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 »
FDIV has recently revealed that just typing “defaults write -g QCRegisterPrivatePatches 1″ and “defaults write -g QCShowPrivatePatchSettings 1″ in the terminal you can enable 61 new private patches in QC and some extra settings in the Billboard and “Image with Movie” patches. I went hunting around and found some other settings inside the Quartz Composer applications resources. Read the rest of this entry »
FDIV has exposed some additional hidden QC patches in a composition available for download from his blog. The evidence suggests that these might be available offically in Leopard but for those who can’t wait to tinker go for it.
FDIV has also written new patches that look very useful for additional midi control and reading textfiles into Quartz Composer. Wicked, these look very useful….
I am meanwhile about to VJ at the last of my summer festival gigs over at Tetris Safari in Northern Ireland and then travelling on the MTV Exit Tour VJ’ing with Microchunk in Bulgaria, Ukraine, Russia and Belarus… Normal Quartonian service will be resumed some time after that. I look forward to sharing information about Quartz Composer updates in Leopard as it is publically revealed.
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I’ve finally got decent pictures from Glade 2006. Triple Screen HD visual action, the best show I’ve ever done by far, and the most fun to do. I’ve also now given in and opened a myspace account http://www.myspace.com/eskatonia which is where I’ll try and put all gig pictures and upcoming information about future shows.
On a negative front I’m pretty annoyed about Apple’s decision to disable a feature in Quartz Composer silently and with no consultation. In Mac OS X 10.4.7 it’s not possible for a Quartz Composition to load other compositions through an “image with movie” node anymore. Read the rest of this entry »
I’m not dead, just been stupidly busy with the summer festival season in the UK and I’m now more heavily involved as a core member of Inside-Us-All visuals which means I’m doing a lot more gigs. Glad to have been spending more time outside in this amazing UK summer instead of sitting behind a computer…. But while I’ve been out playing several people have started to do interesting work with the open source elements of Quartonian Mixer.
Success! The TripleHead2Go works fine on a MacBook Pro running MacOS X and it’s running with full 3d and core image acceleration across three monitors. My Quartonian VAST program is able to render at a decent framerate across three monitors at 2400×600. EDIT: also works fine on an iMac G5 using screen spanning doctor…..
I haven’t updated for a while as I’ve been in India shooting footage for a charity project about Tibetan exiles. Eventually a live AV set will be made out of this footage which will be performed at Synergy Project and other festivals and events to raise money for Tibet Relief UK. More on this later.
Back to Quartz Composer related stuff….
My latest demo VJ reel which uses Quartonian VAST to generate real time text and stills animation is now available to be viewed from the
Eskatonia Visuals” website.
Quartonian Mixer 0.55 is now available for download. Features include preview seperate from main output, HD 720p support, and many other bugfixes and improvements. Grab it from the Download page.
NAB is over and I’ve finally had some time to sit down and think about what I saw in between my demos at the Noise Industries booth. NAB is full of big boys toys, they have whole helicopters with camera mounts on display on the show floor but scattered here and there were a few items cool enough (and cheap enough!) to be of interest to VJ’s or live video performers.
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