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Shuffle/Randomize FootageItems
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Hi all,I’ve got a comp project with several dozen footage items laid out in a grid. I would dearly love to be able to shuffle them around easily and quickly, to make a large number of different videowall type grids.
Not being the greatest scripter, I’m reading the user’s selected footage into an array of FootageItems first – call it selectedFootage[]. My thinking was to copy the filepaths into a new string array and shuffle them, then loop the original arrey beginning to end, calling ReplaceWithSequence on each footageItem to replace it with it counterpart in the newly shuffled array.
I can’t seem to get the full pathnames out of the original footageItems into the new array in a way that will work with ReplaceWithSequence.
Is there some cleaner, more elegant way to accomplish this that I am missing? I can post my code if you want a good laugh.
Cheers,
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3 Replies
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So the user’s footage is not loaded into the project yet, is that correct?
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Hi Dan,
I’m starting with a project where the footage has indeed been loaded and laid out into the grid. My goal is to shuffle the source image sequences of each footage item, thereby causing the footage in the grid to shuffle without having to drag squares around.
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Assuming all the footage has the same dimensions, I would create an array of the footage item numbers, shuffle that, and use replaceSource() on the grid layers.
Dan
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