Magic Music Visuals

thanks a lot. this does already help.
I got some fairly promising results which make it worthwhile trying to capture some real footage and process it via Magic

Hi Everybody! This may be a totally stupid and illiterate question - but hey that's the internet - so I ask anyway. Is there a way these days to remove the background from a video so that it can be substituted with another video (similar to the old blue box trick)? What I was thinking is that if I r...

Thanks, Eric, for your feedback.

It's good to have challenges. Keeps life interesting

Some more observations from my test environment: If one video stream gets disconnected, it keeps the last picture (which I like a lot). However, I can only refresh manually (i.e. I cannot e.g. attach a MIDI signal to refresh the stream in case it gets lost). So this feature would be nice ... or even...

- several larger HD video files to be streamed in sync with music per song This should work regardless of the project size though...? with the new memory management options for scene loading it probably should ... but they were not available when we did most of the effort of setting up the synced v...

(1) Magic 1.65 hangs at project opening when project uses webstreams which are currently not available (e.g. IP cams or router turned off) ... it gets stuck, cancel doesn't work, I have to kill it in the task manaer ... Hmm, we tested quite extensively, but I will have another look... (2) if webstr...

Hi! I just encountered 2 issues while testing IP cams: (1) Magic 1.65 hangs at project opening when project uses webstreams which are currently not available (e.g. IP cams or router turned off) ... it gets stuck, cancel doesn't work, I have to kill it in the task manaer ... (2) if webstreams are ava...

just got a HiKam S5 and it seems to be receiving fine via rtsp/onvif stream

Thanks for the reply. I was mislead by the (rather brief) description in the help section of the VideoStream module which only lists MJPG examples while most of what is sold these days is H.264. I reckon it's back to ordering something off Amazon and if it does not work, send back ... So I need to r...

Hi! I tried to do some research but it looks like a dead end street ... Could anyone you pls point me to WiFi cams that could feed a stream into the VideoStream module. It appears whatever is out there sends H.264 compression but the VideoStream module supposedly only takes MJPG. How could I make be...

I have meanwhile reworked the project to send discrete MIDI CC messages for the jpg index to be displayed. Works perfectly in sync now. Requires a bit more on the DAW side to configure but solves all my pics dropping / out of sync issues ... Still, any suggestion to understand this situation would b...

No, it's only just a few (<20) pics per folder.

I'm using MIDI OUT (via a USB MIDI MATE) on the DAW and the same setup on the Magic Visuals PC, but I also need to use loopMIDI and a MIDI Translator Pro to re-route MIDI signals internally on the Magic Visuals PC

Thanks. i had tried a similar solution using Bwat Clock => INVERT => Trigger = 0.01 => Scale = 0.5 However, with neither solution I get the desired result. I did some more "debugging" and it seems to be working OK as long as I use it in only one scene but if I have e.g. twice the setup for...

Hi! I tried several ways but not convinced I fully figured it out yet how to properly use the JpegFolder module to cycle images synced to MIDI clock. MIDI clock comes from Sonar running on a different PC. I'm looking for the settings to show 1 jpg per 1/2 measure, per measure, per 2 measures ... I h...

Thanks for your suggestions :-) they got me started thinking into other directions ... as regards (A) i.e. getting HDMI into magic: HDMI to USB3 will not really be an option because in my system all USB bandwidth is occupied with webcams, so I wonder if there is a way to get the HDMI feed into Magic...

Hi! Having successfully run our first live show including Magic, 8 webcams plus several pre-recorded HD video streams I am all psyched about taking it another steep further. So I'd like to pick your brains on 2 subjects: (A) Is there a way to get real-time HDMI feed e.g. from a Nikon D7100 into Magi...

Thanks for sharing this, guys. This makes very interesting reading - need to dig into this

The only other thing I can think of is that, when you turn off your computer, all caches are emptied. There are several caches in your computer (operating system, CPU, etc.); probably the most relevant ones are your disk and page caches (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_cache ). They retain t...

Great tip thanks a lot !!!

Thanks for the quick reply. The only kind of display that would affect the graphics and video performance of Magic is a "high frame rate" display (120Hz, 144Hz, etc.), such as a gaming monitor -- for example, https://www.asus.com/us/Monitors/VG248QE/ . With a 144Hz monitor, graphics and vi...