I'm fairly new to pd, and I'm not sure if I'm being ultimately stupid but...

I can't find a decent patch for simply looping a video that I've placed on a gemhead chain (with pix_film)?

My goal is to create a project whereby live video from a webcam is mixed with a pre-recorded video clip (chosen at random from a bank of videos) which will play on a loop. In order for the user to interact with a looping, pre-recorded, video clip.

I'm not sure if I've been able to explain coherently the idea that is in my head, but I initially need help with just simply looping a video.

ANY help is welcome, cheers.

there are a lot of ways of looping a clip. consider that the right outlet of [pix_film] will output a bang when the last frame is reached. attached is another way of doing that. if you need to loop webcam related stuff you should give a look at [pix_buffer].

let me know how it goes.

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/videoLoop.pd

Cheers man, that was a massive help.

My next problem is to integrate motion capture areas, as little boxes in the gem window, which when activated by the user, will begin video recording/playback/looping.

guido, I don't suppose you have any knowledge on motion captures areas I could use?

Cheers