New Visuals Release “Geoburst” and Free Set “Geoboom”

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Our latest visuals release Geoburst was born out of a need to add some fun and dynamics to live visual performances. These were crafted specifically for on-the-fly triggering but they can also be used as loops, especially when BPM synchronized.

The main set, Geoburst consists of 20 one-shot visual loops of various abstract, custom-made fully 3D geometric shapes animated with decays to fade from existence. We’ve released a free set called Geoboom which is a sample of Geoburst to play around with and see how fun it is to bang out these one-shots.

• Geoburst Visual Set
• Geoboom Free Visual Set

We hope you enjoy yet another DocOptic visuals release and a sincere thanks to all of our viewers, followers, and users!

Resolume Tutorial: Expressive Live Triggering

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This Resolume tutorial for Arena 4 & 5 and Avenue 4 will show you how to create an improvisational, expressive, live visual performance using one-shot visuals and piano mode effects. One-shots are short clips or loops that can be triggered on the fly as quick visual hits or bursts.

You will learn how to setup your composition for this performance style, map visuals to your computer keyboard or MIDI controller, and use Piano mode to toggle multiple effects on the fly along with your visuals.

The following one-shot visual loops are ready-made for Resolume and can be triggered using the techniques outlined in this tutorial:

→ Geoburst (Set of 20 Premium Visuals)
→ Geoboom (Free Set of 3 One-shot Visuals)

Intro music by Joob.

Live Visuals Session // 090214

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4 layers of live visuals in this session were mostly triggered live. Abstract, geometric one-shot loops were triggered on beat, on the fly using shortcuts. Mirrored 2D lines loop and blast on and off with audioreactive opacity. A loop of organic tentacles flash to the beat and a smoky tiled visual loops in the background. All layers had hue and color adjustments to match a blue palette. Originally posted on Instagram.

Visuals used in this session:
• DOC008 Ex, Fa, Nin, Oct, Ri, Spi (Geoburst)
• DOC007 Vunnel (Cosmic Garden)
• DOC004 Forward Slash (Kinetic Shifts)
• DOC003 Space Clouds (Strangescapes)

MixEmergency 2.7: HAP Support and Sample Player

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August 18th, 2014

Huge update today by the guys at Inklen, developer of MixEmergency. They have added the following features and squashed a few bugs.

New in MixEmergency 2.7:

• Added new Sample Player feature.
• Added support for GPU-accelerated playback of Hap encoded movies.
• Added support for animated GIF files (for both decks and in the Image Overlay).
• Added a Rate control to the Transport view.
• Added right-click menu to the Quartz Composition and Image Overlay file-drop areas.
• Added Blend modes for Quartz Composition Overlays.
• Quartz Composition and Image Overlay file-drop areas can now display a preview image.
• Updated Syphon to the latest version (fixes some issues with Channel 1 and 2 output).
• Optimised RGB Delay effect.
• Fixed issues syncing beats when playing short video loops over longer audio tracks.
• Fixed an issue that could cause the FX Sequencer to fail to trigger when using the One-shot (synced) mode.
• Fixed bug where the window close buttons were not working on the split preview windows.
• Fixed file path issues when using Serato DJ 1.7 or higher.
• Fixed memory deallocation bugs.

Moving forward we will be testing our MixEmergency visuals exclusively with the HAP Codec so please update to 2.7! H.264 will still be available as an option.

Download the HAP Codec here:
https://github.com/vidvox/hap-qt-codec/releases/

Download the MixEmergency 2.7 Demo or get the update here:
http://www.inklen.com/mixemergency/download

MixEmergency Tutorial: Effects In-Depth and How to Sync Audio & BPM

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This in-depth MixEmergency tutorial goes over all Effects (FX) Modes, interface, and options.

By using Serato DJ with MixEmergency, we show you how to synchronize your effects to your DJ sets using BPM and the Bass frequencies of your songs. We also go over how to adjust the graphs for the various Effects Modes and provide examples of audioreactive effects using Presets created by the DocOptic team.

↓ Download DocOptic Preset Bass & BPM FX
↓ Download additional MixEmergency FX and Plug-ins

This tutorial was created using MixEmergency Version 2.6

Music in this tutorial: “Blackbird” by Mr. Carmack

New Visuals Release “Cosmic Garden”

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August 7th, 2014

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Here at DocOptic headquarters on the lush and currently humid island of Oahu, Hawaii, inspiration many times comes to us from our natural habitat. And as much as we love polygons, sharp glowing lines, and shiny objects, we felt it was time to create something different that celebrated the organic side of life.

Enter the Cosmic Garden. A collection of ten 3D visual VJ loops inspired by nature, organisms, the cosmos, and dreams. We set out to challenge ourselves by creating a set of visuals influenced by patterns found in nature sprinkled with a side of weird, mathematical, and surreal.

We felt it was time for a change of scenery. A warm, sincere thanks to everyone who has supported our work in one way or another. You inspire us as well!

Support for CoGe VJ Software

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coge_logoWe’re happy to announce that all of our visuals have been tested on CoGe VJ software! Using the HAP codec, CoGe is able to playback DocOptic visuals using GPU acceleration and users will experience performance gains and increased frames per second, even at HD 1080p.

Give it a try yourself, download the CoGe demo and grab a few free visuals while you’re at it. We’re pumped to welcome the CoGe team as one of our partners to provide you with visuals that are guaranteed to run great on their software.