QtzRendang - Open Source Quartz Composer Movie Renderer

Announcing QtzRendang, a little utility app for rendering Quartz Compositions to movie files. I cobbled this together from example code for my own purposes, and since I couldn't find anything on the web. "My own purposes" typically involve rendering a loopy composition to a six or seven minute movie to make simple but effective videos for Cartoon Beats releases.

By the way, there is another app for this purpose developed by the Kineme crew - QuartzCrystal - which supports spatial and temporal oversampling to reduce temporal and visual jagginess. At US$18 this is a great little app, but as I'm a bit of a nerd and a cheapskate, and there wasn't an open source solution, I decided it was worth writing QtzRendang.

CoGe is another great project on Google code. It's an open source visualisation/VJ mixer/live sequencer.

Back to QtzRendang

Drag & drop a composition, specify frame resolution, duration, and frame rate & output filename. Optionally tweak composition parameters, then click render.

Why is it called QtzRendang? Well it renders .qtz files to movies, and the instant noodles I had that week were rendang flavour. Rendang is a slow-cooked Indonesian dish which seems like it would be pretty yum. I've never had it.

Any questions about the software itself please feel free to ask in the comments.

Sharkweek Reality 27th March 2009

Haszari & Sharkweek teamed up to play a whole lot of banging new tunes & had a chat about Sharkweek's latest remix album - Gimme Gimme Shark Treatment (buy from juno or itunes) - and the latest Cartoon Beats EP (buy from juno or itunes).

Show tracklist:
Does It Offend You, Yeah? - Epic Last Song (Lifelike remix)
Donna Summer - I Feel Love (Patrick Wayne remix)
Detachments - H.A.L (Andrew Weatherall's Disco club mix)
Paperclip People - Throw (DJ Kue edit)
College - Teenage Colour (Anoraak remix)
Light Year - Sex Education
Symbiont - Magic Man (Sharkweek Strange Night of Stone remix)
The Engines Of Efficiency - Black Star
SoNic Smith - Wii Break (Sharkweek Hz 2 Wii remix)
Sharkweek - Small Firm Peppermints (Haszari's Filthy Pepper Mince Pie)
Pitch Black - Harmonia (Sharkweek Midnight Cone remix)
Stakker - Humanoid (Dan Aux remix)
Ramirez - Hablando (Hostage remix)
Public Enemy - Night Of The Living Bassheads (Figure remix)
Hystereo - Cityspeak (Arveene & Misk remix)
Les Gillettes - Pompeii (Boy 8-Bit remix)
Kid Komas - Raving Buck (Aural Trash mix)
Gooseflesh - Noisome
Fog - Street Hop (Deejaygasm remix)
Curses! - What I Need (Dexplicit remix)
Baobinga - State of Ghetto Jackin' (TRG's Brooklyn 2 Bucharest remix)

Beats Reality is on the air every Saturday from 7-9pm. Tune in to 91FM in the Dunedin area, or get the stream online from Radio 1.

Haszari, SoNic Smith and guests play plenty of fresh banging fidget, wobble, electro, breaks, house, tech house, and a lot of other stuff.

The show is podcast every week: get it from http://feeds2.feedburner.com/beatsreality. You can subscribe with ease from there. Or just search iTunes store for "beats reality" or "haszari" - free to download/subscribe.

Beats Reality Double Threat 2 13 March 2009 Tracklist

Once again Haszari was joined in the studio by SoNic Smith and Stranger Danger. The danger made plans to offer sweets to kids and SoNic played a set off a microSD card. Here's the tracklist:

DJ Jazzy Jeff ft. Kardinall Offishall - She Was So Flyy
Anoraak - Waiting For Your Phone Call
Walter Meego - Girls (Tommie Sunshine remix)
Filthy Rich - Arumba
Vlad & 30Hz - Get Low
Snake Charmer - The Drum Machine Has No Heart
Greg Churchill - Clown Punch
Claude VonStroke & J. Philp - California
Uffie - MCs Can Kiss (Zombie Disco Squad remix)
Hijack vs. Santiago & Bushido - Way Back (Santiago & Bushido remix)
SoNic Smith - Wii Break (Haszari Electro Fence remix)
Vitalic - Second Lives (The Bloody Beetroots remix)
Pig Out - Cashflow
Does It Offend You, Yeah - Game Over
Jolyon Petch & Sam Hill vs. Th'Dudes - Bliss 2010 (Stafford Brothers club mix)
David Guetta - Memories (ft. Kid Cudi) (Armand van Helden vocal remix)
Breakdown - Feels Like (ft. NYTS) (Dan Aux remix)
Sharkweek - Small Firm Peppermints (SoNic Smith Don't Fear The Mint remix)
The Prodigy - Invaders Must Die
Lorcan Mak - Gypsy Bum (Rubix refix)
Udachi - P-Funk Skank (Nadastrom remix)
Riton & Primary1 - Who's There? (AC Slater & Nick Thayer & Mat Cant remix)
AC Slater - Play The Record Again
Birdy Nam Nam - The Parachute Ending (Vitalic remix)

Beats Reality is on the air every Saturday from 7-9pm. Tune in to 91FM in the Dunedin area, or get the stream online from Radio 1.

Haszari, SoNic Smith and guests play plenty of fresh banging fidget, wobble, electro, breaks, house, tech house, and a lot of other stuff.

The show is podcast every week: get it from http://feeds2.feedburner.com/beatsreality. You can subscribe with ease from there. Or just search iTunes store for "beats reality" or "haszari" - free to download/subscribe.

Beats Reality Radio Triple Threat 6th February 2009 Tracklist

All the masters of reality were in attendance, just prior to It's Not Real 4 @ Bath St, so we split the 2 hour show evenly so we could all freely flex our mixing muscles. Phwoar.

Warrior One - Bad Like Jimmy Cliff
Chaos In The CBD - Tesh & Maccas
Disco Killah - Funkman
Crookers - Put Your Hands On Me (Solo dub)
Barretso - Bright City Lights (Kolt13 remix)
Renaissance Man - Rhythm
Jennifer Delano - Amsterdam (Riptide remix)
Touche - Vampires
Black Noise - Knock You Out
The Count Of Monte Cristal & Herve - Jungle Steppers
Boy 8-Bit - The Suspense Is Killing Me (Dada Life Guerilla Fart #5)
MVSLVM - French Jeans (Dada Life remix)
A.G. Trio - Dancen (Ultrax remix)
AC Slater - Play The Record Again
Riton & Primary1 - Who's There (AC Slater & Nick Thayer & Mat Cant remix)
Udachi - P-Funk Skank (Nadastrom remix)
Trash Y'sen & The Toxic Avenger - Stayin' Alive Die (GTRONIC DubDub remix)
SoNic Smith - Justice
Audio Bullys - I Shot You Down (Hook and Sling remix)
Afrojack - Comeback
The Proxy - Ready To Rock (Attack 1985 remix)
Wu Tang Clan - C.R.E.A.M. (Daze Of Thunder remix)
Guns & Bombs - Riddle Of Steel (Daze Of Thunder remix)
Felix Cartal - Skeleton (Pance Party remix)
Huoratron - Gbay
Fckn Crew - Slaughter

Beats Reality is on the air every Saturday from 7-9pm. Tune in to 91FM in the Dunedin area, or get the stream online from Radio 1.

Haszari, SoNic Smith and guests play plenty of fresh banging fidget, wobble, electro, breaks, house, tech house, and a lot of other stuff.

The show is podcast every week: get it from http://feeds2.feedburner.com/beatsreality. You can subscribe with ease from there. Or just search iTunes store for "beats reality" or "haszari" - free to download/subscribe.

Beats Reality Radio Taste The Techno Tracklist 23rd January 2009

Miike Snow - Animal (Mark Ronson remix)
nsu - Discordia (instrumental)
Sebastien Leger - Le Moustique
Sharooz - Saccharin (SonicC remix)
Lorcan Mak - Hooo!
Dadahack - Hello (Freelance Hellraiser remix)
Zombie Nation - Mystery Meat Affair (Shadow Dancer remix)
Scanners - Salvation (Don Diablo remix)
Futureheads - Struck Dumb (Lee Mortimer remix)
Cassian - Fucksong
Fake Blood - I Think I Like It
Ocelot - Our Time (Bird Peterson remix)
SoNic Smith - Wii Break (Haszari Electro Fence remix)
Kid Cudi - Day 'n' Nite (The Smokers refix)
Trash Yourself & The Toxic Avenger - Die (GTRONIC DubDub remix)
Muse - Uprising (Does It Offend You Yeah? remix)
Shopliftas - There It Izzz (Young Nuts Remix)
Benny Benassi - I Am Not Drunk
Riva Starr - I Was Drunk (ft. Noze)
Benga - Situanus (instrumental)
Sekta - Jabajaws (ft. Spoek Mathambo) (instrumental)
DatsiK - Gecko
Portishead - Only You (SoNic Smith remix)
Boy Crisis - Dressed To Digress (Nero remix)

Beats Reality is on the air every Saturday from 7-9pm. Tune in to 91FM in the Dunedin area, or get the stream online from Radio 1.

Haszari, SoNic Smith and guests play plenty of fresh banging fidget, wobble, electro, breaks, house, tech house, and a lot of other stuff.

The show is podcast every week: get it from http://feeds2.feedburner.com/beatsreality. You can subscribe with ease from there. Or just search iTunes store for "beats reality" or "haszari" - free to download/subscribe.

Summer is Here!

I just finished work for the year, and am getting everything ready for a holiday up north.

While I am out of town, SoNic Smith will be looking after the radio show, so stay tuned in if you're in the Dunedin area (and of course grab the stream if you're not). Needless to say SoNic will keep the beats and the banter rolling - cheers SoNic!.

Now as I head north I am gearing up for two massive gigs in Gisborne - if you're anywhere near Gisborne leading up to the new year then this is where to go:

Haszari + DJ Hat @ Soho
28th December 2009

And the big one. I'm playing late on the 31st, but there are amazing acts over the three days - it's going to be an amazing festival. I for one am very excited about seeing Moby, Major Lazer, the Proxy, 2ManyDJs, LCD Soundsystem... the list goes on! See you there.

Rhythm & Vines Festival
29th-31st December 2009

Merry Christmas!

Beats Reality It's Not Real 3 ft. MarkJ 5th December 2009

A great show! Followed by an amazing night of tech house, wobble and evil electro at It's Not Real 3 @ Bath Street. A great night had by all, thanks to everyone there. See you at the next one.


Live mixes from the night getting uploaded soon - keep an eye on soundcloud.

Tracklist:
Tittsworth - Here He Comes (ft. Nina Sky & Pitbull) (DJ Day remix)
Crystal Fighters - I Love London (Qoso remix)
Major Lazer - Pon de Floor (Snake Charmer's Fuck the Deadline remix)
Sebastien Tellier - Fingers Of Steel (Toby Toast Topspin remix)
Magda - Panna Cotta Eyes
Style of Eye - The Prophet
Boris - Buzz In (Todd Edwards remix)
Dakunt - T'a Surdou (Lorcan Mak remix)
Snake Charmer - Monastery
Joe B - Mobbing
SoNic Smith - Wii Break (Haszari's Le Mans Style remix)
Sharkweek - Small Firm Peppermints (Haszari's Filthy Pepper Mince Pie)
Dave Armstrong & Redroche ft. H-Boogie - Love Has Gone (Haszari Still Loves House edit)
Chase & Status - Eastern Jam (Haszari's Bollywood Wonderland edit)
MarkJ Guest Mix
Solead - So What (Jalabee Cartel remix)
Constar - Sunset Tribe (Voodeux remix)
Nicholas Van Orton - Tribe Pandemonium
B.O.N.G - Deep For Dummies (Human8 remix)
Alex Flatner - Perfect Circles (ft. Lopazz) (Boris Brejcha remix)
Stefan Hellstrom - Yogurt Dancing
40 Thieves - Don't Turn It Off (ft. Qzen) (Brennan Green mix)

Beats Reality is on the air every Saturday from 7-9pm. Tune in to 91FM in the Dunedin area, or get the stream online from Radio 1.

Haszari, SoNic Smith and guests play plenty of fresh banging fidget, wobble, electro, breaks, house, tech house, and a lot of other stuff.

The show is podcast every week: get it from http://feeds2.feedburner.com/beatsreality. You can subscribe with ease from there. Or just search iTunes store for "energyflash" or "haszari" - free to download/subscribe.