VDMX and macOS 26!

Hi everyone!

As usual we have a yearly update guide for people using VDMX who are looking to install the latest version of macOS on their computers.

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VDMX6 Demo Project running in macOS 26 Tahoe

Should you update now?

Typically we recommend waiting to update your OS immediately when a new major release comes out, unless you have a good reason to be an early adopter. If you are in the middle of any existing important projects, you may want to wait, so that you don’t lose any time if you run into any problems.

1. So far we have not run into any issues with using the latest release of VDMX6 in macOS 26, but it you run into any problems, or just want to let us know about your experiences with Tahoe, please send us feedback using the Report Bug option from the Help menu in VDMX, or send an email to support@vidvox.net.

2. Make sure to check with the creators of any other software or plugins that you rely on to make sure they are compatible before updating.

Preparing To Update

Before performing a major OS update, it is recommended to:

1. Perform a full system backup (using Time Machine, or software like Carbon Copy Cloner)

2. If available use a second partition or hard drive so that you can keep a your old OS install if you need to downgrade.

Updating to Tahoe

To install macOS 26 Tahoe on your computer, launch the System Settings and go to the General > Software Update section.

Apple has an official guide to walk you through the process: macOS Tahoe Upgrade Guide

Labor Day / Back to School Sale 2025!!!

Photo of VJ workshop taught by Kalma

Hey everyone!

The Labor Day / Fall Back to School Sale 2025 is now in effect, with 10% off all sales on VDMX6 & VDMX6 Plus from Sept 1st through Sept 8th. Visit https://vidvox.net/buy to get your license today!

This discount combines with the student and hobbyist discounts, send us an email to get a coupon code.

And a reminder that we have a free course curriculum “Intro to Live Visuals 101” that is an excellent resource for anyone looking to learn more about the history, theory, and practice of VJing. Each lesson contains videos, lecture notes, and homework assignments that you can follow along with at your own pace. This course material is also designed to be used by educators to use in the classroom, and includes a special set of Teacher Notes to help you get started.

Color Spaces, Compression Quality Metrics, and the Human Eye

In a recent blog post we dove into the results from various quality metrics comparing HAP alongside other video codecs. While we ran all of our tests using PSNR (Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio), SSIM (Structural similarity index measure) and VMAF (Video Multi-Method Assessment Fusion), we did not go into much detail about what each of these three metrics actually mean and how they are used to evaluate the quality of image compression.

As a recap of those metrics:

• PSNR: Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio, measures full color quality across all channels. Measured in db, higher values are better.

• SSIM: Structural similarity index measure measures structural similarity between images, considering luminance, contrast, and structure. Values range from 0-1, with 1 being identical.

• VMAF: Video Multi-Method Assessment Fusion is Netflix's perceptual quality metric that correlates with human visual perception. Scores range 0-100, with higher being better.

Computing PSNR scores.

Whereas PSNR measures a direct numerical comparison of how lossy an image compression is, the SSIM and VMAF metrics take into account perceptual qualities such as structural similarity and contrast levels. While PSNR values are extremely useful, SSIM and VMAF are more tuned to how the human eye actually perceives color and brightness information. A high PSNR score doesn’t always mean high quality image compression, especially in real-world situations.

Fortunately in the case of HAP R we saw improvements in PSNR, SSIM, and VMAF compared to HAP and HAP Q, showing that it is a huge step forward in quality on all front, with the trade off being slower compression times because it is more computationally expensive to encode.

A deeply related topic are the different models and gamuts used to represent color information. While we tend to think of colors being used within an image processing pipeline such as VDMX as representing every pixel as an RGBA value, behind the scenes there is a lot more going on to make sure that the colors captured by your camera appear on screen the way you expect it to.

The Making Software blog (Written and illustrated by Dan Hollick) has a wonderful write up going into detail of ‘What is a color space?’, with an in depth lesson on ‘color’ as we know it exists in the real-world (wavelength of light), how those wavelengths are interpreted by our eyes (with three sizes of ‘cones’), how it is represented on your computer display (as pixels), and all about the different ways that colors are stored digitally to be optimized for different gamuts (ranges) of color.

“Digital color is about trying to map this complex interplay of light and perception into a format that computers can understand and screens can display.“

From Dan Hollick’s ‘What is a color space’ blog post, What is color? illustration.

While reading through the Making Software post, keep in mind how details like this come into play when talking about measuring compression quality with simple error based metrics like PSNR vs perceptual metrics like SSIM and VMAF,

“There is also a non-linear relationship between the intensity of light and our perception of brightness. This means that a small change in the intensity of light can result in a large change in our perception of brightness, especially at low light levels. You can see this in action in these optical illusions, where the perceived brightness of a color can change based on the surrounding colors.”

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Optical illusion from ‘What is a color space’ – perceived brightness of a color can change based on the surrounding colors.

Another interesting historical example of color space usage based on technical requirements comes from the transition from the pre-digital black & white to color television is the YIQ colorspace for the NTSC standard. From the wikipedia page on NTSC,

“NTSC uses a luminance-chrominance encoding system, incorporating concepts invented in 1938 by Georges Valensi. Using a separate luminance signal maintained backward compatibility with black-and-white television sets in use at the time; only color sets would recognize the chroma signal, which was essentially ignored by black and white sets.

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An image along with its Y′, U, and V components respectively (wikipedia)

The red, green, and blue primary color signals (R′G′B′) are weighted and summed into a single luma signal, designated Y′ which takes the place of the original monochrome signal. The color difference information is encoded into the chrominance signal, which carries only the color information. This allows black-and-white receivers to display NTSC color signals by simply ignoring the chrominance signal. Some black-and-white TVs sold in the U.S. after the introduction of color broadcasting in 1953 were designed to filter chroma out, but the early B&W sets did not do this and chrominance could be seen as a crawling dot pattern in areas of the picture that held saturated colors.”

While YIQ is not actually commonly used beyond NSTC, you are more likely to run into YUV, or one of its other variations. In fact, the HAP Q codec makes use of a similar colorspace, YCoCg, using a shader to quickly convert the pixel data to and from RGB as part of the pixel pipeline.

When we are talking about color representations in digital image / video codecs, the choice of a color space is part of the design considerations. When storing pixel data as YUV, more data is stored for the luma level than the chroma values when compared to RGB based codecs. This typically results in slightly lower color accuracy with the benefit of improved brightness and contrast accuracy. As the human eye is more sensitive to differences in brightness levels, it can be beneficial to use color spaces that are more tuned to these qualities in some cases. Similarly, when creating metrics that help us evaluate how noticeable image compression is to the human eye vs how well it performs numerically, these types of characteristics are taken into account. The amount of time it takes to convert to and from RGB is also something that needs to be considered when optimizing compression algorithms for real-time usage.

Beyond all this, oftentimes certain image processing FX may use a different color space for a variety of different reasons. For example, performing a hue shift is a difficult operation to perform using RGB values, but very easy to do when working in an HSV or HSL values. If you look at the code behind the Color Controls ISF, you’ll notice that each pixel is converted from RGB to HSV, adjusted based on the input parameters, and then converted back to RGB for the output.

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Basic GLSL code from Color Controls.fs for converting RGB to HSV and HSV to RGB.

The end of Dan’s blog post on color spaces sums it all up very nicely,

“So what have we learned? Digital color is a hot, complicated mess of different color spaces, models, and management systems that all work together to try to make sure that the color that gets to your eyeball is somewhat close to what was intended.”

What more could we ask for?

VDMX6 Update – Video Tracking, OCR, Scopes, Color Transfer and more!

Today we are extremely excited to announce the first big round of updates to VDMX6 that begin to fully take advantage of our new Metal based rendering engine introduced last fall. This release adds a collection of powerful video analysis based plugins and FX built on top of Apple’s CoreML and Vision frameworks to help people bring their visuals to the next level.

New data-source plugins:

Video Tracking

Faces, hands, and human bodies can be detected and their positions published as data-sources for controlling parameters throughout VDMX. It can also be used to generate masking images and visualizations that can be previewed and used as part of the video processing pipeline.

Scopes

The Scopes plugin generates and displays a variety of useful visualizations of the color data for a provided video stream including waveform and vectorscope modes.

OCR

Scan images for text and QR codes, publishes detected strings as data-sources to use with text fields, text generators, and anywhere else strings can be received.

New FX:

Color Transfer FX

Automatically shift the color and brightness levels of a video stream to match a reference image.

Remove Background FX

Instantly remove the background (or foreground) of a video stream using person segmentation.

More FX:

• Blur and Overlay Faces FX: Uses face tracking to blur, pixellate, and overlay images on top of faces.

• Segmented Color Transfer: Segmented version of the new Color Transfer FX that allows for selecting different references for the foreground and background. (macOS 14+ only)

• New Segmented Blur FX: Applies different levels of blur to the background & foreground of a video stream. (macOS 14+)

You can see these features in action in the new set of video tutorials:

• Instant color transfer in VDMX

• Tracking faces, bodies, and hands with VDMX

• Exploring the new Blur Faces and Face Overlay FX in VDMX

• How to instantly remove backgrounds from video with VDMX

• Introduction to OCR and QR code detection in VDMX

or try out these features directly in the VDMX6 demo with the bundled example setups that can be loaded from the Templates menu.

ISF for Metal – Now open source!

Today we are excited to announce the open source release of our latest codebase for working with Metal and rendering ISF shaders on macOS: ISFMSLKit

This codebase was initially written for the VDMX6 update last fall, and is now ready for use by other developers who are looking to support ISF in a Metal environment on the Mac. Along with this we’ve also open sourced VVMetalKit, our general purpose Metal framework which powers the rendering engine in VDMX6 and other utility apps.

What is ISF?

Before we dive into ISF for Metal, let’s do a quick review of the ISF specification itself.

ISF, the Interactive Shader Format, is a cross platform standard for creating video generators, visual effects, and transitions. It was originally created for use in VDMX in 2013, and is now supported in over 20 different apps and creative coding environments.

ISF files contain two main components:

• JSON Metadata

• GLSL Code

These are used together by host applications to provide user interfaces to control parameters within the rendering pipeline.

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An example ISF generator as code and as a source in VDMX.

The ISF documentation pages include a Quick Start overview, an in depth look at writing GLSL code for real-time visuals, and useful reference notes.

Getting Started with ISF in Metal

This new open source release has three main repositories:

• ISFMSLKit: ISFMSLKit is a Mac framework for working with ISF files (and the GLSL source code they contain) in a tech stack that uses Metal to render content. At runtime, it transpiles GLSL to MSL, caches the compiled binaries to disk for rapid access, and uses Metal to render content to textures. Everything you need to get started with ISF shaders in a Metal environment. 

• VVMetalKit: VVMetalKit is a Mac framework that contains several useful utility classes for working with Metal, such as managing a buffer pool, rendering, populating, converting, and displaying textures.

• ISFGLSLGenerator: ISFGLSLGenerator is a cross-platform c++ lib that provides a programmatic interface for browsing and examining ISF files as well as generating GLSL shader source code that can be used for rendering. This library doesn't do any actual rendering itself - it just parses ISF files and generates shader code.

These frameworks are the same code that we have running under the hood in VDMX6 and are free for anyone to use in their own software.

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The ISFMSLKitTestApp running the Color Bars generator being processed by the Kaleidoscope filter.

All of the code needed for working with ISF in Metal can be found in ISFMSLKit.

This repository has several dependencies that are included, such as VVMetalKit and ISFGLSLGenerator.

The ISFMSLKitTestApp demonstrates the entire process of working with ISF under Metal:

• Converting GLSL to MSL.

• Caching converted shader code.

• Loading, validating, and parsing ISF files.

• Rendering ISF shaders to Metal textures as generators and FX.

• Displaying the final image in a Metal view.

The three major classes you’ll be working with in ISFMSLKit are:

• ISFMSLDoc: This class is a programmatic representation of an ISF document, and can be created either from the path to an ISF document or by passing it strings containing the ISF document's shaders. It performs basic validation, and parses the ISF's contents on init, allowing you to examine the ISF file's attributes. Behind the scenes, this class is basically a wrapper around VVISF::ISFDoc from the ISFGLSLGenerator library.

• ISFMSLCache: This class is the primary interface for caching (and retrieving cached) ISF files. Caching ISF files precompiles their shaders, allowing for faster runtime access.

• ISFMSLScene: A subclass of VVMTLScene used to render ISFs to Metal textures.

Detailed information on these classes and how to use them can be found in the ISFMSLKit readme file and documentation.

How does ISF in Metal work under the hood?

As ISF v2 is an OpenGL / GLSL based specification, in order to get ISF files working in Metal, first they need to be transpiled from GLSL to MSL. In a traditional OpenGL pipeline, behind the scenes ISF looks essentially like this:

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This is where ISFMSLKit and SPIR-V come into play. SPIR-V is an intermediate format from The Khronos Group for converting shaders from one format to another. To convert from GLSL to MSL, this happens in two parts:

• GLSLangValidatorLib which converts GLSL to SPIR-V.

• SPIRVCrossLib which converts SPIR-V to MSL.

These are provided as precompiled binaries in ISFMSLKit to reduce compilation times, but the source is also available if you are curious to see how they work, or you'd rather build your own.

Our updated diagram with the conversion to SPIR-V and MSL in place of GLSL is now something like this:

When using ISFMSLKit inside of VDMX6 or the included ISFMSLKit sample application, on launch, every unconverted GLSL-based ISF file is first converted to MSL, and then tracked for changes during runtime. The original ISF is left intact. Error logs are generated for files that fail to compile or translate for whatever reason. Files that successfully transpile are cached for later use.

Example error log for a GLSL shader that fails to compile.

The process demonstrated in the ISFMSLKit repository is also a great starting point for developers looking to convert ISF files to other shader languages for other platforms, or as a reference for anyone looking for an example of SPIR-V in action.

Once the ISF files have been converted from GLSL to MSL, they are ready to be validated, parsed for input parameters, and rendered by the host application using ISLMSLKit or your own custom library.

In addition to providing the base for the ISF rendering classes in ISFMSLKit and its sample application, the new VVMetalKit contains a variety of general purpose utilities for working with Metal. New and experienced developers alike will find this framework useful when creating Metal based video apps on the macOS.

Learning more about ISF

More information about ISF can be found on the isf.video website and examples can be found on the ISF Online Editor.

The set of open-source ISF files that is bundled with VDMX has over 200 shaders including useful utilities, standard filters, and a wide variety of FX for stylizing video, is completely free for other developers to use.

We are always excited to hear from people using ISF – if you have any questions, feedback, or just want to send us some cool links to your work for us to check out, please send us an email at isf@vidvox.net.

Developers who add support for ISF to their own software can send us a URL to their website and png icon to include on the list of apps that support ISF.

Announcing VDMX6 and VDMX6 Plus!!!

Hello VDMX Fans!

We’re thrilled to announce the official release of the biggest update to VDMX in over a decade: VDMX6!

What’s changed? Oh, just the entire rendering engine.

VDMX6 is now powered by Metal, fully transitioning away from the deprecated OpenGL technology. This update not only prepares us for the future of Mac hardware and OS updates but also opens new doors for upcoming features, improvements, and even more optimizations.

What’s else is new?

Read on! Looking to download the new release or buy a license? Visit the new Vidvox.net homepage!

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HAP R

One of the first new benefits of our new Metal rendering engine is we can add support for the latest addition to the HAP video codec family!

Following in the footsteps of HAP Q, we now have HAP R.

What do you need to know about HAP R?

• The HAP R format creates files that are higher quality than HAP Q, with alpha channels, at about the same size.

• The latest AVF Batch Exporter utility app in the Extras folder includes support for importing / exporting to the newest variation of HAP.

• HAP R is more technically known as HAP 7A because it is based on the BC7 texture format.

• Other developers looking to update their own software to support HAP R will find technical details of the format on the HAP Specification and the HAP in AVFoundation framework GitHub pages useful in getting started.

Stay tuned for more details and benchmarks on HAP R in a future blog post!

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Updated Automatic BPM Detection

Along with overhauling the rendering engine we’ve rewritten the tempo tracking algorithm completely from scratch to run natively on both Intel and ARM64 processors. No more having to use Rosetta to take advantage of this crucial feature on newer Mac hardware!

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Leaner and Cleaner

Along with the performance boost of switching the rendering engine over to Metal we’ve optimized several other core parts of VDMX, making the app more efficient with an overall lower memory footprint.

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New Pricing and Plus Version

One of the top things we hear from people who want to get started in working with live visuals is the financial barrier to entry. Along with adding feature improvements we understand that one thing we can do to make our software better is to make it more accessible to everyone and anyone, so we’ve decided to set the price on VDMX6 at 99 USD.

We have also introduced VDMX6 Plus at 249 USD for users who want to extend their experience by using TouchDesigner and Vuo compositions alongside the rest of the powerful features included in the standard version.

Students, teachers, and hobbyists can apply by email for our educational discounts of 25 USD on VDMX6 and 100 USD on VDMX6 Plus.

Upgrade Discounts

Existing VDMX5 users who purchased their license after September 12th, 2023 are entitled to a free update to VDMX6 Plus.

All other VDMX5 users can write in to receive a coupon to get 100 USD off on VDMX6 Plus.

Customers who have a license of VDMX6 can get the full price off of their original purchase if they choose to upgrade to VDMX6 Plus later.

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TouchDesigner Support!

Using TouchDesigner compositions in VDMX6

Yes indeed, as mentioned just above, in VDMX6 Plus you can now use TouchDesigner compositions as interactive generators, effects, and control data plugins.

Note: that using TouchDesigner compositions in VDMX6 Plus requires a TouchDesigner install, and a valid paid TouchDesigner license on the same computer (Education, Commercial, or Pro) Non-commercial will not work.

Example compositions can be found on the VDMX6 dmg in the Extras folder and additional detailed information can be found in the VDMX documentation.

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New ISF Generators and FX

No update to VDMX is complete without some new interactive video generators and FX to play with!

In this release we’ve got a new category of FX, Overlays, which include useful FX such as Doodler, Cursor, and Highlighter. These make it easy to add small elements on top of your video without having to do additional layer management.

There’s also some other new fun audio visualizers and glitch FX to play with:

• Audio Waveform Shape

• Pattern Glitch

• Stylize Glitch

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Improvements to BlackMagic and Video Capture Support

BlackMagic makes some of the most popular audio / video capture devices on the market, and we’ve just made using them with VDMX even better…

• Use BlackMagic devices for simultaneous input and output, also known as full duplex mode, on supported devices.

• Send audio streams to BlackMagic outputs.

• Lower latency audio capture from BlackMagic inputs.

• Apply key streams as alpha channels on supported devices.

• Output alpha channels as external key streams on supported devices.

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Themes and Interface Improvements

Find your favorite FX and sources even faster.

A major overhaul like this also deserves some new style, so we’ve included some new color themes and various minor interface tweaks throughout the app to improve overall usability.

One of the most useful UI additions is the new ‘Search’ field for quickly filtering the options in the layer source & FX menus.

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Base and Recommended System Requirements

Minimum requirements: macOS 12; Intel or ARM64 Mac

Recommended OS: macOS 13 or later; M1 processor or later.

Sadly, we had to drop support for older OS releases where that could not take advantage of certain features and optimizations to Metal that were introduced in macOS 12. But we will continue to host old versions of VDMX5 to support older systems. See (VDMX Versions for details).

While VDMX6 will run on macOS 12 and Intel machines, the biggest performance gains are found in the newest OS releases and hardware where Metal itself is more optimized. We strongly recommend updating to macOS 13 or later where possible.

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The Future???

With so many changes behind the scenes to create a stronger foundation for us to build on, one of the most existing parts of the VDMX6 update is what will come next… make sure to keep your eyes on this blog, tag and follow us on Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram, and sign up for our email list to get the latest news from VIDVOX!

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Updating from VDMX5? Read the FAQ!

We tried to make the process of updating from VDMX5 as seamless as possible: for example opening existing project files will create a copy that will be automatically updated to for the new version and GLSL based ISF shaders will be automatically transpiled as Metal shaders on launch.

Beyond that, we know that people updating from older versions have a ton of specific questions about the update process and we have created a VDMX5 upgrade FAQ page on this topic in the VDMX6 documentation. This page includes a listing of major changes to be aware of, and if needed we are also happy to answer questions you may have by email or on the forums.

With VDMX6 moving into Metal, some older plugins, custom FX, or ISF shaders may not be immediately compatible with the latest version. We recommend testing out the demo of VDMX6 first before making a full transition. If something is incompatible VDMX will do it’s best to give you a warning. And the best part is, you can have VDMX5, VDMX6, and VDMX6 Plus all installed on the same machine without conflict!

Dispatch from Mapping Festival 2024

Once again we have traveled across the Atlantic to join the Mad Mapper team for the infamous Mapping Festival in Geneva! As always it was a fantastic time getting to spend time with amazing visual artists from all over the world, seeing some mind blowing performances, and participate in workshops showing off the latest techniques in live visuals and projection mapping. We leave having spent time reconnecting with old friends, meeting new ones, and eagerly awaiting our next chance to come back!

For those who could not make it to Geneva this year we have published the slides and accompanying notes from our two day workshop on getting started with using GLSL and ISF for creating real-time visuals and effects to use in apps like VDMX and Mad Mapper, which you can find here: https://bit.ly/isf-mapping-2024

We also have some photos to share! Geneva is a beautiful city and an absolute joy to visit.

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And be sure to follow us on instagram for more live updates and pictures from events such as this!

Introducing ISF for Jitter

Today we are extra excited to announce an open source collaboration with the team over at Cycling74, creators of Max. Now all of the amazing ISF shaders that come with VDMX and on interactiveshaderformat.com can be used right alongside your other Jitter code using the jit.gl.isf object, available on Mac and Windows!

You can install jit.gl.isf directly from the Max package manager panel, accessible from the File menu. If you don’t already have any ISF shaders installed, also grab the free ISF Editor app for your appropriate platform. The free editor tool comes with the same standard set of 300+ generators, effects, and transitions we bundle with VDMX to get started with.

With this release Max joins the over a dozen apps and frameworks that support ISF as a standard for GLSL shaders. With ISF, there is no need to convert or translate code when moving between software. Write your generators and effects once, then use in Max, Motion, Final Cut Pro X, VDMX, on the web, and other video platforms. The specification includes conventions for working with multi-pass shaders with persistent frame buffers, allowing for the creation of complex compositions in a single easy to share file. The ISF documentation pages include detailed walkthroughs of the specification along with useful reference notes and a quick start for learning the basics of GLSL.

ISF for Jitter can be used out of the box with over 300 generators, effects, and transitions. Install the free ISF Editor to get the standard collection of shaders.

Documentation

jit.gl.isf includes an extensive help patch, examples, and complete reference.

Easy to Install

Use the Max package manager to download the jit.gl.isf object and access the launcher patch. Available on Mac and Windows.

Online Community

Visit the ISF sharing website to find new generators and effects that can be used directly in with jit.gl.isf without any additional conversion. GLSL shaders written in other formats are often easily translatable to the ISF specification. See the ISF Documentation for useful tips and examples.

Audio Visualizers

The ISF specification helps standardize techniques for creating advanced compositions like audio visualizers. See the include example patches and ISF Documentation for more information.

Want to learn more? Read more about it on the ISF for Jitter website, watch an introduction video tutorial, and visit the Max forums for more details from the Cycling74 crew. Developers curious to take a look under the hood can find the open source codebase in the jit.gl.isf repository. For the latest in ISF news, follow the @ISFVideo account on Twitter.

And don’t forget to check out some of our other tutorials describing techniques for using Max and VDMX together, such as using the OSCQuery Helper tool for simplifying OSC sync and sharing video streams via Syphon.

Black Friday To Cyber Monday Weekend Sale 2019!!!

Once again we are getting in the spirit of capitalism with the yearly Black Friday / Cyber Monday sale!

The sale runs from Friday, November 28 through the morning of Tuesday, December 3rd!

During this time we’ll be taking 100 USD off every purchase from our online store!!!

And this sale stacks with our regular educational, just send us an email with a picture of your photo ID (or other similar proof of enrollment) to get your coupon code to double down your discounts and get VDMX for only 99 USD!!!

Or if you are not a student, we also offer a “starving artist discount” – do a small community giveback project, such as sharing videos loops or making a tutorial to get an extra discount.

VDMX OS X Catalina Update Guide

Hi everyone!

As usual we have a yearly update guide for people using VDMX who are looking to install the latest version of macOS on their computers.

You can read more about the specific details of the most recent release, including the list of new features and effects in the release announcement on the forums and discussion thread on upgrading to Catalina for more tips: https://discourse.vidvox.net/t/vdmx-macos-x-10-15-catalina-update-guide/942

The most noteworthy change for developers in 10.15 is the requirement for notarizing applications that are distributed outside the Mac App Store – if you are running version b8.7.1.6 or later, your copy of VDMX should be properly notarized.

If you run into any problems with updating VDMX to macOS 10.15, or just want to let us know about your experiences with Catalina, please send us feedback using the Report Bug option from the Help menu in VDMX, or send an email to support@vidvox.net.

Black Friday To Cyber Monday Weekend Sale 2018

Hey everyone!

SURPRISE!

For the first time ever we are doing a Black Friday / Cyber Monday sale, getting in the spirit and jumping on the bandwagon of this runaway train we call capitalism!!!

The sale runs from Friday, November 23rd through the morning of Tuesday, November 27th!

During this time we’ll be taking 100 USD off every purchase from our online store!!!

And this sale stacks with our regular educational, just send us an email with a picture of your photo ID (or other similar proof of enrollment) to get your coupon code to double down your discounts and get VDMX for only 99 USD!!!

Or if you are not a student, we also offer a “starving artist discount” – do a small community giveback project, such as sharing videos loops or making a tutorial to get an extra discount.