Searching for a developer to update a Max Live project from 2008

at that time max could play mp3 audio using movie object

because of quick time. Max version is most probably 4.6

you have compiled standalone and a patch if I see it right.

That should make it possible to port patch to newer max version

if necessary.

What computer do you want to run this on ?

It would be helpfull to see contents of all 3 HDs

and relation between that 24h long movie(s) and mp3 audio

clips.

Patch on that screenshot has only audio playback shown.

a max 4 app is easy to disassemble and modify, and when hopefully the videoplayer is not too weird, it can be replaced with a dozen or so other objects.

but the 32 bit only runtime will not work on systems not newer than 10.14.

quicktime based mp3 movie player will get broke in mac system

higher than 10.13 I think.

I would wait to see what meda files are.

If that 24 hrs movies are only showing a watch,

one can replace it with animated watch linked to local time

or if it runs independent ...

then adjust play cues for audio files.

I could understand that at that time one suggested to use 3 Mac units to

play 3 movies ...

but not today

Thank you everyone for the replies this is great. More progress than I have had in ages.

Attached below are the contents of the 3 drives. I would love for these to play on a single machine with 3 displays attached, since that would be the easiest path to achieving sync and playback with my limited understanding of how presentation software used to work. It seems the drives are labeled for display orientation in a room. i.e. Front, Rear and "Watch" which is just a video of a watch, with the hands spinning. It's a video shot in Iceland over the course of 24 hours during the daylight season.

So the sun dips in the sky, almost reaches the horizon and then goes back up, bugs and spiders crawl across the face of the watch, dew condenses, clouds roll in and out. It's kind of incredible based on the RAW footage, I'm not able to get the audio to playback, let alone in the manner of how it was edited.

I could probably stitch together a pre 10.13 machine on an old Mac if that would help, but ideally this runs on a modern M1 Mac laptop running the latest OS.

Any thoughts on how best to proceed would be greatly appreciated!

to get what should be played where one would need compiled app

uploaded and max patches.

to continue ...

that media files can not be followed remotely just by looking at few screenshots.

I also don't see HD structures of 3 hard drives and also not what was run on each Mac ?

was standalone app running on all 3 at same time ?

but loaded different video and audio files ?

Or was only 1 Mac using max, and others simply played video using quicktime player ?

screenshot of opened max patch shows 5 movie players,

but I suspect they were playing only audio files.

Audio files are mixture of aiff and mp3 files ?

Only stored settings can decipher the situation.

that must be contained in pattr xml files, I suppose ?

4 timeSaved.xml files

can you copy 24H_cleanLook.pat, 24H_cleanLookWithVolumes.pat

and 4 xml files into a folder, zip it and upload here ?

that could be a good start.

Maybe compiled app has some changes compared to max patch

(was compiled few days later)

you could send it by wetransfer, files.fm or similar file sharing

platform, just take care to compress app before copying or uploading it..

Thank you for the suggestions! Files uploaded and linked below.

To answer your questions, I really don't know, since I wasn't at this particular event showing this presentation. I was just told by this client who is not technically savvy he needed 3 Mac mini's to run the show. How they were sync'd or even if they were sync'd was not clear to me. Perhaps the watch video just ran in a loop and drove the audio and the other two videos were just accessory and didn't need to be in sync? Could Max control 2 other machines via some networking feature?

None of the QuickTime movies highlighted in green will play in Quicktime, only the unedited source materials. Just says not compatible with QuickTime Player.

FYI The "Music" shortcut/alias in that top level folder points to the 24H_cleanLookWithVolumes app zipped below in the Wetransfer link.

24H_cleanLookWithVolumes app linked here:

Wetransfer link https://we.tl/t-3KNQ5oq4tF

XML & pat files zipped here:

thanks, I will take a look at the files on my old macbook which can run the patches

in original version.

That movie files are not self contained, quicktime movies could

reference parts of a file or several files and play them, which probably is the case with your

3 green video files.

let's solve the audio situation first by looking at the patches you uploaded.

It is exactly as I suspected.

Max plays only audio files, reason to use movie players was to be able to load mp3 files.

5 green umenus refer to audio files in 5 folders in ./Sounds folder.

each loads own folder and files get played / triggered by timer and some random

actions.

audio gets output from system sound device, there is no dsp in max or audio outputs.

..........

as you can see in externals list, there are no network, midi or any other objects

that coud remotely control video playback.