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It’s out and it’s good. So many new features in Leopard QC that it should take us all weeks to just get to grips with them all. Here’s some things that are not so obvious to give you even more to play with.
My updating work for Quartonian is on hold as I am currently working freelance as VFX Supervisor on a high end tv commercial in India for Red Ice Films until end of September.
My quartonian mixer still gets a lot of downloads, I’m not sure exactly why that is because it’s pretty clunky in it’s current state. The latest Kineme quartz plugins would let me make it a lot easier to use if I used all those, eg adapt it to use the “Folder Movies” patch “Image With Composition” and “Global CC Midi”.
Does anyone still use Quartonian Mixer, anyone want to see a new version?
Personally I don’t use it since VDMX5 has now got such good quartz support but there might be some good uses for it I haven’t thought of. Please leave comments on here if you would like to see it updated to I can see if there is any demand.
Grab them here, scroll down and ignore the top bit, you don’t need to install anything else to get them to work, just wanted to put them on the same page as the FCP plugins.
Kineme has been active for a long time delving into the unofficial api to expand Quartz Composer in Tiger. They’ve now setup a new website Kineme.net and are actively promoting themselves as consultants / developers for all things Quartz Composer. I’ve used their services and was very happy with the result, highly recommend them if you’re looking at doing something with Quartz Composer and need a node which isn’t there yet.
They’ve also made a bunch of new plugins available already under the MIT license including a very handy “Folder Movies” Patch. I think this was just about the most requested feature ever for Tiger QC.
CoreMelt fx is the new home for my fx packs made in Quartz Composer. CoreMelt’s first pack of plugins, ImageFlow fx is currently in late beta and will be available very soon. Information and videos demonstrating the pack are now on the CoreMelt site.
Since Leopard has been delayed to October we still don’t have an official way of creating new nodes in Quartz Composer. That’s not stopping plenty of people from creating one’s using the undocumented unofficial API and in fact FDIV.net has just published an X Code template to make the whole process easier. Here’s a list of ones I’ve found, please contact me if you have made any more.
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The Noise Industries FxFactory plugins have been awarded a Vidy award by the Editors of Videography magazine. See the complete list of winners here. I designed 80 of the 140 effects in the FxFactory Pro Pack, but of course it wouldn’t have been possible to create the product without the work of Gabe and Niclas from Noise Industries. Other winners of the “Best of Show” award this year include the Red One digital camera and Final Cut Studio 2, so I feel pretty privileged that we are ranked up there with those products.
Just settling back into the UK after my extended trip back to native Australia, and now off again to Las Vegas for NAB. I’ve been working on new effects packs for Noise Industries which will be shown for the first time at NAB and then available for sale shortly afterwards. “ImageFlow Fx”, will be a pack of ten plugins for creating animated backgrounds from folders of still images. As well as this more new effects have been added to the Motion and Editing packs to bring them to 40 plugins each. If anyone’s at NAB we’ll be at the plugin pavillion booth SL3827J. I’ll be happy to try and answer any general Quartz Composer questions as well as demonstrating the Noise Industries plugins.
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Vidvox has released a new public beta of VDMX5. Grab it from the Vidvox website.
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Not so much time for Quartonian website as I’ve been working on future versions of the Noise Industries plugins and playing with some very cool stuff from Vidvox (which isn’t public yet). It’s nice to be earning some money with QC work.
But this blog ain’t dead. I’ll be posting up some info about the new Quartz Composer features in Leopard and the potential uses for VJ’s and others as soon as we’re publically aloud to talk about it, which is presumably next week after SF Macworld. (Jan 9th-12th).
My latest Quartz Composer eforts are now available for purchase. I’ve been working for quite some time on a two plugin packs for Final Cut Pro and Motion using Noise Industries FxFactory. Finally they’re out the door and on sale. Read the rest of this entry »
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