Vimeo-Max/MSP

API to play and manipulate Vimeo videos on Max/MSP and Jitter.

This API currently supports only progressive video playback.

Requirements

• Max 8 or higher
• QuickTime
• Developer credentials to your Vimeo account

Getting Vimeo API Credentials

You need an API key to access Vimeo from Max. To get an API key:

• Get a Vimeo Account.

Accessing video files is limited to Vimeo Pro and Business customers.

You can only stream videos from your own Vimeo account. Access to all videos is limited to partnership-level integrations. If you are interested in a partnership, reach out to [email protected]

• Click here to generate an API token for your Max/MSP patch. Note this API token down.

Setup and Usage

Max 8 uses Node4Max (n4m). Vimeo-Max/MSP plugin is available as an n4m plugin in the n4m-vimeo directory in this repo.

• In this directory, you should see a file named .env-template (hint: this file may be invisible). This is an environment file, it contains key-value pairs that other applications, like Node, can load before running.

• Duplicate the .env-template file to a new file named ".env". It must be named ".env", not "my.env" or anything like that. Fill in this file using the API access token obtained in the earlier step.

• n4m-vimeo/player.maxpat contains an example patch that plays video from a Vimeo URL