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my [jit.qt.movie]'s default bg color is set to black. I tried to set the background to white via [255 255 255] addbgtrack message (taken from help file), but Max 5 always crashes on me. any suggestions?

jit-qt-movie-bg-color

It's not so much that jit.qt.movie has a "default bg color" as that it has an output matrix which, when you're playing a movie, is filled with a frame of that movie, but which, by default before you play a movie, is filled with 0, which is visualized as black. So if you bang a jit.qt.movie object before it is playing a movie, its output matrix will look black. Is that what you're referring to? If so, here's one possible solution.

my mistake was mainly giving [jit.qt.movie] addbgtrack orders a f t e r running a vid...

jit.qt.movie: bg color