The basic idea with this patch started with a joke about how there is a video remix for just about everything on youtube. I suggested that someone should just make an automated program to make the remixes. Then I realized I could probably make something like that in PD. This is what I made.

Some basic instructions: (I should write a readme for it)

1. Load a video or two using the appropriate buttons. (.mov)

2. Load a song, or not. A song that is beat oriented looks best in my opinion. (.wav) Wait for it to load in the array below.

3. Select whether you are using one or two videos.

4. Adjust the volume sliders for the videos and music.

5. Press 'Play' to start the music and video. (X11 opens here for me for the video, I imagine this will vary on another OS)

6. Tap the spacebar in time to the music to set the tempo for the remixer. The tempo is visible at the top left.

7. Once you have the tempo set as you want it press 'Remix'.

8. The video will remix itself to the music.

Adjust the VideoFX Sensitivity to have the flashes occur more frequently. Adjust Reverse Playback to set how often the video plays backwards.

Also you can press 'Record A/V' to save the playback to a .mov file that should appear in the HD directory.

The remix is all random which limits how effective the cuts can be but it is also very satisfying when something ends up syncing perfectly in an unexpected way. I had considered making the user be able to scrub the video to choose points in the timeline to jump to specifically to allow more control over the cuts but I decided it wasn't what I was going for. I may do another version that enables this but I'm leaving it out of this one.

That's about all there is to it. I'm interested in any kind of feedback. One thing I haven't been able to figure out is how to stop the remixer function along with everything else. It's not a big deal but if anyone has ideas please let me know.

Thank you.

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/Remixer_Dual_Video_Extra.pd

This is an interesting patch. excatly what I'll need for a visual background during a performance I'll give the next week.
I tried to use it on a Windows system, unfortunately, pdp objects are not understood.
I'm playing with it from my Linux desktop.
Here are several points I may fix :

• Just have some problems with pdp_qt error decoding audio (I tried several formats : wav aiff)

• I know windows s*cks, but I have to work with this system as well. Wouldn't you try to build this patch without pdp objects ?

Would you know where to start or would it be better for me to have a go at it? I know the patch isn't exactly tidy.

I also always get the audio decoding error message but for some reason it still plays fine so I never gave it too much thought.

Thanks for your interest.

When you say 'when the video ends' do you mean when the song ends? Because the video basically just keeps looping itself anyways. But if you mean when the song ends it could just grab a new song and new videos then I think I know what you mean. I have never tried anything like a random file chooser, I usually have problems just getting it to grab the file that I specifically want, but I think it's an awesome idea. I still don't think it could be fully automated because it would need the tempo input manually for the new song. Not too big a deal though. Do you have any experience with random file choosing type patches?

Sort of like glitchbot on flickr: http://www.flickr.com/people/glitchbot/