I’ve been cleaning up the helper functions that I use for most of my templates, I found myself using them more frequently lately and some features will solve many queries found in the forum.
I made them available in this repo:
I also included two templates inside the loop-io folder as an example.
They expect at least 5 parameters:
- media_path:
path/to/CasparCG/media/folder
- text1 / text2:
text for the text field
- bg_media:
some-loop (this should have a webm extension)
- width:
800 (width of the video)
- height:
150 (height of the video)
The README in the repo has some guidelines and examples for getting started. I will add more detailed wiki pages to better explain each function.
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I’ve realized the example templates don’t showcase very well the dynamic nature of the helpers so I’ve decided to record a short video while I rebuild a template for a lower third that I already have, with two two text fields and a looping background clip with intro and outro (using one of the examples in the repo).
This way it shows more clearly how fast one can add a simple lower third to CasparCG. It has really helped me in venues where I received the footage in the same day and didn’t have time to build a template from scratch.
The client send all the parameters described in the README to the templates and handle the preview and content and can save a preset so next time all the previous work is already done.
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@rrebuffo what’s that CG Editor program? Looks really nice. D-mo
Custom client I developed. I’ll start a thread on that later, most likely I’ll be releasing a public version of it or maybe make it open source.
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