Magic Music Visuals

Found this post incredibly useful !! THANK YOU! ... You're welcome! It's by far my favourite effect. Thanks for the thanks! :D 377 downloads and yours is the first in seven years! I really like your mix. I'm going to find it (and your other podcasts) a very inspiring source of audio when I'm workin...

#!/bin/bash OIFS="$IFS" && \ IFS=$'\n' && \ ffmpeg -i $1 -i $2 -c:v copy -map 0:v:0 -c:a copy -map 1:a:0 $3 IFS="$OIFS" I use this script to replace the audio track from Magic's mp4 output file with the raw audio compressed to flac format. reflace.sh magic-output...

Found this post incredibly useful !! THANK YOU!
I borrowed the oscilloscope code to create a video for my latest mix:

I thought the 65mb mp3 would fit into memory just fine. But, nope!

Loading it, not into memory, solved the issue. TY!

I tried to load a 4.5 hour audio file in Magic as an input source and it crashes every time. :cry: The same holds true for flac, wav, and even a 65mb 32k bitrate mp3 file. The crash dump was too large to post here, so I put it here : https://pastebin.com/raw/VyYG76W2 :!: Also, I didn't realize that ...

I've tried the ISF plugin as mentioned here, looks awesome... but, I'm curious how I can load an actual cubemap into an ISF like this one from shadertoy? https://www.shadertoy.com/view/ld3SDl

Aye, I am aware of having MIDI parameter control in Performer... but this is only for live performances.

Being able to produce a video as if producing a song by being able to save the midi performances to graphical timelines that can be edited is what I am after.

I'd love to be able to use the raw audio I input directly in the Magic output video. For example, I use a FLAC file as the input audio, place that FLAC directly inside of the mp4 container Magic renders. At the moment, post-processing involves swapping out the AAC audio for the original FLAC like th...

So, if you've ever worked with a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) you are probably familiar with the concept of MIDI and recording MIDI parameters across a timeline. As I use Magic more, I think of how the process may benefit from having a similar capability of recording and playing back module param...

Ahh, thanks. Part of what I was missing is that the basic non-422 x264 output is in fact 4:2:0. I understand chroma-subsampling and the page you shared has some great visual examples of the errata that arise from using different formats. I too was also wondering how/and/or/if Magic could output 10bi...

I'm a bit unclear what the latter offers, does switching upgrade from 8bit to 10bit color depth?

Magic wrote:Yes, we are working on v3. We aren't discussing the new features yet. I don't have a release date either.

Not discussing new features like a graphical timeline b/c it's already been decided to include this feature?

Also, 2 hour audio clips load w/o crashing Magic now that they are not loaded into memory apparently. I'm all sorted out

I removed the custom ISF folder I had Magic pointed to and also rebooted. Things seem to be back to normal. It was no exaggeration with 5 minutes, I literally timed it to around 5m30s to startup previously. Not sure why, but it now scans the same custom ISF folder and starts up almost immediately. :?

My first thought... there's no way this was done entirely in Magic. But, after reading the replies, I was thoroughly amazed to find out that it was!

Incredibly crafty!

my latest

I launch the app from my dock and the app window won't appear for approximately 5 minutes after I launched it. Not sure what is causing the sluggishness. Relatedly, I have recently tried to load a flac audio file about 90 minutes in length and each time I add it to Magic, the app completely crashes....

I've a project w/ north of 100 scenes in it. However, when I launch Magic and open this project, I get about 15 errors. The problem is that I don't know which scenes contain the errors and tracking them down would be awfully time consuming. My proposal: add a small red X next to the scene's name to ...

...not the best place for FEATURE REQUESTS ?

I've a project w/ north of 100 scenes in it. However, when I launch Magic and open this project, I get about 15 errors. The problem is that I don't know which scenes contain the errors and tracking them down would be awfully time consuming. My proposal: add a small red X next to the scene's name to ...

Sadler wrote:I've seen things you wouldn't believe
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Thank you kindly, sir! Both of these methods offer nice results. To create a spectrum with a custom number of lines, use the Iterator module. For examples, see the sample project called IteratorSpectrumExamples.magic. Because of the (different) way in which an FFT generates a spectrum, the number of...

Can anyone suggest how to accomplish something similar to this in Magic or the technique involved?

Can't embed Tok's on this forum, so here's a link:

https://www.tiktok.com/@tehk317/video/7 ... _webapp=v1

Eric wrote:https://magicmusicvisuals.com/downloads ... udioDevice

Noice! Thank you !!

Any idea why Magic can only select one of my available sound inputs? I've other soundcards, and virtual devices that I'd like to use instead... but I cannot select them in Magic:

https://i.imgur.com/zoZ1wP3.png

I hear what you're saying. I was just thinking that if/when a cross dissolve was enabled that Magic would simply open another instance of the VideoFile module as well as add a layered blend module (both would be hidden and in the background) and then it would just have to mange the timing of the two...

It would be nice to have a "Cross Dissolve" transition with a variable 0.000 -> 1.000 overlap for looping video files. Currently, when a video is not made specifically for looping, you get a hard cut at the loop point. Adding a simple cross dissolve transition (the default transition in Fi...

Sadler wrote:Great snap on those waves - love it. Very tight.

TY!

Hi, I produce music under the alias function(renderDream). I've been writing music for years, but only recently started creating videos for my tracks. My most recent track features visuals generated entirely within Magic, using Creative Commons custom shaders found on the 'net. All scenes are rende...

Is there a tutorial somewhere on how you are fading between the various shaders in Magic? I suspect this is achieved with playlists, but also, you could be setting keyframes somehow to morph the variables in each shader.

Overall, very cool and inspiring!

Both the FFT Color Lines and the Spectrum modules would benefit from an option to specify the number of lines each module generates. Currently, they both seem to be fixed at 10 lines. I would love this to be an integer option that I can change from 1-3840 (@4K resolution ~ 1 line per pixel). Thoughts?

Eric wrote:https://magicmusicvisuals.com/forums/vi ... 8353#p8352

Thank you!

Is there someway to open a shader log window that shows what error messages are being encountered as the shader is being rendered?

It would go a long way towards making it easier to port a shader into Magic if there was...

Eric wrote:That oscilloscope doesn’t really look 3D to me...?

If you imagine that it is on the z-axis floating above the grid... it could be.

https://i.imgur.com/kEEtoJt.jpg

Would it be possible to create a circular oscilloscope rotated 3D on the Z-axis to look something like this album cover?

Thanks for the suggestions. It doesn't appear that I can import the glTF model and the only choice I have is to use the Poly (.ply file). However, it doesn't show anything when I add a Geometry model and choose the ply file. I've tried using different background colors thinking it was rendered as th...

This is kind of a 3D noob questions, but here goes: Is it possible to import 3D models into Magic and automate the movement of the camera around a scene? I'd like to use something like this from SketchFab: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/need-some-space-d6521362b37b48e3a82bce4911409303 Think it woul...

That was sort of the idea to mimic the mood created by the music.

Thank you !!!

I guess comments in shaders are interpreted literally by Magic which is kinda weird.
Also, uniform must be a semantic keyword / reserved word?

I really need to get beyond level one in GLSL so I can hack together effects more easily.

I'm new to GLSL, so I don't really even know where to get started on importing a shader like this into Magic :
https://www.shadertoy.com/view/3l23Rh
Simply taking the shadertoy into a text file and loading it in Magic is guaranteed to crash the app entirely.
Any help would be much appreciated.

@Eric any change of plans in the last 5 years? Supporting Debian Linux would be a huge win for Magic now that all Chromebooks come with a Debian Linux distro (Crostini) built in an optimized by Google.

@artnik I understand artists that slave away for many hours may not be willing to give away their work for free. However, I still think it would be beneficial to have a curated git repository that people can contribute towards if interested. @Eric I found those two posts MOST helpful and after readi...

I'm wondering how to make a video like this using Magic.

Is there a starter project file I can download and then just swap out the media (images) ?

Actually, I let Magic do the export on a remote desktop Mac Pro (in my closet) that has no audio gear (or monitor) hooked up. I'll look into whether I can up the sampling frequency on that machine for now. Thanks for the info. Also, as far as ffmpeg is concerned... you could just let macOS users do ...

I can see from ffprobe that the audio in an exported Magic video comes out in this format: Stream #0:0(und): Audio: aac (LC) (mp4a / 0x6134706D), 44100 Hz, stereo, fltp, 189 kb/s (default) But, I record a lot of my stuff in 48khz or 96khz and either 16 or 24 bit. What this means is that Magic is dow...

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