Julia

I'm the one who posted the 'Can Jitter do this?' post from before.. Now that I've gotten into this a bit, I have some deeper memory questions and some other things.

I spent 6 hours today going through the tutorials, and Jitter is pretty powerful, wow. Well documented too. I've had some fun playing, but I still have no idea what these 'giant pulsating donut' things are that you all joke about. well, someday maybe. :>

Ok, so here is my text-drawing of how I am planning to set up my 'speed up a party in real-time' video. Mind taking a look, and giving a critique? I'd really appreciate it.

|__jit.qt.record - records all the footage for safe keeping

jit.matrix - stores the video data as a buffer ( this will work, right?)

Then this matrix receives a bang, causing it to dump all the data down stream to..

jit.qt.record - this saves the footage to disk

jit.qt.movie - this will be set to play back the saved movie at 10X

|when the movie is done playing, some how it sends a bang to the jit.matrix above, causing it to dump all the data again.

1. Can a matrix store video like this? The matrix seems like a memory'buffer', but I haven't gotten it to work that way, so maybe I'm misunderstanding

2. If it does store the video, however, is it storing it on RAM? Because though I have a 1GHZ 1GB RAM powerbook running 10.4.6, I think my computer will die after the footage gets long. How might I deal with this?

3. Is there a way to get the matrix to 'dump data' with a bang like I've shown? am I thinking idealistically?

Finally, does anyone know how to make a movie send a 'bang' when it is done playing? I tried to see if it does it naturally, using the 'LED' but it didn't seem to do it. This is key to the process repeating itself.

I'm the one who posted the 'Can Jitter do this?' post from before..  Now that I've gotten into this a bit, I have some deeper memory questions and some other things.

I spent 6 hours today going through the tutorials, and Jitter is pretty powerful, wow.  Well documented too.  I've had some fun playing, but I still have no idea what these 'giant pulsating donut' things are that you all joke about.  well, someday maybe.  :>

Ok, so here is my text-drawing of how I am planning to set up my 'speed up a party in real-time' video.  Mind taking a look, and giving a critique?  I'd really appreciate it.  

jit.qt.grab - grabs the video footage
|__jit.qt.record - records all the footage for safe keeping
|
jit.matrix - stores the video data as a buffer ( this will work, right?)
   Then this matrix receives a bang, causing it to dump all the data down stream to..
|
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jit.qt.record - this saves the footage to disk
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jit.qt.movie - this will be set to play back the saved movie at 10X
|when the movie is done playing, some how it sends a bang to the jit.matrix above, causing it to dump all the data again.

Ok, so here is what is worrying me:  
1. Can a matrix store video like this?  The matrix seems like a memory'buffer', but I haven't gotten it to work that way, so maybe I'm misunderstanding
2. If it does store the video, however, is it storing it on RAM?  Because though I have a 1GHZ 1GB RAM powerbook running 10.4.6, I think my computer will die after the footage gets long.  How might I deal with this?
3. Is there a way to get the matrix to 'dump data' with a bang like I've shown?  am I thinking idealistically?

Finally, does anyone know how to make a movie send a 'bang' when it is done playing?  I tried to see if it does it naturally, using the 'LED' but it didn't seem to do it.  This is key to the process repeating itself.

a-couple-questions-about-my-butterfly-net

to know when a movie is finished playing, use loopreport to 

jit.qt.movie, and check the dumpout outlet (rightmost)

jit.matrix can defintely act as a buffer. On the forums there is a 

patch that shows how to make a 'video buffer' (search for that)

basically, a [jit.matrix 4 char 320 240] stores ONE frame of video 

(alpha channel, red, green, blue (the 4 char part), at 320 pixels by 

240. Thats the matrix part, the 320 by 240 pixels. If you want to 

store more than one frame, you need to add a '3rd dimension'.

so a [jit.matrix 4 char 320 240 100] stores 100 320x240 ARGB video 

frames. You have to use the srcdimstart and srcdimend messages to 

move through it, which still confuses me to this day.

Fortunately someone (Wesley Smith) wrote a sexy wrapper for this, 

called xray.jit.3dbuffer.pat in his Xray objects.

At first glance your methodology seems correct, but I think you might 

want remove one of the jit.qt.records (why record the same data twice?).

As a matter of fact, I know someone who wrote a pretty kick ass video 

step sequencer using almost just these principles. It works very 

to know when a movie is finished playing, use loopreport to  
jit.qt.movie, and check the dumpout outlet (rightmost)

jit.matrix can defintely act as a buffer. On the forums there is a  
patch that shows how to make a 'video buffer' (search for that)

basically, a [jit.matrix 4 char 320 240] stores ONE frame of video  
(alpha channel, red, green, blue (the 4 char part), at 320 pixels by  
240. Thats the matrix part, the 320 by 240 pixels. If you want to  
store more than one frame, you need to add a '3rd dimension'.

so a [jit.matrix 4 char 320 240 100] stores 100 320x240 ARGB video  
frames. You have to use the srcdimstart and srcdimend messages to  
move through it, which still confuses me to this day.

Fortunately someone (Wesley Smith) wrote a sexy wrapper for this,  
called xray.jit.3dbuffer.pat in his Xray objects.

At first glance your methodology seems correct, but I think you might  
want remove one of the jit.qt.records (why record the same data twice?).

As a matter of fact, I know someone who wrote a pretty kick ass video  
step sequencer using almost just these principles. It works very  
well, and is quite fun to watch :)

A dumb question: how does one use these posted lists of command-type things?

What does one do with this stuff? I see it throughout the forums, but I don't even know what to call it, so I haven't been able to search for it. I'm assuming it can recreate a patch?

PS. Vade, thank you for being a super-star~ I will update on my progress, this is cool.

A dumb question: how does one use these posted lists of command-type things?  

For instance:
max v2;
#N vpatcher 10 59 1091 845;
#P origin 0 2;
#P window setfont "Sans Serif" 9.;
#P window linecount 1;
#P newex 340 102 40 196617 t clear;
#P........

What does one do with this stuff?  I see it throughout the forums, but I don't even know what to call it, so I haven't been able to search for it.  I'm assuming it can recreate a patch?

PS.  Vade, thank you for being a super-star~  I will update on my progress, this is cool.


https://cycling74.com/twiki/bin/view/FAQs/BeginnersFAQ

i'm the one who's writing the "kickass video step sequencer". :) it's

coming along pretty well. once i work out the last few bugs in my

logic, i'm going to post it to the list and my site.

p.s. yes, thank you, vade, for your long-standing, inspiring

commitment to super-stardom. Where other stars are hesitant to tread,

you tread firmly, steadfastly, upon super ground.

copy and paste it into a new patcher.
https://cycling74.com/twiki/bin/view/FAQs/BeginnersFAQ

i'm the one who's writing the "kickass video step sequencer". :) it's
coming along pretty well.  once i work out the last few bugs in my
logic, i'm going to post it to the list and my site.

p.s. yes, thank you, vade, for your long-standing, inspiring
commitment to super-stardom. Where other stars are hesitant to tread,
you tread firmly, steadfastly, upon super ground.

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On May 19, 2006, at 9:29 AM, Dan Winckler wrote:

> p.s. yes, thank you, vade, for your long-standing, inspiring

> commitment to super-stardom. Where other stars are hesitant to tread,

> you tread firmly, steadfastly, upon super ground.

It's not that they're afraid to tread. They just went home

yhst-16435237929277/4t1227blk.html">their shoes.

> p.s. yes, thank you, vade, for your long-standing, inspiring
> commitment to super-stardom. Where other stars are hesitant to tread,
> you tread firmly, steadfastly, upon super ground.

It's not that they're afraid to tread. They just went home
to change outta 
yhst-16435237929277/4t1227blk.html">their shoes.

So I've looked through a lot of the forums, and though I see allusions to video buffering, etc, I am still pretty regularly confused as to how this would operate. I see how the xray.jit.3dbuffer keeps a little bit of video in frames (though I'll admit I couldn't get the 3Dbuffer example to play on my computer or & pick up footage from my camera). Would anyone be willing to share a real example where video buffering is being used to store more than a minute of video?

For now I'm going to try to just record straight to disk, and send that to playback/ I think this will require that I prepend all the successive video I take.

So I've looked through a lot of the forums, and though I see allusions to video buffering, etc, I am still pretty regularly confused as to how this would operate.  I see how the xray.jit.3dbuffer keeps a little bit of video in frames (though I'll admit I couldn't get the 3Dbuffer example to play on my computer or & pick up footage from my camera). Would anyone be willing to share a real example where video buffering is being used to store more than a minute of video? 

For now I'm going to try to just record straight to disk, and send that to playback/  I think this will require that I prepend all the  successive video I take.  

matrices are grids of numbers. nobody ever said that a grid had to 

a one-dimensional grid of numbers is a single row in an excel sheet.

a two-dimensional grid of numbers is an excel sheet. or the building 

blocks of an image. this is how a two-dim matrix can hold an image.

a three-dim matrix is multiple images. if they're in a row, they can 

so if jit.matrix 4 char 320 240 is one frame, jit.matrix 4 char 320 

240 30 is thirty frames, or a second or two.

wes' objects are wrappers for putting multiple images into a single 

three-dimensional matrix and making it act like a video buffer.

matrices are grids of numbers.  nobody ever said that a grid had to  
be two dimensional.

a two-dimensional grid of numbers is an excel sheet.  or the building  
blocks of an image.  this is how a two-dim matrix can hold an image.

a three-dim matrix is multiple images.  if they're in a row, they can  
look like a series of movie frames.

so if jit.matrix 4 char 320 240 is one frame,  jit.matrix 4 char 320  
240 30 is thirty frames, or a second or two.

wes' objects are wrappers for putting multiple images into a single  
three-dimensional matrix and making it act like a video buffer.

It seems like you are getting a little ahead of yourself. Start with 

the jit.matrixset object, which allows you to create a video buffer 

pretty simply, and then write out to disk as a QT movie. This part 

should be pretty straightforward. No matter how you slice it, you're 

going to run out of RAM eventually, so you'll want to write to disk 

occasionally. The next problem will be coming up with a playback setup 

that plays all your saved sequences in order before playing through the 

Hi Julia,
It seems like you are getting a little ahead of yourself.  Start with 
the jit.matrixset object, which allows you to create a video buffer 
pretty simply, and then write out to disk as a QT movie.  This part 
should be pretty straightforward.  No matter how you slice it, you're 
going to run out of RAM eventually, so you'll want to write to disk 
occasionally.  The next problem will be coming up with a playback setup 
that plays all your saved sequences in order before playing through the 
buffer.

A couple questions about my 'Butterfly Net'