Lecture 04 – Introducing Jitter – Reactive Graphics 01

This lecture introduces techniques and objects for working with interactive/reactive video in Jitter.

The session starts with [jit.qt.movie] and looks at ways to fade and blend multiple sources ([jit.xfade] and [jit.op])

Simple audio-reactive control is achieved through [peakamp~], and frequency conscious control derived via [svf~] followed by [peakamp~]

The session continues by addressing duration based methods for switching video files (read (as in ‘red’) message out of [jit.qt.movie] dumpout triggers getduration query) or jumping to a point in a videofile

The session concludes by looking at unpacking and repacking a four channel matrix ([jit.unpack], [jit.pack]) with operations in the middle ([jit.rota]), other matrix effects ([jit.slide, [jit.sprinkle]), and subdividing and combining matrices ([jit.scissors], [jit.glue])

Download tutorial files – jr.dmspjitterpatches.zip

For the adventurous, try:

cycling74.com/2006/02/06/jitter-recipes-book-1/

cycling74.com/2006/02/14/jitter-recipes-book-2/

cycling74.com/2010/09/13/jitter-recipes-book-3/

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