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#Touch desginer and vdmx install#
AE is also a marketable skill that you can go freelance with once you learn enough useful stuff.īoris Continuum is the plugin pack to install for all the best effects. I think it's the most worthwhile investment of time if you're looking to create lasting permanent work, but for fast creations on the fly, a gear-based/modular system may serve you better. Many elements of synthesis and sampling can also be incorporated, and I've found it very useful to have the past experience with all of that before getting deeply involved with AE. I've entered video nerddom via After Effects, which I mostly use as a multi-FX processor for video clips. Gieskes makes a few physical plugins for it, and ReverseLandfill sells a matching pin-header comparator that really expands the possibilities.
#Touch desginer and vdmx Patch#
Pretty simple looking interface with a small patch bay and just a few knobs, but it's the synth I use, and I'm still finding new tricks years later. If you're already leaning towards video synthesis, an LZX system would be the wiser choice to grow with in the long-term, but if you find it too pricey and can solder a through-hole kit, take a look at the Gieskes 3TrinsRGB+1C. You can do a whole show with no input and just a mixer fed back into itself! But then later it becomes your command station to manipulate your source feeds, like mashing a video synth and camera together in various ways. They're generally equipped with a Time Based Corrector as well (which you'd need to learn about if you ever want to delve into glitch or corruption effects). One with an aux send for feedback loops, some interesting swipes and transitions, and a couple of onboard effects like keying, colour correction, contrast, invert, strobe, or mirror would be tops. 80s/90s jank on Ebay can still be had for reasonable prices though. The core of a video set-up is usually a powered video mixer, so I suggest you consider that also, but there are next to no modern cheap options. Tremolo3 wrote:I want to stick to basic elements, meaning just 1 piece of hardware/sofware doing the magic, a camera and a projector Posts: 485 Joined: Mon 10:33 pm Location: Thunder Bay, Ontario Sorry to overwhelm you with options and an obnoxiously long answer, but it's a pretty broad question. Tons of ideas and helpful folks there.ĭepending on what looks more fun to you, some things can be expensive, or require technical knowledge, or the gear can be vintage and rare, but if you're dedicated to experimenting, you can do all sorts of killer light shows on a budget with stuff from hardware, craft, and party stores, and flea markets and garage sales.
The former leans electronic, while the latter leans practical, but there's some overlap. If you're on facebook, get on Video Circuits and Psychedelic Light Show Preservation Society. It gets more fun when you combine a few of these.
#Touch desginer and vdmx software#
That's not even touching software which can reach into a whole other world of live coding, datamoshing, deep dream, projection mapping. Gieskes also does some interesting low-cost video synthesis gear. If you wanna get a little brave, you can watch tin crystals grow in hydrochloric acid. You can get a video microscope and explore stuff like geodes, bugs, and weed, or even your own body up close. If you can't do it large scale, you can use a camera to bounce to a screen. You can learn lumia, which is either bouncing lights, lasers, video projections, or slides off of flexible mirrors like mylar, or projecting it through warped glass for all sorts of undulating nebulous shapes and pools of light. You can get a document presenter or just an old fashioned overhead and learn practical FX like oil plates, splodascopes, moires, colour wheels. You can learn to make all sorts of geometric graphics on an oscilloscope with synthesizers, which can also be ported to lasers with the right controller. A few people like Tachyons+ and BPMC sell pre-bent gear. You can circuit bend video mixers, enhancers, colourizers, titlers, old game consoles to add all sorts of live glitch work to video. You can make self-generating fractals, and there are a number of fx boxes you can put in the signal path to manipulate the output, which gets exponentially more crazy the more you mess with it. You can make video feedback with a camera pointed at it's own video feed. I do experimental light shows with a friend of mine.
It's as big of a rabbit hole as music is. Duuuuude, there's a thousand things you could do.