After a simple introduction to controlling your VJX via PureData, Vince has shared with us a slightly more complicated patch, this one is for sequencing the 3 video outputs.

This patch initializes the VJX, and then allows you to sequence which of the four tracks is shown on which output, save and load presets, and change the switching speed via BPM. I don’t have 3 similarly sized monitors to show this off, so Vince was nice enough to shoot us a demo video from Vixid Headquarters:

Triple Output Sequencing - Vixid and PD from Create Digital Media on Vimeo.

It may look like a simple fruit machine, but this displays how fast and flexible the VJX’s routing controls can be.

As before, Vixid have kindly supplied the patch for others to use and modify to their own needs.
Download vixid-OutSeq-v3.zip (8KB).

If you haven’t used PureData before and are feeling nervous, you really should check it out. It’s free, cross-platform, and really will help you get closer to your Vixid. We’ll be releasing more PD patches over time, perhaps eventually combining them into a super-patch which rolls all of this awesomeness into a single Vixid uber-interface!

I have been making progress in my voyage of Midi, Cameras and Vixid. I haven’t shared this on Vixid.noisepages.com yet, as I wanted to create a more robust solution in the freely available PD rather than Max/MSP, but in the meantime Vince from Vixid has come to the rescue, with a Vixid Input Switching patch for PD.

Download vixid-pd-4layerswitch.zip (4KB).

This patch doesn’t do input switching - just track/layer sequencing - but because it is working with tracks that are frame locked by the VJX, the switching can be frame-by-frame, which gives some extremely interesting effects when used with multiple camera inputs.

The next step, of course, is to bring input switching into the mix. We’re planning a series of frameworks which you can use to create your own Vixid control setups, but while you wait, here’s a reminder of what can happen if you stay up too late learning to code with lots of video cameras and a VJX nearby.

Vixid Multi Input Test 2 - Cunningham Style from Jaymis on Vimeo.

Be careful out there.