Maskerator

[Richard Williamson]

Hi All

I have made a new app which some of you might find useful - Maskerator, which runs on macOS 14.0+ only - lets you draw masks in a drag and drop environment, with the ability to make complex shapes and add blends where required

There is live output via NDI and Syphon, single button with transparency, and export to PNG to import into QLab with a single button

It’s very much a work in progress so any thoughts appreciated. Free to download from www.theatre.support/maskerator

Let me know if this is useful!

Richard

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[micpool]

Hi Richard

I can't open it on my OS 14.5 mac 

Best

Mic

[Richard Williamson]

Doh - sorry, realised I didn’t zip the file. Try again now

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[micpool]

All working now thanks

Mic

[Andy Dolph]

Wow that's cool - it would have saved me a ton of time and headache on a show I did this spring.

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[jeremie.g...@free.fr]

Hi Richard !

Thanks a lot for this long awaited piece of software !

I've just tried it on my machine and it seems to work nicely.

Here are some remarks/feature requests after less than 1 hour of use : 

- I don't find blends are very easy to use... (but I have no precise propositions to improve the behavior).

- I miss some "blur" feature on shapes borders (I think it can be done with blends, but the system with the points isn't very handful and if I add 4 blends to a square, I have a white line at the bisect of each angle...) ;

- being able to draw a shape by clicking directly in the background to create a path of points would be very nice too ;

- Is there a way to add some Bézier curves for non-linear shapes ? (for example, right-click on a line or point, and change it to Bézier).

- maybe add round shapes ?

I hope this feedback will help improve the tool !

Regards,

Jérémie

[Ethan Eldred]

Super cool, trying it out now. The big thing I'm noticing right now is that undo/redo is not working on my Mac Studio. Agreed with Jérémie that curves and feathered edge control per line would be a very nice feature. All in all a big addition to the tool box as is though! Well done.

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[Ethan Eldred]

Oh! I did find the blend tool after my first comment. I'll keep working with that to see if I have more useful info about what would make that tool better for me. Thanks!

[Richard Williamson]

Thanks - currently working on an update for at least some of this. Undo/redo is some pain I need to investigate at some point but might make my brain explode..

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[rosario calvagna]

I do the same thing with after effect

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[m...@stevensokulski.com]

This looks great Richard. Would've saved me tons of time on a mask for a set piece a couple months ago.

I'll be filing this away for the next one!