I posted this in the pixel section but got no usable response, so I am trying in here. Part of my problem was I had an old version of GEM and the help files didn't work, but yesterday I installed the new version and the help files work now, so I looked at the help file for pix_write, and it does say you can change the file output type, but it is pretty vague on how to do it, in my patch I am working on I have tried changing the message box sending filename & type to output jpegs, but no matter what I do it still outputs tiff files and I want jpegs. Does anyone know what exactly to do? Maybe with a working example patch?

Hi, I would like to know how to change the file types written out by GEM with pix_write? On my computer it writes out .tiff, but I want to change it to jpg?

Thanks

This is sort of a newbie question, but here goes:

I am using fiddle to get audio from my microphone and run it through synths, etc. The sounds resulting are very chaotic due to the changing numbers. My question is, how do I smoothly change from one number to the next? For instance, I want to smoothly change from 80 to 100 over a half-second or so. I know there must be a way to do this simply but I can't figure it out and I have been reading and reading everything I can find!!!!
Will someone please give a sort-of n00b some friendly advice?

Hi, I am trying to record my visual output from GEM. I made a patch that takes audio from a microphone and using fiddle~ to route numbers it makes GEM do stuff. All that works fine. I want to record the visual output to files or a Quicktime, I am still kind of a n000b and I know that pix_write & pix_record are supposed to write files out but I can't figure out how to make it work...
Any friendly step-by-step advice or patch out there? Any way to do synched visual & audio recording simultaneously?
thanks
Thor
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Well I tried to change it but it still doesn't work. If I bang it it still outputs tiffs. I put the relevant parts (especially the message box sending the filetype) into this throwaway attached patch, can someone look at it and tell me what I am doing wrong? I guess I have the stuff in the message box wrong but I can't figure out how to get it right. Can someone tell me EXACTLY what to put in the message box?

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

Thanks pulsed! I will try now.

Thanks sunji, I am trying to capture numbered frames for animation, the trouble is pix_write is writing out tiffs and is automatically introducing an alpha channel on the tiffs which is wiping out most of my imagery that is visible in my GEM window.

Thanks for the information, but I'm on a Mac. I will keep trying though.

anybody????

well I still can't get it to work, can anyone help? I tried to do what the help file said (which is rather vague on how to make it change to JPEG in my opinion). Does anyone know?