Hi,
I'm new to this forum and heard that there are alot of exprienced users out there, perhaps someone can help me.

Can anyone tell me how to capture pd generated graphics on an external disk or video input device other than monitor or beamer?
I use a Mac PPC and would like to make a dvd with sound accompanied by pd grahics.
-are there any adapters like dvi to video or dvi to vga?
-can pd graphics maybe recorded into a camera?

any help is greatly appreciated!

thx, christian

I have used the SVideo output of my laptop in the past (connected to a DVD recorder, but could also have used a DV camera with SVideo input if I had one) but the quality was a bit rubbish (low resolution, muddy colours, block artifacts from the DVD compression).

It should be possible to record directly to your hard disk, if not in real time (with older hardware it's really slow to get data back from the GPU to be able to save it to disk, with newer hardware you might get recordmydesktop or whatever exists for your OS to work sufficiently well) - you might have to record all the control changes during "show time" (with eg: [textfile]) then play them back into your patch with output recording turned on (with eg: [pix_write] to save frames to disk if you're using Gem), then combine all the frames to a video file.

I should update my Gem DVD tutorial to mention this technique, and include pd-generated sound, but time is lacking at the moment....

svn co https://code.goto10.org/svn/maximus/tutorials/gem-dvd/

related to this offline/non-realtime rendering technique: http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2008-08/064343.html

Dear CaudiusMaximus,
thx for the prompt answer - that was fast. I'll check out the links u mentioned and will report if i had success. i must admit that my pd programming skills are not that great at the moment and your dvd tutorial that i quickly looked at seems to be more for the pd pros.
if you know or hear about any external solution i would appreciate if you could forward that information. there seems to be the possibility of using a "video capture card" but i have not really exploited that issue since i feel much more comfortable on the audio side than dealing with the infinite problems of video issues

here's the link to the video capture deal, pd/gem is explicitly mentioned.

http://createdigitalmotion.com/2007/05/08/real-time-uncompressed-hd-mixing-on-the-cheap-with-decklink-intensity/

thanks alot, pd is a great tool with a cool community!
christian

@Echoplex said:

here's the link to the video capture deal, pd/gem is explicitly mentioned.

http://createdigitalmotion.com/2007/05/08/real-time-uncompressed-hd-mixing-on-the-cheap-with-decklink-intensity/

That looks like a nice solution, if your computer can output at the correct resolution over DVI/HDMI, thanks for the link!

The dvd tutorial I wrote is a bit weird/techy, because of interlacing stuff mainly, I should really update it with a few different alternative methods, but lack of time at the moment...