ADDED: MovieFileInTOP: Allow Passing of TimecodeString

Wishlist and RFEs
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It would be great it it would be possible to also pass a raw timecode string to a movieFileIn instead of having to resolve to using a selectDAT first.
Following does not work:

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This does work:

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Hi @alphamoonbase,

as it expects a Timecode Object, you can wrap the table cell reference into a tdu.Timecode()

tdu.Timecode(op('data')['timecode',1])

cheers
Markus

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But this creates a new Timecode Object every frame and is an non-optimized expression.
I can pass a dat containing the timecode string no problem so I assumed it might be nice to just ditch the conversion to the timecodeObject or the selectDat and being able to simply pass the string.
But of course nothing super serious.

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Hi @alphamoonbase

thank you for the suggestion, we’ve added it as an RFE.

cheers
Markus

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This addition will be in the next official build we release: 2023.12070+, and it will extend to any OP with a Timecode Object/CHOP/DAT parameter, so not just the Movie File In TOP.

Thanks again for the suggestion.

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