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    I am interested in feedback from users on Quarts composer. What are the best applications and what is the ease of use?
    SourceChild
    TODD SCRUTCHFIELD

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    Here is a how-to on Lighting 3D Cubes and Moving them with Audio Input.

    http://www.vimeo.com/416956
    Andrew Atienza

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    http://www.fx-ps.com

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    I found more toys to play with.
    ...and to think, I was using MAX to do stuff like that
    SourceChild
    TODD SCRUTCHFIELD

    ...if it ain't broke...
    gimme 5 and then don't act surprised

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    Quote Originally Posted by SourceChild View Post
    I am interested in feedback from users on Quarts composer. What are the best applications and what is the ease of use?
    We use Quartz a lot on live video things. It´s good for heavy effectwork on live video, and also rendering thin sharp lines that react to sound etc. For example here:
    http://www.bvlk.com/page5/page5.html
    http://www.bvlk.com/page15/page22/page22.html
    http://www.bvlk.com/page15/page6/page6.html
    http://www.bvlk.com/page15/page2/page2.html

    Also, you can relatively easy build custom video filters for use with VDMX etc.

    Ease of use... None. It´s a bit bulky to use (maybe not if you´re used to MAX), but on the other hand it´s quite easy to understand the main principles and get started with.

    We have not used Quartz things through Catalyst though, but I´ll look into it whenever I find the time.

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    problem with all this quartz composer stuff - and its been around since 2004 - is that its a huge performance hog-

    catalyst uses the exact same technology quartz composer - but uses a much simpler interface - to keep performance up.

    those pretty quartz composer demos use almost the entire graphics resources of the machine - to do just one thing-
    they leave nothing left for anything else.

    i keep testing this - its still just as bad.

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