Thinking about the future of QC, and how to focus our (Kineme's) efforts, we're wondering: What do you use QC for, as of summer 2012?
Select all that apply. Feel free to leave a comment to elaborate.
Re: What do you use QC for?
I use it a lot for static images more than motion visuals, so I'd be interested in having better options for exporting them instead of having to rely on the NI patch that comes with the filters. I seem to use it a lot with text as well, so it's a bummer not being able to drag text files in the editor like you do with images etc. Lua support would also be nice, I could go on all day.
I hope we're discussing some new standalone Kineme version of QC here, because I for one am tired of discussing "the future" of QC and eager to move on to a new environment that I know will be better supported. Just clone the damn thing and put it on the app store and make some money. It'd be nice if it was open source and all that but it's pretty obvious that apple will focus more and more on the app store as a source for software. You can put new patches as In-App purchase. Anything as long as we don't have to have this conversation again. Otherwise move to linux or something.
Ok I wasn't seriously suggesting moving to linux. I suppose it would be fun to open source it just for the freedom of development, but Ideally I would prefer it all to be on the app store. Also as far as I'm concerned Apple has already dropped support, so it's high time someone cloned it.
I know, but it hasn't been updated in a while. I would like for it to be properly maintained.
Would love to see the results of this poll. It would also be interesting to see the unique hit of the kineme forum, might ease the worry of the falling use of QC to hear how many people log on to Kineme each month?
I think the poll results will only display once the poll is closed.
@itsthejayj: I just changed permissions so that everyone can view the results after they've voted.
I wonder how many users of QC-using applications from iMovie and Photobooth through Pixelmator and on to FX Foundry and Boinx TV have any clue that they are users of this technology, and that they have the opportunity to customize using it?
And shouldn't there be a separate usage category for New Year's Eve countdown clocks?
Its hard to say what kineme should focus on really. I found QC when I searched for web cam piano. At the same time I found that NUI group had pointed me in the QC direction as well. So for me I guess I was initially looking for natural user interface type of things. It wasn't long after discovering QC that I realized I really liked it and wanted to learn more about. I found Kineme mentioned as a resource in a Apple development document. So for me initially Kineme was about the pursuit of extending my QC knowledge and I was pretty hyped to get access to Kineme's open CV plugin.
I would say Kineme should focus on filling in the gap where developer docs fail. I know the wiki has things in it now but when I first came here the only tutorial I could find was how to install a kineme plugin. The kineme forum how ever helped out a great deal. Comments from people like tb, psonice, gt, c wright, smorkis, offnol, zuga, itsthejayj, vade, franz, cybero, etc.. really helped me out when I started.
The most frequent vj / art installation type of questions I get is "I downloaded modul8, mad mapper and syphon, how do I make these work with my wii mote max patch". The obvious answer to this type of question is to use quartz composer. The answer to how do you use quartz composer can be found on Kineme.
Personally I would love to see more kineme plugin git repo's and using qc with cocoa type of articles.
i'm using it brain wave interactive art/animation/music/visualization, since Tiger : hacking plugin. now Mac speed is nice but still slow for some visualization. hope Apple will keep continue update QC for New OS. Also Apple open for iOS and Windows and other platform. I made QC page for test few years ago. it is QT movie play page for QC file. http://www.psychiclab.net/IBVA/pppf6ex.html hope like this page works with iOS and other platform.