Resolume 3 Live Experience
Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2008 22:39
After using Resolume 3 on a few live events here are my comments positive and negative 
Firstly my overall impression is very positive with reliability good for a beta.
Positives:
Audio - This is great. I thought I wouldn't ever need this but the weekend we did an item at an event using some video files with audio and triggering was much easier than loading multiple clips into VLC.
Masks - We find this really usefull and have been using masks alot on Resolume 2 (see pics posted by Rags on this page http://www.resolume.com/forum/viewtopic ... &start=180 ) but this was long winded and usually meant losing a layer. The ability to put masks on the composition, layers and files is great.
Effects - Having effects on layers is good!
Multi Screen Output - The Advanced options on this is nice for multi GPU use although a soft edging option would make this really usefull.
Layer/File/Composition Manipulation - The X, Y and Z rotation is great for keystoning projections onto strange shapes.
Capture Devices - The time delay on my video input card is nearly non existent and much smoother making this much more usefull for live camera mixing (I haven't tried this on firewire yet).
Proformance - Resolume 3 plays clips so much smoother!
Negatives / Bugs
Speed on layers - This is really missed in a live event as you have to find the clip to change the speed which is slow going if you have switched decks. Also this can't be assigned to a midi device.
Decks - On opening a composition decks are not loaded correctly (already documented on this forum). Deck loading is slow which isn't a major problem but it causes the output to judder which is more of a problem.
In the composition tab decks don't seem to be able to be ordered, alphabetically or in folders like Resolume 2, some of these are listed in white and some are grey is there a reason for this?
Clip / Composition size - It would be nice if there was default option to auto size clips to fit composition size to save resizing all the clips (maybe a tick box in the clip properties)
Audio on Video clips - When loading an uncompressed DV AVI with no codec, containing audio and video, only the audio is loaded (I have not tried this with multiple codecs / formats) This is not a problem for the majority of my clips as they are all formatted with the PicJPEG codec but if someone gives me a file at an event it would need reformatting before use and there is often not enough time for this.
Preview - This is a nice feature but sometimes only works on clips already loaded into the layers.
Midi - I have a Behringer BCR2000 and can't seem to set up the knobs to be endless like in Resolume 2 which means functions jump to the level of the knob, or am I missing something?
Aside from these points the whole interface is much improved so great work guys! I would have posted sooner if I hadn't lost my login details!
Tim
Firstly my overall impression is very positive with reliability good for a beta.
Positives:
Audio - This is great. I thought I wouldn't ever need this but the weekend we did an item at an event using some video files with audio and triggering was much easier than loading multiple clips into VLC.
Masks - We find this really usefull and have been using masks alot on Resolume 2 (see pics posted by Rags on this page http://www.resolume.com/forum/viewtopic ... &start=180 ) but this was long winded and usually meant losing a layer. The ability to put masks on the composition, layers and files is great.
Effects - Having effects on layers is good!
Multi Screen Output - The Advanced options on this is nice for multi GPU use although a soft edging option would make this really usefull.
Layer/File/Composition Manipulation - The X, Y and Z rotation is great for keystoning projections onto strange shapes.
Capture Devices - The time delay on my video input card is nearly non existent and much smoother making this much more usefull for live camera mixing (I haven't tried this on firewire yet).
Proformance - Resolume 3 plays clips so much smoother!
Negatives / Bugs
Speed on layers - This is really missed in a live event as you have to find the clip to change the speed which is slow going if you have switched decks. Also this can't be assigned to a midi device.
Decks - On opening a composition decks are not loaded correctly (already documented on this forum). Deck loading is slow which isn't a major problem but it causes the output to judder which is more of a problem.
In the composition tab decks don't seem to be able to be ordered, alphabetically or in folders like Resolume 2, some of these are listed in white and some are grey is there a reason for this?
Clip / Composition size - It would be nice if there was default option to auto size clips to fit composition size to save resizing all the clips (maybe a tick box in the clip properties)
Audio on Video clips - When loading an uncompressed DV AVI with no codec, containing audio and video, only the audio is loaded (I have not tried this with multiple codecs / formats) This is not a problem for the majority of my clips as they are all formatted with the PicJPEG codec but if someone gives me a file at an event it would need reformatting before use and there is often not enough time for this.
Preview - This is a nice feature but sometimes only works on clips already loaded into the layers.
Midi - I have a Behringer BCR2000 and can't seem to set up the knobs to be endless like in Resolume 2 which means functions jump to the level of the knob, or am I missing something?
Aside from these points the whole interface is much improved so great work guys! I would have posted sooner if I hadn't lost my login details!
Tim