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Re: OT: VJ Programs, tested... by me!!



On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 1:52 PM, mark francombe <mark@markfrancombe.com> 
wrote:
> www.markfrancombe.com/wordpress/?p=1449


Thanks a lot! I appreciate this round-up.

If using Ableton Live there is the very simple but yet powerful option
to drop a quicktime on a track and have it shown as video. When I
tried this the video did follow tempo just as any audio clip would,
but without audio warping (Abletonish that means time stretching).
This means that if you run into a lower tempo during the show video
clips' audio will go slower and at a lower pitch just as the picture
go slow-mo. You may chose to not mix the QT audio into the output of
course. The might seem "pre canned" but it doesn't have to be all the
way. See, you can treat QT clips in Live just as you treat audio clips
when setting up generative music systems with the random scripting of
clip launching. Any MIDI passing through your system can be assigned
to also control a variable in Live to make clips follow for example
live looping commands.

For those who haven't tried out Live's random scripting, the best way
is to fill upp a track in the session view (mixer) with video- or
audio clips and for each clip you may set the probability for a chosen
action to take place. One such action can be to switch to another clip
(randomly, or the next, or previous clip etc etc). You may also set
the frequency of how often that action will be up and of course also
the probability to happen at that point. And you may have loads of
alternative clip tracks set to different types of randomization and
switch between them manually or set any controller in system chose
which one will be active. I have noticed that if you run many video
clip tracks in parallel only one is piped to the video output and that
will always be the last clip launched.

You're not forced to only use rapid cuts, you can also assign a MIDI
CC# to rate/pitch/transform (or whatever Live calls it) to have the
video's virtual slow/speed knob tweaked.

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
www.boysen.se
www.perboysen.com
www.looproom.com internet music hub