Sorry for the bombardment of questions lately....I'm just really struggling with controlling the start frame of videos.

I have tried setting up metros and counters etc to send frame numbers to the right inlet of [pix_movie] but this doesn't seem to work.

I notice that when you open a video file in PD you get a message like:

GEM: pix_film: Loaded file: /Users/Jonathan/Documents/BA/Productions/Installation/Patches/videos/vid1.AV I with 90 frames (320x240)

I was wondering perhaps whether my answer lay in somehow loading the videos to memory etc rather than re-opening them from scratch each time they need playing, as this may be why they re-start each time?

Is this possible?

J