Live Video sampler

andre dupont's icon

Hi there,

Im not that experienced with jitter but I'd like to build a simple Live Video Sampler. A patch that can record from a camera true the video input a clip and then loop it and manipulate it. I can imagine somethings like this already exist on which I can base my tool. Any suggestions?

Rob Ramirez's icon

you've got to do the tutorials first (both max and jitter). after that search the jitter forum for sampler or looper.

the two main objects you want to look at are:
jit.qt.grab (or dx.grab)
jit.matrixset (or jit.matrix with 3 dimensions, 3rd dimension being time)

spend some time researching and experimenting, and put together a *simple* patch illustrating your concept. post it with some questions or problems you experience, and i guarantee you'll get some useful answers.

Peter Nyboer's icon

but in case all that gets too BORING ha ha ha
or if you prefer to learn by example...

here's a patch that records video input to disk. just 1 click! four bins of sampling joy!

study this closely - there are many good lessons within!

Max Patch
Copy patch and select New From Clipboard in Max.

Mr Dobelina's icon

I can't open that patch

it's just me that I'm a noob or what?

I've pasted this

Max Patch
Copy patch and select New From Clipboard in Max.

at the beginning of the patch but it just don't work. It don't have sense what I've did?

I'm working with max 4.5 and jitter 1.2.3

Sorry, thanks

andre dupont's icon

Hi,

Sorry, I was distracted from playing around by other work. Yes, I did most of the tutorials but I'm more the learn by doing type. So pnyboer realy helped me out. Thats defenitly a cool basis to mix with effect tutorials etc. Thanks alot!

@ Mr Dobelina        
just copy the text and in max chose File > New from Clipboard

Bas van der Graaff's icon

It opens fine here, Bob.
You don't have to add anything...

max 4.6
jitter 1.6.3 or 1.6.4 i think, not going to restart max (cycling, hint). So your jitter seems a little old, but it should still copy.

Mr Dobelina's icon

Well, I don't have the "new from clipboard" option.

Anyway, I've just tried to copy and paste as it is in a new Text Patch. Copy, paste, save as. Then Open that created file and comes out the text file just created! I use Open (the normal one, not the open as text!)

Really don't know

Thanks

It will be possible to recreate the patch just looking from a photo? or it involve subpatch and other complicated stuff?
If someone could post a photo of that patch it could be great

Scott Fitzgerald's icon

why not update to 4.6? That has "new from clipboard".

Also, try saving it in a text editor (not max!) with the extension
.pat. that ought work.

On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 12:44 PM, Filippo wrote:
>
> Well, I don't have the "new from clipboard" option.
>
> Anyway, I've just tried to copy and paste as it is in a new Text Patch. Copy, paste, save as. Then Open that created file and comes out the text file just created! I use Open (the normal one, not the open as text!)
>
> Really don't know
>
> Thanks
>
> It will be possible to recreate the patch just looking from a photo? or it involve subpatch and other complicated stuff?
> If someone could post a photo of that patch it could be great

Bas van der Graaff's icon

I personally never use 'new from clipboard'. I just make a new empty patch, then copy the text from browser, then paste into the empty window. Won't trigger loadbangs that way, but usually there aren't that many.

Mr Dobelina's icon

I don't know why, but it don't works for me.

Even trying to paste it in an another text editor!

No way.

So, How I can create with jit.record a sequence of clip? I mean that automatically generate a sequential series of video like: live1.avi - live2.avi - live3.avi etc etc in the same folder?

I'll try to build my patch

=)