The Syphon Recorder beta was released earlier this week. This is a new app in the Syphon family for OSX and it does exactly what it sounds like: it records video from any Syphon abled application and it also records sound from your source of choice.
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Real-time motion tracking with Isadora + Kinect
We did a similar experiment when the Swedish VJ Union gathered for our January Tech Show & Tell session. It wasn’t as advanced and beautiful as this experiment and we had no naked volunteers.
iMixHD 1.0 is here
The first version of iMixHD by VJ Fader and VJ Leo has just been released. This software controls the TvOne 1t-c2-750 dvi mixer that we have been raving so much here on the blog. We were lucky to try the beta which had pretty limited functionality and now the guys have added some more controls.
The DVI mixer revisited
Read the most resent news about the DVI mixer that lets you mix video from two computers in HD resolution as well as wide comps for the the DualHead2Go and TripleHead2Go screen expansion units. I’ve been talking to Toby Harris that has been working on a hardware addition to this mixer called the D-Fuser as well as VJ Fader who has been working on a software solution for controlling the mixer via MIDI.
Syphon – a new revolutionary technology for OSX
I’ve been very exited about the new possibilities that are opening up with Syphon, the new revolutionary open source technology for Mac OSX by Anton Marini (Vade) and Tom Butterworth (Bangnoise). There has been a lot of talk about it lately but it was not until this week Syphon came out in Public Beta that everyone can download and try out for themselves.
The *spark d-fuser DVI mixer is coming closer
Toby Harris a.k.a. Toby *spark did a presentation of his first manufacturable prototype at the Visual Berlin festival. He just finished editing a video from the presentations that contains a few revelations.
New beer proof Midi controller
We had heard rumors about a new VJ Midi controller from Codanova that was supposed to have controls similar to the first iPod. This funny teaser movie premiered during the Mapping festival and was uploaded to Vimeo earlier today.
A new take on projectors
Engadget just wrote about this new projector from Norwegian company Projectiondesign which is a new take on video projectors. They are separating the lens from the lamp and the fan connecting the two units with a liquid light guide. Read all about it at Engadget!
New DJ mixer from Denon with V-Link
Futuremusic writes that Denon has just announced DN-X1600, a digital DJ mixer with built in USB sound card, 4 MIDI layers and Roland’s V-link. The V-Link enables you to control some of Roland’s video equipment like the effects of the V-4 and V-8 mixer.
Instant Broadcasting System
Instant Broadcasting System is a software solution for receiving and mixing several video streams from cellphone cameras and broadcasting it live on a screen and/or to the internet. It’s an academic research project from Mobile Life in Stockholm under the lead of Ph.D student Arvid Engström.