It is possibilities to connect Microsoft Excel and Vizrt Artist and Vizrt Trio to work together in a scene. This can be very useful if you need to store a lot of information and recall it during a live show. For instance if you have a scene that needs to display a team roster, you can store all the information you need on a Microsoft Excel sheet and have it populate the scene for you. This saves you time preparing and playing out the graphics and reduces the chance for play out errors. Within the excel sheet, you can multiple columns and rows to display. Not only could you have a players name, but also their number, their position and number of goals and more if you wish.
The Control List Function within Vizrt Artist is the plugin you would use to design and set up the scene. After the scene is designed and set up, you take it into Vizrt Trio to play it out. This video tutorial explains how to design and rig the scene with in Vizrt Artist to use with an external play out device.
The Control List function allows artists to set up scenes in preparation for using Microsoft Excel and Vizrt Artist so the operator can easily update information on air without manually typing in the information. So if you need your scene to be updated by database or someone using Microsoft Excel, this plugin could be of use to you.
This video tutorial will show you how import your rigged Viz Artist scene into Trio and link this Trio scene to a Microsoft Excel sheet. Hence, allowing you to update the information in the scene automatically from Excel as opposed to manually in with in Trio.
