Video projection tools v2.1 (may 2008)

(updated may 29th to v 2.1 (osX+win), updated documentation and added more video tutorials)

NB! There might be some download issues this week (june 2nd-6th) as my service provider BEK is updating their servers. Here is an alternative download link (mediafire).

Below you will find two self-contained applications made using maxmsp and jitter from cycling74 (so you dont need to buy their software to use them, but I encourage you to take a look as it is a very powerful and flexible software).

The videoprojection tool was developed during a workshop I gave for students of scenography, choreography and directing at KHIO in Norway june 2007, and further developed for the workshop I had at the medialab prado in Madrid may 2008 (including some features from the newly released max 5).
The workshops were an introduction to working with video as a tool for creating and transforming spaces: to thinking of video as light, and how you can mask a projection to project on multiple objects and surfaces within the projector´s projection angle and to exploit the depth of field in video projectors.

The software, built in max/msp with jitter from cycling74, is made to work for both OS X and windows xp/vista.
It works with 3 planes of video which can be placed in a 3D space (openGL). Each layer can be scaled,placed,rotated,tinted and masked individually, and accept quicktime video files, live camera feed and a simple live drawing tool as sources.

There are 3 quictime source modules, each accepts a folder of videos.
The live module can use any camera recognized by your system (quicktime on mac, directx on windows)
The drawing tool is mainly intended as a way of creating a rough mask for the objects you want to project on, which can be edited in a image-editing application for smoother and nicer-looking masks if needed.
The application contains a powerful preset and cuelist storage system, making it possible to make complex transitions between scenes.

There are many things which can be improved, but don´t necessarily expect it to happen, as this was mainly created as way to get quickly started with working with video in space in a workshop setting. The main development has happened before/during the workshops, so the best way to have the software updated is to invite me to give a workshop

For more info/inspiration on projection into spaces or onto physical objects check out the relief projection 2008, relief projection and masking projections posts.

System requirements
Mac: Mac PPC or Intel machine running OS X 10.4 or later, with QuickTime 7.1 (or later), an OpenGL-compatible graphics card, and OpenGL 1.4 (or later).

windows: xp or vista with  QuickTime 7.1 (or later), an OpenGL-compatible graphics card, and OpenGL 1.4 (or later).

Downloads (click here for alternative links):

documentation videoprojectiontool

documentation capture tool

video walkthrough of software (1-7: 7 qt movies compressed into a 111mb archive)

video walkthrough 8-10: additions in v2.1 (5mb)

videoprojection tool for mac OS X (v2.1)

capture tool for mac OS X

videoprojection tool for windows xp/vista (v2.1)

capture tool for windows

NB!! Windows users who don´t have max or any other visual C++ related programs installed needs to install the Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package(x86) which can be found here.

Downloads hosted by BEK.

pdf´s created using the freeware PDFlab for osX.