![]() ![]() Okay you need high quality? The boxed version comes shipped with an additional DVD-Rom containing 2.8 GB of high quality video footage ready to be mixed with the software. The software installer that you can download already comes with some video loops to get you started. GrandVJ also offers an extensive support for various media including most video and image formats flash text and animations and multiple camera inputs. On the mixing side, GrandVJ comes with an updated ArKaos effects library and a long list of automated video generators. Mapping MIDI controllers is a breeze thanks to the new MIDI learn mode and you can even import predefined presets for specific MIDI controllers. ![]() The interface can quickly be modified to fit individual needs and preferences. GrandVJ is very easy to customize to each user's preferred setup. Need more? GrandVJ's learn mode makes it a breeze to set up any MIDI controller ![]() Its intuitive interface lets you turn your keyboard into a super controller for zipping through the functions. GrandVJ runs on both PC and Mac and accepts all common video and image formats. GrandVJ can mix up to 8 layers with a vast library of video effects and sound driven video generators Manipulate, trigger and mix video clips, animated text strings or live cameras in much the same way as mixing music to create a spectacular visual show. It’s not just projection mapping on buildings as a cool gimmick any more.ArKaos GrandVJ.Powerful video made easy. Live visuals increasingly means adapting to spaces, using multiple outputs and multiple projectors, tailoring your visuals to irregular surfaces and integrating them with environments. It’s projection, but it’s also dealing with LED walls. ![]() And flexible output isn’t just something expected of high-end shows and media servers: it’s something that increasingly is becoming something the lowly, laptop-in-a-backpack VJ does, too. It’s making your visual imagination look as good as possible when others see it.Īll of this means it’s great news to see ArKaos, a long-time name in live visual and VJ software, move toward integrating mapping with their software. I got to spend some quality time with ArKaos at Pro Light + Sound, the companion event to Musikmesse, last week in Frankfurt. We talk to ArKaos at top in our own video below, here’s what their booth looked like with this software set up: (I got to discuss details of this technology in California in January with ArKaos at NAMM, but it wasn’t ready to show yet.) They showed us the new video mapping technology, available in public for the first time. You’ve seen this kind of mapping convenience in software before, of course. The popular MadMapper tool, for one, offers similar features for taking live visual output and mapping it to three-dimensional surfaces. MadMapper works with any Syphon-compatible Mac application, too, whereas – for now, at least – ArKaos is only talking integration with their software.īut just as MadMapper’s approach has some advantages, ArKaos is bringing something new to the table. For one, Windows users aren’t left in the dark. ArKaos tells CDM that they’re using DirectX 9 extensions for high-performance routing between applications on non-fruit-related platforms. (Syphon is Mac-only, and uses OpenGL.)ĪrKaos is also promising that by the end of the year, this functionality will be integrated directly with their software – not requiring, as MadMapper does, running a separate app. I also like ArKaos’ approach to output and masking: it’s a whole lot easier to see which surface is which and on which output, so multiple projectors (or LED walls) become convenient. Once integrated in something like GrandVJ, that could be even better.ĭesigned for people on the run who need to setup mapping projects in very short times, the application can deform and project individual layers on the shapes of a mapped stage, allowing to easily make visuals flow around complex shapes in just a few clicks. MediaMaster 3.0 users needs the Pro license to have access to the Video Mapper We release the mapper running with MediaMaster, the Video Mapper is V1.0 and MediaMaster is V 3.0 beta These are planned dates, not set-in-stone ship dates, but it gives you a good idea of what to expect: Right now, this is all an extension to MediaMaster, but if you can’t afford that high-end media server solution, it’s coming to GrandVJ, too.ĪrKaos gives CDM the scoop on their planned timetable and release schedule. GrandVJ will cost 649 euros with Video Mapper (Pro), the upgrade for the mapper will cost 349 euros We release the Video Mapper running with GrandVJ 2.0 beta ARKAOS GRANDVJ V1.0 PRO We release MediaMaster 3.0 final that can load mapping files and does not need the Video Mapper once the mapping is created. ![]()
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