Max/MSP Green Screen Project // Part 1

[[[after this video, check out Part 2? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSQ7xyqfdvQ ]]]

This video was made through a combination of self-shot green screen footage, a song I recorded, and a real-time video effects processing patch I made in Max/MSP.

Basically the patch I made allows you to input a video, then assigns starting positions of that video into 40 keys of your computer keyboard (1 - 0 // Q - P // A - ; // Z - . ) For instance, by pressing the "5" key, the video might cut to the part where I'm laying down, while pressing the "k" key would cut to me standing like a buffoon on one leg.

So while listening to the song, I pressed different keys to the beat. Thus, the weird glitchy-twitchy movements. For Part 2 of this video, I took the outcome of THAT video and ran it through another patch that applies certain effects when I press specific keys on the keyboard.

The video is pretty low quality (sorry about that), but that's due to the CPU I had to work with. The lower I set the quality, the more instantaneously the video would apply the effects when I hit the keys on the keyboard.

Ultimately, the idea was to make your keyboard behave (in real-time) like a drum pad, except instead of sounding audio every time you press a button, it applies different effects/cuts to different points of the video that's been uploaded.


Reason #1728 out of 91827499124 as to why I Love (capital L) Max/MSP.




Yes, I have a written list of over 91+ trillion reasons.

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[varietyp]

That was awesome. How did you time yourself to the music? I mean the video footage? Did you use the graph editor in max?