Hi all,
I'm about to go out and buy a webcam for integration of live footage. via gem's pix_video, into my current patch. Any advice tips etc on what to look for?
I'm using Mac OS X and preferably want a firewire cam due to available ports. What works, what doesn't?...or can I buy any cam?!
Cheers, Jonathan
I'm using Apple iSight with GEM/PD on Mac OS X Tiger. Everything is pretty much fine, except for the autofocus roaming, which sometimes happens if you point iSight at something like a flat white wall, but autofocusing can be switched off by sending [dialog( message to pix_video and configuring everything in the appearing dialog.
Vasily
On Feb 9, 2006, at 6:02 PM, Jonathan Goodwin wrote:
Hi all,
I'm about to go out and buy a webcam for integration of live
footage. via gem's pix_video, into my current patch. Any advice tips etc on what
to look for?I'm using Mac OS X and preferably want a firewire cam due to available ports. What works, what doesn't?...or can I buy any cam?!
Cheers, Jonathan
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Thank you that's a great advice! auto focus on iSight happens too
often for me and the image gets blurred for some time and the patch
gets lost.
AshK
On 9 févr. 06, at 14:55, Vasily Kuznetsov wrote:
I'm using Apple iSight with GEM/PD on Mac OS X Tiger. Everything is pretty much fine, except for the autofocus roaming, which sometimes happens if you point iSight at something like a flat white wall, but autofocusing can be switched off by sending [dialog( message to pix_video and configuring everything in the appearing dialog.
Vasily
On Feb 9, 2006, at 6:02 PM, Jonathan Goodwin wrote:
Hi all,
I'm about to go out and buy a webcam for integration of live
footage. via gem's pix_video, into my current patch. Any advice tips etc on
what to look for?I'm using Mac OS X and preferably want a firewire cam due to
available ports. What works, what doesn't?...or can I buy any cam?!Cheers, Jonathan
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Phew!
Just got in from trudging the city centre of Plymouth...no Firewire webcams, only USB! Doh!
How do USB cams fare with the PD, GEM and Mac OS X combo? I'm sure I read somewhere that they won't work, am I right?...should I just be ordering a FW cam online already?!
Jonathan
On 9/2/06 14:26, "AshK" ashk@azylum.net wrote:
Thank you that's a great advice! auto focus on iSight happens too often for me and the image gets blurred for some time and the patch gets lost.
AshK
On 9 févr. 06, at 14:55, Vasily Kuznetsov wrote:
I'm using Apple iSight with GEM/PD on Mac OS X Tiger. Everything is pretty much fine, except for the autofocus roaming, which sometimes happens if you point iSight at something like a flat white wall, but autofocusing can be switched off by sending [dialog( message to pix_video and configuring everything in the appearing dialog.
Vasily
On Feb 9, 2006, at 6:02 PM, Jonathan Goodwin wrote:
Hi all,
I'm about to go out and buy a webcam for integration of live footage. via gem's pix_video, into my current patch. Any advice tips etc on what to look for?
I'm using Mac OS X and preferably want a firewire cam due to available ports. What works, what doesn't?...or can I buy any cam?!
Cheers, Jonathan
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hi, this is my personnal experience with webcam and Gem: i got usb cam : Phillips toucam 2
i had to dowload the macam drivers: http://webcam-osx.sourceforge.net/
and i got my face in Gem. not glorious, but it works.
hope you'll find a solution nicolas
Phew!
Just got in from trudging the city centre of Plymouth...no Firewire webcams, only USB! Doh!
How do USB cams fare with the PD, GEM and Mac OS X combo? I'm sure I read somewhere that they won't work, am I right?...should I just be ordering a FW cam online already?!
Jonathan
On 9/2/06 14:26, "AshK" ashk@azylum.net wrote:
Thank you that's a great advice! auto focus on iSight happens too often for me and the image gets blurred for some time and the patch gets lost.
AshK
On 9 févr. 06, at 14:55, Vasily Kuznetsov wrote:
I'm using Apple iSight with GEM/PD on Mac OS X Tiger. Everything is pretty much fine, except for the autofocus roaming, which sometimes happens if you point iSight at something like a flat white wall, but autofocusing can be switched off by sending [dialog( message to pix_video and configuring everything in the appearing dialog.
Vasily
On Feb 9, 2006, at 6:02 PM, Jonathan Goodwin wrote:
Hi all,
I'm about to go out and buy a webcam for integration of live footage. via gem's pix_video, into my current patch. Any advice tips etc on what to look for?
I'm using Mac OS X and preferably want a firewire cam due to available ports. What works, what doesn't?...or can I buy any cam?!
Cheers, Jonathan
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since the camera handling on os x is done by quicktime any usb or fw
cam should work with pd if it works in quicktime.
correct me if i'm wrong.
max
Am 09.02.2006 um 17:40 schrieb nico:
hi, this is my personnal experience with webcam and Gem: i got usb cam : Phillips toucam 2
i had to dowload the macam drivers: http://webcam-osx.sourceforge.net/
and i got my face in Gem. not glorious, but it works.
hope you'll find a solution nicolas
Phew!
Just got in from trudging the city centre of Plymouth...no
Firewire webcams, only USB! Doh!How do USB cams fare with the PD, GEM and Mac OS X combo? I'm sure
I read somewhere that they won't work, am I right?...should I just be
ordering a FW cam online already?!Jonathan
On 9/2/06 14:26, "AshK" ashk@azylum.net wrote:
Thank you that's a great advice! auto focus on iSight happens too often for me and the image gets blurred for some time and the patch gets lost.
AshK
On 9 févr. 06, at 14:55, Vasily Kuznetsov wrote:
I'm using Apple iSight with GEM/PD on Mac OS X Tiger. Everything is pretty much fine, except for the autofocus roaming, which sometimes happens if you point iSight at something like a flat white wall, but autofocusing can be switched off by sending [dialog( message to pix_video and configuring everything in the appearing dialog.
Vasily
On Feb 9, 2006, at 6:02 PM, Jonathan Goodwin wrote:
Hi all,
I'm about to go out and buy a webcam for integration of live footage. via gem's pix_video, into my current patch. Any advice tips etc on what to look for?
I'm using Mac OS X and preferably want a firewire cam due to available ports. What works, what doesn't?...or can I buy any cam?!
Cheers, Jonathan
On Feb 9, 2006, at 11:28 AM, Jonathan Goodwin wrote:
Phew!
Just got in from trudging the city centre of Plymouth...no Firewire
webcams, only USB! Doh!How do USB cams fare with the PD, GEM and Mac OS X combo? I'm sure
I read somewhere that they won't work, am I right?...should I just be
ordering a FW cam online already?!
...since you're using osx, you have the advantage (and sometimes
disadvantage) of quicktime's media handling: basically anything that
says it works with osx will work with gem on osx...this means usb,
usb2, or firewire...firewire seems desirable because of a higher
datarate, but you can usually only use one camera per firewire port,
especially when working with higher resolution images...otoh, several
usb cameras can be used on the same port, but they will be lesser
quality signals...
...if you are serious about video input, you want to stay away from
off-the-shelf cameras (they usually have crappy optics) and look to
other solutions; just search for "firewire" or "ieee-1394" cameras,
and you should find some $500-2000 cameras that have interchangeable
lens mounts...
james
I only need a cheap camera. Basically I'm making a video installation, which for the most part I am producing proper DV quality videos. But I just need a cheapy cam that I know will work with OS X to take crude footage for overlaying a distorted live feed of the installation's viewer over the other video streams.
Trouble is, just having a glance around online, not many manufacturers seem to be committing themselves to saying they will work with Macs. Grrr!
Jonathan
On 9/2/06 17:07, "james tittle" tigital@mac.com wrote:
On Feb 9, 2006, at 11:28 AM, Jonathan Goodwin wrote:
Phew!
Just got in from trudging the city centre of Plymouth...no Firewire webcams, only USB! Doh!
How do USB cams fare with the PD, GEM and Mac OS X combo? I'm sure I read somewhere that they won't work, am I right?...should I just be ordering a FW cam online already?!
...since you're using osx, you have the advantage (and sometimes disadvantage) of quicktime's media handling: basically anything that says it works with osx will work with gem on osx...this means usb, usb2, or firewire...firewire seems desirable because of a higher datarate, but you can usually only use one camera per firewire port, especially when working with higher resolution images...otoh, several usb cameras can be used on the same port, but they will be lesser quality signals...
...if you are serious about video input, you want to stay away from off-the-shelf cameras (they usually have crappy optics) and look to other solutions; just search for "firewire" or "ieee-1394" cameras, and you should find some $500-2000 cameras that have interchangeable lens mounts...
james
use Linux, lol
./d5
On Feb 9, 2006, at 12:20 PM, Jonathan Goodwin wrote:
I only need a cheap camera. Basically I'm making a video installation, which for the most part I am producing proper DV quality videos. But I just need a cheapy cam that I know will work with OS X to take crude footage for overlaying a distorted live feed of the installation's viewer over the other video streams.
Trouble is, just having a glance around online, not many manufacturers seem to be committing themselves to saying they will work with Macs. Grrr!
Jonathan
On 9/2/06 17:07, "james tittle" tigital@mac.com wrote:
On Feb 9, 2006, at 11:28 AM, Jonathan Goodwin wrote:
Phew!
Just got in from trudging the city centre of Plymouth...no Firewire webcams, only USB! Doh!
How do USB cams fare with the PD, GEM and Mac OS X combo? I'm sure I read somewhere that they won't work, am I right?...should I just be ordering a FW cam online already?!
...since you're using osx, you have the advantage (and sometimes disadvantage) of quicktime's media handling: basically anything that says it works with osx will work with gem on osx...this means usb, usb2, or firewire...firewire seems desirable because of a higher datarate, but you can usually only use one camera per firewire port, especially when working with higher resolution images...otoh, several usb cameras can be used on the same port, but they will be lesser quality signals...
...if you are serious about video input, you want to stay away from off-the-shelf cameras (they usually have crappy optics) and look to other solutions; just search for "firewire" or "ieee-1394" cameras, and you should find some $500-2000 cameras that have interchangeable lens mounts...
james
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Hi, I have a VideoCam Trek by Genius and it works in GEM with osX 10.3.9. It's very basic but works fine. It was about the only usbWebCam I found to work in osx (in mexico anyway)... be sure to get the driver's cd, since the one in the genius website is not working at the moment.
http://www.geniusnet.com.tw/product/product-1.asp?pdtno=564
good luck.
On 2/9/06, Jonathan Goodwin jonathan@jgoodwin.co.uk wrote:
Hi all,
I'm about to go out and buy a webcam for integration of live footage. via gem's pix_video, into my current patch. Any advice tips etc on what to look for?
I'm using Mac OS X and preferably want a firewire cam due to available ports. What works, what doesn't?...or can I buy any cam?!
Cheers, Jonathan
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