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What's the best practice for fading out on cue an infinite loop?

So far I've done, Ignore column trigger and a layer above with a solid color with opacity envelope on timeline fading in to cover it, then a 2nd column to clear it all.

Is there a better way?
This method does not take into account if there is any audio to fade...

Have you tried Layer transition yet?
https://resolume.com/support/en/layers#layer-transition

Zoltán wrote: Wed Jun 21, 2023 10:02 Have you tried Layer transition yet?
https://resolume.com/support/en/layers#layer-transition

Of course, but seems crazy to keep making a new layer every time you need a diferent fade time.

Also if I'm not mistaken, this is a universal setting. So if I want a snap in and fade out... not so helpful.

The transition time can be adjusted using shortcuts or your mouse, you don't have to have separate layers for every transition time you can imagine between 0-10seconds.

Trying to do with with OSC.

I have osc looping back into resolume using chataigne and confirmed working as using it to do other tasks in the show file.

I think it's my syntax that's wrong.
So far what I have is a 6s loop clip, a black solid before and after.
So my intention is black solid 1 should force transition speed 0.
Loop should set transition speed to 5 for a fade out.

Setting osc output, custom address and copying the target from the fade transition time etc
BUT no matter what I do, does not alter the value currently set in the layer... So guessing is my syntax, have read the support doc but don't see any examples which are fully written out, just explanations of what I've already worked out.

So how do I set the value after:
/composition/layers/1/transition/duration
?
Tried adding
5
/5
"5"
/"5"
etc etc

Try sending 0.5

The transition duration expects a float between 0.0 and 1.0, which reflects the range from 0-10 seconds:

Like I said, I've seen and read all that..

My problem is the exact syntax of that command, which is not shown in any examples I find.

Don't know the correct way to write OSC commands in Chataigne, but the correct command would be

/composition/layers/1/transition/duration 0.5

so the address is /composition/layers/1/transition/duration

and then you need to add one argument with float-type and the value 0.5

As example in Wire this would look like that:
or in Qlab you'd write it like that:
and received in Arena it looks like that:

Right this may be the issue.. was trying to do it all from resolume, sending the full string as advanced osc command.