This installation at Heineken’s Green Room Sessions party at Malmen, Stockholm, is a was a group effort. Jakob Grandin, head of Grandins Flying Circus asked the Vidiots to set up a triple screen video installation displaying film and photography from a number of artists.
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More on the *Spark + dFuse mixer
The *Spark Defuser mixer by Toby Harris is one step closer to getting into production. And you can help by showing your interest so that Toby can esitmate the price better and get to the next step. Read all about it here!
The *spark + d-fuse mixer
Sometimes prayers are heard. A saint named Toby Harris has modified a conference kit and built a controller for it so that it’s possible to mix two VGA or DVI sources and output to a Matrox TripleHead2Go.
Modul8 2.6 Beta
So, finally, the long awaited Modul8 version 2.6 is now out in beta. Along with some bug fixes and Snow Leopard compatibility there are some exciting new features.
Another way of selecting VJ software
People often ask me what VJ application they should start with. I usually suggest that they should to go to softwarevj.com, find something for their platform, download a beta and play around for a bit. Let me present a slightly different solution.
Modul8 and DMX
All Modul8 users are eagerly waiting for the next update that was promised for the first quarter of 2009. The Graragecube (the makers of Modul8) crew has said that they won’t bust out anything premature but rather wait until they have a stable release.
Resolume 3.0.0
Resolume is finally out of beta, version 3.0.0 was released on friday. There has been a lot of bug fixes and small improvements.
The battle of the codecs
There was an interesting discussion today regarding the Sheer video codec on the Modul8 forum where Dave from Vidvox (the creators of VDMX) and Bart from Resolume jumped in on the thread. My suspicion is that the whole thread is just a guerilla marketing trick from Resolume who are just releasing their own DXV codec with hardware acelleration.
SwarmCam
I had the opportunity to try the new software that Arvid Engström and his team at the Interactive Institute / Mobile Life Centre has developed to be able to VJ with live video streams from cellphone cameras over what is commonly known as the Turbo 3G net.
Epileptic Strobe – a newmodule for Modul8
Last weekend I threw together a strobe module for Modul8. This is probably the first Modul8 module that comes with a warning label.