how do you upload a video in jitter 1.6?
i was just going through the first tutorial for jitter 1.6 and i understand how use the controls but i can't figure out how the movie is being played. how do i tell jitter which movie i want to play? for instance in the first tutorial it says read countdown.mov and by clicking this that movie is played, but where is that movie stored and how would i go about changing it so that it plays my own movie. im very new to this and i hope im making sense.
You have to send a message to the object.
Either add a Message object from the double-click menu, or simply type "m". Inside this message box, type "read". Once you lock the patch and click this message, it will bring up the OS file menu where you can select the movie.
If you haven't done them yet, be sure to go through all of the basic Max tutorials in addition to the Jitter ones. The Max ones will better explain message functions.
the "countdown.mov" doesn't need a full path because it's in in the Max search path (this particular file is in patches/media/ in your Max Folder). If you need to load a file that's not in your searchpath, you need to provide a full path:
read ":/myfolder/myfolder/my movie.mov"
and you need the quotes IF there's a space character anywhere in the path.
objects to know:
prepend
sprintf
tosymbol
opendialog
ubumenu and it's prefix and autopopulation features.
If you're beginning, just use the "read" message to [jit.qt.movie]. It will give you a dialog box to choose your own movie.
J-F.