Magic Music Visuals

There might be a simple answer hopefully,

But with a few scenes of video all connected to the main scene - how do I prevent these videos playing until I start the music on the input sources window so they all start at the same time?

All stopping when I hit stop would be great too...


Any help greatly appreciated...

I think you asked this question before: https://magicmusicvisuals.com/forums/vi ... 84&p=10801

Sadler wrote:I think you asked this question before: https://magicmusicvisuals.com/forums/vi ... 84&p=10801

Yes - I never did find a suitable outcome -I was hoping this could now be done in house (just using MMV) but sadly not

Here's hoping for the future

I tinkered for a few minutes and came up with something that:
1) rewinds a VideoFile module when the Input Sources file rewind button is clicked
2) pauses a VideoFile module when the Input Sources file pause button is clicked
The first expression is: if(x-xp=0, 0, 1)
Which, in this case, means that if the current playback time (x) is the same as the previous playback time (xp), set the speed to 0 (paused); else set it to 1 (normal)

Therefore it's important to know that xp is a reserved variable in the Expression modifier which stores the previous input value, whereas x is the current input value. This allows you to compare them.

The second expression is: if(x=0, 1, 0 )
Which, in this case, means that if the playback time is 0, trigger a rewind; otherwise don't do anything else.

Hope that helps!

Thanks for that Eric; I look forward to trying it out further...

I have the same issue and I did apply the solution provided by @Magic and technically it works, BUT there is a noticable delay in the video playback. My video is synchronized with some visual effects in the video, with the music, but now the effects in the video appear later as said, so delayed. If the delay was earlier, then I could set the start time a bit later, but now I should set the start time to negative, wich is (obviously) not possible. How to fix this?