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Quartz Composition for You, moving Record with album cover as label
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Quartz Composition for You, moving Record with album cover as label

radikarl 11:09 AM - 10 February, 2010
Instructions:
download this file: www.filedump.net
1. load a mp3 file to a deck
2. place the corresponding album art in a folder, there may be other files in that folder, but no other images. i let itunes organize my stuff, so i just put the cover file in the folder where the album is stored.
3. COPY the quartz composition to the location where the corresponding album cover resides. in my case, i put it in the folder with all the mp3s of that album.
4. do not rename it. it wont work if you rename it.
5. add the quartz file to serato
6. edit the artist tag of the quartz file so it matches the record it is copied for.
7. load the quartz composition as video for one of the mp3s it corresponds to.
7.1 you might have to eject and reload that track on that deck, i don't know why...
8. enjoy spinning record effect
9. say "thank you" if you like it ;-)

Unfortunately, i can only read out the path of the quartz composition, if i could read the path of the playing mp3 file instead, this would be even better and universal for all tracks that have album art in their folder. copying the quartz file would not be necessary anymore.
This is due to the fact that the parameter "kSSV_SeratoDataPath" points to the location of the quartz file instead of the location of the mp3, that is why you need one copy of this composition per album.
radikarl 11:21 AM - 10 February, 2010
here is a very short demo i made.
Watchwww.youtube.com
DJ Pimp 11:47 AM - 10 February, 2010
Fucking amazing!!
PopRoXxX 2:35 PM - 10 February, 2010
I'm gonna try this when I get some free time radikarl. Thanks a ton! Sweet look!
radikarl 6:42 PM - 10 February, 2010
www.filedump.net

new version, i replaced the gif with png, now the edges aren't white anymore.
all clean!
a-swift 6:53 PM - 10 February, 2010
i wish i could get more high quality comps.
radikarl 6:57 PM - 10 February, 2010
by the way, it only works with hardware connected since it uses the needle position.
for some reason i did not get it to work with the song position
so ... sorry for those of you rocking in internal mode.
its pretty sad, seems the whole quartz support still has its bugs
radikarl 10:05 PM - 10 February, 2010
www.filedump.net
final version.

works in internal mode now with the "song position", too. it was my fault - there was a blank at the end of the input parameter.. how could i have doubted serato!!!

plus i added the dot in the middle aaaaaand



a moving tonearm.

enjoy
radikarl 10:56 AM - 11 February, 2010
it would be cool to have a "2 x 1 grid fade".
fode out from one deck, show both side by side, fade into the other.
should be very easy to implement, since 2 by 2 allready exists. is this possible?
or can i change that myself in some plist file?
radikarl 10:58 AM - 11 February, 2010
i've been looking at the contents of the video sl plug in, there are some ".faders" files, but way to few. does anyone know where to look?
radikarl 6:26 PM - 14 February, 2010
please, anyone from serato...
can you tell me if it is possible to read the path of the playing mp3 instead of the playing quartz file?? this would be useful for a lot of compositions
nik39 9:02 PM - 14 February, 2010
You can't. These were mostly security reasons IIRC. A dodgy QC could delete or alter your audio files.
radikarl 7:39 AM - 15 February, 2010
ok, thank you
radikarl 9:39 AM - 31 March, 2010
the current version with some improvements (more natural movement) can be found here:
www.toka-disco.de
Dj Ace 5:43 AM - 23 June, 2011
to i have to convert my logo to a movie to use this?
...it is a png
radikarl 8:19 AM - 23 June, 2011
PNG is an image format, which allows transparency. this is only necessry for the knkghtrider composition, all others you can just use a JPG

just make sure you use only black and white, everything you want to be seen should be white
MAD_COWBOY 5:37 PM - 23 June, 2011
I Just Finished Watching the Youtube video..Very Nice!!! Can't wait To try This When I Get Home.
radikarl 9:58 PM - 23 June, 2011
Quote:
PNG is an image format, which allows transparency. this is only necessry for the knkghtrider composition, all others you can just use a JPG

just make sure you use only black and white, everything you want to be seen should be white


oops this was referring to the LogoMojo.

For the Spinning record, every image format with every color should be fine
djpuma_gemini 7:26 PM - 21 August, 2011
Will this work for Mix Emergency?
radikarl 8:19 PM - 21 August, 2011
not the way it is right now.

i can do a ME version though... in the next days hopefully
skinnyguy 10:08 PM - 21 August, 2011
pretty sure ME can pull out album art already. then add your own effect...
jbnyc 11:21 PM - 22 August, 2011
the youtube demo isnt working anymore :(
djpuma_gemini 11:24 PM - 22 August, 2011
Quote:
pretty sure ME can pull out album art already. then add your own effect...

Really, shit where have I been.
jbnyc 12:14 AM - 23 August, 2011
Quote:
Quote:
pretty sure ME can pull out album art already. then add your own effect...

Really, shit where have I been.


VEGAS!! (sony vegas that is) :P
djpuma_gemini 3:10 PM - 23 August, 2011
I don't want to make a video for each song that is new that doesn't have a video yet.

Now for my logo sure.
djpuma_gemini 9:22 PM - 2 September, 2011
still can't get the artwork or title artist to display in ME
DJ 2Tru 6:44 AM - 21 March, 2012
@Radikarl,
Good sir, did you ever complete this for ME? Tru
radikarl 7:29 AM - 21 March, 2012
sorry totally forgot.

www.filedump.net

this works with Video SL and Serato Video as it used to but also works with ME now.
(put a folder next to it and name that folder exactly as you name the file)
example for Serato Video (SL):
/path/to/my/files/myRenamedVinyl1.qtz < QTZ file1
/path/to/my/files/myRenamedVinyl1 < Folder1
/path/to/my/files/myRenamedVinyl2.qtz < QTZ file2
/path/to/my/files/myRenamedVinyl2 < Folder2

Since ME does not have that information, it uses a default folder next to the composition:
example for Mix Emergency:
/path/to/my/files/myRenamedVinyl1.qtz < QTZ file1
/path/to/my/files/IMG < Folder1
/path/to/my/files/myRenamedVinyl2.qtz < QTZ file2
/path/to/my/files/IMG < Folder2 (its the same default folder as you can see)

inside of the respective folder, the first image that is found will be used.
DJ 2Tru 7:46 AM - 21 March, 2012
you are the MAN!!!! I will try this once I get home......hell i am out, i will let you know if I am successful...if so, I will be the first in japan to make this work...I think....Tru
Marine 8:47 AM - 21 March, 2012
doesnt seem to be there with that link
DJ2TRU 9:02 AM - 21 March, 2012
he is correct...link doesnt work...
radikarl 9:53 AM - 21 March, 2012
www.filedump.net

:@

sorry.
DJ 2Tru 1:21 PM - 21 March, 2012
All good bro....working on it...now to see if i can get this to work
Dj Nyce 6:32 PM - 21 March, 2012
will def give this a try. good looking out.
phatbob 6:39 PM - 21 March, 2012
Can't wait to give this a go! Thanks radikarl.
Res-Q 11:02 PM - 21 March, 2012
radikarl thx a lottt
phatbob 11:54 PM - 21 March, 2012
Got it working, superb skills radikarl.

Quartz Composer really is rather DOPE.
phatbob 11:56 PM - 21 March, 2012
Now, how about pleasing all the rare CV lovers and busting out a version with white vinyl?

/jk
Dj Nyce 12:30 AM - 22 March, 2012
just test with ME 2.0 and it works great. quick question does it only load 1 image (i.e. the first image) or is it supposed to load random images from the IMG folder?

btw, aliases work for the images too.
Dj TopDonn 2:51 AM - 22 March, 2012
Thanks radikarl for the update. Instead of having a folder where the images are located can the .qtz file pull the artwork from the mp3 itself if its available?
DJ-Phat-AL 2:56 AM - 22 March, 2012
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just test with ME 2.0 and it works great.


So is M.E. 2.0 officially released then? I don't see it on the site.
Dj TopDonn 3:17 AM - 22 March, 2012
C'mon folks stop hiding the cookies :)
Dj Nyce 8:28 AM - 22 March, 2012
Mon or Tues
Marine 10:10 AM - 22 March, 2012
Thanks for the update Dj Nyce
radikarl 10:17 AM - 22 March, 2012
Quote:
just test with ME 2.0 and it works great. quick question does it only load 1 image (i.e. the first image) or is it supposed to load random images from the IMG folder?

btw, aliases work for the images too.
it loads the first image in that folder. so you can control what it does.
is a random image wanted? that is totally doable.

Quote:

Thanks radikarl for the update. Instead of having a folder where the images are located can the .qtz file pull the artwork from the mp3 itself if its available?

no, as this is unfortunately not provided as information from Serato Video or ME
Steve Dub. 1:44 AM - 4 July, 2012
Tutorial on how to do this please!
DJ James 5:23 PM - 4 July, 2012
I did a little work to the file see if you like it

www.filedropper.com
SeriousCyrus 4:09 PM - 31 May, 2013
I took a different approach, this will only work for mac and an itunes managed library.

First, create a "folder.jpg" image for every album in your library using this Doug's Apple Script:

dougscripts.com

In itunes, go to albums view and select all, run the script, this might take a quite while for larger libraries, time for a cup of tea.

Once that's done, rename all the folder.jpg files to use their parent folder's name with this applescript i wrote:

dl.dropboxusercontent.com

It'll will prompt for a directory, use your "itunes music" directory. This also takes a few minutes to run.

Once done, use finder to search for all .jpg in your itunes music folder, select all results, and move/copy into a new directory of your choosing.

Now all your album artwork is in one directory, named after the album name. It's simple to make an album artwork loader, here's 2 for me and sv, (haven't tested the sv one though....)

dl.dropboxusercontent.com
dl.dropboxusercontent.com

To save typing the directory each time, edit the qtz files and set your directory in the input parameters and save.
SeriousCyrus 5:40 PM - 31 May, 2013
Should be easy to adapt any other qc file, just had a look at radikarl's, very nice. Just change the image importer path input to use the album name inputs available through sv or me.
Karl W 9:35 AM - 30 January, 2015
Can you please re up the link bro? I couldn't get that 1 to work:/ and can you please link me the 1 for the video player qtz as well?

Thankyou
radikarl 10:20 AM - 12 February, 2015
Hey mate, will search it on my harddrive and up it to my website soon :)

serato.com