creating generative art in jitter

sarahdybvig's icon

i'm looking to do something seemingly simple - switch to a random part of a video.

i'm a beginner, so help would be much appreciated. if there is a tutorial out there for this, please post!

thank you :)

Gregory Taylor's icon

Spend a little time with Jitter tutorial 4, paying special attention to the result of querying the jit.qt.movie object for information about the movie currently loaded into it. Next, pop open the jit.qt.movie helpfile and take a look at the tab labeled "frame."

goto10's icon
Max Patch
Copy patch and select New From Clipboard in Max.

This might get you started:

Good luck!

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