Quartonian: live performance with Quartz Composer

Quartonian was hacked

roger — Thu, 08 May 2008 21:56:31 +0000

Invisible links to poker/pharmacies etc were inserted. Has happened to many others, I’m in the process of trying to clean it up now, and then hope to return with some new QC related news and tutorials. Sorry for any problems caused to anyone by the content inserted in my site without my knowledge…

extras in Leopard QC

roger — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 07:50:26 +0000

It’s out and it’s good. So many new features in Leopard QC that it should take us all weeks to just get to grips with them all. Here’s some things that are not so obvious to give you even more to play with. Compile and Install the Plugins for more patches. There’s a lot of [...]

On hold, back to India

roger — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 08:39:25 +0000

My updating work for Quartonian is on hold as I am currently working freelance as VFX Supervisor on a high end tv commercial in India for Red Ice Films until end of September.

Does anyone want an updated Quartonian Mixer?

roger — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 15:40:31 +0000

My quartonian mixer still gets a lot of downloads, I’m not sure exactly why that is because it’s pretty clunky in it’s current state. The latest Kineme quartz plugins would let me make it a lot easier to use if I used all those, eg adapt it to use the “Folder Movies” patch “Image [...]

VeeYou Quartz Fx now available

roger — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 22:24:51 +0000

Grab them here, scroll down and ignore the top bit, you don’t need to install anything else to get them to work, just wanted to put them on the same page as the FCP plugins. Grab the VeeYou Quartz Fx

Kineme: Developers of qc plugins

roger — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:27:05 +0000

Kineme has been active for a long time delving into the unofficial api to expand Quartz Composer in Tiger. They’ve now setup a new website Kineme.net and are actively promoting themselves as consultants / developers for all things Quartz Composer. I’ve used their services and was very happy with the result, highly recommend [...]

CoreMelt fx launched

roger — Sun, 20 May 2007 11:04:32 +0000

CoreMelt fx is the new home for my fx packs made in Quartz Composer. CoreMelt’s first pack of plugins, ImageFlow fx is currently in late beta and will be available very soon. Information and videos demonstrating the pack are now on the CoreMelt site.

Round up of QC plugins

roger — Sat, 12 May 2007 20:12:33 +0000

Since Leopard has been delayed to October we still don’t have an official way of creating new nodes in Quartz Composer. That’s not stopping plenty of people from creating one’s using the undocumented unofficial API and in fact FDIV.net has just published an X Code template to make the whole process easier. Here’s [...]

FxFactory wins Vidy Best of Show Award 2007!

roger — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 01:42:24 +0000

The Noise Industries FxFactory plugins have been awarded a Vidy award by the Editors of Videography magazine. See the complete list of winners here. I designed 80 of the 140 effects in the FxFactory Pro Pack, but of course it wouldn’t have been possible to create the product without the work of Gabe [...]

NAB 2007

roger — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 07:30:34 +0000

Just settling back into the UK after my extended trip back to native Australia, and now off again to Las Vegas for NAB. I’ve been working on new effects packs for Noise Industries which will be shown for the first time at NAB and then available for sale shortly afterwards. “ImageFlow Fx”, will [...]

VDMX5 Public Beta: Best VJ Mixer for QTZ

roger — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 21:36:47 +0000

Vidvox has released a new public beta of VDMX5. Grab it from the Vidvox website. I’ve been testing a private beta build of this software for a long time. It’s IMO the most promising VJ software to come along for a long time. Among other things it loads quartz files natively and [...]

Anxiously awaiting Leopard QC…

roger — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 01:15:42 +0000

Not so much time for Quartonian website as I’ve been working on future versions of the Noise Industries plugins and playing with some very cool stuff from Vidvox (which isn’t public yet). It’s nice to be earning some money with QC work. But this blog ain’t dead. I’ll be posting up some info about [...]

FxFactory Plugins for Final Cut Studio

roger — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:46:18 +0000

My latest Quartz Composer eforts are now available for purchase. I’ve been working for quite some time on a two plugin packs for Final Cut Pro and Motion using Noise Industries FxFactory. Finally they’re out the door and on sale. Many of these effects will be useful to VJ’s for quickly creating content using [...]

more QC secrets in “Private Defaults.plist”?

roger — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 12:56:05 +0000

FDIV has recently revealed that just typing “defaults write -g QCRegisterPrivatePatches 1″ and “defaults write -g QCShowPrivatePatchSettings 1″ in the terminal you can enable 61 new private patches in QC and some extra settings in the Billboard and “Image with Movie” patches. I went hunting around and found some other settings inside the Quartz [...]

FDIV Composition Loader + more new patches….

roger — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 23:18:39 +0000

FDIV has managed to reproduce the functionality that Apple removed in version 10.4.7 of Mac OS X by creating an “Image with Composition” loader patch. Also, FDIV has coded three other patches, MIDI Global IN Note, MIDI Global OUT Note and File Type. Massive thanks to FDIV for making these freely available [...]

more hidden QC patches from FDIV

roger — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 10:44:40 +0000

FDIV has exposed some additional hidden QC patches in a composition available for download from his blog. The evidence suggests that these might be available offically in Leopard but for those who can’t wait to tinker go for it. FDIV has also written new patches that look very useful for additional midi control and reading [...]

Glade 2006 Gig Pictures

roger — Sun, 06 Aug 2006 23:12:06 +0000

I’ve finally got decent pictures from Glade 2006. Triple Screen HD visual action, the best show I’ve ever done by far, and the most fun to do. I’ve also now given in and opened a myspace account http://www.myspace.com/eskatonia which is where I’ll try and put all gig pictures and upcoming information about future [...]

Apple’s developer relations regarding QC

roger — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 01:01:57 +0000

On a negative front I’m pretty annoyed about Apple’s decision to disable a feature in Quartz Composer silently and with no consultation. In Mac OS X 10.4.7 it’s not possible for a Quartz Composition to load other compositions through an “image with movie” node anymore. This even applies to compositions that have been [...]

Quartonian VJ Apps springing up all over…

roger — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 00:57:20 +0000

I’m not dead, just been stupidly busy with the summer festival season in the UK and I’m now more heavily involved as a core member of Inside-Us-All visuals which means I’m doing a lot more gigs. Glad to have been spending more time outside in this amazing UK summer instead of sitting behind a [...]

TripleHead2Go running on MacBook Pro.

roger — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 20:23:23 +0000

Success! The TripleHead2Go works fine on a MacBook Pro running MacOS X and it’s running with full 3d and core image acceleration across three monitors. My Quartonian VAST program is able to render at a decent framerate across three monitors at 2400×600. EDIT: also works fine on an iMac G5 using screen [...]