We recently we bought a led screen(About 8x3 mts) and it allows us to publish videos from AE (obviusly). We need to design a goodweel campaign about weather, traffic, and breaking news.
My quesion is how can i replace the animated text and images without modifyng the AE original file?, for example: The weather is sunny and 27 celsius, the next day weather changes and i just have to modify a txt.(something like that), and I just have to export the avi. file and be ready to upload it to the screen.
I don't think After Effects is an appropriate solution for this. You would have to re-render your movie every time the weather changes. That would be some heavy CPU usage just to update the news or weather. You might want to look into programming something that would update itself and using After Effects simply to render the media assets that would make up your program.
Maybe researching something like JavaScript or Processing would be beneficial.
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I'm finally integrating xstate into my work project because I love it and I'm excited to show off what well-structured states can do for performance and reasoning, but I'm struggling with a bit of modeling. I have a weatherMachine that gets the current temperature based on lat/long and is connected to a map in my app, so when the user moves it, the weather loads. I have that all working beautifully but if the user zooms out too much, I don't want to show weather, as it's not all that useful when you're viewing a large area. My modeling question is whether or not hiding the weather belongs in the weather machine. Part of me thinks it should just get weather when asked to but the point at which I dispatch the event to load weather (onMapRegionChange) is also the place I'd check the zoom level and show/hide the weather. It'd be simplest to add some context to the weather machine for hideWeather but is that "correct?" Any feedback on the approach you all would use would be greatly appreciated.
I'm learning programming and already learn a bunch of stuff with node like express, async request etc...
I'm travelling a lot and i'm trying to build a webapp for my daughter where i can enter my flights number and date and i will show a simple page with city A a ligne, a small place in between and city b when the plane is in the air otherwise a little cartoonish man sleeping.
So i'm good with fetching data with an api and getting the departure and arriving time of my flights, the cities names etc and i'm good with placing the little plane at the good place (like at 1/3 of the line if i'm 1 hour into a 3h flight) but only if i refresh the page.
So my question is: what should i use to make it live so the plane will move without the need of refreshing the page. i don't want to refresh it manualy all the time since i want to put it on a screen in my daughter room and let it live all the time. i tought about putting the css inside the HTML and use JSX to place css animation time but i guess their could be a better way.
I'm doing it since i like coding so obviously i don't look for someone to write my code but to have some package or somewhere to go and read to find a solution... I started to learn react 2 days ago so it may be the key...
Thanks
I would periodically request the data in a setInterval, and then update accordingly. Something like:
setInterval(() => {
/*api request stuff*/
/*code to update your webapp based on the data*/
}, /*however often you want to update, in milliseconds*/)
I'm sure exactly how your webapp works, so I can't really help you further unless you show some code.
There is a concept known as Polling, what it means, in short, you have to continuously ask the data from the server after a certain interval, that is there some new data available.
For that, you need to call API after a certain interval (make sure you don't do too freq. API calls to a 3rd party server) and update on the frontEnd for the same.
To achieve that you can use setInterval, please check it docs on MDN on how to use it.
Alternatively, if the 3rd party server provides sockets, you can use that too.
MDN link
first time posting.
I wanted to ask if anyone knows how I can search on YouTube for, let's say, music video's that have been viewed between a set number of times. Like the title says for example, between 9 and 11 million times.
One reason I want to do this is because I want to find good music that I haven't heard before. The logic I'm working on is that the Got Talent type video's that get viewed millions of times are generally viewed that many times for one of two reason. 1) they're amazing. 2) they're embarrassingly horrible.
And though I don't think a song being popular will necessarily mean I'll like it, I'm hoping this method will be successful to some degree.
Another reason is to look for trailers for independent films with a similar logic as above. Though with these movies I think I only hear about them six months to a year after they've been released because they're flying under the radar.
If I were to be able to search for movie trailers with 'x' number of views though.. for example, between 500,000 and a million, maybe I'd be able to find movies that I'll like quicker than via time passing and them getting mentioned to me by a friend.
Any help would be greatly appreciated as I've wanted to be able to perform these kind of searches for awhile now.
thanks
You will need to use YouTube API v3.
I havent written this exact request but it looks like you can list videos then filter by 'Chart' = 'mostPopular'
https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/videos/list
Perhaps a bit of background reading on the API would help too...
https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/
First off, you would need the Youtube Data API. "v3" means nothing because it's simply the current version, like "Windows 10."
The API lets you get a video's view count, but doesn't put it in a range like 9 million to 11 million.
Youtube's own search function is pretty sophisticated. For instance,
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=movie+trailer&search_sort=video_view_count&filters=month. This gives all results for "movie trailer," within the last month, sorted by view count. You can customize the URL, i.e. "week" instead of month would return only trailers from the last week. Or year, etc. Essentially this is a "Videos: List: MostPopular" query, with subject filter.
I have a few Youtube API scripts, and I hardly think it's worth the hassle to do it that way when Youtube's advanced search get you 99% there. If you did, you would need to to a Search:list query for a given subject (i.e. "movie trailer"). Limited to a given time frame (i.e. last month). Then for each video ID, make a Videos:list query to get its view count. Then print all, sorted by views.
What I need:
I need to output a basic weather reports based on the current time and a fixed location (a county in the Republic of Ireland).
Output requirements:
Ideally plain text accompanied with a single graphical icon (e.g.
sun behind a cloud etc.).
Option to style output.
No adverts; no logos.
Free of charge.
Numeric Celsius temperature and short textual description.
I appreciate I'm that my expectations are high so interpret the list more as a "wish-list" rather than delusional demands.
What I've tried:
http://www.weather-forecast.com - The parameters for the iframe aren't configurable enough. Output is too bloated.
Google Weather API - I've played with PHP solutions to no avail though in any case, apparently the API is dead: http://thenextweb.com/google/2012/08/28/did-google-just-quietly-kill-private-weather-api/
My question:
Can anyone offer suggestions on how to embed a simple daily weather report based on a fixed location with minimal bloat?
Take a look at http://www.zazar.net/developers/jquery/zweatherfeed/
It's pretty configurable, although I'm not sure if there is still too much info for your needs. I've only tried it with US locations; all you need is a zipcode. The examples show using locations from other countries. I'm assuming it's a similar setup to get locations added for Ireland.
I'm looking for methods that work in practise for determining some kind of acoustical similarity between different songs.
Most of the methods I've seen so far (MFCC etc.) seem actually to aim at finding identical songs only (i.e. fingerprinting, for music recognition not recommendation). While most recommendation systems seem to work on network data (co-listened songs) and tags.
Most Mpeg-7 audio descriptors also seem to be along this line. Plus, most of them are defined on the level of "extract this and that" level, but nobody seems to actually make any use of these features and use them for computing some song similarity. Yet even an efficient search of similar items...
Tools such as http://gjay.sourceforge.net/ and http://imms.luminal.org/ seem to use some simple spectral analysis, file system location, tags, plus user input such as the "color" and rating manually assigned by the user or how often the song was listened and skipped.
So: which audio features are reasonably fast to compute for a common music collection, and can be used to generate interesting playlists and find similar songs? Ideally, I'd like to feed in an existing playlist, and get out a number of songs that would match this playlist.
So I'm really interested in accoustic similarity, not so much identification / fingerprinting. Actually, I'd just want to remove identical songs from the result, because I don't want them twice.
And I'm also not looking for query by humming. I don't even have a microphone attached.
Oh, and I'm not looking for an online service. First of all, I don't want to send all my data to Apple etc., secondly I want to get only recommendations from the songs I own (I don't want to buy additional music right now, while I havn't explored all of my music. I havn't even converted all my CDs into mp3 yet ...) and secondly my music taste is not mainstream; I don't want the system to recommend Maria Carey all the time.
Plus of course, I'm really interested in what techniques work well, and which don't... Thank you for any recommendations of relevant literature and methods.
Only one application has ever done this really well. MusicIP mixer.
http://www.spicefly.com/article.php?page=musicip-software
It hasn't been updated for about ten years (and even then the interface was a bit clunky), it requires a very old version of Java, and doesn't work with all file formats - but it was and still is cross-platform and free. It does everything you're asking : generates acoustic fingerprints for every mp3/ogg/flac/m3u in your collection, saves them to a tag on the song, and given one or more songs, generates a playlist similar to those songs. It only uses the acoustics of the songs, so it's just as likely to add an unreleased track which only you have on your own hard drive as a famous song.
I love it, but every time I update my operating system / buy a new computer it takes forever to get it working again.