I just discovered a awesome feature in Tiger!
I was kidding around with the Modul8 2 Demo because i'm about to start VJing. After playing with it for a while i just went to the Quartz Composer (bundled with XCode) to see what it could do, i decided that i wanted a live video source from my camera in the composition, in QC you can do that in several forms, using masks, using portions of the screen, using transparencys, etc.
It worked well but it couldn't be used in a live performance because there's no intuitive and fast way to work with that program, so i closed QC and saved the .qtz in my desktop. For fun i decided to open it in Quicktime and see if it would open the live video source, but, where the video source should be was a green screen, anyway i pressed PLAY and the live vídeo appeared.
Then i thought; if i could open this in Modul8... but Modul8 doesn't open .qtz files, maybe if i save this file in a self contained .mov it may open... and guess what!!! It does!!!
This way you can make crazy compositions with live video inserted there and use it in your shows with no need to relay only in the layer format that is given to you.
I guess this can be used in other thousand ways, but it depends on the needs you have and what you want to do. I've had already several great ideas to use it.
I used the example of Modul8 but this may be true for manny other apps that use QT, even Keynote i guess, it would be fun to have live video in a presentation.
Stay well and enjoy!
José Lemos
This is a dupplicate of posts sent to other sites and foruns, but was copyed and pasted by the guy who wrote it, in this case me.
Can the GarageCube guys give me a copy of Modul8 2 for this fantastic discovery???
Please...