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is there a way to get the entire max patch to activate & de activate when a video camera detects motion?

movement-max-patch

it just depends on what you mean by the sentences "a video camera detects motion" & "to get the entire patch to activate & de activate"

there is no way in my mind to activate a patch instead of loading it on the fly (with poly~ for example)

if activate & de activate are related to audio, you can fade your output masters, if it is related to jitter rendering, you can also fade the image

the cv.jit library by Jean-Marc Pelletier is very good to do lots of computer vision related things such as motion detection

after it is not too complicated to link motion detection to audio and video fade

there is no way in my mind to activate a patch instead of loading it on the fly (with poly~ for example)
if activate & de activate are related to audio, you can fade your output masters, if it is related to jitter rendering, you can also fade the image

There have been a number of posts on this topic before. Try searching for "motion tracking".

for "activate & de activate" you might want to look at [mute~] and/or the enable message to [pcontrol] (as seen in 'mute~.maxhelp').

fading out a patch before mute~ing it is also a good idea, as suggested by a.

for "activate & de activate" you might want to look at [mute~] and/or the enable message to [pcontrol] (as seen in 'mute~.maxhelp'). 

fading out a patch before mute~ing it is also a good idea, as suggested by a.


Movement + max patch.