[PD] pd/gem as vj mixer at win (Vadim Smahtin)

[tim]

simon wise wrote:
>
> On 19 Feb 2008, at 12:06 AM, tim wrote:
>
>> Sergi Lario wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi. I trying to create 2 channel videomixer in pd/gem. And now have 2
>>> questions- how i can make 2 gemwin's to use 1 as preview and other as
>>> output, and second- how i can make file list or grid of images to
>>> preview my videofiles and then load it's to pix_film. Big thx.
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi.
>>>
>>> About multiple gemwin at same time: I don't know if it's possible, but
>>> it would be very useful.
>>>
>> Hi Sergi,
>>
>> I've done stuff with two gemwins by running pd 2 times and have the two
>> instances communicate over OSC.
>> It worked quite well.
>
> a while ago there was a multiple-Gemwin version of Gem around - I 
> tried out the binary that was available and it worked fine (I think on 
> OSX but possibly Linux?) but I used the 2 pd method instead for my 
> project.
>
> I don't know if it is possible for one pd to use textures or buffers 
> created in the other, that would make the preview idea work well with 
> two pd instances. 
My idea was rather to simply sync the messages so that the same video 
file is loaded by the two pd's separately.
I wasn't using any texturing with this setup though, so I don't know if 
it would work.
> Soon I want to try 2 camera views of the same 3D space, I think that 
> would be much easier in a single instance of pd with two windows!
Load the same 3D space in the two pd's and relate the control data in 
some way ?

Tim