Otogranulator
a simple VJing tool using video granulation

Otogranulator is a simple VJing tool based on the idea of "video granulation". It has been developed during my stay in Croatia, mostly on the Island of Vis during a camp called "Otokultivator 2".

Otogranulator takes a live video feed (from a camera or VCR), and analyzes the overall motion in it to determine starting points for recording short "Video Granules" (clips of up to 4 seconds) to memory. Up to five of these clips are held at the same time and can be triggered by pressing keys on the keyboard. When a clip is playing, it will ping-pong forwards-backwards, and if the key is pressed again, it will restart from the beginning. This way, the VJ can easily transform the rhytmic audio processed by his ears into rhytmic video on the beamer. The "Gamba Feature", named after the guy who had the idea, allows the live feed to be overlayed over the clip on nine rectangular areas.

readme
sources

Otogranulator 1.0

Binaries
otogranulator-1.0.zip, 263kB (for BeOS x86)



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