I've just spent the last hour or so playing around on this....pretty amazing update here.
The new "grid" feature is working really well, probably going to tempt a lot more use (overuse?) of effects but it can also do a great job with rhythmically punching up some "boring" videos in a tasteful way.
Really just wanted to say thanks here...you've outdone yourself (and everyone else) yet again.
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Unfortunately I'm getting some ME crashes when enabling/un-enabling the feed....hopefully something that can get sorted out in a 2.0.1 release...seems like I can work around that for now by leaving the video input enabled, just using the mix knob to shut it off or turn it on.
Also have had one non-repeatable crash dragging one of the included quartz compositions onto the quartz composition area.
Guess I should be posting that over in "support"...
Anyway seriously cool stuff here, thank you again. :-)
@djdj - no, there's no way to record the video overlay at this stage (it would add a significant strain on your laptop while recording). If you really want to record it, then it is possible to record the session outside of MixEmergency, using MixEmergency's Syphon output, and the Syphon Recorder application.
But, but.... I need to use it tonight :-)
Just kidding around with you of course. I don't usually use new software playing out until I've tested it out quite a bit, but I'm starting a new party tonight and am seriously seriously tempted with this....
I can't wait to get home and try this..... New features looks incredible!!
Thanks Nick!
"I’ve also been excited to see how the Automatic Border Fill feature would be received by users. I think it’s one of those features that doesn’t sound too exciting, but will really be a time-saver for working Video DJs."
I, for one, highly highly appreciate this feature
Made a lot of use of the live camera feed. The combination of the iPhone app I mentioned before and the camera feed was a huge hit. My previously-mentioned workaround for turning on/shutting off the feed seemed to work out fine.
The new beat-gridding and layering option for effects make a huge difference.
Can you let me know if you get the hang at shut-down again? Or if you find out anything further about it.
Only I found one problem, when is Quartz Composition Enabled and im change .qtz file sometime ME crush, not everytime but sometime. Its not a big problem, I disable QC then change ;)
Nice job Nick...this version is mindblow ;)
Yes I'll try to get you some more info on the "beachball when trying to quit" thing. My sense is that it's related to uptime, since I didn't see that happening earlier at home when testing (running ME for much shorter durations). I assume (if that happens again) it would help to check stuff like CPU and memory usage in Activity Monitor? Let me know if anything else would be helpful...
install ableton or ableton demo and enable the bridge. now beatgrids will automatically be created when you analyze and the beatgrid edti button will be enabled.
you could also install Itch 2.1 and analyze there. Itch has beatgrid support natively. you have to edit the grids in Itch tho if you don't have the bridge installed.
Or, are you seeing things working okay with SL/ME leaving the bridge enabled?
The beat grid is great but I can't seem to find the grid BE from the video to do the beat grid transitions... or maybe I just don't see how.
Anyone else have this issue?
Nicely done.
Even without having done that, the new ME effects looked pretty spot-on to me. I assume the beatgrid thing would help for live-drummer songs that don't keep a quantized tempo.
http://www.drahtwerk.biz/EN/Products/iPhone/iWebcamera.aspx
Very crashy when actually turning on or off the camera feed. But seems stable if its left on (use the knob to fade it on/off).
It gets a lot of attention :-)
iWebCamera 2.0, iPhone 4s (iOS 5.0.1)
MBP i5 (2.4GHz), 4GB RAM, GeForce 330M (256MB)
Mac OS X 10.6.8
Home WLAN network
No crashes, only video is not smooth like on Skype but is OK. Got some small twitch.
Nice feature Nick, tnx for this once more...
Program its better, can change quality and other. You can find program here:
http://www.mobiola.com/mobiola-web-camera
njoy people ;)
Im looking for a bluetooth one or something.
I just installed the mobiola one, and it works well.
though, here at work my wifi kinda sucks... so it keeps dropping it
and everytime i reconnect I have to restart the desktop app
http://www.ecamm.com/mac/webcam/bt1/
it only has a range up to 30feet.
but once some others start coming out maybe we will see more range, and a better picture
Once you connect you should be able to stream the live webcam feed from the phone to your computer using ME. The range is then dependant on how far away the phone is from the computer.
HTH
at medium the quality is shockingly good. high (1920x1080) only works good if you have a 900mbps wireless router.
i've tried a direct connection but it still stutters at high.
both apps are a client/server setup with a server app on the pc/mac and a client on the iPhone.
with mobiola you install the app on the mac, install the app on your iphone. run the app on the mac, run the app on the iphone connect to the mac. on the mac you have to allow the iphone, choose mobiola in MixEmergency and you're good to go.
The only issue is the annoyance of having no internet connectivity on the iphone when you have things set up that way.