Hi,

sorry for my ignorance and my naive question...

... for a performance video projection, I'd like to know if it could be possible to create a user interface in Pure Data that could :

• play/pause a QuickTime movie full screen on a video output (laptop second screen)
• read (on laptop main screen) movie chapters and jump to selected one from a chapter list. Chapters will be already included in the QuickTime movie.
• use dmxusbpro + Enttec dmx usb pro to being able to fade in/out the movie opacity from a DMX dimmer from a theater
  http://www.nullmedium.de/dev/dmxusbpro
  http://www.enttec.com/index.php?main_menu=Products&pn=70304&show=description&name=dmxusbpro

Thank you for your (if possible detailed) help.
Paul

What you want to do is possible, but not very straight forward. Your going to have to familiarize yourself with the GEM, PDP and OSC libaries and objects.

If you need to play the quicktime with sound you will have to use the [pdp_qt~] object (from the PDP library) and as far as I know, it only works on Mac OSX

Gem has a full screen command, so you can create the window, drag it to the other display, set fullscreen, then recreate the window. read this

There is no mechanism I'm aware of that can read the chapters out of a quicktime mov...so you'll have to create some messages that hold the time or frame number of the places you want to jump to in the quicktime file(s)

There was a PD external for the DMX USB PRO, but I've heard alot of folks having trouble compiling it. so you may need to use 'wtf2osc' (some python scripts) that will connect to the DMX and translate the DMX signals to OSC (open sound control) that can be fed into PD to control the video. wtf2osc download
Open Sound Control Tutorial