MixEmergency Tutorial: Basics & Fundamentals Part 2

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This two-part MixEmergency tutorial is an overview of all its fundamental features to help you get started mixing visuals with this Video DJ software.

Part 2 covers Overlays, MIDI, Display controls and Serato DJ integration.

Users will gain an understanding of how to load and mix visuals, creating presets for access to frequently used settings, integration and audio/video linking with Serato DJ, customizing effects and transitions, MIDI mapping to hardware controllers and interfaces, adding built-in overlays to video mixes, and using display settings to show full screen video on secondary and primary displays.

This tutorial was created using MixEmergency Version 2.6.0.

MixEmergency Tutorial: Basics & Fundamentals Part 1

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This two-part MixEmergency tutorial is an overview of all its fundamental features to help you get started mixing visuals with this Video DJ software.

Part 1 covers basics of the interface, loading and mixing videos, effects, and presets.

Users will gain an understanding of how to load and mix visuals, creating presets for access to frequently used settings, integration and audio/video linking with Serato DJ, customizing effects and transitions, MIDI mapping to hardware controllers and interfaces, adding built-in overlays to video mixes, and using display settings to show full screen video on secondary and primary displays.

This tutorial was created using MixEmergency Version 2.6.0.

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Visuals Tested and Working with MixEmergency

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MIXEMERGENCY

We are happy to announce that all of our H.264 encoded visuals work flawlessly with Inklen MixEmergency VJ Software! All downloads have been updated to reflect this addition. MixEmergency is a VJ/Video DJing software package for Mac that plays nicely with Serato DJ. It’s an alternative to Serato Video and is feature packed allowing you to do a lot more with video for your DJ sets. Our visuals playback very smooth on MixEmergency, including all 1080p clips! Download a free a demo on their website along with some free visuals on our site to see for yourself. We have been using the software extensively and plan on creating a few tutorials soon. Stay tuned.

http://www.inklen.com/mixemergency/

Free Visual Set “Sectionulls”

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DOC001 Sectionull A 01

In the spirit of giving, here is another set of free VJ loops & visuals titled Sectionulls. This set contains 3 seamless loops consisting of 3D polygons shapes that break up and rejoin in various ways. These objects are perfect for layering on top of soft backgrounds or for any composition that needs some extra movement. Try tiling and mirroring multiple copies for some extra flavor.

Thanks for your continued support, follows, and likes!

Resolume Tutorial: BPM Sync & Techniques

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This Resolume tutorial for Arena 4 & 5 and Avenue 4 is an overview of BPM Sync and shows you how to find BPM for any music or audio track.

The following BPM Sync techniques are covered: randomizing playback of a video clip, activating and using BeatLoopr, linking BPM Sync to effects parameters.

Resolume Tutorial: Creating Audio Reactive Effects

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This Resolume tutorial for Arena 4 & 5 and Avenue 4 explains how to make effects respond to any audio source by using Resolume’s built-in Audio FFT functionality. Make visuals more compelling by adding extra motion that changes effect parameters dynamically and alters the look of any visual. Synchronize video clips to the beat without having match clips to BPM.

All Audio FFT controls are examined in depth. Additional tips and recommendations are discussed to help users breathe new life into visuals and fine tune the link between audio and video.

Live Visuals Session // 041004

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2-layers of live visuals set to respond audioreactively. Various effects applied to the head layer to change its appearance. A ripple effect was set to react to low audio frequencies. For the background layer, the hue was adjusted and opacity levels were synchronized to high frequencies in the audio. Originally posted on Instagram.

Visuals used in this session:
• DOC002 Audible Deafness (Polyphonics)
• DOC003 Shooting Squares (Strangescapes)

Serato Video Audioreactive Visual EDM Mix // 040414

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https://vimeo.com/91477769

Live EDM audiovisual DJ mix using the Serato Video plugin for Serato DJ. Visuals created by DocOptic.

This mix was performed live with no rehearsal. All visuals contained Presets with Audioreactive FX and were “Associated” to each music track in Serato DJ. DJ Kutz performed all DJ and VJ tasks live, manually triggering linked audio + video FX.

For info. and booking DJ Kutz of Adept Productions:
http://adepthawaii.com

VDMX Tutorial: The Interface Explained & Getting Started

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This VDMX tutorial explains the various interface items you are presented with when starting a new VDMX project. Users will learn how to get started from scratch by customizing a 3-layer interface for displaying live visuals in VDMX5.

Setting up layers, displaying the main output, adding fx, and organizing the interface is covered in this in-depth tutorial. After viewing, the user should be well equipped to create live video mixes with ease.