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Hi there, so tried searching and using AI for this (which gave me some insight and also threw me into some long dead ends), so thought I might just ask here.

I'm creating some music videos with Max Jitter, so some very long audio and video files and along the way I'm wanting to trigger smaller videos to start and stop on select beats.  There are quite a few smaller videos that play simultaneously so all my vids are in hap.  The videos are all trimmed on beat to a certain tempo.

So I have sfplay~ as my master sync source right now and video is sync'd to the position messages output of that.  To trigger videos I'd like to be able to select a bar/beat start.  Currently found a way using the same position messages out of sfplay~ into snapshot (set to 50ms)... then into translate to get the bar/beats.  This has added a good chunk of CPU % though... which I'm trying to keep down.  Anyone have other sync methods that might work here that are more efficient?

Hi there, so tried searching and using AI for this (which gave me some insight and also threw me into some long dead ends), so thought I...

music-video-sync-and-triggering-video-events

Music video sync and triggering video events

Jon Williams

 in this patch show the expected results, both the Kalider-direct output and the "txKalid" texture output show the noisy Kalider colors.  But, the 

 window showing the 3d output of the "colorCrossfader" shader is not showing those Kalider texture colors, even though coded to do so.

color = mix(txKalidVec, color, colorOffsetScale);

//color = mix(txChixVec, color, colorOffsetScale);

output the exact same colors (crossfade results) when you swap which line is commented out.  In other words, it seems to me like the "txKalid" texture reference in the shader code is pointing to the "txChix" texture's memory location instead of its own memory location.  Could that be correct?  Or, where is the mistake I'm missing?

Edit: moved thread to Jitter category.  If you remove the @shader attribute from one of the gridshape objects, the "default shader" for that object does a 50/50 "blend" of the two @texture inputs in 

, so I think I should be able to control that "blend amount" in my custom shader with the "colorOffsetScale" parameter value.  But, not working.  Is it me? It's usually me.

[Max Patch]
The 4 jit.pwindows in this patch show the expected results, both the Kalider-direct output and the "txKalid" texture output...

using-vizzie-kalider-texture-output-in-shader-code-issue

Using Vizzie Kalider texture output in shader code issue?

little_wizard

Hello everyone, i'm having a problem using jit.gl.multiple. I'll explain it.

Take a jit.gl.gridshape bound to a jit.gl.multiple (through left jit.gl.multiple outlet):

jit.gl.multiple @blend_enable appears to be useless, i can't see any variations changing it. 

Case 4. shows that is possible to work with both light and alpha channel activated. The problem is that I want to change A channel with jit.gl.multiple and not with jit.gl.gridshape while having light_enable 1. If I could modify alpha channel with jit.gl.multiple while light_enable is 1, it would give me more possibility to change it individually on each copy made with jit.gl.multiple, unless to do it globally. I can't figure out how to do it. I hope someone can help me.

Making Alpha channel work in jit.gl.multiple while light_enable is on

making-alpha-channel-work-in-jitglmultiple-while-lightenable-is-on

Vincent Goudard

I'm trying to create a vanilla Max version of Wesley Smith's xray.jit.sift (from its great xray package), but can't find an efficient way of doing it. 

I'm sharing the version below, which relies on jit.bsort in a ugly way, but if someone has a better idea (using jit.pix/gen?), I would be please to know!

Hi community,

I'm trying to create a vanilla Max version of Wesley Smith's xray.jit.sift (from its great xray package), but can't find an...

vanilla-max-version-of-xrayjitsift

vanilla Max version of xray.jit.sift ?

balam

I keep getting mismatch of row index, example from %12 gets a integer 0 11 if int is 5 data should be on cell 5.  

matrix-row-miss-match

Matrix row miss match 

genekogan

I am trying to create a patch in which I can play multiple instances of the same movie file simultaneously, all at different points in the movie. I need to do this in the most efficient way possible, so loading multiple copies of the same movie wouldn't cut it--I need something that is like a buffer for video so that I can call the same buffer in multiple windows at once. Does anyone have an idea for this? Thanks!

calling-multiple-instances-of-one-movie

Calling multiple instances of one movie

E.JST 

I’m fairly new to Max and trying to set up an audiovisual installation that I actually need to have running by this Saturday, so I’m a bit pressed for time. I’ve been trying to figure things out on my own but keep running into issues, so I thought I’d ask here.

What I’m trying to do is pretty straightforward in theory: I need to play back one stereo audio file and two separate video files at the same time, with each video going to its own projector. All three files are the same length (around 30min and heavy).

I’m on a MacBook Pro M3 Max running the latest version of Max 9. I’ve tried a few different approaches already but nothing has worked reliably so far – either the video routing to two separate displays doesn’t behave the way I expect, or things just start getting messy over time.

I guess my main questions are: what’s the best way to send two independent video streams to two projectors – two 

 objects, two jit.window objects, something else entirely? Is 

 the right choice for playing back long video over that long a duration, or is there something better suited? And are there any general tips for keeping things stable over 8 hours – things like file formats, settings, .... ?

Any advice would be hugely appreciated! Thank you! 

Hi everyone,

I’m fairly new to Max and trying to set up an audiovisual installation that I actually need to have running by this Saturday,...

stable-8-hour-av-installation-stereo-audio-two-separate-video-outputs-beginner

Urgent: Stable 8-hour AV installation – stereo audio + two separate video outputs (beginner)

James flac

As part of my final project for university, I'm developing a musical synth in which the input is only dynamic image (video). You can load videos, process them, and it triggers sound events as well as it functions as an oscillator.

To transform the video into a VCO, I'm using jit.peek and having it run through all coordinates of a frame (320x240 at 30fps means 76,800 samples per 33.3... ms. Because this drastically fails the nyquist frequency at any sample rate below 4,608,000Hz, I'll have to lower the quality of the video drastically to a point where I lose a lot of details, unfortunately). Since jit.peek functions for each plane individually, it creates a sort of triple oscillator, which each plane functioning independently.

I can also use motion detection as sort of a "VCA", with the amount of difference between two frames dictating the volume.

Now I'm looking for a way to implement a filter, and, for that, I would like to use the fft of an image (it is bidimensional so it would be cool to choose which dimension I want to serve as a filter or maybe the combination of both, or maybe one dimensions for one plane, the other for another plane, and the combination for the third plane. idk, i just wanna make sure this is possible) and have it shape the spectrum of the signal that the video itself creates.

This way, the video would be a VCO, VCA and VCF on its own.

The documentation for jit.fft only shows me that it does the transform and then does the inverse. I'm also struggling to find useful exercises with this object and ways to join both the video fft with an audio fft.

If anyone out there can help with this, I would be very grateful!

Jitter Forum