I forgot to add example projects made with framesync, I think that's the best way to explain what it does:

• the library started with project, using frame and camera data from the Maya project used to generate the video:

http://at.or.at/hans/nohtimegarden/

• the core concepts were nailed down in this project. The video was done with a custom Processing-based animation framework, and the video programmers generated data dumps which I used to generate the sound:

http://at.or.at/hans/terrenatale/

• things were nailed down in this project, which was again generated using the Processing-based animation framework and data dumps to Pd (full source code available):

http://at.or.at/hans/undervine/

(FYI, the 'many' library was also developed as part of these projects)

.hc

On Apr 10, 2012, at 10:50 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

Finally, after a few years, I've made a framesync release! Its been working really well for me, now we can see how it'll work for you ;).

http://puredata.info/downloads/framesync

framesync is a library for syncing sounds to video using frame numbers as the unit of time. It was developed as part of the sound design for a number of video projects: nohTimegarden with Claudia Hart, the Cartier Foundation's Terre Natale project, and most recently Undervine with Bobby Pietrusko and Stewart Smith. There are a couple of concepts in this library necessary to understand in order to use it:

• the FPS (Frames-Per-Second) is a global value set everywhere

• the frameclock is global, and each framesync object receives it automatically

• the frameclock starts at 0 and flows linearly

.hc

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