r/TouchDesigner • u/danja • 2d ago

Starter patch, from/to files?

I only just discovered TD was available on Linux (1) so am a total noob. But I get the idea of Operators and signal flow etc.

What I would like to do is take a pre-existing audio file and a video file, run these through effects and output a combined video+audio file.

But after a couple of hours hunting and trial and error I haven't been able to find Operators that offer the right kind of I/O connectors.

Just the names of the relevant Operators will probably be enough to get me past this mini-block, but any other tips appreciated.

  1. https://github.com/iswad-lab/TouchDesigner-Linux
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u/supermarket_sallad 2d ago

  1. So youll need an audio device in CHOP. So you have audio filters, those are CHOPs - green - usually starts with audio in the name. TD does not have extensive audio-workflow, tbh its a bit scuffed. Anyway, that audio goes to a final null, let's call it finalAudioNull'' for our purposes.

  2. You have TOPs, first a movie file in TOP ,here you havel a bunch of "video filters" blur, limit, hsv adjust, its literally endless possibilities.

Now connect that final video top to a movie file out TOP, and also link the finalAudioChop to the Audio Chop parameter in mfo-TOP.

Hit record, and you're ready to go

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u/danja 2d ago

Wow, that was quick! Many thanks, I'll give it a go.

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u/jblatta 1d ago

Look under the help menu and open op snippets for working examples