hi all,

to get started creating my real time video mixer using pd, i've downloaded and installed dedicated externals such as Framestein and PixelTango so that I can have a glance at the pre-made patch examples. But whenever I try to open one of the PixelTango patches, pd just shuts down without any notice nor error message. I'm running win xp home on a laptop with intel pentium m processor (1500 MHz) and 1 go RAM.

can anybody help ?

thanx in advance,

em

pixel tang crashes os x too--try gem-but you may have to build a mixer from scratch-it shouldnt be too har-pixel tango is a front end for gem anayway

well, i'm already trying to figure out how to build a videomixer from scratch in Gem... I've started with 2 [pix_film] objects getting into a [pix_mix] before rendering to the Gemwin... seems like nothing for yuo, but quite an achievement for a newbie like I am ! will let you know how it's going.

thanx for your reply dubtub.

you'll get the hang of it-just try something basic-once you get that you can add onto it---saying that Ive never tried to make a video mixer in gem-but Id rather attempt to make my own than get stressed about Pixeltango-i dont consider it to be very user friendly (because the user cant use it!)

feel welcome to post your patches here if you get stuck

pixelTango uses GEM. You can post the crashlogs to the pd list and someone will have a look.

Video mixing can be done using the graphics card too. Try putting the alpha and colorRGB objects after pix_texture and before the rectangle object. The right outlet controls the alpha transparency of the Geo and also the texture mapped onto it.

pixeltango seems to be fixed for Pd-0.39.2-extended-rc3-

here:
http://at.or.at/hans/pd/installers.html

looking good!

cool. i'll have a look soon.

and cgc, I started creating my own video mixer, adding controls after pix_texture and before the Geo object, and it works just fine. thanx !

hi,

so... works well? did you try it?

hello again !

well, I've tried it and it works well, indeed, but it's still very very basic at the moment, and I need to focus on some other stuff right now so I'll let you know more as soon as I get back into it.

here's the patch at this early stage.. not much to see though, but I guess I'll work on it quicker with your feedback if any of you wishes to have a look and give me advice on what I could do to make it better...

oh, and by the way, I've started looking into the texture environment mode, but it's not very clear to me how this works, so far... once I select one of the blending modes, it remains visible on all the videos even if I turn off the video on which it's set by turning its alpha down to zero.

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/milxerStart.pd

I like it! Its good stuff-the great thing about PD is that you can get a alot of satisfaction from just starting something basic and then experimeting by adding on different things to see what works

Always remember though, you can easliy add music to your Gem patches which gives you another dimention to work with

All the best! (^_^)