I am a new user and I recently posted something similar as a question on Facebook but I thought it useful to add here as Feature Request.
I would like to see us able to send more than one image/video cue to the same screen and have them blended with an opacity setting rather than, at present, each subsequent one cutting-off the existing.
Use-case is essentially over-lays. My case was that I wanted a background type video (moving wallpaper) playing during a pantomime song and over-laid graphics of the lines of a song which would be progressed by hotkey according to the pace of the music and singing at the time; in other words I could not produce the video in advance since the timing would not be adjustable. My workaround is a static background and slideshow of images.
My second use case was a countdown timer video that was playing. I wanted to display other images at some point during the timer video but have it continue in the background so when the static images are stopped, the timer comes back to the fore and has kept the proper time. My workaround has been to calculate the amount of time the static images are on (which unfortunately means they need to be fixed) and then restart the timer video at a different start point to cover the time it was not running; this adds to the complexity.
Some thoughts on the requirement:
- Each video/image cue would have an opacity setting 0-100% (default 100%)
- A subsequent video/image cue would not stop the previous one playing (although that could be an option like it is for chases being stopped by next lighting cue)
- Subsequent cues would be 'on top' meaning the opacity setting of the new clip would determine which video/image showed
- SFR cue would be adapted to enable alteration of opacity per running clip
- Limit could be applied to 2 simultaneous image/video clips or feature included only in higher subscription level or set to 4 in Pro Plus, etc
- Image files would respect transparency in formats like PNG allowing video to show through
- Video audio would continue unaffected by opacity (can be controlled by SFR?)
Thanks in advance for considering.