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Posted by roger on March 8th, 2006
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Adventures in midi control, serious bugs
Posted by roger on February 27th, 2006
I’ve been using midi controllers with Quartz Composer for a while now and mostly they work, however I’ve just recently discovered some major bugs in the current (10.4.5) midi implementation which I wanted to share information and workarounds on here. Unfortunately for some of them there is no easy solution and it severely limits my ability to add midi controller support to my free cocoa application “Quartonian VSM”. Read the rest of this entry »
Useful extra Cocoa controls for Quartz Composer
Posted by roger on February 22nd, 2006
Now that I’ve been getting into building Cocoa interfaces for my Quartz Composer patches I went looking on the net for additional Cocoa controls that might be of use to me.
By far the most useful look to be Stick Software’s Circular Slider and Concept House’s CHappKit.
Breaking out of the square: Flexible displays
Posted by roger on February 22nd, 2006Most VJ’s at the moment are “stuck inside the square”, their visuals in clubland are a small patch of light and motion floating in the larger environment. The sound and the lighting rig are everywhere, omnipresent, but the visuals are only visible in a small part of the audiences field of view. Future advances in display technology like flexible OLED’s will allow VJ’s and other video performers to break out of the 4×3 rectangle into three dimensional shapes and create a true immersive environment.
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Multi Touch Screen Interaction
Posted by roger on February 12th, 2006Ok so I’m not the first to link this but it’s just about the coolest new interface technique I’ve seen. Multi Touch Interaction through Frustrated Total Internal Reflection.
Latest on VAST, Quartonian blog to cover more topics
Posted by roger on February 12th, 2006I did visuals last night at Fairy Tales at the Coronet together with Quadroptica and Inside-Us-All. I used my latest build of Quartonian VAST and a second machine running Grid Pro. A couple of things have come out of this including my decision to expand the scope of the Quartonian blog.
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Storing state in Quartz Composer compositions
Posted by roger on February 6th, 2006I’ve been thinking more about state storing and logic processing in Quartz Composer based on some comments made by Vade. Currently the options are very limited and seemingly that’s a deliberate design decision on Apple’s part, you’re not supposed to store state in a Quartz Composer composition. So what’s the options? Hack up stores based on counter or stop watch or code your logic processing in objective c, but wait, what about Core Data?
Has anyone tried to make a Core Data application tied into a Quartz Composer composition yet? Or is there any tutorials demonstrating how to do this? Read the rest of this entry »
QC Hidden patches work on non enabled macs
Posted by roger on February 3rd, 2006The QC Hidden patches work fine on Mac’s that don’t have Clockskew’s enabler plugin installed. I tested this by compiling an XCode App that uses them and copying it to another machine which didn’t have that plugin. Read the rest of this entry »
Quicklinks: Feedburner, Hacking QC Files, Tutorial, Synergy Project
Posted by roger on February 2nd, 2006
A Round up of Quartz Composer quickies: Make Quartz Composer files with PlistPro; A great tutorial from Momo the Monster and Eskatonia Visuals performing at Synergy Project, SEOne London this Friday (Tomorrow)
Also the Quartonian feed is now active on Feedburner. Please change your subscription to the new link so I can keep track of subscribers. I aim to cover all relevant news and tricks for anyone developing with Quartz Composer as well as covering my own development on Quartonian. Read the rest of this entry »
Quartonian VSM Beta Available
Posted by roger on January 31st, 2006Quartonian VSM is a specialised simplified tool for creating beat synced animations from folders full of still images.
1.0 is now out, grab it from this page.
Organoptics FX launched!
Posted by roger on January 13th, 2006I’ve been busy recently on another Quartz Composer project which has now seen the light of day. Organoptics FX is a set of 31 plugins for Avid Xpress editing systems created as Quartz Composer patches using Noise Industries Factory Floor.
This is a commercial product but will not effect Quartonian development which will remain a free and open source VJ tool.
Technorati Tags: Quartz Composer, Avid, Video Editing, Visual Effects
New QC features in 10.4.4
Posted by roger on January 12th, 2006According to info from Pol 10.4.4 included ability to change fonts dynamically when rendering in Quartz Composer and several other bug fixes and improvements. Also the new Quartz Composer is already native on intel and the new iMac’s are ‘very fast’ for Quartz Composer.
The dynamic font changing is worth the price of admission alone!
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