Well, the newly fixed Macbook, after spending a week getting it nearly back to the same state, realizing I’ve lost a lot of music I was working on (some of it was *really* good), and getting a weeks worth of work done, has decided to freak out with the video display…
Have to say it’s quite fun — sort of reminds me of the old Director3d — or at the least the stuff that Barry Swan was coding as billboards before Director added true 3d support. I’m writing a class for it for a sort of flipping card interface; I’ve seen this done before in Flash…
Former Limelight employee John C Bland helps me out with getting Flex to see the live Limelight stream…
Thereâ??s a number of programming languages that allow you to manipulate video – high end applications like Max/MSP/Jitter, or open source languages like Processing are common examples of these languages. Lately thereâ??s been a bit of a new kid on the scene called PureData – or Pd – which seems to be Maxâ??s open source…
It seems thereâ??s something new happening in motion graphics classes – the idea of â??intonation exercisesâ??; thatâ??s where, using only text/typography and a spoken audio track, the video artist will try to visually express the emotion/thought/intonation behind the dialog. This is a great example created by Brian Cane to Vince Vaughnâ??s monologue of â??The Perfect…
