This Friday! Resolume Classroom Live Stream

This friday we'll be doing something new! We're introducing the Resolume Classroom. The Resolume Classroom will be a monthly live stream that takes a deep dive into one specific theme regarding Resolume and VJ-ing.

In this first episode we'll discuss color. From basic concepts like channels, alpha and palettes all the way to applying color theory, color harmony and color effects. Like a real classroom, you'll be able to ask questions as we go.

Visual storytelling with STVinMotion

STVinMotion is the globe-trotting company of Steve Kislov and Nadya Abra. They produce footage packs and tutorials while traveling the world. We caught up with Steve to talk about his work, visuals, tutorials and travels.

Steve hosted a workshop on our Youtube channel. The footage used in the workshop can be found here and the masks used can be found here.



Batman has a great origin story, what’s yours?

I’m originally from Israel. In 2000, after travelling and losing myself at the best psytrance festivals around the world, I returned to Israel to find out that a highschool friend (VJ Masterdamus) was VJing and creating better visual experiences than what I saw at some of the top festivals abroad. I started helping him out, just out of sheer enthusiasm.

When he suddenly relocated to Australia, I had to choose if I wanted to let VJing go or become a VJ. Easy choice! I bought Masterdamus’s computer and he taught me how to create VJ content through video calls. Together, we performed at some of the best psytrance festivals abroad - the circle was completed, VJ STV was born.

The next step in my journey was STVinMotion which I founded together with my partner Nadya Abra. When we decided to leave Israel in favor of a nomadic lifestyle we added the "inMotion" to the name, symbolizing the motion of visuals and the motion of travelling from place to place.

I have retired from actively performing - in favor of focusing my attention on content creation and teaching. You could say that these days we perform vicariously through VJs who use our content.


Vunk Concert, Romania. Live Visual by Bobo Visuals

Can you tell something about your creation process? How does a loop pack come to be?

I get inspired by seeing artworks by others. Browsing Instagram or Pinterest and seeing beautiful art can really light my brain on fire. I’m an avid collector. I arrange what I like into themed boards (say, Jungle or Aztec).

When it’s time to create our next VJ pack we have themes and references already lined up. We search for an overlap between what we want to create and what VJs need. The key is making content that has the strongest impact on the audience.

We take the inspirational material and we start brainstorming about what we can make.
We look at the results as if this was a puzzle - looking for connections. The visuals have to connect conceptually and visually. The clips should tell a story and be pleasing to compose. Next, we create a couple of loops, take them into Resolume and see how they mix. We move elements around to see how they compose and react to effects. We try to have a good blend of Background Clips and Element Clips that can be mixed by the users.

From here on it’s an iterative process. We create more loops and try them in Resolume. This process is repeated until the VJ pack is complete.

From a technical perspective: We use mostly Element 3D inside After Effects. We sometimes use Illustrator for design, Cinema 4D for hard surface modeling and Daz3D for characters - all are imported into Element 3D (as paths, OBJs & OBJ Sequences) and are composed there for the final render.


Steampunk Show by ULA Projects, Russia


You guys are living nomadically, how does this influence your content?

We travel slow, spending a couple of months in each location so we can soak the place and ambiance.We expose ourselves to the local artwork and customs. It changes our point of view and evokes inspiration. Travelling is an experience that takes us out of our comfort zone, it forces us to adapt ourselves to the environment and be flexible. The challenges we face help us grow and continue changing. When we reach a new place we meet new people and culture, cuisine and music.

For example, the OrnaMental VJ pack was inspired by Indian Mandalas that we saw locals painting with colorful powder in front of their doors. The Cyborgasm VJ pack idea came while practicing Vipassana Meditation in Thailand and realizing that our reactions to the world are kinda automatic - we might already be cyborgs!


We see eastern theme's, steampunk, architecture, symbolism and tribalism in your content. With this you set yourself apart in a VJ-world where abstract visuals are dominant. How did this come to be?

Having themes in our packs is a deliberate choice and its purpose is to create a stronger experience. When a VJ mixes visuals, one after the other, the audience searches for a connection between them, a story and a meaning unfolds. When all the visuals are abstract, there’s no story or connection between the visuals and after some time the viewer might become indifferent to the show.

We want VJs to become an integral part of any event by introducing themes and providing interesting content thus becoming valuable artists rather than those who fill the void on the screens.”


Steve's Expanse video is showing off some travel-inspired content


You have a great YouTube channel with a wealth of knowledge. Why did you start making tutorials?

I started making VJing tutorials because users of our content were not making the most out of it - not layering and compositing it the way we were envisioning it. I realized that not everyone shares my vision and has the same knowledge.

When I released the first OrnaMental VJing tutorial, it became very popular - the enthusiastic feedback from viewers made me realize that people are craving for this kind of knowledge and that it makes a positive impact on their performances and careers. I enjoy sharing what I’ve learned throughout the years and helping other VJs to grow and acquire new skills. Of course, seeing the visulas we created fulfill their purpose is a huge part of it, too.

I created a Facebook group that is dedicated solely to Resolume Tutorials. Everybody is welcome to join it, learn from the tutorials there and contribute by sharing tutorials that you made yourself.


Awesome Resolume tutorial by STVinMotion

Thank you Steve for the interview. Make sure to check out the STVinMotion website and YouTube channel. They also regularly show their workproces on Instagram and Facebook

New footage! Julius Horsthuis, Unit44, Micah Buzan

Julius Horsthuis is a living legend of fractals and is making us a favour by sharing his art with us. Conscious Coral contains 10 "Day" and 10 "Night" clips that you can seamlessly mix between.

Unit44 takes us underground with Concrete, a pack of loops that look like a chase scene from an action movie.

Micah Buzan, who recently collaborated with Grimes, created Inkblots, a series of 35 monochrome loops inspired by Inkblot pictures. These are perfect for colorizing, mask overlays, background visuals, or to create your own new patterns.

Conscious Coral by Julius Horsthuis


Concrete by Unit44


Inkblots by Micah Buzan

Resolume 7.1.2 Released: Improved Gradient & Clip Transitions

Resolume 7.1.2 fixes a few bugs and crashes but also has a much improved Gradient that can now take a palette of multiple colours. You can now link layer parameters to the clip transition phase which allows you to make custom clip transitions from effects. Checkout the two videos we made for this release.

Improved Gradient


Clip Transition Phase


Download
Select "Check for Updates.." in the Avenue or Arena menu and it will self-update. Or just head over to the downloads.

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Hot Fix April 21st
#14057 Resync button doesn't reset BPM synced video clip transport
#14063 Dial Range + Dashboard cause glitchy behaviour

Avenue & Arena 7.1.2 Fix List
#13832 Crash creating the 257th Lumiverse
#13917 Crash switching AV clip from BPM to Beats
#13949 Crash sorting midi messages
#13954 Crash creating shortcuts while target changed
#13961 Crash moving renamed effect
#13973 Crash switching columns while clip param envelope point contextual menu is open
#13986 Crash dropping source with BPM transport default to create new clip slot
#13821 Allow midi clock sync with no Clock Start command
#13959 Option to pre-fill delayed clones with transparent
#13895 Linear Cloner Tail Rotation not working properly
#13713 Alpha with Slice + inverted mask in Slice transform behaves incorrect
#13548 Color Hue at 360 shows magenta instead of red
#13710 Posterize is black at 0.0
#13645 Right Click Color to Reset it does not Reset animations of Sub Params
#13724 Show OSX Icons for Command, Shift and other Modifiers in the PopupMenu's instead of the words 'Command', 'Alt' etc.
#13728 I can't Clear a Clip that only has it's name or color set
#13782 Registration preferences screen is untranslated
#13823 Shift + moving end points for checkbox, and combobox params makes other end point flash values
#13837 Clip panel monitor shows the wrong clip when the panel is updated by layer select
#14006 Clip panel monitor shows previously selected clip on column launch
#13846 Layer and group parameter envelopes can get lost
#13898 New layers in groups only show up after selecting another layer or clip
#13960 Groups can break apart when dragging layers
#13901 OSC /composition/tempocontroller/tempo/divide and multiply f 0-1 tries to set BPM directly
#13950 Shortcuts get deselected when clips are launched via other types of shortcuts
#13936 Crop Effect with Jitterbug blend on composition before transform can cause crash
#13958 BPM synced Video clips load with 8 beats duration from v6 to v7

Alley 2.1.8 Fix List
#14025 Crash trying to convert this file on windows
#13537 Alley crashes on exit while converting
#13849 Reordering files, Drop targets in Alley have a very small area, makes re-ordering hard
#13850 Dropping AV and Audio only clip to Alley, AV clip will play audio only
#13852 Alley plays / glitches audio samples from files in multi selection on drop

Homeschooled: Resolume Edition

Since we're all sitting at home right now, why not educate yourself with the latest Resolume tutorials? Explore the Feedback Source, go mad with the Particle Source or get wiggly with the radial cloner and the new sources in Resolume 7.







New footage! Tristan Gieler, shapiro500 and Laak

We welcome two new artists to the label:
Tristan Gieler with CreatureFeature and shapiro500 with his Dancing Birds.
We could say CreatureFeature is hell and Dancing Birds is heaven. Pretty much like our moods these days.
Laak is back with something different this time and we absolutely love it! Check out Lock 'n Lol!

Creature Feature by Tristan Gieler


Dancing Birds by shapiro500


Lock 'n Lol by Laak

Live Streaming with Resolume & OBS Studio

Right now the whole world seems in lockdown and unfortunately that means there’s not a lot of VJing going around these days. There’s a lot of creatives in this crisis that are using streaming to put out their work.

Here at Resolume HQ (well, not really since we’re working from home) we’ve gotten a lot of questions about streaming Resolume. We’ve written an article and made a quick tip video to help you getting started with your streaming career.

New footage! NeonRoom2, VHS'id and OrganicMotions

Ghosteam is back with NeonRoom2, a solid pack of loops that will turn your screen on fire.
VHS'id by Sebastian M. Purfürst is showing us where VHS go when they die. These loops have that mystery and suspense we all need in our lives.
And Catmac tries to hypnotise us and guide us to our happy place with these beautiful OrganicMotions

NeonRoom2 by Ghosteam


VHS'id by Sebastian M. Purfürst


OrganicMotions by Catmac

Resolume 7.1.1 & 6.1.5: Bug Fixes, Alley Trim, New & Improved Blends & Transitions, New Denon DJ Hardware

Fixes Fixes Fixes
Here you go, Resolume version 7.1.1. This version took a while and was a lot of work but it has a fix-list longer than The Return of the King's end credits. Including a long standing crash that happened on NVIDIA videocards after running Resolume for a few hours. Unfortunately we had to remove the GPU meter from the statusbar for now, we hope to bring that back in a future update. At least the crash is fixed. We're confident that this release will solve the last stability issues in version 7 that some of you have been experiencing.
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New & Improved Blends & Transitions
New in this release are Dissolve, Exclusion and Overlay blend modes and there are a few new "50" blends like 50 Dodge and 50 Burn. Subtract, Difference and Difference I (inverse) have been improved and now look exactly the same as in Photoshop.
You can now use any blend as a transition between clips and it will always fade smoothly from clip A to clip B. No more unexpected results when a clip contains alpha.

Alley Trim
You can now trim a video with Alley! Set the in and out points on the timeline of a video, convert, done, your video is now trimmed.

New Denon DJ Hardware
Denon DJ has just released a boatload of new hardware and version 7.1.1 ensures all that hardware and new firmware plays nice with Arena.

Avenue & Arena 6.1.5
Since many of you are still using v6 we decided to release one more update. This version fixes a crash with the Shaper effect on macOS Catalina. NDI output is now compatible with version 7 (and other applications) by fixing the alpha channel and the latest version of Alley is now included in the installers.

Avenue & Arena 7.1.1 Fix List
#13620 Running resolume for long, FPS drops and content starts to flicker, Resolume crashes in the nvidia drivers
#13668 Crash on startup with 4G usb device
#12130 Crash with Denon StagelinQ, loading a track that has not been analysed yet
#12512 Renaming deck to empty name, makes other deck disappear from list
#13477 ConnectSpecificColumn via DMX, doesn't select some columns
#13494 Connecting APC 40, changes Default shortcut velocity for new shortcuts
#13517 Toggling dropdown items with multiple midi shortcuts is no worky
#13521 Default clip play mode is not applied properly, clips revert to loop, from start on composition reload
#13542 Random BPM Distance should be a whole number when controlled via MIDI/OSC/DMX
#13577 Selection of Polygon Points, Input and Output Mask Points, are not restored on Undo/Redo
#13641 Play once and hold default is not respected importing new clips
#13658 Effect Dashboard Links stay Linked to Layer object after Moving effect to Clip
#13766 Dashboard Link positions not saved properly in Effect Preset
#13807 Undoing effect remove doesn't re-set Dashboard dial
#13665 Multiple MIDI shortcuts not working like multiple keyboard shortcuts
#13669 AV clip BPM transport BPM Sync is lost on composition reload
#13670 Notice new network interfaces in DMX preferences
#13674 Polygon slice drawing hint displays question marks in Chinese and Japanese
#13678 Text animator flashing
#13682 Renaming layer or column , leaving # to have the index, # gets replaced by the index integer
#13683 Mjpeg 60fps avi hangs Resolume on windows
#13688 Luma key blend mode's Smoothness Param is not saved properly
#13693 Clip Random Distance can lose the setting
#13704 Some mp4's converts to DXV with a weird frame rate
#13721 Crash adding effect from preview to clip or layer
#13736 Crash switching from an output with delay to another output
#13754 Midi output velocity settings are not visible for shortcut, when a mode change enables them
#13761 Can't change FPS setting for image sequence in Alley
#13795 Relocate button in clip panel no worky
#13814 OSC Operator arguments not working
#13587 Denon gets choppy after running for hours
#13855 Envelopes inside Radial/Liniar Cloner do not restart when clips are triggered.
#13701 Envelope preset gets wrong preview after changing it's name
#13825 B&W Layer blend, doesn't make layer B&W with Alpha below
#13571 Option to disable open composition confirm dialog via the command line

Alley 2.1.7 Fix List
#13546 Alley Conversion "DXV Normal Quality No Alpha" Preset not listed in the Manage Presets window
#13576 Alley: Remember last download folder
#13584 Alley extracts Larger than 4GB files corrupted
#13718 Alley custom sizes reset when you try to delete the values to add your own

Download
Select "Check for Updates.." in the Avenue or Arena menu and it will self-update. Or just head over to the downloads to get your download on.

Resolume Tools by PixelClone

The show creator dudes aka the Pixelwizards at PixelClone have been developing tools and software for years now, amplifying and enhancing their own shows: whilst in the midst of touring. After a long time of sculpting and perfecting: These tools are finally ready to see the light of day.

RT Stage
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PixelClone invites you to have a look in their test kitchen by releasing a bunch of "Block Up" tools that expand Resolume's functionality. For example a lightweight 3D virtual Stage Preview Application that slaps a spout or syphon texture on the LED screens of a 3D Stagemodel. VJ on your virtual stage and orbit around it in real time with: RT Stage

Fadermask
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We know PixelClone for their creative approach to combining, synchronising and expanding of various live applications. They'll jump in and out of all kinds of boxes, to find the niftiest technical solutions for creative and outrageous concepts. We were blown away by the unique options that came along with: FFGL FadeMask

PixelClone's software releases reach from nifty little converters to customized and tailored applications that can innovate your show. So it will come as no surprise that they were also closely involved, with the development of a lot of the new features, that have been released in Resolume over the past year.

Get inspired and start expanding your workflow over at pixelclone.com