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Gas Pedal, Gas Pedal

I made a gas pedal-style video speed controller / interface in Max/MSP. When you press down on the mouse, it accelerates the playback speed of the video. When the mouse is released, the throttle eases back towards 1x speed:

The acceleration rates and deceleration rates can also be changed with the two sliders in the middle.

While the throttle is visually reflecting the effect I intended, the video isn’t playing back exactly correctly. Perhaps this has something to do with the mismatch of bangs to the gas pedal versus the video (controlled through the qmetro object).

The actual mouse-pressing mechanism was based on patches from my #prof and this forum post.

From this forum I also learned about this cool text-based way of sharing patches. You can have the patch I made in the video above by copy pasting the code below into Max/MSP:

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One reply on “Gas Pedal, Gas Pedal”

You seem to have a really good handle on approaching this and the code is super solid. I mentioned this in class but for any kind of file rate stuff with jit.movie it’s best to use photo-jpg codecs for your movies. You might also consider using the frame attribute rather than the rate attribute. You can calculate the number frames in the movie file and then use a counter object to step through frame by frame. The speed of the counter object outputting frame numbers could be combined with your gas pedal effect.

Also, the $1 convention is only used with messages and not with objects. So the qmetro doesn’t need the $1, you can just give it an initial value or override that by sending an integer to the second inlet.

https://cycling74.com/forums/fast-playback-rate-in-jit-movie

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