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QUARTONIAN 0.4 Release Notes
new features:-
clip thumbnails
multiple banks of clips
hex layouts - default is ~ to toggle them on and off
bug fixes when mixing different res clips - all clips now scaled to fx processing resolution
root macro layout cleaned up and simplified
f6 layout improved
Assigning clips has changed. There is now six banks of clips that can be changed with 5,6,7,8,9,0 keys. To assign clips go into the “CLIP_SELECTION_ALL_CLIPS_ALL_BANKS” macro then go into a bank eg “CLIPS_IN_BANK_ON_KEY_5″. Now double click on the dot and drag quicktimes into the string input field as you did before. Only banks 5,6,7 are hooked up, if you want to assign more, hook them up to the bank multiplexors following from I;ve done for banks 5,6 and 7.
There is a delay when changing banks as it loads the new clips. Sorry was the best I could do right now. Good to have another video source to change to while swapping banks.
This version now scales all clips to either 640×480 or 320×240 before applying fx. This was necessary to fix some bugs but it now works with any res clips you can mix and match but there will be some slowdown. For best performance pre scale all your clips to either 640×480 or 320×240 and then make sure you toggle tab to set the right render resolution. No scaling is done if the resolutions already match.
Hex layouts: hit the ~ key to toggle between normal and hex layouts. hex layouts
are exclusive you can only have one active at a time. There is a bug in layouts f5 and f6, the screen scaling is correct in windowed mode but not full screen. I think this is a bug in quartz composer reporting the wrong screen res, if anyone can help fix this let me know. Use the composition parameters “command T” to adjust the seperation and scaling of the hex screens to match your physical screen.
new fx presets:
z-edge detect
x-2 bit crunch
c-triangle tiling
v-vortex - improved
b-radial blur
n-negate changed now takes the minimum value of a hue shift and colour invert
m- kaleidoscope - improved
,- rect tiling
.- pixelate
/- glass distortion - this fx use the key clip as the distortion source, try the plasma_mask clip as the key clip for a good example.
If you find bugs or have problems getting it running or assigning clips in this version please post on www.quartonian.net in the announcement update. Then everyone can see any problems or workarounds.
All feedback and pictures of performances using Quartionian always appreciated. Please send to roger at eskatonia dot net.
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