Arranging Visuals Live

I've been told that I am to arrange some visuals live for a rather big afterparty in the beginning of august, and I've never had to do anything live. I've just made them on my computer, burned them onto a DVD and handed it over to whoever might be in charge of it. So my question is: Is there a program where I can switch between visuals whenever I want to? For instance if at one point the music slows down or there's a break I want my visuals to follow that, so I could switch visuals... just like in Traktor or Ableton but with videos instead.

Anyone got any ideas? Pretty please with sugar on the top

arkaos

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Isadora.

Pretty fucking neat, if I do say so myself.

resolume!

  277: 930-933 said:

resolume!

I was going to suggest that too, but I can't tell if hes saying hes going to do the visuals before hand and hand them in on dvd, or do everything live. if its the latter then ys resolume

  jon124 said:

  277: 930-933 said:

resolume!

 

 

 

I was going to suggest that too, but I can't tell if hes saying hes going to do the visuals before hand and hand them in on dvd, or do everything live. if its the latter then ys resolume

I'm doing all the visuals in Premiere, After Effects etc. and then I'll import them into whatever program I'll get the hang of first. But, is it possible to import videos into Resolume?

yea, go with resolume then. it works kind of like a mixer, you have 3 input channels, all mixed into one output channel. you can load any clip into any channel on the fly, by triggering with a midi controller or just clicking. yes you can import video files, flash (swf) files, and pictures. then you can use realtime effects etc. download it and mess with it, you'll get the hang of it in about 15 minutes. you can control the speed, opacity, etc of every channel

heres a basement show I was using resolume at a few weeks ago -

Fantastic! You saved my day

Resolume also opened up my eyes for a huge video archive:

http://www.resolume.com/footage/archive.php

BUt... here's my question: Do you have the original version of this... or.... can you hook me up?

excellent

just remember for fast performance you want to encode all the videos you use in resolume to a certain spec, I cant remember what it is offhand. its in the resolume online manual somewhere

let me know how the event goes

  Squee said:

BUt... here's my question: Do you have the original version of this... or.... can you hook me up?

just saw this post

check your pm's in a couple minutes

and you can use a "wiimote" to control arkaos

you can do the same with resolume, its just midi

cool, i know nothing about visuals - i just saw that video

  Orubasarot said:

Another way to look at it is this:

 

Arkaos < Resolume < Modul8/VDMX < Jitter

 

Fun-Soft Music Studio Deluxe < Renoise < Abelton Live/Cubase < Max/MSP < Floops

Ok, so now I've tried a few of the programs you guys have mentioned, and somehow they just don't fall in good hands. How come I can't find a simple VJ program like Traktor, where you can fade your videos in and out? I don't plan on using any of the effects in the VJ programs, all I want to do is trigger the samples and fade them in and out.

resolume has opacity control (fading) for every channel. I link mine to a fader on my midi controller and fadefadefade