Advance Scene Switcher: Preventing Back to Back Breaks, How Do I?

[Mark Weiss]

Here's a tricky one.. using Advance Scene Switcher to drop in logos and bumper videos both in between VLC media programs and also at 15 minute intervals for long form programs. Here's the challenge: The 15 minute interval comes up, even if the programming just switched and in the transition, played a bumper already. So the question is, how can I make the every 15 minute bumper trigger itself off the last bumper that occurred between programs so as to prevent bumpers from playing right after one has played automatically between programs?

 

[AaronD]

Three macros, one variable:

• Program Transition:
  • Set the variable to 2
  • Play the bumper
• Every 15-minutes regardless, AND variable not 0:
  • Decrement the variable (must decrement here, don't set it to a constant)
• Variable is 0:
  • Set the variable to 1
  • Play the bumper

Think that through, maybe with some scratch paper, and see if it works for you.

You can also change the 2 to something higher, if you want to skip some more breaks early in the program.

And because "Play the bumper" appears twice, you might make that into a fourth macro with no conditions, and use the Macro action to run it. Then you can change how it works in one place, instead of manually keeping two copies synchronized.

 

[AaronD]

Adv. SS's discussion thread is here, by the way:

Advanced Scene Switcher

Warmuptill submitted a new resource: Automatic Scene Switching - Switches to specified scenes depending on which window is in focus A remake of the "Simple Scene Switcher"(https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/simple-scene-switcher.29/) for obs-studio. Installation 1. Extract the folder. 2...

obsproject.com

 

[Mark Weiss]

I am not sure how this is done, but a wild guess is:

But I think I'm not understanding this variable stuff.

 

[Mark Weiss]

Adv. SS's discussion thread is here, by the way:

Advanced Scene Switcher

Warmuptill submitted a new resource: Automatic Scene Switching - Switches to specified scenes depending on which window is in focus A remake of the "Simple Scene Switcher"(https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/simple-scene-switcher.29/) for obs-studio. Installation 1. Extract the folder. 2...

obsproject.com

I'll ask over there too, as maybe there are more folks who are doing difficult macros there.

 

[AaronD]

I'll ask over there too, as maybe there are more folks who are doing difficult macros there.

And the author is a bit more active there too. :-)