MODULO PI

Create Tasks

First, let’s re-organise our panels in Kinetic Designer to manage our Tasks.

  • Go to View > Tasks. The Tasks tab will show up. You can move it to any part of your interface by drag & dropping it’s name on the top left corner.

We want to have a few Tasks to quickly relocate the playback head to key moments in our Timeline.
This is how we are going to structure our tasks :

  1. SUBTASK1 = Set the Timeline Opacity (Grand Master) at 0 with a fade of 1 second.
  2. SUBTASK2 = 1 second after SUBTASK 1 : Relocate the Playback head somewhere in the timeline.
  3. SUBTASK3 = At the same time as SUBTASK 2 : Set the Timeline Opacity (Grand Master) at 100 with a fade of 1 second.

Creating a task

  • Go to the Task tab.
  • Click on + to create a task.
  • Change the name to Play Blue Loop and choose a color to identify it.
  • Drag & drop the Timeline from the Timeline list tab to the Subtask tab.
  • Select the subtask that was just created and in the Editor panel set the Action to GrandMaster value, set it to 0 with a duration of 1 second.
  • Copy & Paste this subtask in the Task tab (or drag & drop the Timeline again).
  • Click on the second subtask and set the Action to Play at time… and set the timecode to 00:00:12:00.
    At this point you can also select the Blue_Loop in the timeline, press i on the keyboard to set the playback head at the start of the layer, select the timecode value, and copy it to paste it in the subtask value.
  • Copy/Paste the subtask again.
  • Select the third subtask and set the Action to GrandMaster value, set it to 100 with a duration of 1 second.
  • In the Task tab, set a delay on the second subtask of 1 second.
  • Select the Task then click on Launch to see the result.
    You can move your Task tab to some other place in the interface to have your Preview panel visible.

  • Repeat this process and create three other Tasks to Play Jingle1, Jingle2, Jingle3.

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