Movie Importer in Source

Movie Importer

This patch creates an image from a QuickTime movie at a specified URL or file path.

The movie path is considered absolute if starting with ‘/’, relative to the current user directory if starting with ‘~’, or otherwise relative to the location of the Quartz composition file if available.

The QuickTime movie plays according to the time Quartz Composer passes to the patch. By default this time is the same as the one passed to the parent macro patch, which is likely the global composition time. The movie play time can be set manually by setting the timebase of the patch to “External” (this is done through the patch’s contextual menu) and passing a time value to the “Time” input.

Note that the movie will loop if its play time is greater than its duration.

Input Attributes
  • Movie Location - The URL or file path to the QuickTime movie to play.
Output Attributes
  • Image - The resulting image.
  • Movie Position - The current playhead position in the movie.
  • Movie Duration - The movie total time.
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jynxx at 2011-07-19 17:07:27

i can't seem to import a quicktime file located on my hard drive to load into the movie importer patch...i'm trying to create a screen saver using a quicktime video, and have it loop then, i can use a terminal bash script to make the screen saver run as the "desktop" on my computer. the only challenge is getting the quicktime movie to load into the patch

Any help would be greatly appreciated~