Lee Morgan

Everyone seems so rude about spigot, I'd be grateful for a few time-saving pointers;

I need to take up to 9 video loops from streaming live video, and control the sound level and brightness of each. I'm assuming I'll just use jit.brocsa and loads of connected spigots - but as it's live video, I need to convert it to quicktime, right? Or is there a better way? Soundflower any more helpful?

I'm pretty good with max/msp, but, as you can probably tell, just starting out with moving pictures - so, sage advice gratefully followed.

Mac 1.25 GHz PPC G4
Jitter + Max/MSP 4.6.3


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Is there something about your video input that is preventing you from 

using ADC~? If not I would recommend you try running the audio input 

separate than the video via the ADC~. For simple volume control you 

could just use the volume or gain attributes with jit.qt.grab, but 

there is a warning in the help doc that volume changes may not be 

gradual, so it may not work so well if you want to mix on the fly.

Spigot~ is for prerecorded stuff only. Also it is much simpler to 

adjust the volume in the jit.qt.movie object via the vol attribute. 

You only need spigot~ if you want to process and/or route the audio 

On Oct 21, 2007, at 12:44 AM, Lee Morgan wrote:

> Everyone seems so rude about spigot, I'd be grateful for a few time- 

> I need to take up to 9 video loops from streaming live video, and 

> control the sound level and brightness of each. I'm assuming I'll 

> just use jit.brocsa and loads of connected spigots - but as it's 

> live video, I need to convert it to quicktime, right? Or is there a 

> better way? Soundflower any more helpful?

> I'm pretty good with max/msp, but, as you can probably tell, just 

> starting out with moving pictures - so, sage advice gratefully 

Hi Lee-
Is there something about your video input that is preventing you from  
using ADC~? If not I would recommend you try running the audio input  
separate than the video via the ADC~. For simple volume control you  
could just use the volume or gain attributes with jit.qt.grab, but  
there is a warning in the help doc that volume changes may not be  
gradual, so it may not work so well if you want to mix on the fly.

Spigot~ is for prerecorded stuff only. Also it is much simpler to  
adjust the volume in the jit.qt.movie object via the vol attribute.  
You only need spigot~ if you want to process and/or route the audio  
coming from the movie in Max/MSP.

>
> Good morning...
>
> Everyone seems so rude about spigot, I'd be grateful for a few time- 
> saving pointers;
>
> I need to take up to 9 video loops from streaming live video, and  
> control the sound level and brightness of each. I'm assuming I'll  
> just use jit.brocsa and loads of connected spigots - but as it's  
> live video, I need to convert it to quicktime, right? Or is there a  
> better way? Soundflower any more helpful?
>
> I'm pretty good with max/msp, but, as you can probably tell, just  
> starting out with moving pictures - so, sage advice gratefully  
> followed.
>
> Lee Morgan
>
> Mac 1.25 GHz PPC G4
> Jitter + Max/MSP 4.6.3
>
>


MarkDavid - that's great, thankyou. Don't know how I missed the [vol $1] on the jit.qt.grab help page...I guess there's quite a lot of info on there! But that little hint has saved me loads of hassle.

Just to make sure you're not pulling your hair out later, as I 

understand it jit.qt.grab takes either [volume $1] or [gain $1], 

while jit.qt.movie takes [vol $1]. jit.qt.grab has a bunch of 

"sound_controls" illustrated in a patcher in the lower right hand 

On Oct 21, 2007, at 9:43 PM, Lee Morgan wrote:

> MarkDavid - that's great, thankyou. Don't know how I missed the 

> [vol $1] on the jit.qt.grab help page...I guess there's quite a lot 

> of info on there! But that little hint has saved me loads of hassle.

Hi Lee
You're welcome.
Just to make sure you're not pulling your hair out later, as I  
understand it jit.qt.grab takes either [volume $1] or [gain $1],  
while jit.qt.movie takes [vol $1]. jit.qt.grab has a bunch of  
"sound_controls" illustrated in a patcher in the lower right hand  
side of the help patch.
take care-
MD

>
> MarkDavid - that's great, thankyou. Don't know how I missed the  
> [vol $1] on the jit.qt.grab help page...I guess there's quite a lot  
> of info on there! But that little hint has saved me loads of hassle.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Lee
>
>
>
>


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