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EditorLive remote controlling Quartz Composer (with editor)I needed to control a Quartz Composer visualisation running on a projector; here's how I did it (WARNING: convoluted solution ahead! and sorry about my formatting failures :$) Theory Using the built in "screen sharing" of modern versions of OSX (10.5 and newer) we can simply and for free (besides the hardware, no software cost) control a remote composition running on another machine whilst still having full access to the powerful real-time editor mechanics Quartz Composer provides. The trick revolves around setting up an additional monitor attached to the 'live' mac that will run the editor (apparently some non free apps can force secondary monitors without them being attached), running the visualisation full screen on the desired display, remotely connecting to that mac, and then using the editor on the peripheral display remotely. Equipment needed
Method 1) Network the macs
2) On the "master" mac
3) On the "controller" mac
4) That's it! Feel free to play around, it's fairly robust (in that local crashes or network failure won't affect the "master" mac) Power Tips
Facility to Save Notes when Making Macro PatchesSimply put , I'd like to be able to save all the Notes I'm making when creating macros out of of the patches on the editor stage relating to those notes. A very simple version of this request would be to have all the notes on the stage saved within the new macro regardless of the constituent parts of that macro being referred to or not. The second version would be one whereby the Notes could be tagged or stuck to a particular patch. If that patch is included in a macro creation request, then so is that note. This may or may not be something that Kineme can handle or even wish to touch upon. It might not even be possible, although seeing as how both are objects of a sort, perhaps they can. I shall seek to provide illustrations to my concept a little later.
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