Magic Music Visuals

Yes, there's a few ways to do this but here's one that doesn't require any extra stuff.

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Scrolling speed is controlled by the ramp. You may have to adjust the "3.55" value according to your selected image.

Hey, if you need midi/OSC then Performer otherwise Studio does everything else (https://magicmusicvisuals.com/features).

For 2) see this thread: https://magicmusicvisuals.com/forums/vi ... p?f=3&t=10

The forum is a great place to ask questions and advice.

This short tutorial gives a simple introduction to using the iterator - different application but hopefully should help.

Welcome to the forum and thank you for sharing.

You can get even more control using much fewer nodes by employing an Iterator node.

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https://magicmusicvisuals.com/downloads ... #Translate

It is hard to tell from your screen shot how complex your scenes are though I can just about make out that you're exporting to UHD. On my laptop, a 6 min playlist export to UHD takes approx 20 mins for OpenH264 and approx 15 mins for x264 exporting to NVME. How does this compare with yours?

Yes, I've just installed that myself for OBS 26 and it's working just fine. You'll notice in another forum thread that the NDI plugins for Magic have been updated to work with the current release. I think these are a bit less efficient than Spout but they have the advantage that they will work betwe...

Yay! Thanks Lynn.

How far in the past? I've just tried a version of Magic from over a year ago (64 and 32) and OBS can't see the output window. Streamlabs may have diverged from OBS though I don't think it has in any fundamental way. In my short spell of streaming in Mar/Apr this year, I remember opting to use spout ...

The JSON wasn't properly formed and the input image wasn't being referenced. I can't see how this would have ever worked. Try this one.

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The vertex shader (vs) was needed for the Sort Smear. The Watercolor doesn't work because the shader is multi-buffer and the MMV converted doesn't support that (yet).

Copy the .vs file to the same directory as the .fs file.

Images and video can have transparency (alpha) and other elements don't have backgrounds (polys, models etc.) To get transparency in images use PNG or transparent GIF. To have transparency in video use HAP or ProRes 4444. DXV2 also supports alpha and plays in Magic but DXV3 with alpha doesn't. If yo...

Use the Internal playback time value to sync the video start with the audio.

You might like a video I did a while ago...

There are several ways to get the display from another computer into Magic, but I would suggest you split the audio from the video and use them separately in Magic.

Do you mean zoom out very slowly or start very slowly? You can use almost any function you like (x, 1/x, x^2, sin(x) etc.) but I find this quite challenging mainly because zoom speed is dependent on the content and is also quite subjective. For example, zooming out from an exquisite eye, I'd want th...

Some sort of smoothing function. Note that as two shaders (or whatever) are being mixed they're both running together.

Is you polygon/waveform connected to the magic module?
In the Input Sources window, does it show Source 1:<your audio filename>?
Why change gain to +24?
Can you see anything in the output window (e.g non-reactive simple polygon)?

I immediately recognised it was somewhere in rural Scotland and had to find out. Your a bit further north than I've been but still recognisable nonetheless and nice to see. Your use of kaleidoscope and mirroring in the first video is one of the only acceptable (IMHO 8-) ) use of that effect. In fact...

Have a look in this thread and see if your comp is similar in complexity:
https://magicmusicvisuals.com/forums/vi ... f=2&t=1726

Your 2080ti should be able to handle most things though. Make sure Magic is actually using it.

It really depends on what modules you're referring to. Some shaders will kill framerate no matter what GPU have. As to GPU resources does that 50% refer to 3D, memory or one of the other metrics?

it can only send a value of 1 when it is pushed. a) See Eric's top tip here: https://magicmusicvisuals.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=986&p=4407 b) I have a momentary button sending OSC to a module with Increase modifier set to 0. When I hold the button the value increases. When I release t...

Use an expression. Expressions can reference global variables. Expressions use x to refer to the value in the modifier stack. Expressions can be bypassed through midi/osc like any other modifier. Multiple expressions can be stacked in the same expression modifier or in separate modifiers. Module par...

Adding the absolute value of the -ve Z clip plane to the +ve clip plane gives 99.9. You could always scale 2d planes if you wanted to have them not clip - would look even more pixelated though.

Thanks for the heads up. I had downloaded this a while back but never took the time to get into it. It seems there's a new version in the works that will bring 3d FX (currently all FX are 2d) and improvements to turbulence and secondary particles - assuming they'll make it into the stand-alone versi...

I don't think this is possible with the current set of modifiers/midi features - happy to be proved wrong though. If you stick only to video clips it can be achieved by setting each video length to 10 seconds. You can fire each video individually, in sequence or randomly via midi and they will only ...

There's an Android app that turns camera input into OSC.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... et.videosc

You can use any midi or OSC device to turn off or bypass any module.

Hi, The coordinate system can't be changed but you can access all of the screen with some simple arithmetic. A sine oscillator goes from 0 to 1. To get it to oscillate to the extents of the coordinate system (-1 to 1 in Y), Scale (multiply) by 2 (now it oscillates from 0 to 2) then Offset (Add) by -...

I had no problems going from Magic to OBS via NDI either on the same PC or a second PC.

Perhaps set the random value to the length of the video (in seconds).

You can blend any two modules together with the Blend module. It has many blend modes including 'overlay'.

Hey, thanks. This great shader is not mine - I wish I had that skill and knowledge, maybe one day - but the tight responsiveness perhaps comes from using stems. You are correct that there is a bit of a disconnect between the aesthetic of the shader and the dancers section - I was encouraged to make ...

My last magic commission...careful with the strobey bits.

You could render out one long export of the playlist then use a video splitter. Or export the playlist to images and then generate separate videos from those.

Translate in Y so the bottom of your rect is in the middle of the screen. Then scale in Y as Eric said. Then translate your rect back to wherever you want.

It is great that you've got the oscilloscope lines nice and smooth - it's very music dependent.

It can be challenging to find old posts sometimes - is this it?
https://magicmusicvisuals.com/forums/vi ... 126&p=5129

Thanks for the workflow tip - I should use coloured annotations more than I do. You should note, however, that you can keep annotations visible (including their colour) even when minimised. I use this quite a lot just to keep minimized modules a little bigger (to maintain layout). dont_minimise.png

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What I think you need is a weighted monochrome, though this doesn't come with Magic.

Try this: https://editor.isf.video/shaders/5e7a7f ... 18206dde8e

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Do you mean something like this?

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I think this is has been talked about before on the forums - how to stop modules resetting when they're not active. The attached project shows this in action and a work-around. The work-around isn't ideal since it means multiple scenes need to be running together, scene_keep_alive.magic In Scene 0 t...

Hi GT, The most exciting aspect for me in this video is the filaments following the contours of the video. There are many parts of producing a video like this that take time and are quite challenging. One that I don't particularly enjoy but which has to be done is adapting a visual idea or theme to ...

Here is something I discovered last night that I think is pretty cool. The video module can play text files! It auto scrolls text files rendered using the MSDOS prompt font. The scrolling is a bit clunky but it opens the door to a world of ascii art not to mention the potential that brings within th...

Thank you Eric. Apologies for the strobe - it was intended to build up to the drop but it didn't come out in the export as I expected. I fixed it in an alternative render for FB - still a bit strobey though.

My latest experiment.

Perhaps capture the output of this app somehow>?

https://asdfg.me/osci/

Use the playlist. Have each scene (with track details etc) change at the appropriate time as specified in the playlist. So, lets say you have 5 tracks in one audio file. You would have 5 scenes in the play list. You can use playback control to change scenes according to playback time.

There have been requests for this before and I would welcome support for syncing video with its own audio. I have found that even when I try to start a video with an audio source they are never in sync at the end even if they were ever in sync to start with. But, it depends on how much synchronisati...

Great idea and nicely executed. I would have been tempted to use trails to reveal more of the head earlier, but leaving it sparse is more intriguing.

This doesn't work with all objects but it does add AO-like definition to suitable objects.

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Yeah, $50 euro for that one - nice though it is.

Hey Scott, what do mean by 'sources' and 'mix' and 'multiple inputs'? it's tricky to figure out what you're trying to achieve.

I would create a white 2d grid of squares for the pads and use that as a mask for any effect or video. You could do the same for the knobs, but I'd be tempted to model (one of) those in blender and animate them in Magic.

You originally asked... wondering if anybody could give me some pointers [how to] change the transparency on the wave form and background at :56 in my video Nothing about audio in your question. You can make the Increase modifier respond to audio, but then it's not a timer. Please be more clear abou...

Yes you can do this within a scene. Create a global with an increase modifier to use as a timer. Then add an expression to your transparency something like if (timer<56, 1, 0) - this will cut your media in at 56 seconds. You can add a smooth after the expression to fade in (or out). It is probably e...

This is not real-time unfortunately but does look to provide consistent background removal using a clean matt. Hopefully it will come to users fairly soon in some form or another.

https://grail.cs.washington.edu/project ... d-matting/

I have experienced this sort of thing many times with the Iterator - if one adjusts iterated parameters or the number of iterations the changes get propagated with a bit of delay (or at least, differently initialised transformations) and stay like that until the scene is synchronised. This idiosyncr...

Create an image of three wide rectangles coloured green, yellow and red in the correct proportions. Then mask the image with your spectrum. You can mask using the mask node or the blend node with multiply.

I was about to post myself requesting NDI to become more integrated. Us PC users are lucky enough to have leadedge's extensions but what's missing is the audio. I'm trying to take a DJ stream into Magic via NDI directly but instead I have to pipe it into vMix first and have vMix send the audio to a ...

Eric wrote:I can't find the post right now, but there was a discussion about being able to do things by using the mouse in the Magic window.

Perhaps from 2016: https://magicmusicvisuals.com/forums/vi ... ndow#p4303

With regards to mouse control - perhaps temporary binding to the mouse or OSC would be convenient?

In OBS. Tools -> NDI Output -> check Main.

Perhaps I have misinterpreted you question (as I am wont to do on occasion) but does this help?

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If not, perhaps describe further what your trying to achieve.

If your two PCs are fairly modern then just connect them together with a cat6 network cable. Then you can NDI from the Magic machine to OBS on the streaming machine without relying on a wifi network. This assumes that your laptop (and your other PC) has an RJ45 socket of course. If you're streaming ...

Remix of the shader from BoyC - otherwise, completely in MMV.

Tune: Hold My Hand, Unkle (Dubfire Remix)

Hey Philip, Get NDI Tools from NewTek: https://ndi.tv/tools/#download-tools Get NDI Magic plugins via: https://magicmusicvisuals.com/resources Get OBS Get NDI for OBS: https://github.com/Palakis/obs-ndi/releases/tag/4.7.1 Set up NDI as a source in OBS and enter your stream key for wherever you want ...

I know what you mean about not being a fan of your own voice! OK just so we get definitions right, a chaser describes the effect of displaying something across each mapped surface in turn. If you can imagine 3 sides of a cube being viewed from a corner and the projection shows content on each side i...

Any text editor will do. You will see its source when you edit it.

Most modules are fine but there's few shaders that could do with an option to respect alpha.

Try this instead...

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It is a good question and a difficult one to answer. In my experience it is perhaps for a number of reasons - take all with suspicion. Firstly, we live in the most vibrantly visual world full of fantasy, hyperrealism, psychedelics, tone, aesthetic that has been developing for centuries. It is a visu...

A tutorial would be welcome, thanks. Chasers and other (cliche?) PM effects, achieving accurate predictable perspective foreshortening, the practical mapping process, directing content to individual slices, slice groups or all slices.

MMV can handle a small range of textured 3d model file-types. As others have found, the most reliable for textured objects is collada DAE. Other than that, as you say, no PBR, HDR lighting, etc. Remember that MMV walks the line between frame-rate, latency and visual quality. That said, there are sev...

Have two scenes, one with the logo in the middle and the second with the logo moving to the corner. Control the timing with the playlist.

Some cool stuff Kvasnik - especially like the immersive cubes towards the end. Any insight as to how you achieved the mapping?

Rather than specifically for text, this drop shadow method, and many other effects, can be applied to any element. For example "Stylise->Edges" will give you thin outline and Erode a thicker outline which can be applied over the original text. You can make glows by blurring and applying th...

Yes it is possible. A translate module configured thus will move its input to the bottom right corner and stop there when the scene is first opened or re-synchronised.

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Now go buy it

Sorry, I've since uninstalled Cakewalk and VoiceMeeter. What I remember is that CW allowed me to enable 4 of 8 outputs to VM (not sure if mono or stereo) in driver preferences. I wasn't sure which routes would work so I just cycled through what was available in Magic and in the CW track list. I used...

I don't know or own Ableton so I downloaded free Cakewalk to test this. With the help of VoiceMeeter I managed to route separate tracks from that DAW into Magic. Just audio. voicemeeter.png I piped them into corresponding Waveforms each with a different source. I could see the different channels in ...

Assuming your comp resolution is 3840x1080...

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I don't remember ever being able to output different scenes to each projector but its been years since spanning was available.

Do you have a use-case for AR? I guess there would be an possible avenue for interactive installation but AR is, by definition, from a single user's perspective - either through mobile device or AR/VR wearables. If there was a way to get the iPad screen syphoned into Magic, multiple people could see...

There are over 36,000 shaders on ShaderToy. Their licence is CC share-alike non-commercial in order to encourage learning and sharing techniques. It doesn't matter if the shader is explicit about licencing, they are non-commercial by default. Some shader may be more explicit. In a perfect world we w...

I had no problems with it. Did you unzip everything and open pascha_guard_head.obj?

Fake 3d from a single seamless image.

Rotate the starfield on the Y-axis by 0.5.

is that food?!

I wouldn't go so far to as to call hamentashen food, but, yes, it is edible.

Open Timer.magic.

Edit the Global "seconds": change the source to Internals and select the Playback Time feature. Disable or delete the Increase modifier.

That's it!

Create a new scene and call it Horizontal Lines and create this:

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Then in your spectrum scene, mask the spectrum with the scene you just created.

Any midi controller would work with Magic. I have a APC40 Mk1 and it was simple to set up. I use a tablet with Touch OSC in preference now though since I could never remember to what button I'd assigned control. Physical button are nice but the tablet is smaller and more configurable and I can label...

https://magicmusicvisuals.com/forums/vi ... 1441#p6720

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I reckon it might be Trapcode - either Tau or Particular.

I may have tried this a long, long time ago and can't remember any problems - certainly I have monitored/started renders remotely. My guess is (could be way off) that the remote desktop is running on your integrated GPU and Magic is running on the NVidia GPU and the remote desktop can't access the M...

You could try Hold.

The iterator is one of the few modules that doesn't seem to do much by itself and because there are several aspects to it, it could be tricky to understand. With an iterator in the circuit, the # is propagated back to all modules that access the internal Iterator or the iterator source. Each module ...

Perhaps you want something more sophisticated but a randomised transparency seems to be acceptable to me.

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First Random controls the full ON/OFF flicker and the second the more subtle flickers. The offset controls the intensity and the threshold controls the amount of full ON/OFF.

I am against video soup with few exceptions and there's always a risk when combining multiple techniques and multiple elements that one ends up with (literally blended) soup. There's also a risk that continually adding effects and reactivity, that other elements get lost or overwhelmed. In this vide...

No, no 3D models here. But the skull is all done in Magic. In the first video the the background is a shader and the second is a render from AE.

Same technique as:

Magic doesn't currently have any built-in projection mapping capabilities but it is not too arduous to roll you're own, as long as you're not too adventurous. Moving content planes around in 3D space is one way but since you can place individual corners this is a bit tricky for non-perpendicular sur...

Another with a more suitable background but on the same theme...

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