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I'm trying to import a 2second long video clip into a matrixset using the importmovie message with the filename specified and a bang message to trigger the action. I can get the first frame of the movie loaded with this method but I need all the frames (of which there are 50). I can get all 50 in no problem when I just use the importmovie message on it's own and manually navigate to the file directory but that defeats the purpose of what I'm trying to do. I will have two other longer movie clips running at the same time using jit.qt.movie and I want three matrixsets with the 2second clips already loaded up so I can cut them in - hopefully saving cpu by doing this. Can anybody help??

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Personally, I would avoid using the 'importmovie' message to jit.matrixset, and just 'framedump' frames from jit.qt.movie, something like this:

Hi Ben, thanks for that. That looks perfect for what I'm trying to do. I didn't know it was so easy to get a jit.qt.movie to play through once and then stop! Really appreciate this.

If I could ask one more question: when using the read message with the file name, is there any way to read from a folder within the folder where the patch is saved?

For example, if my patch is saved in a folder called 'Main' and I have clips within Main that are in a folder called 'Clips', could I use something like /Clips/movie1.mov with the read message? I can't get it to work. Is this possible?

If I could ask one more question: when using the read message with the file name, is there any way to read from a folder within the folder where the patch is saved?
For example, if my patch is saved in a folder called 'Main' and I have clips within Main that are in a folder called 'Clips', could I use something like /Clips/movie1.mov with the read message? I can't get it to work. Is this possible?

You could either add the top level folder to your file search preferences (Options->File Preferences), making sure that the 'Subfolders' box is checked, create a Project and add all those files to the Project (

https://cycling74.com/docs/max6/dynamic/c74_docs.html#projects),

 or you could figure out where your patch is and then construct 'read' message based on the full path:

Lots of other ways to do it too depending on how you want to interact with the read mechanism.

You could either add the top level folder to your file search preferences (Options->File Preferences), making sure that the 'Subfolders' box is checked, create a Project and add all those files to the Project (https://cycling74.com/docs/max6/dynamic/c74_docs.html#projects), or you could figure out where your patch is and then construct 'read' message based on the full path:

Lots of other ways to do it too depending on how you want to interact with the read mechanism.


Once again that's perfect. Thanks very much Ben, you've saved me a lot of headache.

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