Screen recording in QuickTime X

I just discovered that QuickTime X has built in support for screen recording. I have been using iShowU for screen recordings for a while, and while it has the advantage of recording only a portion of the screen, the QT approach seems to be easier and quicker to work with. Short tutorial below:

New motiongram features

Inspired by the work Static no. 12 by Daniel Crooks that I watched at the Sydney Biennale a couple of weeks ago, I have added the option of scanning a single column in the jmod.motiongram% module in Jamoma. Here is a video that shows how this works in practice: About motiongrams A motiongram is a [...]

Black box in the lab

Last week we started setting up a “black box” in the new lab space. It is great to finally have a more permanent motion lab set up that we can use for various types of observation studies and recording sessions.

AudioVideoAnalysis

To allow everyone to watch their own synchronised spectrograms and motiongrams, I have made a small application called AudioVideoAnalysis. Download AudioVideoAnalysis for OS X (8MB) It currently has the following features: Draws a spectrogram from any connected microphone Draws a motiongram/videogram from any connected camera Press the escape button to toggle fullscreen mode Built with [...]

Sonification of Traveling Landscapes

I just heard a talk called “Real-Time Synaesthetic Sonification of Traveling Landscapes” (PDF) by Tim Pohle and Peter Knees from the Department of Computational Perception (great name!) in Linz. They have made an application creating music from a moving video camera. The implementation is based on grabbing a one pixel wide column from the video, [...]