Re: Video generation on linux systems: Note and rests change color

[Adam Spiers]

On 3 September 2017 at 16:47, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
> Adam Spiers <address@hidden> writes:
>> On 21 July 2017 at 09:00, Knut Petersen <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> To generate score videos like Bach: Invention 1, Wolf: Resignation and
>>> Peterson-Berger: I Fyrreskoven
>>> that give a different color to notes and rest while they are active you
>>> might use the attached files if
>>> you run a unixoid system like linux.
>>
>> This is a very interesting approach - thanks a lot for sharing!  I
>> particularly like the highlighting of notes currently being played.
>>
>> Two questions:
>>
>> 1. Please can you put the source files in a git repository and publish
>> it somewhere (e.g. GitLab.com), to reduce barrier to collaboration?
>> 2. Would it be possible to generate video which is perfectly
>> synchronised with a live performance with variable tempi?
>
> A patch for his changes in LilyPond is in the issue tracker at
> <https://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/5162/> but it seems
> basically abandoned after discussion.  You might want to look at the
> Rietveld issue to see what it would require taking it forward.

Thanks for the pointer.  That's just for the hooks though; there's
still the mkvideo script and videohelper.ily, so I think it would help
to place those in a git repo somewhere, together with a README which
explains how to use them (including links to the patches and code
review).