[PD] converting gem patches to video files

[paris at parisgraphics.com]

i've used a few methods with various degrees of success:

1. screen recording as Nikola mentions. on linux there's xvidcap and
others that i can't think of at the moment. running this as well as
your application can end up making the machine run pretty slow - at
least for me.

2. pix_write
to save a series of stills that you can animate.
this method works better for me than (1).
plus gives me the added bonus of deleting frames that i don't want.
e.g. when doing some video feedback stuff, i get some flicker - blank
frames.
i can easily sort all the saved files and delete these (significantly
smaller file size than "good" frames).

3. similar to what Claude does - run svideo out of one machine and then
record it onto another machine.
since the machine creating the visuals doesn't have to also record or
write images to disk, i've had the best results with this for cases
where the patch is most demanding - e.g. patches doing both audio and
video processing.

best,
p

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [PD] converting gem patches to video files
> From: "Nikola Jeremic" <nikola.jeremic at googlemail.com>
> Date: Fri, May 25, 2007 5:33 am
> To: "Claude Heiland-Allen" <claudiusmaximus at goto10.org>
> Cc: pd-list at iem.at
> 
> you can also try some of the screencast programs, i was using them
> some of
> them. You need one that can grab opengl window (on mac x-snap pro and
> on win
> camstudio) and a POWERFULL macine :). 4 me that was the fastest way and i
> god quite nice results. check on wiki for more info.
> 
> peace
> n.
> 
> On 5/25/07, Claude Heiland-Allen <claudiusmaximus at goto10.org> wrote:
> >
> > punchik punchik wrote:
> > > hi, is there any way to record a gem patch as video?
> > > mov or avi?
> > >
> > > thanx
> >
> > pix_snap and pix_record (but I've never done this, so I might be
> mistaken)
> >
> > I use a hardware DVD recorder to record the tv-out from my laptop, then
> > transfer to a computer and edit/encode to AVI with avidemux2.
> >
> >
> >
> > Claude
> >
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