Tue, 23 Nov 2010 12:00am

Blog | Vizzie comes to Max/MSP/Jitter 5

I've been thinking about upgrading to Max/MSP/Jitter 5 for a while now. I am quite happy with version 4.6 and had been putting off the expense of the upgrade. However, two things have persuaded me to part with my cash and buy the upgrade. Firstly, the upgrade price has been temporarily reduced to $199 (approx. £127) for a full upgrade - which is a decent saving of $100. The second is the addition of Vizzie. Vizzie is a set of Jitter "meta" patches that make accessing Jitter video processing functionality really easy in Max/MSP/Jitter 5.

Often you have to code many common operations in Jitter repeatedly. For example, creating a simple QuickTime video player involves setting a metro, reading the video, patching this to a jit.qt.movie object and then patching this to a jit.window object. This is something you add to almost all Jitter patches and you have to code it time and time again (or copy and paste from another patch).

Vizzie does all of this (and many other common Jitter things) in a single meta object. It has effects processors, brightness/contrast/saturations controllers and many more meta objects. I've only just started to play with it, but it already looks like it will save me loads of time when creating Jitter patches. Even better, it came free when I upgraded.

Visit Cycling'74 for more information about Vizzie and the current upgrade offers.

Author: Sean Clark