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I'm looking for a good way to generate thumbnails from a folder which become a gui, linking to video files.

https://cycling74.com/forums/video-thumbnails

 there is talk of some ready made feature coming in Max 5. I haven't found one - does it exist.

I've found a way to do it but it is a bit clunky and involves loading each movie and extracting a frame from it, then putting it in a jitter matrix.

I guess if I saved the matrix and only loaded new files (zl compare?) and added them to the matrix that would probably do it.

But I am tired and now realizing I am hoping for an off the shelf solution!

In this thread https://cycling74.com/forums/video-thumbnails there is talk of some ready made feature coming in Max 5. I haven't found one - does it exist.

But I am tired and now realizing I am hoping for an off the shelf solution!


vj-style-gui

you can build such an interface with javascript and [jsui]. But you would still need to have a frame of each movie file as an image file.

you can build such an interface with javascript and [jsui]. But you would still need to have a frame of each movie file as an image file.
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I was looking into this idea the other day, while working on some ideas for a new live video patch I'm trying to put together. The attached is what I came up with. This is based on the Video Processing System articles, but until I can find time to finish this and document it, I offer this up as an undocumented and probably over-complicated solution.

I was looking into this idea the other day, while working on some ideas for a new live video patch I'm trying to put together.  The attached is what I came up with.  This is based on the Video Processing System articles, but until I can find time to finish this and document it, I offer this up as an undocumented and probably over-complicated solution.


That is really helpful thanks - similar to what I was doing but a lot more efficient!

A couple of my videos didn't show up proper colorwise but sure I can get to the bottom of that.

That is really helpful thanks - similar to what I was doing but a lot more efficient! 

A couple of my videos didn't show up proper colorwise but sure I can get to the bottom of that.


Vj style Gui