Wire&Resolume: 'The Flower Effect Part 1' gallery video

[webel]

I've been encouraged to share some of my recent work with Resolume&Wire on this forum.

This is probably a little different from most club-style VJ videos, and the intended audience and purpose is different. It's intended (amongst other things) as a support video for a gallery installation of flower macro photography. It combines content generated either completely in Wire or in combination with Resolume, and draws on high resolution flower photographic stills.

'The Flower Effect: Part 1' by PLAYlogo

© Copyright 2022 PLAYlogo (Darren R C Kelly). All rights reserved.

Some technical notes:

- This public version is "only" 8-bpc, so it exhibits some slight gradient banding that I otherwise went to great effort to overcome (the ProRes and HEVC-10bpc versions have better gradients).

- Final editing in Final Cut Pro from Wire renders and Resolume clip renders to ProRes422, with some intermediate use of DXV3 high.

- A lot of the content with gradients was generated in 16bpc Wire patches and Resolume compositions.

- It deliberately does not use lots of layering or fancy blends or some other club VJ idioms, because it is intended to feature the photographic aspect, and just scene after scene (I also have some very plain flower videos with no FX at all.)

- All done on a 5K iMac. Thanks Resolume for supporting the Mac platfrom with your products!

If anybody thinks using Resolume is somehow cheating - and you can just stick anything in and push an FX button and it does it all for you - show them this video; it's a lot of work, and it takes lots of patience, step-by-step learning, experimentation, planning, and progressive refinement. And note how the Wire scenes have a very different feel from the Resolume ones.

Fact: Resolume&Wire can be used for compelling high quality video content generation beyond live VJ-ing.

[Zoltán]

Nice work!