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I'm having trouble on making an output screen for my video mixer. It plays well in the patcher window but when i use jit.window to display the video it comes out pixelated.

I am new to Max and am trying to incorporate it into my Broadcast media course project, despite it not being on any of the syllabus'.

If someone could come to my rescue and point me in the right direction it'd be really appreciated.

I am using Windows XP (Max 4.5) so jit.videoout is not compatible. Also i am willing to upgrade to Max 5 if it would get rid of this problem that i've had for a few weeks now.

My patch is at the bottom of this post and a sample vid can be downloaded from: 

http://rapidshare.com/files/446868677/Comp_1.mov

I am trying to use 720 x 576 resolution but higher or other forms of widescreen are acceptable.

I'm having trouble on making an output screen for my video mixer. It plays well in the patcher window but when i use jit.window to display the video it comes out pixelated.
I am new to Max and am trying to incorporate it into my Broadcast media course project, despite it not being on any of the syllabus'. 

My patch is at the bottom of this post and a sample vid can be downloaded from: http://rapidshare.com/files/446868677/Comp_1.mov

video-mixer-output-problem

It works well here but I'm with max 5 on a mac.

maybe you should look at vade's playback optimizations patch

It works well here but I'm with max 5 on a mac.
maybe you should look at vade's playback optimizations patch
http://abstrakt.vade.info/?p=147


you might want to qualify 'pixelated' a bit or take a screenshot...but max 5 could fix a number of things as well..but i'm on a mac so i'm not sure

maybe get a screenshot of how it's looking when its loaded for you?

also..instead of using the adapt attribute, you could try forcing the resolution you want so setting it do be exactly the resolution of your input video

then if you want to change the look of it (if the widescreen is looking all stretched)..you could use jit.rota to stretch it back the right way or zoom out to make it fit correctly

EDIT: ok..i saw the pixelation and I'm on a mac..but it was when I hadn't loaded two videos..make sure your original videos are the same resolution...if one of them is 320x240 then that will make your final output that resolution (especially if it's an A video..i think because its going in the left inlet)..but again..an issue that could be fixed by forcing resolution of both of your jit.qt.movie objects..and you should probably make your output window a proper aspect ratio

My altered working version (might work in max 4.5..i do stuff in max 5 so maybe not)..i can't do the normal fancy copy compressed version since max4 wouldn't understand it i don't think

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Video Mixer Output Problem!!!!!!!