Hi all,

I expect many of you have more experience than me with pd so, perhaps the answer to this question will be obvious.

In the project I'm working on, I'd like to play a video and when it reaches it's end, fade or cut to a video loop.

Essentially, I'd like there to be two gemheads in my patch: one that can play a video drawn from a bin of videos (depending on user input) and, a constant video loop that plays until a choice is made and comes back on after the chosen video is done.

any ideas would be appreciated. I don't know how to pull a video in from a bin based on a keypress so, thoughts there would be great.

thanks much

@johnni3sunshin3 Hello Johnni....

You seem to have been left on the shelf. It's not what I am most familiar with, but I will try to help.
If you look at pd\extra\Gem\pix_film-help.pd you will see that you can click the "bang" above [openpanel] and that will allow you to choose the next video. Right-click [openpanel] to look at it's help file and see how to always open "your" bin.

When the video has finished there will be a bang sent from the 3rd outlet of [pix-film] (where it says "end_reached") and you can use this bang to start something else (your loop?).
You could use another [pix-film] for that (you will have to connect it "in parallel" to the same [gemhead] and [pix_texture] , with each end_reached "bang" restarting the loop, until the user selects another video in the first [pix-video] and a trigger (that you have put in place) disables that loop.

Fades later!!

David.

@whale-av
I really appreciate you jumping in. Your advice is useful, exp. the information that tells me that there will be a bang at the end of the playback. I can work with that as you suggest.
Are you aware of somewhere online i can find out what video commands are available to me in pd? i have found a few great video tutorials but am wondering where to find the best ground level information Again, thanks
johhnny

@johnni3sunshin3 Yes.
Within Pd you will find help here:.... pd\doc\manuals\2.Image and of course an enormous amount of help (always right-click an object to get help) in......... pd\extra\Gem..... there is enough good stuff in that one folder for 2 years of fun!

Online (you can download it as well) the floss manuals are great!:
http://en.flossmanuals.net/pure-data/video-gem-tutorials/introduction/
A+
David.