Video to sound patches

roger.carruthers's icon

A student has asked me to put some sound on some short videos for an installation that's running next week.

I will, of course, have a crack at putting something together myself, but to be honest Jitter is not my strong suit, so given the short time-scale, can anyone point me at any existing patches?

The videos are black & white, and show things like starlings flocking, sand moving on a membrane, iron filings moving under magnetic flux etc. and ideally we're looking for sound which is not far from noise, but which is clearly modulated by the motion in the videos.

I will be using some actual recordings of starlings, sand etc. but would also like mix or convolve it with something generated by the videos themselves.
Any help much appreciated

Jean-Francois Charles's icon
Jean-Francois Charles's icon

Then, have a look at Jitter Recipe #20:
https://cycling74.com/tutorials/jitter-recipes-book-2/
You'll replace the camera input with the movies.

roger.carruthers's icon

Thanks - that's a useful starting point.
Despite using Max for 15 years or more, I have still never really got to grips with Jitter - maybe this will inspire me to have another go!