![]() Hardware totally depends on what you are trying to "do" with your VJing - if you are just getting into it and want to try out a bunch of different pieces of software, you don't necessarily need a Mac, but you should definitely keep in mind that a lot of the VJing software out there is Mac only (see the sidebar for a list of common VJing apps). I've been VJing for about a year now, so my advice might not be the greatest, but here goes: Just put on some tunes and mess around with it hooked up to your TV/projector. Learning about photography, video, and animation concepts is a huge help, too.ĭive in, dude. ![]() Getting the hang of after effects to manipulate scavenged content and create content from scratch won't hurt you either. Mis-timing the big visuals boom for a drop can mess up the dancefloor. Reading up on music theory has kind of cleaned up my mixes a little bit and made a lot of music more predictable for me to mix to, especially EDM genres. I played with COGe for a quick second, and it's a pretty fun one, too, if you dive into mac-world. Google the Resolume manual for a ton of cool info, some of which is basic digital video stuff that is not 100% resolume-centric. It also has some other bells & whistles for bigger installations, like DMX control and MIDI clock input ( I think). Modul8 is great, but it doesn't have all the features of resolume without running a bunch of obnoxious, screen space hogging modules IMO.Īrena and Avenue have the same mixing functions, but Arena supports mapping inside the software to an extent. I started with Modul8, but I felt like I outgrew it really fast and switched over to resolume, also looking into switching from a macbook pro to a custom Windows desktop. MPEG Streamclip makes it easy to batch convert everything. They all work fine, but I notice a considerable drop in framerate when I try to mix and match, so I keep everything in the same codec as best I can. PhotoJPG, Cinepak, and DXV are the ones I tried out, and I settled on the DXV codec. ![]() Using software like MPEG Streamclip is handy to get all your stuff transcoded to the same format. Knowing how video codecs work and keeping a nice clean library of your loops is a good skill to have too. Look into some of the HID to MIDI conversion programs that will let you rock a gaming controller as a midi device, those are fun too. I rock an APC40 now and would have a real hard time playing without it. A midi controller will change the way you perform, but you gotta learn the software backbone first.
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