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Kinect performance performance

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Got the Kinect with the intention to track actors from 6-7 meters above in a performance. Preliminary results seems a bit disappointing regards to dept range and artifacts. I do not know if my living room is more messy than others, but it is freaking out on lamps, windows and sharp contrasts giving 0 depth all over the place. Also the fidelity at 5-7 meters depth accounts for only about 5% of the total z depth, so some serious clamping is due. Seem to me the Kinects cameras should have been a bit more separated to get better readings at these ranges. But could someone point me at how to clamp the z to get rid of the unwanted ranges, and also how to connect "stuff".

404 Live Visuals - Cure for the Glitch (Composition by 404visuals)

Author: 404visuals
License: (unknown)
Date: 2010.07.13
Compatibility: 10.6
Categories:
Required plugins:
(none)

I had a few people ask about the composition file from this video...

Feel free to have a play around with it!

Installations required

Soundflower 1.5.1 - http://code.google.com/p/soundflower/downloads/list
Soundflowerbed - included in Soundflower download
Kineme Audio Tools 0.8 - http://kineme.net/release/AudioTools/0.8
v002 Glitch 2.0 - http://v002.info/?page_id=27
v002 Film Effects 1.0.2 - http://v002.info/?page_id=34
v002 Blur Effects 2.0.2 - http://v002.info/?page_id=6
Kineme Structure Tools - http://kineme.net/QuartzComposerPatches/StructureTools/0.1

Cheers,
David

404visuals.com - Audio reactive, interactive and live visuals!

Hello from Scotland

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Hey folks!

My name's David. I'm a Scottish based VJ working predominantly in QC. I love the Kineme community and I'm going to start getting more involved with it. You can check out videos on my site...

404visuals.com

I appreciate any feedback!

Cheers, David

TOXIQUE (A/V REMIX BY JANKENPOPP) (QC VS ABLETON LIVE)

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Hello everybody, I just want to share with you this new video I did using Quartz Composer and Ableton Live in real time. This is the kind of automatic vj-ing stuff I use when I play live... I usually sing a french translation of the original lyrics on this cover.. I'm planing to make a DVD this year with my quartz stuff...
hope you like Thank you for watching :-)

TOXIC AUDIOVISUAL REMIX ORIGINAL SONG BY WHO YOU KNOW ;-) MUSIC+GFX+CODE : JANKENPOPP

ANIMATION GENERATED IN REAL TIME WITH ABLETON LIVE & QUARTZ COMPOSER IN 2010.

PREVIEW FROM JANKEN'S FIRST DVD, SOON TO COME, IF YOU WANT TO PARTICIPATE TO THIS DVD PROJECT, FEEL FREE TO CONTACT ME :-)

THANKS TO "LE POLE" FOR HELPING ME TO CAPTURE THIS OUT FROM MY COMPUTER ;-)

Live HD steams

boya's picture

Hi! Been QC-offline for a while, but with new projects awaiting I´m trying to recap my options for mixing live video streams in QC 4.

I´d appreciate your views on this.

So, anyone out there mixing two HD streams ?

I was mixing PAL on a DFG-1394 with HD on an Intensity Pro with OK results up until QC 3 broke the ability to select DFGs Pal input. (Still kind of works, but only presents NTSC)

Upon installing the Intensity, capture from an older analog Deckling card was also broken.

So in QC3 I was stuck mixing HD with a Pal camera connected by composite to a Sony DSR11, then Firewire to QC. Latency and resolution of course not optimal…

Two Intensity Pros should mix out of the box in Blackmagics own software. But I have seldom seen QC accepting two signals from two equal devices. (Though I was able to fool it with two DGFs back in QC 2)

Witch brings me to the later MXO-mini…

But a Matrox representative states: “Having both the Intensity Pro and the MXO drivers installed on the same system might generate conflicts” http://forum.matrox.com/mxo/viewtopic.php?p=7068&sid=c15a590afbc116f933f...

He is talking about the MXO, not the mini, but I guess problems would be similar.

Also there is the instability issue, as demonstrated by vade: http://createdigitalmotion.com/2009/08/10/matrox-mxo2-mini-review-uncomp... even before introduing another device.

Two HD sources at decent framerate/latecy, as far as I can see, would still only be viable on desktops? The Axis HD cameras might work, but I guess the quality/functions here is as expected from a surveillance camera.

Also, I’m interested to hear if anyone has connected the new SLR HD cameras with success.

Happy winter. Boya