Timeline as a trigger
Jun 08, 2012
So, I know you can use the start or end of a timeline as a triggering event... but is there someway to put a trigger at say.. end - 5secs? In my project i have a layer that has an audio clip in at.. and at the END of the timeline for that clip I have it trigger a variable change.
In doing some testing.. users aren't waiting until the absolute end of the audio clip which means the variable isn't getting updated and things are breaking. I wanted to see if I could trigger the variable change a few seconds before the audio file timeline ends.
The only way I figured out to make that work is to add a bunch of shapes (or whatever) to the slide layer.. and just move them off the slide.. so the user doesn't see them... and put them on the timeline for like.. 1 second.. and trigger the vairable change on when the timeline ends for the shape rather than the audio... but that seem very messy.
Is there an easier way? Or am I not making any sense at all?
thanks!
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Hi, Helene. The method you're using is the only way to go at the moment. It seems a little sloppy, but it works and I've found it's not too painful over time.
Thanks for replying so quick.. i started updating my project that way and then stopped b/c i figured there must be a better way.
Back to work i guess!
It's the simplest way at the moment. You could get clever with layer toggles (cycling through layers to increment a value) and setup a variable listener to check for the value but that's pretty Rube Goldberg Fun experiment but it obfuscates things and creates other problems.
ha!
i'll stick to the more straighforward adding images in the periphery.
maybe i'll take some creative license with the images since no one will ever see them
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