Annoyingly TD doesn't play the audio from a movie file by default! What you must create is an AUDIO MOVIE CHOP. Drag the MOVIE FILE IN node onto this & connect and Audio Device Out & you'll get the movie audio!
Here's a list of useful stuff to type into parameters, for quick animation/values absolute time absTime.seconds absTime.frame local time me.time.seconds me.time.frame many more HERE
Finally got through most of the Elektronaut vids, so working through some of the Matthew Ragan tuts now. Here are two really good ones demoing two different ways of making a UI that allows you to select an image from a 3x3 grid and display it in a larger window/panel. https://matthewragan.com/2015/03/29/thp-494-598-image-selector-container-method-touchdesigner/ https://matthewragan.com/2015/03/29/thp-494-598-image-selector-instance-method-touchdesigner/ Some key points that I think are good things to note - Containers are panel types of objects that can be finicky to arrange! However, you can utilise the PANEL CHOP within a container to great advantage - attributes such as "inside" or "rollover" can be used to dim the panel's opacity for example, or maybe a texture TOP that is somewhere. Containers are a bit limited in terms of how you can position them (with any great speed). You're more or less limited to rows and columns, unless you get a little creat
To get reliable fast playback in Touch Designer, it seems best to use the HAP codec. There's a free tool for Windows called Shutter Encoder that can batch process a bunch of videos into HAP (and many other codecs). Things to note - HAP files are quite a bit larger than your normal mp4 file.
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