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thomas zalud

Hi, I've managed to record the screen and the mouse activities in Max, but I can't see the mouse pointer. Does anyone have an idea how I can include the mouse pointer in the recording?

Hi, I've managed to record the screen and the mouse activities in Max, but I can't see the mouse pointer. Does anyone have an idea how I...

how-to-include-mouse-pointer-in-screen-recording-in-max

How to Include Mouse Pointer in Screen Recording in Max

Tim Horne

So, I am finding that when I had a certain amount of lights within a scene that when I add too many lights it switches all of them off until I switch the last one off. So it appears that jit.world has a limitation placed upon it for how many lights are allowed to be switched on at any one time.

Has anyone come across this problem when they have a wanted to use many lights and found a way to resolve this, please?

I want to have loads of lights flashing and making g cool patterns so it’s pretty important I find this solution to this one!

Change limit for the amount of jit.gl.light’s within a scene

change-limit-for-the-amount-of-jitgllights-within-a-scene

mr.l

it has been a very long time that I used Max. (Jitter). Just downloaded the new version on a Win10 PC. I want to get a UHD video input, using a Blackmagic Decklink 8k Pro Card. 

Capture Settings should be 3840x2160 25p. Works fine on the Decklink MediaCapture Software.

Trying to capture in Max with Jit.grab -> Blackmagic (using the help patcher) Max crashes immediatly.

Why is that, is there something new I am not seeing?

Hello,

it has been a very long time that I used Max. (Jitter). Just downloaded the new version on a Win10 PC. I want to get a UHD video...

max-crash-trying-4k-blackmagic-capture

Max Crash trying 4k Blackmagic Capture

Diemo Schwarz

Hi, what would be the GL3 equivalent for the old GL2 passthrough vertex shader GLSL sh.passthrudim.vp.glsl?

Hi, what would be the GL3 equivalent for the old GL2 passthrough vertex shader GLSL sh.passthrudim.vp.glsl?

Cheers!


shpassthrudimvpglsl-equivalent-for-gl3

sh.passthrudim.vp.glsl equivalent for GL3?

Rob Ramirez

Hey everyone checking out the gl3 package. There was recently a reply to 

 mentioning that one of the patches was not working in gl3. The reason being the shader failed to automatically transform to a gl3 compatible shader, and the solution being to manually convert. We do have some documentation in the gl3 package that explains some things about this process (called "Updating GLSL Shaders for GL3") but I thought a video walkthrough might be of benefit to those of bravely trudging through the gl3 jungle.

It's a bit long, and a bit rambling, but gets the job done. Check it out here: 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1glhYBsb3DG7FGoixfzHebv-KXclQKU5Z/

tex2mesh.jxs

Hey everyone checking out the gl3 package. There was recently a reply to the jit.gl.bfg article mentioning that one of the patches was not working in gl3. The reason being the shader failed to automatically transform to a gl3 compatible shader, and the solution being to manually convert. We do have some documentation in the gl3 package that explains some things about this process (called "Updating GLSL Shaders for GL3") but I thought a video walkthrough might be of benefit to those of bravely trudging through the gl3 jungle.

It's a bit long, and a bit rambling, but gets the job done. Check it out here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1glhYBsb3DG7FGoixfzHebv-KXclQKU5Z/ 

Hey everyone checking out the gl3 package. There was recently a reply to the jit.gl.bfg article mentioning that one of the patches was not w

convert-gl2-shader-for-gl3-compatibility-walkthrough

convert gl2 shader for gl3 compatibility walkthrough 

Deliverer

Max 9 advertised this new functionality in jitter:

"Switch Jitter into post-production and animation mode with new

Sounds good! but I found absolutely no information about this topic. Documentation remains quite scarce. But I'm keen to know more about offline rendering capabilities. I wonder if anyone managed to use this new functionality? is able to explain more about it?

Max 9 advertised this new functionality in jitter:

"Switch Jitter into post-production and animation mode with new"fixed_delta" attribute...

fixed-delta-attribute-for-jitworld

fixed-delta attribute for jit.world

Tarik

In avf mode, the jit.record object doesn't accept many frames in rapid succession. After about 4 frames triggered by an uzi, it posts the message 'writer input not ready for media data'. In quicktime mode all's fine.

to reproduce, please paste this bit & click button.

anybody got easy workarounds apart from working with delays and such?

jit-record-writer-input-not-ready-for-media-data-bug

this is not so much a bug, as it is a limitation of the AVF engine. lots of things like this, that used to work with quicktime, don't work with avf due to the asynchronous nature of so much of the library. 

i've registered a feature request to output a notification from jit.record when it's ready to accept media data, which could be used to trigger the next frame.

in the meantime, some sort of delay is your only option. i did it like this (adjust the delay time for your setup and processing needs):


Yes, that feature would be really handy. Until then, the delay method will do.

One thing I've noticed is that the choice of codec has some influence over the occurrence of this 'writer input not ready for media data' error. If I use h264, the Max console rains full of errors. If I use prores4444 I only have a very occasional 'writer input not ready for media data', and they do not occur at all with prores422 on my MBP running 10.10.3. Which is a perfect codec for the experimental nonsense I output from jitter.


fyi I get the same error under avf when trying to export movs from jit.matrixset


I still encounter this problem with jit.record & jit.matrixset on OSX nowadays.
Using jit.vcr instead of jit.record solved the problem for me (using OSX 10.13.6 & Max 7.3.5).

for exporting from jit.matrixset, try switching the video engine preference to viddll

jit.record: writer input not ready for media data (bug?)

Dan Johnson

I have recently started a project which requires the use of Jitter in two instances, the inbuilt camera of my MacBook and an external camera. I wish to use my iPhone as the second camera but I am not having any luck trying to get MAX to see it. I have it connected via USB hub and from what I have read this should be all that a Mac device needs to be able to see the phone but so far no luck.

Hi everyone,
I have recently started a project which requires the use of Jitter in two instances, the inbuilt camera of my MacBook and an ... 

using-iphone-camera-as-jitter-device

You can share your iPhone camera through NDI over local network using a dedicated app (such as CaptureCast Camera), and use [jit.ndi] to receive the stream straight into your max patch.

This works native in MacOS ventura. 
If you need an alternative solution try Epo Cam https://www.elgato.com/de/epoccam


Thank you for all the help, I decided to try NDI and installed it but no luck in getting it to appear in max as an object. Have I accidentally missed a step? I just dragged the whole unzipped folder into the "Max 8 Packages" folder

If I may offer one additional suggestion, unless you need the camera input as a matrix, I would go with NDISyphon and the Syphon package from the PM (assuming you are on a Mac), as that will come into Max as a texture and be more performant. (also won't need the 3rd party jit.ndi objects in this case)

If you update to Mac OS Ventura, you can use Continuity Camera to connect iPhone wirelessly to jit.grab. I tested moving the camera up to 10 meters away with no loss of connection or frame dropping. There is also a new "free" app called "Detail" that simulates continuity camera. So I actually managed do a 3 camera shoot, all with real time rendering video and audio using jit.vcr.

iPhone 13 = continuity camera (wireless)
iPhone 10s = detail app (wireless) or visa versa 
MacBook Pro M1 Max built in camera

You might have to mess around with vdevice -1.

I managed to get something working for it but I just wanted to ask while I have the chance, is there any way to crop or resize an image from jit.grab?

One way is to use @usesrcdim 1, setting the part you want cropped with @srcdimstart and @srcdimend. Check out Jitter Tutorial #14.

(that's if you're going to matrices, not if you stay in texture)

I saw a recent post somewhere about getting iPhone camera depth data into Max, but I can’t find it. Anybody have the link?

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