Guilherme Martins

I guess this is might be a stupid question, but here goes.. is it possible to have a video player with only one source, and crossfading when a new video is selected?

video-player-with-crossfade

do you mean a crossfader like it shows in the tutorials which does a nice fade to each one, or more a selection menu that does a more sudden change and loads it straight away?

if so for the first one, this is possible, but i have not figured that out yet.

the second one, would mainly be a [dropfile] linked to a [umenu], that is then subsequently linked to your video player.

sorry if this is not a solution. i am not a jitter wizard, or even a trainee magician.

but i do try and learn as much as i can ...

sorry if this is not a solution. i am not a jitter wizard, or even a trainee magician.
but i do try and learn as much as i can ...


I can do the thing with the umenu, but I would love to have a crossfade feature

I mean the second one, but instead of loading the selected movie suddently, it croosfades.. 

well i have given it some thought. trying to work it out in my old noggin.

but for one video player to fade to the next one, it would need some 'leftover' video for the next video to take over from, if you get me.

it would somehow have to read say, 5 seconds of the previous video before switching.

its either that or have a feedback effect, one that then feedbacks in the next video.

maybe linking up such things as [line] and using it as a timer [so to speak] that fades in the next video.

i would possibly suggest looking at the tutorials on video and then building something from that.

its either that or wait for a much more experienced user to help you out.

or fish through the forum to see if you can find the same thing, just worded differently.

but for one video player to fade to the next one, it would need some 'leftover' video for the next video to take over from, if you get me.
it would somehow have to read say, 5 seconds of the previous video before switching.

its either that or have a feedback effect, one that then feedbacks in the next video.
maybe linking up such things as [line] and using it as a timer [so to speak] that fades in the next video.

i would possibly suggest looking at the tutorials on video and then building something from that.
its either that or wait for a much more experienced user to help you out.
or fish through the forum to see if you can find the same thing, just worded differently.

Yup, very possible. Probably best to make 2 videoplayers, and just fade between the two. Buffering 5 seconds somewhere sounds like a lot more work.

You can stop the videoplayer not running after the fade (or just stop banging it with a gate or something), but i'll leave that up to you. There:

Is there a compelling reason that you would like to avoid a second jit.qt.movie object? It seems to be the most straightforward possible way to get a xfade between clips.

Is there a compelling reason that you would like to avoid a second jit.qt.movie object?  It seems to be the most straightforward possible way to get a xfade between clips.

very nice approach! I must digg into the objects you are using and try to understand the patch logic! Thank you so much

the main reason is because I want to have an application where there is a list of videos, and when I hit next or preview it crossfade to the next video. For this kind of application I don't find very user friendly having two video lists, if I want a movie to play I go to one list and crossfade, then I want another movie and I go to the other list, select, then crossfade..

anyway, please tell me your opinion on this subject

@Bas van der Graaff, 
very nice approach! I must digg into the objects you are using and try to understand the patch logic! Thank you so much  

@Andrew B.,
the main reason is because I want to have an application where there is a list of videos, and when I hit next or preview it crossfade to the next video. For this kind of application I don't find very user friendly having two video lists, if I want a movie to play I go to one list and crossfade, then I want another movie and I go to the other list, select, then crossfade..

anyway, please tell me your opinion on this subject


You should definitely use two jit.qt.movie objects, but you can still use only one umenu. Just send a bang out before your video filename (trigger s b --- symbol bang), the bang inverts a toggle, which will send the video name through [gate 2] to one of the two jit.qt.movie objects. Then you determine how long the crossfade is, based on the movie length etc.

I think I should go in that way. will try to do what you say 

nice approach!
I think I should go in that way. will try to do what you say  


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