Basic Movie Sequencer In Touchdesigner

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December 3, 2021

Intermediate tutorial for building a basic movie sequencer for motion graphics in Touchdesigner

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Contents of the Video:

00:00 – Intro
00:20 – Explanation & motivation
02:45 – Let’s begin building
06:33 -How to properly add and arrange new clips
07:18 – Calculating the start times based off their clip lengths and order
14:20 – Calculating total time length of movie inputs
15:23 – Using the Timer CHOP to manage movie files + Operator snippets
16:32 – Timer callback scripting in Python to trigger movie files
21:25 – Connecting movie files fps to the network frame rate + dynamically changing the timeline length with CHOP Execute
27:55 – Managing movie connections to the network
28:35 – Brief demonstration of keyframe animating within the loop
32:02 – Outro/Goodbyes

Bileam Tschepe’s Animation COMP tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKkcYwiqT_g&t=653s

Matthew Ragan’s Python resources: https://matthewragan.com/teaching-resources/touchdesigner/python-in-touchdesigner/

Hey guys, this is my first tutorial on Touchdesigner and i’m really excited about that. In this video, I will explain to you how to build your own movie sequencer that plays moviefilein TOPs in a user specified order using the Timer CHOP as well as some very light python scripting in Callback DATs to automatically adjust the timeline length as well as the fps of the project. This will give us a looped timeline of a duration that matches the total length of time of the movies you select.

Feel free to leave me your thoughts and feedback in the comments!
Enjoy

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