Music
July 31, 2015
look away
July 31, 2015
Music
July 28, 2015
heat to meat
July 28, 2015
Music
July 3, 2015
opening windows
July 3, 2015
drink 'n monotype print
June 17, 2015
June 17, 2015
(retroactively posted Nov 2015)
Recordings:
long losta cola
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Music
May 1, 2015
not seventy eight again
May 1, 2015
drink 'n stencil
April 30, 2015
April 30, 2015
(retroactively posted Nov 2015)
Recordings:
last chance for the apes
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Music
April 10, 2015
alternate form
April 10, 2015
Art dump - Jan 2015, pencil
April 1, 2015
April 1, 2015
(retroactively posted Nov 2015)
Recordings:
no fools flat
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My new mp3 player!
March 22, 2015
This week's distraction is my new minimal HTML5 audio player, which is about 8kb of HTML/CSS/JS (or 3kb gzipped), and available here. The HTML5 audio tag does all of the work, this just does a basic AJAX-fetched media library, searching, and playlisting. I made it for all (1500 or so) of my recordings, but it should be pretty reusable...
March 22, 2015
Yes, no visualization, but that'd be so 1990s...
Recordings:
not the odds
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Music
November 6, 2014
spheresofwet
November 6, 2014
Music
October 29, 2014
scheduling
October 29, 2014
my own private can of worms
October 28, 2014
First, from a recent 'git log' command:
October 28, 2014
commit f94d5a07541a672b4446248409568c20bca9487d
Author: Justin <justin@localhost>
Date: Sun Sep 11 21:52:27 2005 +0000
Vss2Git
diff --git a/jmde/mediaitem.h b/jmde/mediaitem.h*
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..52b8a8f
--- /dev/null
++ b/jmde/mediaitem.h
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
#ifndef _MEDIAITEM_H_
#define _MEDIAITEM_H_
#include "pcmsrc.h"
#include "../WDL/string.h"
class MediaItem
{
public:
double m_position;
double m_length;
double m_startoffs;
double m_fade_in_len, m_fade_out_len;
int m_fade_in_shape, m_fade_out_shape;
double m_volume, m_pan;
WDL_String m_name;
PCM_source *m_src;
};
class AudioChannel
{
WDL_PtrList<MediaItem> m_items;
double m_volume, m_pan;
bool m_mute, m_solo;
WDL_String m_name;
// recording source stuff, too
// effect processor list
// getsamples type interface
};
#endif
* Trivia: guess what jmde (JMDE) stands for?
..and to think, back when we used VSS we didn't even have commit messages! Soon after, "AudioChannel" became instantiable and went on to be known as "MediaTrack", and as one would hope many other things ended up changing.
Wow, 9 years have gone by.
I've been having a blast this week working on something that let me make this:
The interesting bit of this is not the contents of the video itself -- 3 hasty first-takes with drums, bass, and guitar, each with 2 cameras (a Canon 6D and a Contour Roam 2) -- but how it was put together.
I've spent much of the last week experimenting with improving the video features of REAPER, specifically adding support for fades and video processing. This is a ridiculously large can of worms to open, so I'm keeping it mostly contained in my office and studio.
Working on video features is reminding me of when I was first starting work on what would become REAPER: I was focused on doing things that I could use then and there for things I wanted to make. It is incredibly satisfying to work this way. So now, I'm doing it in a branch (thank you git), as it is useful for me, but so incredibly far from the usability standard that REAPER represents now (even if you argue that REAPER is poorly designed, it's still 100x better than what I've done this week). You can't go put half-baked, poor performing, completely-programmer-oriented video features into a 9 year old program.
The syntax has since been simplified a bit, but basically you have meta-video items which can combine other video items on the fly. So you can write new transitions or customize existing transitions while you work (which is something I love about JSFX).
I'm going to keep working on this, it might get there someday. Former Vegas fans, fear not, REAPER isn't going to become a video editor. I'm just going for a taste...
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Music
August 13, 2014
hookworms
August 13, 2014
licecap 1.25beta 3
July 24, 2014
I just posted (to our prerelease site) LICEcap 1.25 beta 3, which includes support for using transparency for smaller images. I had some fun debugging this (including some very stupid mistakes on my part that took about an entire day to debug, oops).
July 24, 2014
I also had some fun writing logic to decide what to do when a pixel could be encoded as transparent, but also could be well-represented by an indexed color. Iniitially I had it only use the indexed value if the previous pixel was indexed, but it ended up being quite a bit better to do track the occurence of transparent pixels and pixels of that index, and use the one that is more common. There is probably a better algorithm to use here, but that saw some good gains. For comparison, I ran 1.24 and 1.25 beta 3 at the same time for a stupid demo video. The 1.24 version was 2.5MB, the 1.25 beta 3 version was 1.5MB. WIN. It ultimately is highly dependent on the content, though, so I might look at trying some other things out...
