QC for VJs, by toby*spark.If you’re Mac-based, you need to know about Quartz Composer. Bring your laptops with 10.5 and ‘xcode tools’ installed.Morning Session: The basics

1. Getting beyond Quicktime clips: what QC can do for you
   • ie. dancing abstract 3d a la toneburst and memo
   • ie. animating text files in your vj sets
   • ie. making dynamic installations
2. Quartz Composer 101
   • your first patch
   • dynamic controls
   • the key idea of time
   • common pitfalls

Afternoon Session: Applying it and getting advanced

1. QC and VDMX
   • QC as dynamic clips
   • QC as filters
   • QC as rendering stacks
2. Shaders
   • Image Kernels
   • GLSL
3. 3rd Party Plug-ins

I’ll also try and be available for impromptu QC surgery sessions, so if you have a more advanced issue, we can take a look in depth.