Understanding Macro

Dear all,

I'm using for a short period (2 years) a Atem Production Studio and switched to a 1M/E.
Therefore I had re-recorded some macro's for switching images on the MediaPlayer and bring them on.
Now I have some issues with soms identically created Macro's...Only the one macro index 18 does work and switches the program channel from camera to MP1.

What isn't right in these macro 19, and 8-11

I thought that adding this sentence into the other macro's would solve the issue.
<Op id="ProgramInput" mixEffectBlockIndex="0" input="MediaPlayer1"/>
However that didn't make sense.

Besides that I observed if I change the macro and do a restore in the ATEM 1m/e in a view cycles the XML file loses also the MediaPool Stills.

There is on that area also a strange behavior I don't understand.

</Macro>
<Macro index="18" name="0930_Start" description="">
<Op id="MediaPlayerSourceStillIndex" mediaPlayer="0" index="0"/>
<Op id="MediaPlayerSourceStill" mediaPlayer="0"/>
<Op id="ProgramInput" mixEffectBlockIndex="0" input="MediaPlayer1"/>
<Op id="DownstreamKeyOnAir" keyIndex="0" onAir="False"/>
</Macro>
<Macro index="19" name="1000_Start" description="">
<Op id="MediaPlayerSourceStillIndex" mediaPlayer="0" index="1"/>
<Op id="MediaPlayerSourceStill" mediaPlayer="0"/>
<Op id="DownstreamKeyOnAir" keyIndex="0" onAir="False"/>
</Macro>

</Macro>
<Macro index="8" name="Collecte Groen" description="">
<Op id="MediaPlayerSourceStillIndex" mediaPlayer="0" index="4"/>
<Op id="MediaPlayerSourceStill" mediaPlayer="0"/>
</Macro>
<Macro index="9" name="Collecte Paars" description="">
<Op id="MediaPlayerSourceStillIndex" mediaPlayer="0" index="6"/>
<Op id="MediaPlayerSourceStill" mediaPlayer="0"/>
</Macro>
<Macro index="10" name="Collecte Goud" description="">
<Op id="MediaPlayerSourceStillIndex" mediaPlayer="0" index="5"/>
<Op id="MediaPlayerSourceStill" mediaPlayer="0"/>
</Macro>
<Macro index="11" name="Collecte Rood" description="">
<Op id="MediaPlayerSourceStillIndex" mediaPlayer="0" index="7"/>
<Op id="MediaPlayerSourceStill" mediaPlayer="0"/>
<Op id="DownstreamKeyOnAir" keyIndex="0" onAir="False"/>
</Macro>

[Gary Adams]

Hello Jacko. I looked at this on my system and it should work. Just add that line to each of your macros. I will add that you need to be careful of what text editor you use to edit these files. I could not find a native Windows or Mac text editor that works correctly on ATEM XML files. In Windows I use a version of "vim". On the Mac, I use either "vi" in the command line or a good gui app is Text Wrangler. Using native editors will often place hidden characters in the file.

I hope this helps. Stay safe.

Regards, Gary

Using Microsoft Visual Studio works great with ATEM XML files.
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Using Microsoft Visual Studio works great with ATEM XML files.
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Thanks!
Do you know if there is a overview/explanation of XML features in the ATEM software?