Over the course of using quartz and extensive researching on forums, it has come to my attention that there are many issues surrounding exporting and rendering animations from quartz.
1) Many people, including James, have mentioned that since the upgrade to Quicktime x, there have been a lot of features dropped from previous additions, features that .qtz files need in order to operate.
So i got a copy of QT7 and followed multiple methods, trying to get my animation exported.
I have only been able to achieve a MIDI unrelated section of moving graphics that lasts 30 seconds, regardless of how the 'time of animation' is set. (If set to 4 hours, it would still only render 30 seconds.)
2) Talking to James in a/v, he suggested a few dodges, like rendering a blank video clip that lasts the length of the proposed animation to allow the Quartz export clock to recognise some time defined parameters. This was to no avail, tried on my machine and his and both failing miserably.
3) With more deliberation and after trying the same method with audio clips, there was one more thing he could think of trying. And that was to use screen capture software.
However, with research into this and trial and error, none of the results are good enough to display for a final piece. Too many frames per second are dropped, so the animation stutters and jolts, destroying any semblance of fluidity and destroying the effect of MIDI related visual.
I tried, i Capture, Adobes Captivate, Quicktime movie capture, as well as a few more free ones. However i dont have the money to spend on HD quality video capture software.. Even if one good enough exists....
James and I ame to the conclusion that it was because Quartz is operating independently of the signal/duration of the audio being sent from live, not defined within quartz...
The only way round this issue that i can see at the minute is to construct the quartz piece, then make use of the HD camera resource ad sound booths at college. Film a monitor displaying the visual (stil sending the audio from Live) using the HD camera, then sync the audio up with the visual in Final cut. I feel this may be the only dodge left to use until i ahve the resources to purchase good vid cap software or find a method for exporting MIDI orientated visual from quartz.
There might be another option of sending the video out to another monitor or computer that has a video in. This needs to be investigated as ther eis the potential of using the sound labs in uni to accomplish what i need to do.
This will be resolved before monday!
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