vjing

[ibrahim]

anyone with much experience? me and my lady are branching out into an audio/visual set up sort of thing. going to be editing together stuff and using resolume to play it out on one laptop whilst ableton blasts tunes and dictates the midi clock on another laptop

my experience from seeing vjs at gigs has always been a bit... poor. its bound to happen I suppose, you'll either have one matey cooped up in a little corner of the stage, playing for eight hours and getting progressively more pissed and k'd up as the night goes on playing the same dozen loops over and over, or you have winamp visualisations interspersed with the occasional bit of sped-up-urban footage.

have I just missed all the good vjs?

if its not the cliche samples and lame trippy visuals, its the fact that nothing ever seems to be in sync. seeing people trying to manually beatmatch videos to some matey flapping breakbeat on a pair of turntables always leaves a sour taste in my mouth.

anyone to disagree? is there a good vj in the house?

i will happily accept your advice, what sort of stuff to avoid and whether branching out into video-jockeying is a good idea at all.

[thesandbag]

I know hexstatic use some software they coded themselves, but i have a remembering that antivj where using a vlc plugin at glade.
From some googling there is http://www.onyx-vj.com

[buzzingtalk]

i know of a few good ones - daytimetelevisuals/evil housewife/greg from cambridge is pretty sweet, does some darker stuff with added acid and always a pleasure to watch. i have seen some gash ones, though, just like you described.

as for software, well i used arkaos for a while, then moved briefly onto premiere but then i stopped as i just didnt have enough time to learn more software

[baldmosher]

I don't much like visuals. They just detract from the music.

[pesh]

yeah, visuals suck, no future in em

[shakyjane]

Is resolume 3 out yet? that looks snazzy - my female brain probably couldnt take it tho

well I may be wrong here but:

yes there's probably a lot of crappy VJ's about, but a LOT of good ones too, but the really good ones probably need a lot of money and resources, and need to get noticed

try goin on VJ forums or something for a shufty