March 26, 2006
GRID PRO cocoa native beta out
ray from vidvox is an animal..now wehave the FIRST full res 640x480 HD 6 layer realtime vj app. This is the earliest that vidvox has ever put a work out for beta...but this looks really promising, built on core image and cocoa native unniversal binary.. runs on old macs or intel macs...as ray says "its a pacifier while i finish vdmx.." Anyway, go grab it... early early ;)
Direct downlad link..1.3mb
from vidvox:
first of all: the following beta requires tiger, and a machine with a decent (coreimage-capable) graphics card. it's a universal binary, and it runs just fine on intel-based macs. if you try to use it on a machine that doesn't have a fast enough graphics card, clips just won't play back.
if playback is poor, it's probably because your graphics card isn't fast enough. we'll certainly work on improving performance on low-end machines as soon as we're able, but right now the priority is getting all the features working. for the time being, everything is based on coreimage, and the name of the game is fast graphics cards. i know that toby's rev-A imac g5 (nvidia something-something 5200, 64mb) certainly doesn't like this beta, but it seems to fare quite well on 2-year old alumabooks (we've got access to a 1.25 and a 1.5, and they crunch 640x480 clips like nothin'- off the internal drive, no less). macbook pros seem to be able to crunch HD off an external drive. as i'm writing this, dave is telling me that the g5 is crunching two 1280x720 HD files with fx driven by audio analysis. the general consensus so far seems to be that this is exponentially more powerful than the current version of gridpro- we'd love to hear how it runs on your machine, too.
this beta doesn't have a time-out, and doesn't expire. when it launches, it attempts to check to see if an update is available; you do *not* need the internet, this check is purely optional. if it sees that there's a new version available, it'll open a page in a web browser with a list of updates and a link to the new version. downloading the update is optional, but it makes everybody's lives easier if you're not experiencing/reporting bugs we've already fixed. updates will be frequent (no set schedule, but every couple days or so).
here's how it works:
you drag files into the media bin (below where it says "drop files below"). double-click on folders to explore their contents, click on files to trigger them. drag fx from the lists in the "Layer Compositor" window to any fx chain. have fun!
the bugs to watch out for:
- if your external display is above or below your main display, going fullscreen will make your main display go fullscreen. if the external display is to the left or the right of the main screen, everything works properly.
- the only thing that saves at the moment are behavior chains. saving fx chain presets and the contents of the media bin (which will include a whole brace of features that haven't been implemented yet) are coming [very] shortly. this isn't really a bug, but it's inconvenient enough to be worth mentioning.
mostly, this beta is missing features. this is definitely the earliest we've let something go public (this specific app has been in development for just over two weeks), so we ask that you bear with us while we get things up to speed.
Posted by exiledsurfer at 01:10 AM
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We've been having a back channel conversation amongst the trackers at unmediated about how/whether to update the way in which we aggregate, present, and make useable the content on the site, in light of all the various aggregators, digg and its clones, and role model group blog sites that we all consume/use/hate/love. Since we all primarily support open media movements and the freedom of bits and so forth, and with all of us being busy with our primary projects, we are looking for ways to make getting content on the site easier and more streamlined, while making it obvious that we are presenting other sources content. With the availability of open API's for just about any type of media aggegration literally getting past the saturation point, and mashups taking every possible form, we are wondering, is it time to take a step back, or a step forward with how/what we do at umediated? In the course of my surfing today, i found this new site, Boxxet Which just might be the straw that breaks the camel's back in how we all perceive the current mix and match nature of the web as it now stands. What's different about Boxxet from other aggregators and mashups like the newest entry popurls, (which aggregates digg, slashdot, reddit, newsvine, tailrank, and flickr) is that Boxxet is a Website generator. Thats right, just pop in all the urls u want to aggregate (and WHAT from them) choose how u want to format it, plug in the url that u want it to be accessed at... and whammo: Your own site with everyone elses content, and all thats left to do is decide whether googleplex or yahooza is going to be the source of your linklove revenue. And if u have on older domain that u plug this into...well, we all know how the pageranking with search engines work by now. It used to be that u had to have a bit of code knowledge to make all this stuff work. Eyebeam's Re-blog engine which powers this site was not a simple undertaking at the time that Michael Frumin and Michael Migurski put it all together... a half a year before Marc Broadband-mechanicked the term Reblog as his latest buzzword before casting his attention on the ourmedia-meme. (kudo's, kudo's) But now, with the cut and paste mentality of webculture that we at unmediated have helped create, the pace at which people are remixing and repurposing code is accelerating at a rate similar to the curve that we saw with pro-sumer desktop video... almost anyone can do it. I have this sinking feeling in my gut that we will arrive sooner than later at the same existential threshold that the film studios and record labels are squirming under to our joyful cries of "die, dinosaurs, die!". What i am wondering, is how long until my hero of the open-information movement, Cory Doctorow, and the rest of our pals at BB will tolerate re-aggregation and repurposing of his content, (now that he is investing so much more time at the site) before he (or any of one us) screams, "FOUL!" Stewart Butterfield over at Flickr is dealing with this beast at the moment...and i have to admire the dryness with which he states, "I loaded the FlickrCentral pool and firefox got up to using 240mb of ram before dying. So that's not a great user experience, but it's really terrible for Flickr. If it catches on and you don't limit it, we'll have to cut you off :\" Sure, Stewart, blame it on the user experience and firefox. ;) I admire your candor, and personal attention/approach to what has become one of the hottest new BRANDS in Web 2.0 ...that u still have time to be personal and all flickr-fuzzy even after being acquired, but I am sure that your jeans feel like they're fitting a bit tighter all of a sudden. Pretty soon, I expect, a lot of us bell-bottomed infornistas are going to wake up in a similar pair of Jordaches. I'm curious which of us will cut the inseams and sew in another totally different material to keep our style,and which of us will claim that now that we're wearing skintight jeans ("they're really really comfortable...REALLY! You think i should get a pair of Reeboks to go with 'em?"), that the manufacture of bell-bottoms should be forbidden. I point this all out in good humour only to illustrate a point: The times, they are('nt) a changin'>, and Cory just might wake up one day soon in his magic kingdom, and say "Hey, man, where'd all my whuffie go? And he's going to have no choice but to join Walt's pinstripesuits in pushing for copyright extension. It's a pill i hope he (and we) never have to swallow. So i pose the question to our community readers: How do you see unmediated-Are we crossing the boundaries in how we repurpose content? Would you like to see more editorializing? Narrower/Broader scope? Are we a repository of information that you come back to use, or just part of your daily information addiction? Let us know... I, for one, would like to have an idea about what pair of jeans to wear this year ;) michael
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