems to work fine, Brilliant!

Just out of curiosity, is there any update to the same being applied to video?

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Re: Image fade in and out

Post by Mike Daniell » Tue Apr 21, 2009 12:51 pm

Hornett wrote:Just out of curiosity, is there any update to the same being applied to video?
Not at the moment. Videos are currently played using an api into Windows Media Player (WMP) whereas still images are displayed directly by SCS. With the still images SCS calls the Microsoft alphablend api to control the fades, but afaik this doesn't work with WMP - although I haven't tried it yet.
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Re: Image fade in and out

Post by Hornett » Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:38 pm

My youth theatre performed yesturday using the pre release candidate of SCS with image fade in and out capabilities, it was brilliant. Normally we would have to use powerpoint to put the images up but SCS again has proved to be a cut above the rest superb. Even the in house staff who are massive fans of SFX wanted to know what i was using. Thanks a bunch Mike.
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Re: Image fade in and out (in 10.5.0)

Post by mikemed » Mon Oct 05, 2009 6:57 pm

I am currently working on a production that is using a large amount of video I have sold the company on using SCS for sound and video cuing but no find I cannot fade to black on the video. Is this ever going to be available as I am using more and more video in productions and this would seem to be an ideal system for it except for the fade to black not being available. PLease Please Please lets get this active.

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Re: Image fade in and out (in 10.5.0)

Post by Mike Daniell » Tue Oct 06, 2009 6:19 pm

Fade to black is not currently available for videos because SCS uses an API into Windows Media Player (WMP) to play vidoe files, and this API does not have functions for adjusting brightness, contrast, etc. I did have a look at using the Quick Time API, but the Quick Time API doesn't support WMV files. However, I'll have another look at that as a possible alternative to WMP, to see if it provides a function that will enable 'fade to black'.
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Re: Image fade in and out (in 10.5.0)

Post by enigmatheatre » Tue Oct 06, 2009 9:55 pm

HI

I would be so happy if there was a fade to black function on viedo as the fade to black on still images is great. I think using quicktime is a idea as there are lots more functions (like fade to black) that are possible. I would not have any problems not using wmv files and there are convertors out there to change them in to quicktime format.

Would other people have a problem with this?

I Guess if there is a better alternative then I would be happy with that to. :D

Greig

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Re: Image fade in and out (in 10.5.0)

Post by Richard » Tue Oct 06, 2009 11:32 pm

Hi Mike

Have you looked at the VLC API http://www.videolan.org/developers/vlc.html, VLC is our prefered media player, as quicktime seems to be horribly processor hungry and windows media player is just plain rubbish. Also VLC is open source.

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Re: Image fade in and out (in 10.5.0)

Post by Mike Daniell » Tue Oct 06, 2009 11:40 pm

I did have a look at VLC some time ago, but at the time I couldn't find adequate API documentation that would allow me to use it from SCS. I'll have another look at their web site.
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