Force redraw video frame after a gmem update

[X-Raym]

Hi,


On some old discussion about using gmem inbetween reascript and video processor, we noticed this

However most of the time the frame will be drawn before the script can update gmem (and updating gmem doesn't trigger a redraw).

This leads to some issue like, for eg, in the exemple below where gmem is edit cursor position,
you can see that the value drawn on the video processor isn't always the corretc one.





I dont know what would be the correct way to fix this, but maybe forcing frame redraw after a gmem value change ?
Not sure, you tell me :P


Anyway, a solution would be nice as this is obviously problematic.


Cheers !

[X-Raym]

Or maybe just an API function to force frame refresh ?

[airon]

This could be very useful for people requiring text overlays from Empty Items containing notes, which is what I used to do with Hedas notes reader script. That one however didn't output to the video window but to its very own window.

So whatever X-Raym is asking for would enable all kinds of workflows that require text to be displayed in the video window on top of underlying video, gathered from empty items with notes. That's the goal.

+1

[Justin]

Hmm yeah this is a more complex thing, there's no simple solution I can think of.

We could add an action or API to clear the video cache and rerender frames, if that would be helpful.

[X-Raym]

@Justin
An action/API to refresh may be a good enough workaround for now, if it dosent make the picture blink or if it is quick enough to be as transparent as possible for the user. It may worths the try �� Thx!

[X-Raym]

Action: Video: Clear video cache/re-render frames has been added in reaper v6.70 as workaround for this issue. Thanks Cockos !



It can be a bit slow to process on certain codec / resolution (like one sec+ in HEVC) but on proxies it works fine. Issue that it that this action is UI blocking so it can not work fine in these cases.