Musicians active on social media would like to have a quick and easy option for making videos that incorporate their Tracker music.
To this end, it would be useful to have the option of exporting video to accompany tracks. To save on space, it could be done as still shots of the Pattern that’s playing as song mode progresses. This would provide easily shareable content for timelines. A Polyend watermark could be added for branding purposes. All this would save time on video editing.
What is the problem?
There’s no easy way to share video of exported work from the Tracker.
You can actually take screenshots from the tracker by pressing: Shift + Power Button.
This is obviously less than ideal, especially if you want every. single. step. And you would have to convert it to a video file via ffmpeg or some other tool.
By “still shots” do you mean to capture the Tracker screen as is while playing a track?
Also, if this wish is technically possible at all, I guess it will capture whatever appears on the screen during the screen recording (i.e. if you go to the mixer / perform mode / pattern mode… the screen capture will follow that). Anyway, I guess that whatever is being captured will depend a lot on the performance limitations.
i do product development and wrote it like a user story.
by a still i mean the Pattern screen of what’s playing during that part of the the track with no scrolling or movement. as the song progresses, the current Pattern would display.
i suppose if one wanted simple scrolling then we could export the Song screen with the tapehead.
Interesting, I have also worked in product development and the user story format is very useful… but not what has been agreed here, so I have edited the wish to keep the consistency with the rest of wishes.
I have also removed this bit, just in case it is not true. If someone can confirm this, then let’s ad it back:
the Dirtywave m8 may do this, but i’m not certain.