Since it was started about a year ago the iLoveQC website has become one of the top resources and community sites for Quartz Composer developers and Mac VJs using the node based language. If you haven't already taken the time to check out the site, they've got some great interviews with artists, tutorials to get started, FX for download and even Final Cut Pro plugins for non-realtime video production. For this guest tutorial we're joined by iLoveQC founder Graham Robinson, also known as Shakinda who has been part of the in the VJ community for quite some time and is an all around QC guru.
Read MoreVJ Spain Guest Tutorial Part 3 - Usando Quartz Composer en VDMX
Today we are once again joined by guest poster Marcos Prack with part three of his series of Spanish video tutorials for a lesson on using Quartz Composer iterators and using compositions inside of VDMX: "En este tutorial os muestro como crear una composición en Quartz Composer y publicar parámetros que controlaremos luego en VDMX."
Read MoreUsing the *spark d-fuser with VDMX with Toby Harris
For this guest tutorial we're joined by Toby Harris, creator of the *spark d-fuser DVI video mixer which is now available for retail purchase for the first time ever. More about the history of the development of the mixer can be found in our blog post on Toby's collaboration with D-Fuse.
Read MoreVJ Spain Guest Tutorial 2: El plugin Step Sequencer + Ableton Live
nce again in the lead up to his VJ Spain workshop later this month we are joined by guest poster Marcos Prack with another Spanish language tutorial: "Segundo tutorial de VDMX, esta vez os cuento una forma de utilizar el plugin Step Sequencer, que es usarlo para disparar los clips del Media Bin a través de diferentes presets. Todo esto utilizando Ableton Live que a través de notas MIDI activa Presets, FX y dispara los clips."
Read MoreVJ Spain Guest Tutorial: El plugin Control Surface
his special Spanish language guest tutorial on using the 'Control Surface' plugin comes from Marcos Prack of VJ Spain who joins us with a preview of his upcoming 4 day workshop on using VDMX and Quartz Composer in Madrid this April.
More information about the course can be found on the VJ Spain website: http://vjspain.com/blog/2013/03/20/workshop-quartz-composer-vdmx-integracion-y-flujo-de-trabajo/
Read MoreConverting a single DMX channel to a range of MIDI notes to trigger movies in CoGe
In this tutorial a DMX channel will be received over ArtNet in VDMX where it will be converted into a range of MIDI notes that will be then sent to CoGe to trigger movie files.
Read MoreVDMX into Millumin via Syphon
In honor of being the first third party developer to support the new Hap codec family natively, today we're joined by by Phillipe Chaurand who writes Millumin, an awesome piece of real-time visual software with a focus on theater, dance, and mapping installations.
Along with Hap, Millumin also shares support for Syphon, which allows for making layers in VDMX directly available as inputs to Millumin. In this quick video tutorial Phillipe explains how to set up this connection between the two applications.
Read MoreBeginner Quartz Composer tutorial with guest Minuek
For this guest tutorial we're joined by Jim Warrier, aka Minuek, who has been sharing his awesome Quartz Composer compositions and VDMX tutorials on the Vidvox forums for the past few months, to the point where we had to invite him to do a guest tutorial with us featuring some of his work and to help other people get started with Quartz Composer. Read More
How to do the Deadmau5 End of Year Tour visuals by Momo the Monster
Thanks to guest poster Momo The Monster currently on tour with Deadmau5 for a special round of holiday shows in North America to take the time to make a blog post and tutorial with us from the road.
Read MoreThe ECLECTIC METHOD REMIX, Part Three - Working with Ableton Live
In part three of our series looking at how to make an Eclectic Method remix with Jonny Wilson we'll be looking at using Ableton to control video triggering using MIDI notes.
Read MoreThe ECLECTIC METHOD REMIX, Part Two - Jamming
This is part two of a series with guest instructor Jonny Wilson of the Eclectic Method. You may want to start with the introduction post covering the overview of the workflow and the first topic on creating A/V samples.
In this tutorial we'll be looking at loading movie clips into VDMX and jamming on them using a MIDI controller.
Read MoreHow to do an ECLECTIC METHOD REMIX, The Overview.
This guest technique post is brought to you by Jonny from the Eclectic Method who was nice enough to share these videos about his process for making A/V remixes in this three part series.
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