samtaylor844

I'm putting together a set to start performing my music live. I'd love to start getting into manipulating video with max... i'm very familiar with max for doing stuff with audio but I've never worked with video in max before so I'd really appreciate you pointing me in the direction of some useful things to start out with and experiment. I've been making ambient/electronic music and I'm in the process of putting together my live set and would really love to incorporate visuals into the set (for lots of reasons), where the music is directly affecting some footage i have already shot. But I've got no idea where to start with objects in max for manipulating video. Im aware that theres many objects that involve generative visuals, but I have the footage that I would like to use already so I preferably need objects that will manipulate the video I have. Any help / guidance / advice would be massively appreciated!!

If it works it will hopefully transform the way that people connect with the music is doing and have a better experience so I'm determined to work on this. Thanks!

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https://cycling74.com/tutorials/the-video-processing-system-part-1/

https://cycling74.com/category/articles/jitter-recipes/

https://cycling74.com/tutorials/the-video-processing-system-part-1/
https://cycling74.com/category/articles/jitter-recipes/


If your using movie files send them to a jit.gl.videoplane to push them onto the GPU for an overall increase in playback, set transform reset to 2 to have the plane automatically scale to your jit.window resolution.

. You will need a named jit.gl.render and jit.window object for the videoplane object to be visible.

You can plug the movie into a jit.gl.slab object before it gos into the jit.gl.videoplane to apply "video effects". You can run a film through a chain of slab objects for some pretty wild processing. There are loads of great examples in the examples folder to get you going.

Try using jit.xfade to blend between two videos at once. This can also be achieved with jit.gen.

Animating jit.gl.slab parameters with output from audio isnt too hard

Use the snapshot object to turn an audio signal into a float to animate jit.gl.slab or video playback position.

All in all those basic objects should get you going

A few tips
If your using movie files send them to a jit.gl.videoplane to push them onto the GPU for an overall increase in playback, set transform reset to 2 to have the plane automatically scale to your jit.window resolution.
. You will need a named jit.gl.render and jit.window object for the videoplane object to be visible.
You can plug the movie into a jit.gl.slab object before it gos into the jit.gl.videoplane to apply "video effects". You can run a film through a chain of slab objects for some pretty wild processing. There are loads of great examples in the examples folder to get you going.
Try using jit.xfade to blend between two videos at once. This can also be achieved with jit.gen.
Animating jit.gl.slab parameters with output from audio isnt too hard
Use the snapshot object to turn an audio signal into a float to animate jit.gl.slab or video playback position.
All in all those basic objects should get you going
Good luck !!


Dont forget the awesome vizzie modules.....

HELP - Processing video in Max Msp / Jitter