Playing different logos for 2 minutes at timed intervals (15 min)?

[hobbybob]

Hi All,

I have some corporate logos that need to be projected for 2 minutes each, at an interval of 15 minutes.
I am using beyond 588. Is there an easy way to make a show that plays for say 8 hours long and displays a logo every 15 minutes for 2 minutes ?

I don't want to make an 8 hr long timeline show since i think there must be an easier way.

At this moment i am doomed to sit here until 5AM (and need to build up a show at 10am for tomorrow night) so stress is a bit high at this moment.

How can i do this ?

It's a lot of 16 logos, some needed to be played 5 times a evening and some need to be played only 3.
A sort of timer setting like "PLAY this cue for 2 minutes at 8.15PM" sort of thing is what i am looking for.
And as always, the sooner i can implement this, the sooner i can go to sleep ;-)

Thanks for helping me out in advance !

[norty303]

I think, given the time constraints, your best option is to lay out an 8hr timeline and arrange the cues at the rigth points.
I expect some Pangoscript could do what you need, but I'm not in front of Beyond at the moment, and it might take longer to type it and test it than it would to lay out the show on the timeline.
Certainly, you can select cues for set durations, and build in pauses/waits in Pangoscript because I use it to cause small delays in APC40 leds switching off after momentary presses (e.g. the light stays on very slightly after I've removed finger)

So, in pseudocode

Select cue1
Wait 120000 (I think Pangoscript uses milliseconds)
Release cue1
Wait 900000
Select cue 2
Wait 120000
Release cue 2
Wait 900000
etc
etc


Then assign it to a cue for atcivation

You could put a restart at the end to force it to loop, or do that in cue properties

[hobbybob]

Thanks Norty will look into that too...

But also got a great tip from Bart to put them frames in a new frame, put it on beatbased and change BPM to 1.
Then each frame is displayed for exactly 1 min. So i put all frames in and 13 black frames so it makes a quarter of an hour.
This seemed to work.

will work on this from 0.00 tonight when less people are on the streets.

Thanks for the help and keep an eye on my Facebook for pictures of the shows i do this week (Colorsplash (paint festival) then Pink Floyd Project again and Saturday 90s XXL with all 90s music. Then another 3 days just the nights and then on Xmas eve i am finished (and gutted....)

[norty303]

So, what did you end up doing in the end?

I thought about this last night a bit more and I think I'd have gone for the Pangoscript option personally.
I write code for a living and I like the very controlled nature of scripts, and the ease with which they can be edited such as changing the cue order by editing some numbers.

[hobbybob]

So, what did you end up doing in the end?

I thought about this last night a bit more and I think I'd have gone for the Pangoscript option personally.
I write code for a living and I like the very controlled nature of scripts, and the ease with which they can be edited such as changing the cue order by editing some numbers.

For the first part of the night i used Barts tip.
For the second part *unattended* i went for the timeline option and placed all the cues in a 6 hr timeline. so then i went home.

will investigate this more indepth since i am going to need it, the pangoscript sounds cool, hopefully someone can give a workshop on the topic of scripting in beyond on my LEM in Marrum ?
Its the 17th until 19th of january!

gr
dimitri

[norty303]

I'll see if I can get some time to fire up the laptop and do an example to post here.
The mother in law goes home to Denmark tomorrow so I'll have my office/workshop/mission control/behind the curtain at Oz back again.

[norty303]

Here's a really quick example. Took about 10 mins including firing up the laptop.
You could get more clever and have it enable output and select a zone, and even start at a certain PC time, and end itself and shut down automatically, but I just wanted to show how straightforward it is.

CodeName "Timed cues"
// Autostart           // unrem this line if the script should start automatically
// StopOnBlackout      // unrem this line if the script must stop when Blackout pressed

SelectGrid 1 // 1-main grid, 2-grid at bottom. 0-recently active
SelectCatName "Atmospherics" // define correct Category name.
SelectTabName "Sheets" // define Page name!

FocusCell 1,1 // Column (1..10), Row (1..6)
StartCell // start current cell
Sleep 2000 //Wait for 1 second
StopCell // stop current cell
Sleep 5000 //Wait for 5 seconds

//Repeat steps using different cell reference
FocusCell 2,1 // Column (1..10), Row (1..6)
StartCell // start current cell
Sleep 2000 //Wait for 1 second
StopCell // stop current cell
Sleep 5000 //Wait for 5 seconds

FocusCell 3,1 // Column (1..10), Row (1..6)
StartCell // start current cell
Sleep 2000 //Wait for 1 second
StopCell // stop current cell
Sleep 5000 //Wait for 5 seconds

FocusCell 4,1 // Column (1..10), Row (1..6)
StartCell // start current cell
Sleep 2000 //Wait for 1 second
StopCell // stop current cell
Sleep 5000 //Wait for 5 seconds

//Repeat indefinately
restart

[White-Light]

I believe you may have a mistake in there Norty, sleep 2000 (2,000 milliseconds) is a 2 second sleep command not a 1 second.

[norty303]

Yep, thats because I changed the display time after I wrote the comments/rem. As I said, it was thrown together in 10 mins to demonstrate a concept.
The comments don't make any difference to functionality and don't even need to be there, but I'm sure Bob gets the idea.

[hobbybob]

Yep, thats because I changed the display time after I wrote the comments/rem. As I said, it was thrown together in 10 mins to demonstrate a concept.
The comments don't make any difference to functionality and don't even need to be there, but I'm sure Bob gets the idea.

Wow, thanks Norty! That is very cool. And although i did make some easy shows in timeline for each night this sure will come in handy.
Is there a document describing PangoScript ?
Because i can see some serious uses for this.

Thanks for the explanation, this will help me on my way !