Make your own effects and transitions....

weswunder

Is there a way to design our quartz compositions using bpm or grid?

Nick

You can use an input named "Beat" to get the current beat.

weswunder

My noobness obviously knows no bounds. I tried to implement what you said Nick, but can't find an input named Beat. Perhaps you could show/tell us how to get to the Beat input? All I'm trying to do is make beat reactive text, so if I use the word Clap!, it flashes on beat. I've made one just using the low end of the audio spectrum fed to X scale, but it's pretty jittery and doesn't keep a nice clean beat, which is pretty important when telling people to Clap!

Nick

You could just use the Grid control option for the effect parameter control in MixEmergency. Then you could modify the graph of how the control interacts with the beat via MixEmergency. Otherwise, add in Input Splitter in Quartz Composer. Set it to the Number type. Right click the patch and select "Publish Inputs", select "Input", then type Beat.

weswunder

Thanks Nick I'll try that tonight!

weswunder

I'm obviously missing a very important step. Here's what I'm doing: I have a piece of 3D text, made in Blender. The mesh is noodled to a Mesh Renderer. Stick those inside a Trackball patch, and the Trackball patch is inside a lighting patch, which lives on the root of the composition with the clear patch. Now I have a visible piece of 3D text. The step I'm missing is how to get that trackball patch to respond to the beats, so my text will cleanly flash on the 1, 2, 3, 4 etc... Any help on that would be most appreciated, and if anyone has an idea of where I can go learn this ish properly that would definitely be appreciated, blind Google searches are doing me no good

Nick

Maybe you should use the 3D Transformation patch instead?

Nick

If you want, you can e-mail me the file (you'll need to include the 3D model) and I'll have a quick look at it.

codee

there is no ~/Movies/MixEmergency/Plug-Ins/QCEffects/ or ~/Movies/MixEmergency/Plug-Ins/QCTransitions/ folder. Well the plugins folder is there but the QS effect and transitions ones are not. DO I just create them?

Nick

Yep - just create them.

radikarl

Among other things, there is a transition effect available here http://radikarl.de/freecontent.php "A Quartz file to be used as a transition effect in Mix Emergency. Replace the default mask graphic with your own logo in Quartz Composer. " Demo:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lcz5QllDSa0

Nick

Nice one :)

SUBSTANCE

Radikarl... I can't seem to find where to put my image in the transition effect above. I'm in quartz composer, but can't seem to replace the default mask graphic. I don't really know my way around Quartz Composer though. I'm doing something wrong, as soon as I change anything I'm unable to save the QC.

radikarl

drag a png into quartz composer from finder wire it to the dot where the current mask goes. the png has to be black and white only, sharp edges, no grayscales saving with quartz composer can be tricky. apple seems to have messed some things up. try pressign alt or shift while the menu is open and you should see a "save as" option. -> this way you can save to a new file

SUBSTANCE

Thanks, I wasn't using .png and it wasn't black & white for a start. I'll try again & post back if I have success.

DJDVaughan

Thanks for this one! Great stuff!

vjrichiep

how do i get the qtz file to show up in my transitions folder?

Nick

You need to put it in the folder: ~/Movies/MixEmergency/Plug-Ins/QCTransitions/

vjrichiep

brilliant thanks nick!!

vjrichiep

hi nick sorry one more thing, im using the template radikarl put up and put my logo in which works fine except theres a feint ghost image of the logo at either end of the transition, any ideas how to remove that?

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