vMix: Data Driven Bar Charts with Dynamic Motion

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Bar Charts are a common tool to graphically represent the relative sizes of related sets of numbers. They can be used to display vote tallies in election coverage, performance numbers in sales presentations, or for any display that needs to track changes in values over time.
On today’s show, we’ll show you how to create data driven Bar Charts in vMix, pulling data sets from an Excel Data Source and smoothly sliding bars on the graph to reflect changes in the underlying data. All of this will be handled with some straight-forward scripting and a bit of help from the incredibly useful MERGE transition.
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If you'd like to access the vMix Preset and Scripts used during today’s show, here is the link:
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[@IamAkkim]

I love the ideas that come out of people solving how to do different things within vMix. I feel I've gotten a lot done with Titles, but there's always something "more" I want to try to solve :) Thanks for the stream!

[@BillAshtonNelo]

Thanks

[@StreamingAlchemy]

You are very welcome Bill!

[@hatlesswizard]

A bit off topic, but how might I go about creating a single bar that animates down over time? Use case: intermission, but instead of a countdown clock, it's a bar that when it gets to zero, the program resumes? Thanks!

[@StreamingAlchemy]

Thanks for watching. Let me think a bit about a good way to do this - maybe it’s something we can cover on the next show. If you have more details on exactly how you’d like this to work (how to trigger it, set time, do transitions, etc) I’ll try to include as much of that as I can.
I love questions that lead to show ideas, so thank you!
Best,
John

[@hatlesswizard]

@@StreamingAlchemy Awesome, that would be incredible! I've done something similar in a non-live edit, inspired by others I've seen. Picture it like a video progress bar on RUclips (or any video), so it sits on the bottom (again or anywhere, a circle could be cool as well) and moves to the timing of the ad break, eventually reaching zero.
The challenge is that not all ad breaks are created equal. Sometimes a client gives 2 min of content, sometimes 10. We've all been there, and they're rarely ever an "even" number like 5 min. Instead your first break is a playlist 4:52, then second break is 5:24, whatever we've all been there.
So anyways, I think it would be cool to provide a graphical look, a bar, a circle, that could have it's timing adjusted based on the playlists length (can obviously be manually inputted). This gives viewers a sense of how much time is left without an obtrusive numerical countdown.
Again, thanks so much! Would love to do that in GT and vMix without needing to bake a video each and every time