another way to record your performances is to mirror your display and feed the output with a dv camera or some other device. recording your actions is brilliant but a lot of effort during patching. marius.
Claude Heiland-Allen wrote: > Dudley Brooks wrote: >> Meanwhile, what recommendations does anyone have for other methods of >> making a DVD of Gem output, > > I record my actions during performance, then later play them back into > my patch with pix_write and writesf~ activated. Pd uses 1000% CPU load, > and stutters during rendering, but audio and video remain in sync. > > I have the [gemwin] at 720x576 25fps, for PAL DVD rendering. > > Then simply encode the TIFF files with your video software - I have a > longwinded process that works with the following free tools: > > for video: > > convert > manypngtoppm [1] > ppmtoy4m > y4mscaler (because ppmtoy4m is crap at chroma subsampling) > mpeg2enc > > for audio: > > audacity (to trim to exact length, normalize volume, etc) > twolame > > then: > > mplex > > and finally: > > dvdauthor > mkisofs > growisofs > >> *not* necessarily involving having Gem >> itself create a file? > > maybe recordmydesktop - but I seem to recall it supports only Ogg codecs... > > > BTW, I'm on Linux, but the above tools might work on OS X too. > > > Claude > > [1] converts multiple pngs into one ppm stream > > https://devel.goto10.org/filedetails.php?repname=maximus&path=%2Fmanypngtoppm%2Fmanypngtoppm.c&rev=0&sc=0 > _______________________________________________ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list