Category Archives: Software

Compression for Jitter / Realtime

Posted on February 7, 2011 by admin

If you don’t know what video compression is or what’s a codec, please read this thoroughly (it’s quite short): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_compression Video files that are highly compressed are bad news for any realtime software, not just Jitter. Especially bad are compression … Continue reading →

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Useful Software

Posted on February 2, 2011 by admin

There are many tools out there for programmatically working with media. A sampling follows (google any of these to get to the website): Additional patching tools beyond Max/MSP/Jitter: PureData (PD) GEM : Open source, all platforms Apple Quartz Composer : free, Mac … Continue reading →

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Required Class Software

Posted on February 2, 2011 by admin

The software you need for this class is as follows (may be updated throughout semester): Latest version of Max / MSP / Jitter from Cycling74. At least version 5.1.7. The following extensions for Max: cv.jit : Computer vision extension jit.freenect … Continue reading →

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