We have officially released FreeFrame 1.5 on the Vision'R festival in Paris. FreeFrame 1.5 includes extensions to FreeFrame 1.0 that enable real time rendering of stunning graphics and video effects with OpenGL compatible graphics cards ("GPUs"). We will fully support FreeFrame 1.5 plugins in Resolume 3 that we hope to release this summer.

Thanks to the enormous graphics processing power in todays' GPUs, FreeFrame 1.5 plugins using OpenGL run at much higher resolutions and frame rates than older FreeFrame 1.0 plugins. With OpenGLs' 3D functions and pixel shader programs, many new and exciting visual effects are possible and we are excited to see what plugin developers will create.

FreeFrame 1.5 also includes a timing function that enables hosts and plugins to reliably render time-dependent visual effects like particle systems and physical simulations. Whether you are running in real time at 60 frames per second or rendering a 25fps video to your hard drive, the new timing function ensures that you'll get accurate and predictable results.

Sample projects for Windows (MSVC, Delphi) and Macintosh (XCode) are provided to demonstrate basic plugin programming and hosting. Many FreeFrame plugins are provided with source code so that others can see exactly how real time video effects are written.

To learn more about FreeFrame, check out the FreeFrame website, and the new freeframe plugin database at community.freeframe.org

Developers interested in writing FreeFrameGL plugins or hosts can download the SDK directly.
The latest FreeFrameGL specification can be found here on sourceforge.
Find more development information and access the complete code repository on the SourceForge site.

Thanks to everyone that has made this possible

The FreeFrame 1.5 team:
Trey Harrison (Salvation)
Russell Blakeborough (Camart - VJamm)
Edwin de Koning (Resolume)
Bart van der Ploeg (Resolume)
Gabor Papp
John Day (Camart - VJamm)
Marcus Clements (Brightonart)
Julian Hone (Camart - VJamm)
Thomas Hellesen
Tom Bassford
Pete Warden

With lots of help from the rest of the FreeFrame community.

Checkout the lovely new reel from All City!

We'll be at the Vision'R VJ festival all weekend to enjoy the performances and we'll do two presentations on sunday. We hope to see you all there!

DUBjects contains bouncing retro televisions, spinning DJ turntables, pumping speakers, headphones and hifi equipment. All these funky objects are animated with a photo-camera and stop motion techniques. Full of vivid colour and style.

DELights has been created in Kiev in 2008 by filming close-ups of a 15 meter LED wall. These clips are extremely versatile, they explore all color ranges and can be used in infinite ways and situations.

Thanks to Simone Murtas you can now also enjoy the Resolume 2 manual in Italian. Nice one Simone!

These clips are a selection of TV content VJ Hummer has captured and vary from sitcom shows to news footage and tellsell broadcasts.

We have finally ditched the old XMB forum for a brand new phpBB3 release! The conversion was a real pain in the butt and unfortunately not everything could be converted. Most notably; all avatars are lost so consider this a good opportunity to create a new one ;-) If there are any other issues we have overlooked then please let us know and we,ll try to fix it.

The most fun new feature of this forum is that you can now post YouTube videos! So go ahead and post videos of laughing babies in the YouTube thread ;-)

Have a look at the demo of VJ Hummer (Drifter TV aka Nils Muhlenbruch). He produces short films and videoclips as well as animated graphics for VJ purposes. The VJ Shows of VJ Hummer are a mix of crazy cartoony characters, animated TV content and abstract visuals.

Did you know that with 17,075,400 square kilometres, Russia is by far the largest country in the world, covering more than an eighth of the Earth's land area. And with 142 million people, it is the ninth largest by population. It extends across the whole of northern Asia and 40% of Europe, spanning 11 time zones and incorporating a great range of environments and landforms. Russia has the world's largest mineral and energy resources, and is considered an energy superpower. It has the world's largest forest reserves and its lakes contain approximately one-quarter of the world's unfrozen fresh water. Amazing! And thanks to VJ DP there is now even a Russian Resolume manual! Thanks Nikolay!