Question / Help Media Source Time Remaining / Host Cue

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mcnutty94

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Hi,

I was wondering if there is any way to show the time remaining on a media source, shown on the preview only (not the live stream) as a way for the host to see how long the clip has left before they will be back on camera (ie. a countdown timer for the clip being played).

Alternatively, if that isn't possible, is there a way to have a media source only shown on the preview and not the live stream (ie. manually adding a countdown clock as a video source)

Thanks!
Ben
 
koala

koala

Active Member
Not on the preview. The preview is always showing what is going out.
But you can use a projector for this. Make a new scene and add 2 sources to this scene: one of type scene and add your main scene. The other is a text source. Give the text source the name "timer". Then go to Tools->Scripts and click the countdown.lua script. Enter a duration and select timer at the "Text source" dropdown list. In case you don't have countdown.lua as script, click the + and add it from the directory.

Now you have a countdown timer in your added scene. It will be restarted whenever you make the timer text source invisible and visible again by clicking on its eye icon in the "Sources" list.

Then right-click the added scene->Windows projector (Scene) and create a window that shows this scene. You can also use a fullscreen projector if you want to see it on a second monitor.

Will not work very good if you switch scenes while streaming, because a scene projector will not follow the currently active scene.
 
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