Comments on: Sampler

By: Bios

Bios — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:39:25 +0000

Thank you for sharing this great plugin. I’ve ported it for CoGe.

By: tom

tom — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 11:45:08 +0000

Alex, limit is because you’ll likely start running out of memory with more. You can have multiple instances of the plugin, what you’re describing sounds doable. Not sure what you mean with the skipping, but you can set the Time Base to external in Quartz Composer and manipulate patch time if you want to skip within the recorded buffer.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 21:21:59 +0000

Hi Tom,

First of all, thank you this is amazing. I stumbled across it while looking for something else, but I have actually been looking for this for ages.

Is the limit of 30 seconds recording time there for a particular reason, i.e hardware limitations or would the plugin function if the recording was say 1 minute to 2 minutes? Also is there a way to record 3 or four clips and have them all repeat skipping out the bits in the middle?

Thank you for an amazing plugin.

Alex

By: tom

tom — Mon, 23 May 2011 10:04:42 +0000

Hi. The bottleneck you’re hitting is likely in transferring video from the GPU to main memory; CPU usage should always be minimal. I have an update in the works which may improve things for you: if you’re interested in testing it, drop me an e-mail.

By: Andreas

Andreas — Mon, 23 May 2011 09:49:40 +0000

Great patch. I would like to use it more in VDMX.
Is there something you can do to optimise its performance in terms of Multitasking?
Running several instances of the thing now makes the overall frame rate drop significantly. But monitoring the CPU usage there is plenty left.

By: tom

tom — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 11:25:52 +0000

The slow-down is as it allocates memory beyond available RAM – so the real solution is more RAM. I could improve the way it asks for memory though – I’ll think about that for a future update…

By: blackburst

blackburst — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 04:57:22 +0000

Hi Tom

I use ur plug heaps, it really is handy, but I found that it heavily affects my framerate in vdmx. My layer fps can go from 30+ fps to around 18-20 when I switch on the plug. Weirdly the framerate is worse when just enabled, then gets better when it’s actually looping or recording. Are you aware of this, is it just something to live with?

By: tom

tom — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 00:02:00 +0000

Hi Christian
I’ve just updated the download to include a qcFX – it might work for you as-is, otherwise hopefully it’s a useful start.
holler if you’re still stuck – T

By: christian

christian — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 12:48:29 +0000

hey tom,
i am trying to build a little vdmx plugin that allows me to sample the image of one layer and output it.
how would I go about doing this? I am a bit of a newbie with qc.
,christian

By: tom

tom — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:54:31 +0000

Hi – as long as you’re recording, the current input frame is used for output – ie as frame 1 is recorded, you get frame 1 as output. You should be seeing that behaviour, yes?

You describe a one-frame offset, which you could achieve by putting a Queue patch downstream from the Sampler with a length of 2, and take its oldest frame as output.