Hey Johnny, you don't need to have a black video to have a black frame, you can just send a black texture into the rendering window. Infact, you don't even need the phasor. You can change the amount of time the black or the video play, by having more outlets for the "cycle" object. Also, you can directly set the framerate from jit.world. This should get you going:

P.S. To copy a patch like this, just do cmd+a to select all, then edit->copy compressed, and then past it in your post.

Hi Federico! Many thanks for taking the time. I'm shocked by the simplicity of this! It looks like a much more elegant solution.

Can I ask you another question? My idea with using an external bang to trigger the whole system was to be able to sync everything to a variable beat. So you would have 1 frame of video, then depending on the speed of the bangs 1 or 2 or 3 or n black frames (or, n millisconds of that black frame). I guess using your approach you could alternate between different cycles (1, 2 or 1, 2, 3), but then the speed of the video would not be synced. Where would advise to you look at to do this?

Just saw your Youtube channel! Fantastic job

I've reworked my patch using some elements from Federico's. It... sort of works, although the frame #1 message seems to have mixed results, even using a very slow qmetro. Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated! cheers everyone

Hey Johnny, my idea with the "cycle" allows you to choose how many frames of videos and how many frames of black you want. In this modified patch you can see how it works: 3 frames of video, 2 frames of black, 1 video, 1 black, and then loop I've fixed also a couple of things, like "frame_true" instead of "frame" and also @autostart 0 for the jit.movie, so will not continuosly play under the hood. Let me know if it works!

Hey Federico! Many, many thanks, this is absolutely brilliant. Even more flexible I thought was possible. This opens up a lot of possibilities for what I'm trying to do. Thanks a lot for your help! cheers