over the last month ive been getting involved in some live visualisation at mates gigs which has been great fun and not to mention a lot of work involving endless hours of snipping away at footage. to do this ive been using a live video performance tool named vdmx5 and one that has come recommended. so far it has been very reliable even though being in beta and only crashed on me once, thankfully it was the last song and it did timely to the final crescendo.
the best feature of the software and what separates it from other vj tools is its integration of quartz composer which is a node based visual programming tool from apple. programming made easy! but it does tend to restrict you in some ways. put this feature together with your traditional video mixers and you have a pretty powerful tool on your hands.
the quartz composer patches that come with vdmx5 are pretty standard although with a little playing around and hooking them up to some waveforms you can achieve some interesting effects.
heres something ive composed using eraserhead snips. music from the new autechre album quaristice. spectrum analysis is controlling the glitch effects, the rest im inputting through a midi controller.
noisefield from julaps on Vimeo.
