Brand new VDMX user here.
I'm working on a project where the back end is a nodejs program and the front end is VDMX. There are over 100 videos in a database, and the nodejs program needs to decide which videos to play, when to fade them in/out, etc.
So far I have node sending OSC messages to control opacity and volume on a few layers, and it's working great. But I'm having trouble wrapping my head around triggering specific videos from my database.
I've done tests with 10s of videos, assigning OSC triggers to each in a media bin, and that works fine, but the thought of doing it for all 150 of them is daunting. To make matters worse, I might be getting a new set of videos, so I would have to remap all of them with the appropriate OSC trigger, and then sync the OSC trigger to the video in the database.
This is a completely workable (if not labor-intensive and delicate) solution, but I'm wondering if I'm missing something. For instance, is there a way to trigger a clip in a media bin by the filename? Any tips would be much appreciated!