I'm not quite sure what I'm after; I've hunted through a lot of 
real-time music visualization stuff, but not seen anything that fits the 
rather woolly ideas in my mind.....

Anyway, do people remember one of the /older/ Dr Who title sequences? It 
showed an abstract 'fluffy' image metamorphosing into an image of the 
esteemed Dr's head, then away again.

I'm after something sort of a cross between that and the (rather good) 
music visualization stuff that's around. I want to take my music track, 
a predefined set of images and times, and have the images gradually 
appear and disappear with abstract visualisations between. Doesn't 
particularly have to be real-time, in fact probably couldn't be given 
the look-ahead that would be needed.

If that's not totally unclear, would anyone have any ideas please about 
where to look.  Ideas of likely freeware would be most excellent :-)

Thanks!

"Mike Scott"  wrote in message 
news:ch28k.69352$8H5.58589@newsfe10.ams2...
> I'm not quite sure what I'm after; I've hunted through a lot of real-time 
> music visualization stuff, but not seen anything that fits the rather 
> woolly ideas in my mind.....
>
> Anyway, do people remember one of the /older/ Dr Who title sequences? It 
> showed an abstract 'fluffy' image metamorphosing into an image of the 
> esteemed Dr's head, then away again.
>
> I'm after something sort of a cross between that and the (rather good) 
> music visualization stuff that's around. I want to take my music track, a 
> predefined set of images and times, and have the images gradually appear 
> and disappear with abstract visualisations between. Doesn't particularly 
> have to be real-time, in fact probably couldn't be given the look-ahead 
> that would be needed.
>
> If that's not totally unclear, would anyone have any ideas please about 
> where to look.  Ideas of likely freeware would be most excellent :-)

Best thing to do is get yourself a decent video editing package.
Assuming you can capture the output from the music visualization programs
as a video file (that may be tricky and involve the use of a graphics card
with a video-out connector on one PC and a second 2nd PC with video
capture capability to capture that signal), you can then mix, fade, use the
editors' built-in effects etc., etc, to your hearts' content!

HTH,
-- 
Rob

In message <ch28k.69352$8H5.58589@newsfe10.ams2>, Mike Scott 
 writes
>I'm not quite sure what I'm after; I've hunted through a lot of 
>real-time music visualization stuff, but not seen anything that fits 
>the rather woolly ideas in my mind.....
>
>Anyway, do people remember one of the /older/ Dr Who title sequences? 
>It showed an abstract 'fluffy' image metamorphosing into an image of 
>the esteemed Dr's head, then away again.
>
>I'm after something sort of a cross between that and the (rather good) 
>music visualization stuff that's around. I want to take my music track, 
>a predefined set of images and times, and have the images gradually 
>appear and disappear with abstract visualisations between. Doesn't 
>particularly have to be real-time, in fact probably couldn't be given 
>the look-ahead that would be needed.
>
>If that's not totally unclear, would anyone have any ideas please about 
>where to look.  Ideas of likely freeware would be most excellent :-)
>
Hi Mike

I think that WinMorph might do the trick for the video. It's free and 
can be downloaded from:
http://www.debugmode.com/winmorph/

It's got a stand-alone version, or can be installed as a plug-in for 
either Vegas or Premiere.

-- 
Tony Morgan

TonyMorgan wrote:
> In message <ch28k.69352$8H5.58589@newsfe10.ams2>, Mike Scott 
>  writes
>> I'm not quite sure what I'm after; I've hunted through a lot of 
>> real-time music visualization stuff, but not seen anything that fits 
>> the rather woolly ideas in my mind.....
>>
>> Anyway, do people remember one of the /older/ Dr Who title sequences? 
>> It showed an abstract 'fluffy' image metamorphosing into an image of 
>> the esteemed Dr's head, then away again.
>>
>> I'm after something sort of a cross between that and the (rather good) 
>> music visualization stuff that's around. I want to take my music 
>> track, a predefined set of images and times, and have the images 
>> gradually appear and disappear with abstract visualisations between. 
>> Doesn't particularly have to be real-time, in fact probably couldn't 
>> be given the look-ahead that would be needed.
>>
>> If that's not totally unclear, would anyone have any ideas please 
>> about where to look.  Ideas of likely freeware would be most excellent 
>> :-)
>>
> Hi Mike
> 
> I think that WinMorph might do the trick for the video. It's free and 
> can be downloaded from:
> http://www.debugmode.com/winmorph/
> 
> It's got a stand-alone version, or can be installed as a plug-in for 
> either Vegas or Premiere.
> 

I'd forgotten about winmorph - I last looked at it years ago. I'm not 
sure about getting pretty effects in between, but will give the matter 
some thought.

I've also picked up an interesting piece of code called 'processing'. 
Java-based programming system, with easy video output for drawing. Comes 
with some natty "artificial life" examples. Might have some use for this 
job; I just need to mug up on java first :-)