phuvf/oscpoint

Suggested addition to Further actions and ideas in the Examples considering slide notes for vMix

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richardgatarski commented

Not really an issue. Please consider the rewrite below as a hopefully useful addition to the current text.

There's currently no way (that I know of) to adjust text size via the vMix API. This means that if you have a lot of text in your notes, it may overflow the text box. You can get around this through different methods.

  1. Use GT Title designer and create a Text box with Word wrapping turned on and the Shrink option selected. This will automatically reduce the font size, so that all the text is visible within the box dimensions.

  2. Use GT Title designer and instead of a Text box create a Ticker, for example with the Direction "Top" selected. Additionally you may use the Shortcut SetTickerSpeed to control how fast the text will scroll. It might be a good idea to initialize the title Input with that shortcut and set its speed to 0. Then, have another shortcut in order to start the ticker if all the text is not visible.

  3. By using a second title input with a smaller font size, and then switching between the two inputs as needed.

Methods 2 and 3 could be automated by looking at the length of the notes text, and switching to the smaller input or start the ticker, if it's over a certain length.

phuvf commented

(Belated) thanks for the ideas - I've added a link in the examples page to this post.