A technical question

I apologise for my first message to be one of want, but I am seeking advice! For a multimedia installation I would like to run image captured from a camera and sound captured through a microphone into a laptop which will output the image onto a screen and the sound to speakers. The difficult bit is that I would like to us a piece of software to overlay an animation over the image and have a soundtrack playing underneath the sound that the microphone captures.

At first I thought I could just use a pice of VJ software to mix everything, but I cannot find a piece of software that allows me to mix the sound as well…

I am sorry if this is not a forum for technical help - but any hints about what I could do to solve the problem would be much appreciated.

Yours sincerely

James Hurst

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, Pall Thayer

Hi James,

Pure-Data with PDP would let you do it (http://www-crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/software.html) but
it's not a simple process. You could try posting your request to 0xff, the real-time video list
(http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/0xff). I'm sure someone there could point you
in the right direction.

Pall

> I apologise for my first message to be one of want, but I am seeking advice! For a
multimedia installation I would like to run image captured from a camera and sound
captured through a microphone into a laptop which will output the image onto a screen and
the sound to speakers. The difficult bit is that I would like to us a piece of software to overlay
an animation over the image and have a soundtrack playing underneath the sound that the
microphone captures.
>
> At first I thought I could just use a pice of VJ software to mix everything, but I cannot find
a piece of software that allows me to mix the sound as well…
>
> I am sorry if this is not a forum for technical help - but any hints about what I could do to
solve the problem would be much appreciated.
>
> Yours sincerely
>
> James Hurst
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, James

Thank you for your help, I had a look through the Pd documentation…
Blimey I think you'd need a few doctorates to understand that ol' stuff!

Thank you for pointing me in the direction, I think it will be a classic case of so close yet so far, it certainly pertains to do what I want it to!

Thanks again

All the best

James

, Pall Thayer

It's not really as complicated as it may look. Rather than trying to read
the documentation, install the software and look at some of the samples.
There is a bit of a high learning threshold but once you cross it,
everything falls into place and makes sense. You could even try posting to
the PD list to see if you can find someone in your area to help
(http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list) but if you try to ask for
help on the list you'll probably just be told to read the manual.

I'm sure Max/MSP + jitter could probably do what you need as well but PD
is free, as in speech of course (ok, as in beer too).

Pall

On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, James wrote:

> Thank you for your help, I had a look through the Pd documentation…
> Blimey I think you'd need a few doctorates to understand that ol' stuff!
>
> Thank you for pointing me in the direction, I think it will be a classic case of so close yet so far, it certainly pertains to do what I want it to!
>
> Thanks again
>
> All the best
>
> James
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