jit.movie

One way to combine text and video is to write text in jit.lcd as demonstrated in the example “Draw shapes and text

Here are a few attributes of the jit.movie and jit.window objects that I find useful for initializing the objects to behave the way I want.

The jit.qt.movie object (or jit.movie, or jit.movie~), for playing videos, has a great many attributes and understands

Did you know that the jit.movie (or jit.qt.movie) object will report when it has completed a read operation?

This is a slightly more refined A/B video switcher patch than the simple one shown in "Simplest A/B video switcher". It has a more sophisticated user interface when viewed in Presentation mode. It will try to open two video files called "A.mov" and "B.mov", and it also provides buttons for the user to open any other videos to use as the A and B rolls.

When you open a movie file in jit.movie with a read message, the exact amount of time that that operation will take is unknowable, but jit.movie will send a read message out of its right outlet when the file-opening operation has been completed. When you read in a file, you should generally wait for that message to come out before proceeding. In that message, the word read is followed by the name of the file, followed by a success indicator, 1 or 0.