Realtime video looper help
Hi
I am trying to create a live video looper and am wondering what is the best way to go about it?
I have created a patch that allows me to record short clips of video via a webcam using jit.qt.grab.
I save the file with jit.record, using a sprintf to create a unique file name, which bangs
Jit.qt.movie to access the file via a ubumenu, and loop it.
I then want to record more clips and build a simple looping montage (no effects) in realtime.
Has anyone done anything similar or could at least point me in the right direction of which objects.
I can post the patch, but it is currently in a very confused state.
Best
David
open the jit.qt.movie help patch, look at the editing subpatch. i
believe that's what you're looking for - copy to clipboard, cut,
paste, etc.
cheers
evan
On Dec 8, 2006, at 12:41 PM, David Atkinson wrote:
>
> Hi
> I am trying to create a live video looper and am wondering what is
> the best way to go about it?
>
> I have created a patch that allows me to record short clips of
> video via a webcam using jit.qt.grab.
> I save the file with jit.record, using a sprintf to create a unique
> file name, which bangs
> Jit.qt.movie to access the file via a ubumenu, and loop it.
>
> I then want to record more clips and build a simple looping
> montage (no effects) in realtime.
> Has anyone done anything similar or could at least point me in the
> right direction of which objects.
>
> I can post the patch, but it is currently in a very confused state.
>
> Best
>
> David
>
Hi Evan
Thanks for your reply. The editing in jit.qt.movie is just what I need.
I have just spent the last couple of days trying to get my basic patch into a reasonable state to get some feedback on it.
There are a few places where I need some advice!
1) As I will be grabbing lots of short movie files via a webcam, to be immediately used as live loops. I wondered what the best way to save these files would be? Either writing the files with unique filenames using jit.record (which I've attempted in the patch below)or maybe using 'copy' in jit.qt.movie and then just adding to a newmovie?
2) How do I get the newly recorded file to be automatically detected in my chosen media folder? Or rather, how do I get the folder contents to automatically refreshed? Is it something to do with prefix?
3) I have attempted to create a means for me to easily send different 'edit' (insert/paste/trim etc) messages to the jit.qt.movie. is there a simpler way of doing this?
Any help would be appreciated as I am a relative newbie working working in Jitter isolation.
Please find the patch below.
Best
David