Video Texture in Timeline

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Hello!
I’m trying to find out if it’s possible to insert a video texture in timeline, so that timeline controls the state of a video texture(i.e. fast forward, rewind, pause, replay, etc.).

Basically what I have is this:
Character animation is being controlled by timeline.
There is a scrub tool which user can manipulate during play mode to rewind/fast forward animation.
One of the shaders for the character is using video texture.
Everything is in sync on awake, but if a user scrubs to a different frame, the video texture doesn’t change.

Is there a way to insert a video texture in time line? Is this even possible? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

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How are you playing the video? Are you using the video playable track that’s bundled in the Default Playables package on the asset store?

ie: Default Playables | Tools | Unity Asset Store

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Hi Mike,
At the moment I’m using video player component and plugging the video texture into the shader. I’ve followed “Playing Video in Unity” tutorial, which was super helpful. There’s a time line scrubber ui a player can manipulate during play mode. When a player moves a scrubber, animation and audio change accordingly, but not video textures. I’m guessing that’s because video texture isn’t a part of time line. Is it even possible to add a video texture into time line? Thank you for your time!

Playing Video in Unity tutorial

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Check the asset store package that I linked to - there is a custom video track that you can use to drop video onto timeline.

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Thank you so much for the link! For some reason I totally missed it. I will check it out and post follow up questions if I come across more hiccups. :slight_smile:

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Questions:

  1. Does the video playable track that’s bundled in the Default Playables package support preview / scrubbing in the timeline?

  2. Is the documentation missing info on the video playable?

EDIT - I see this is a separate doc in the package VideoScriptPlayable.pdf
3) Are there any examples of the video playable we can look at?

EDIT 2 - Looks like the VideoScriptPlayable.pdf is incomplete too.

Thanks!

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HI Elliott,
I ended up using AVPro. Unfortunately I can’t share my project with you, but if you are looking for more robust video player tool for unity, I recommend AVPro. It’s expensive though.

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Hi Rob,

Thanks! This is what others have told me as well. Maybe my client will pickup AVPro for me?

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Hey you mean avrpro has timeline track by default?
Drag and drop video track in unity timeline i mean