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stevel85388776
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March 21, 2023
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Adding effects to a live video stream

  • March 21, 2023
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Is there an Adobe product I can use  to add effects to a live video stream?  Specifically, I want to turn peoples images into silhouettes and then have their movements generate colors and patterns. I think this would be great for dance clubs and exercise studios.  Similar to this:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwxrXZ8SEWU

 

Thanks for any info,

Steve L.

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    Jamie Northrup
    Participating Frequently
    March 23, 2023

    Hi Steve,

    I don't have any specific recommendation for you, but here are some jumping off points...

    Unfortunately I don't know of anything from Adobe. Good Luck!

     

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TouchDesigner 

    TouchDesigner 

     

    Resolume 

     

    VDMX 

    Mylenium
    Mylenium
    Legend
    March 21, 2023

    It's still hardware based. If you have a reasonably sophisticated video mixer with enough channels it can even literally be patched together by cross-connecting the relevant sub-components. Used to happen all the time in the analog days when you accidentally swapped them or plugged them into the "key" ports. Really basic analog signal processing at the end of the day and that was possible even in the 1970s. In fact now everything being digital would probably make it more complicated. Anyway, you can't do it in realtime without some patch cables and some processing unit, no matter the format.

     

    Mylenium 

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    Community Expert
    Rick GerardCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    March 22, 2023

    I used to own one of these: NewTek Video Toaster General Overview Demo on Commodore Amiga

    Hardware-based real-time video effects were all the rage in 1992 when I bought mine. I only used it for about eight months and decided it was cheapening the look of the tv commercials we were producing. Kinda cool, but I never looked back. 

    Video Toaster - Wikipedia

     

    If you want real-time video effects for live performance, you need hardware, not software. 

     

     

    stevel85388776
    stevel85388776Author
    Participant
    March 21, 2023

    Thanks for your reply.  Although I wonder if there's another way to accomplish this since I've seen setups like this at science museums going back to the 70s, i.e. San Francisco Exploratorium, NY Hall of Science.  The exhibition in the link below is quite old:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwxrXZ8SEWU

    Mylenium
    Mylenium
    Legend
    March 21, 2023

    No. You need a VJ-ing software, a pretty beefy computer to run it on and probably a ton of extra equipment like video mixers, a hardware realtime keyer and so on. AE of course can do all that, just not at all in realtime.

     

    Mylenium 

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