[PD] Saving Gem output as video file on MacOSX ?

[marius schebella]

another way to record your performances is to mirror your display and 
feed the output with a dv camera or some other device.
recording your actions is brilliant but a lot of effort during patching.
marius.


Claude Heiland-Allen wrote:
> Dudley Brooks wrote:
>> Meanwhile, what recommendations does anyone have for other methods of 
>> making a DVD of Gem output,
> 
> I record my actions during performance, then later play them back into 
> my patch with pix_write and writesf~ activated.  Pd uses 1000% CPU load, 
> and stutters during rendering, but audio and video remain in sync.
> 
> I have the [gemwin] at 720x576 25fps, for PAL DVD rendering.
> 
> Then simply encode the TIFF files with your video software - I have a 
> longwinded process that works with the following free tools:
> 
> for video:
> 
> convert
> manypngtoppm [1]
> ppmtoy4m
> y4mscaler (because ppmtoy4m is crap at chroma subsampling)
> mpeg2enc
> 
> for audio:
> 
> audacity (to trim to exact length, normalize volume, etc)
> twolame
> 
> then:
> 
> mplex
> 
> and finally:
> 
> dvdauthor
> mkisofs
> growisofs
> 
>> *not* necessarily involving having Gem 
>> itself create a file?
> 
> maybe recordmydesktop - but I seem to recall it supports only Ogg codecs...
> 
> 
> BTW, I'm on Linux, but the above tools might work on OS X too.
> 
> 
> Claude
> 
> [1] converts multiple pngs into one ppm stream
> 
> https://devel.goto10.org/filedetails.php?repname=maximus&path=%2Fmanypngtoppm%2Fmanypngtoppm.c&rev=0&sc=0
>