[jitter] Re: How to get jit.qt.movie to output bangs on clip start and end?

man, just put it all in a poly~ and load all movies at startup.  you  
will have such an easier time of it.

On Sep 2, 2007, at 3:17 AM, Christopher Becks wrote:

>
> I have one remaining problem.  I gathered information on what I can  
> use to solve this, but some practical experience of others could  
> tell me how this really should be solved.
>
> There's a bank of ~150 Quicktimes, varying from 5mb-20mb but  
> totalling around 1.2GB, that I'll be triggering randomly (as you  
> know by now) with fade-outs/ins through jit.brcosa.
>
> Right now, I'm forced to have a black period between the fade-outs  
> to hide the pause caused by the read time for the new clip.   
> Because the read time varies based on the size of the clip, the  
> pause varies too and this makes things look bad for what I'm doing.
>
> This isn't a problem at all when I'm looping one clip, which means  
> that it is in fact based on the disk ride time, so I need to load  
> these videos into RAM or somehow pre-roll them (which I believe is  
> possible with QT, but not sure if it is in Jitter).  Or I'm just  
> missing something again as I try to do this at 3 in the morning.
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