QuartzCrystal

My christmas light grid

mrpackethead's picture

Big shout out to Kineme for the hints and help to get my christmas lights grid going.. These animations are powered out of Quartz, using the Kineme audio patches etc..

Sorry about the Video quality, i need to figure out something smarter there!

I created the compositions in quartz, then rendered them using crystal quartz as a series of images. I downsampled them using imagemagik to a 16x10 PPM image, then used some very ugly perl scripts to read indivual rgb values, and create the xml files for a program called 'Vixen'.. Vixen is a light sequecing/playback software..

The 'pixels' are DMX controlled. ( http://www.response-box.com/rgblights/index.shtml )..

I started to wonder last night, if i could directly drive the pixels from quartz, using the Artnet-Tools.. Can i somehow 'sample' the image that quartz is generating ( in real time ) and output to dmx.. THe possiblitys for an interactive show, become very possible..

Any ideas welcome.

QuartzCrystal doing Audio

Hi, The KinemeAudioPlayer Patch doesn't export Audio in QuartzCrystal.

As already stated before me there is no real Audio Support in Quartz Composer. The MovieLoader doesn't play Audio, but exporting the audio and put it in a seperate KinemeAudioPlayer works fine for the length of my Composition (26 sec.). But there isn't Audio in the Export. There isn't Audio in the DV Firewire Exporter Sample of Apple.

I now try to get it "batch applied" after the rendering is done.

SafeWrapper (Wrapping unsafe) e.g. SafeMovieLoader

I developed a few ideas for batch rendered movies.

I would really like to have a SafeMovieLoader, but since loading remote RSS/XML is also restricted in QuicktimePlayer, I would love a SafeWrapper, where I can load unsafe Patches, maybe including some security measures as restricting the SafeWrapper to a single Installation, since I only need it for running my own stack of Movies. Since such a Wrapper would need Installation anyway, it could include information as my Name, and it might only work with Compositions having my name in the Metainfo.

on the other hand, a batch mode (maybe using command line, Apple Compressor or Hot Folders would be the perfect solution in QuartzCrystal.

Line Dropouts in QuartzCrystal generated DV-PAL Movies

Hi, I just bought the QuartzCrystal License this week, so maybe this is a beginner mistake:

I did export a composition to a 26 sec. DV-PAL movie. The composition includes a background coming from a MovieLoader, since I don't know much about exporting my composition with alpha to be applied as overlay onto the movie.

I did take two screenshots, they are 46 frames apart, and there is nothing that indicates the reason for this little black hole in one line.

If you need the full export, or another composition exported, please let me know.

Feel So Alive

gtoledo3's picture

This makes heavy use of all of the plug-ins here, as well as Quartz Crystal.

It has been through one layer of "iMovie" compression though, definitely not the crystal clear DVD version I have at home :o)