So, over the past years we've seen Resolume being used on some amazing shows, stages and performances. It always fills our heart with pride and excitement to be a part of these wonderful projects.

Walking into an empty venue and seeing the stage come alive piece by piece is an amazing experience. With this promo, we hope to share a bit of that wonderful feeling with you.

See you in a dark hall with blinky light bits somewhere!



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With many thanks to the following VJ teams for graciously providing footage:
Comix
Chromagarden
Eyesupply
Urban Projections
Lucan Visuals
And of course to the mighty KBK Visuals for letting us film at their shows and drink their beer.

We would like to wish all of you a very Merry Christmas and all the best for the New Year!

Because this is the season of giving we've made a Sparkles plugin for you. This plugin looks for edges in your footage and then shimmers some glittering sparkles around those edges. It's fun and very Christmassy :-)

Download the Sparkles plugin for Mac and PC.

We hope you'll have a quiet Christmas with your entire family in good health, we'll see you next year.



Cheers!
Team Resolume
Edwin Bart Tim Joris Menno Reinier Bonne

And just like that, we've arrived at the last footage releases of 2015.

Ablaze Visuals lets you stock up on 4K fireworks content with UltraBursts.

Get UltraBursts *exclusively* from Resolume Footage

Audio by Diego Palacios

Muzencab is back with more cube mapping goodness.

Get Cuboid 2 *exclusively* from Resolume Footage



And Ghosteam shatters his neon tubes. Much shatter, great success.

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Audio by Elad Magdasi

It's been another fantastic year here at Resolume HQ. We feel truly blessed to be working on our baby every day and seeing it grow up.

This year was the first time in 4 years that we released a new major version, Arena 5 and it went very smooth. We took a lot of time to rigorously field-test and made sure Arena 5 already had a lot of show hours under it's belt on release day. This made sure it was as stable as possible.

We're starting to grow up as a company and with this comes great responsibility. We see your shows becoming bigger and bigger. The stages are larger and more complex and the audiences that come to party are also bigger than ever. Good times!

Coming year we hope to grow our team further so we can kick into higher gear and bring you many new updates. Thanks to your feedback we have a lot of ideas for small improvements as well as big new features.

Time will tell what 2016 will bring and we're looking forward to another fantastic year.

Cheers!
Team Resolume
Edwin Bart Tim Joris Menno Reinier Bonne

[s]Yes, the Black Friday 50% discount is now ON! It's here only once a year and it's only a few days so be quick. Log in to your account to upgrade to Arena 5, upgrade your footage (to a higher resolution) or upgrade to multiple computers, it's time to shop ;-)[/s]

Update: This party is now over, see y'all next year!

"Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow." - Eric Raymond

Arena 5 got a LOT of eyeballs since its release just 6 weeks ago. Many of you upgraded to Arena 5 and put it in front of crowds big and small, lighting up screens and LED pixels worldwide.

There were no MAJOR bugs in Arena 5.0.0. and Avenue 4.5.0. Nobody's cat caught fire, no laptops melted, nobody got hurt. But there are always small bugs in software and we're happy to now release Arena 5.0.1 & Avenue 4.5.1. These updates fix a few bugs, just to keep you sailing as smoothly as possible.

Download and Enjoy!

Merci beaucoup Emeric Delavaud for the French translation! Köszi szépen Gergo Fischer for the Hungarian translation. Grazie mille Daniele Penna for the Italian translation. Mulțumesc foarte mult Daniel Radutu for the Romanian translation!

Release Notes
[NEW] Variable DMX output delay
[NEW] Variable DMX frame-rate
[FIXED] Arena can crash when an output is removed
[FIXED] Windows Desktop Scaling causes wrong resolution on Display 2
[FIXED] Crash on selecting BlackMagic output resolution in advanced output
[FIXED] Problems when saving to Cyrillic chars in documents folder
[FIXED] Open Fixture Editor via Arena Menu
[FIXED] Fixture gamma has no effect on the output data
[FIXED] Quartz Composer sources flash rapidly
[FIXED] Advanced output GUI does not like non-latin characters
[FIXED] Soft-Edge not initialized correctly after startup
[FIXED] Blur effect broken when applied to clip
[FIXED] A clip set to 'play once and eject' should not eject the incoming clip during a transition
[FIXED] Show the layer name in the Slice input dropbox of the Layer Router
[FIXED] Regular Mask renders black instead of transparent
[FIXED] Alt drag to duplicate a Slice does not work on input tab (does on output)
[FIXED] When clicking *but not dragging* the rotation handle outside the bounds of the slice, the slice is deselected
[FIXED] Capture card output settings aren't saved in advanced output preset
[FIXED] Comp name gets updated before Save As... dialog is confirmed
[FIXED] Move Midi clock sync indicator to statusbar
[FIXED] Don't apply composition bypassed to output of virtual screen
[FIXED] Advanced output loses focus when mouse is moved over browser panel
[FIXED] Advanced Output mouse over help often says Switch to this Deck
[FIXED] Buggy polygon slice behaviour
[FIXED] Changes in Fixture Editor are not updated in Input Selection when advanced output was closed during editing
[FIXED] When the fixture input is dragged outside the input canvas the pixel data shown is not black
[FIXED] In preferences the dmx input output list always jumps to the top on adding or removing IOs
[FIXED] The New Output button in DMX preferences is only active to the middle of the button
[FIXED] Can't CMD-D slices or masks when in OutputTransform > Edit Points
[FIXED] If you hold ALT after you started a drag snapping doesn't work
[FIXED] Enable 'Bring forward' and 'Send backwards' for multiple slices
[FIXED] Edit slice name on single click
[FIXED] Multi select Bypass in slice list
[FIXED] Multi select Popup Menu in slice list does not work
[FIXED] Multi select by dragging does not work on second screen
[FIXED] When Screen name is changed it is displayed correctly in the list but not in the header above it's params
[FIXED] Add duplicate option to popup when multiple slices are selected
[FIXED] Advanced output on PC does not pick up changes in resolution in the screen selection drop down
[FIXED] Delay on DMX input preview
[FIXED] Dead-lock when renaming 2 or 3 screens after each other
[FIXED] Weird behaviour when bypassing multiple selected slices at once
[FIXED] Slice Selection Bugs
[FIXED] If you have selected a folded screen you can't select slices (of other screens) by clicking in the input editor

We've been very busy with the release of Res 5. So busy that we had to put the footage label on a slow burner for a while. Now we're happy to announce that we're back, and in style.

Feeling cramped by the SD PAL resolution that you thought was the bomb in 2008? We've added the option to easily upgrade your packs to a higher resolution. Log in to your account in the shop to see all your upgrade options: https://resolume.com/shop/account.php

Joris has been working his magic with Resolume's sources and effects again, and he pulled the elusive Radarize out of his big bag of tricks. Of course the Resolume composition is included.


Get Radarize, *exclusively* on Resolume Footage.

VJ Hummer always has a distinct visual style, and Characters is no different. These loops are made for walkin', and that's just what they'll do.


Get Characters, *exclusively* on Resolume Footage.

And when Artificially Awake drops a release, you know it's nothing but quality. Abstract is a swiss army knife of different styles and looks.


Get Abstract on Resolume Footage.

It’s been 4 years since we introduced Resolume Avenue & Arena 4. In those 4 years we released many many updates which brought a lot of improvements, effects and new features. It was time for something new, and we are proud to present to you: Resolume Arena 5.



We looked at the most important features that needed to be improved and this was clearly video mapping in Arena. Video mapping has taken the world by storm the past few years. We wanted to make this even easier and even more flexible with Resolume Arena 5. With Arena you can take on any size mapping project. Projecting on DJ booths and cars and buildings, as well as pixel mapping giant stages like Ultra. Projection mapping has gone from an artsy curiosity to a requirement in the toolbox of all VJ's.

Zoooooomin
With stages becoming bigger and LED resolutions going up it’s now easier to get everything pixel perfect by zooming in to your slices as far you need to make the final adjustment.


Undo (yes really)
In the advanced output you can now undo (and redo) all your actions. This is incredibly handy because video mapping can become quite complex and is not always an exact science. Sometimes you need to fiddle the sliders until it’s pixel perfect. You can now work on a complex mapping with the ease of mind that you can always go back in time, like Doc & Marty.


Polygon slices (poly what?)
This new way of video mapping is so innovative we even had to think of a name for it ;-) We’re calling them Poly Slices. Draw any shape you want and then warp each individual point. Triangles were just the beginning, young grasshopper.


Snapping
Slices and points will jump into place when they get close enough. So you don't need to find that sweet spot twice.

Slice masks
You can now apply a mask to one specific slice by using the new input masking. You can even draw your own shape from scratch.


Multi Select
Lasso your slices like a cowboy and herd them dawgies to the corral in one mighty swoop.

Led There Be Light
You can now start thinking outside the (box) screen because you can now send your pretty little pixels to DMX fixtures. Let them light up in any color, at any time, in sync with your visuals. Better improvised synchronisation between music and visuals is the very first reason why we started on Resolume all those years ago. It’s a very logical step to add the lights to that as well. This way your shows are even more coherent and integrated.


Output via BlackMagic Devices
Those fancy BlackMagic capture devices can not only bring images into Resolume. With Arena 5 you can also output via BlackMagic devices. This way you can easily output to another screen on a laptop that might not have multiple outputs. And output to professional SDI connections without having to buy a special expensive videocard that has SDI outputs.

Spout
Spout is the Windows equivalent of the hugely popular Syphon on the Mac. It allows you to output and input visuals from one application to the other, all in real-time. So create a sketch in Processing and send that to Resolume or send the Resolume output to the virtual Spout webcam and stream that to YouTube. Spout opens a lot of possibilities because there is already so much other Spout compatible software. Checkout their website.

Pricing
New Arena 5 license: 799 Euro
Upgrade Arena 4 to 5: 269 euro
Upgrade Avenue to Arena 5: 500 euro
New Avenue 4 license: 299 Euro

Log in to your account to purchase your upgrade today.

Avenue?
Because most of these major new features are media server related and only in Arena there is no major update for Avenue. So you can continue to use Avenue 4 without a paid upgrade.

Grace Period
If you bought Arena 4 after September 1st, just contact us and we'll upgrade you to Arena 5.


Much, much, more
Besides all these major new features we have also fixed many small bugs and made many minor improvements. Read below for the full release notes or hit the download!

NEW - AV set and demo footage
NEW - Fixture editor
NEW - Virtual screen routing
NEW - Drag and drop output presets
NEW - Modifiers galore
NEW - Input slice rotation
NEW - Opacity and Bypass toggles on Layer Router
NEW - Preview available as source for Layer Router and Slices
NEW - Create slices and masks by drawing
NEW - Screen output delay compensation
NEW - Screen output opacity & color correction
NEW - Screen folding
NEW - Slice flipping
NEW - Slice Top & Left coordinates
NEW - Slice color correction
NEW - Slice force black background
NEW - New interface colours: Minty Pinky
NEW - Redesigned toolbar for better read- and click-ability
NEW - Windows large address aware for better memory management
NEW - 8 pixel grid on output
NEW - Improved crosshairs


Bug fixes
FIXED - Support more than one webcam of the same type on PC
FIXED - After re-locating a Source, Flash or QC file, any parameter changes are reset to the default value
FIXED - When toggling Mask 1, all other Masks toggle as well
FIXED - BPM Clock pause and resume flips out when using midi clock
FIXED - Audio Clip set to play once and playmode away continue does not restart when finished
FIXED - Multiselect reset param doesn’t work when you click on name
FIXED - Noisy effect: Interpolate does not work until show UV is turned on and off
FIXED - DeckLink device with no inputs causes other devices not to load
FIXED - BPM set audio clip not responding to pause/BPM after deckswitch.
FIXED - BPM Synced parameter also occasionally flashes last 'frame' on Resync
FIXED - Blend Modes are not correctly displayed on Layer Panel
FIXED - Deadlock: Opening preferences with cmd + , while audio is playing and apc40mk2 is turned on
FIXED - DMX Invert no worky on buttons
FIXED - Retrigger and Continue modes are very confused on AV clips
FIXED - A clip set to 'play once and eject' should not eject the incoming clip during a transition
FIXED - Midi Note piano shortcut on slider should respect min value
FIXED - Add Close button to Timeline popup
FIXED - BPM pause doesn’t work for audio clips that are active but in other deck
FIXED - Mask drag, drop and copy not functioning properly
FIXED - A clip set to 'play once and eject' should not eject the incoming clip during a transition
FIXED - When retriggering the incoming clip in a transition, the outgoing clip should not restart
FIXED - Cross-fader position is not saved in composition
FIXED - Mapping ccs to Crossfader
FIXED - Source duration spinner jumps to min and max when dragged
FIXED - Check for illegal characters in savefile name
FIXED - Alpha on a JPEG? What kind of witchcraft is this?


Upgrade FAQ

I have a Res Avenue 4 license but there’s no Avenue 5! Do I need to upgrade to Arena 5 to get the new stuff?
No. Avenue 4.5 is a free upgrade for anyone with a Avenue 4.x license. It has all the bug fixes and comes with native Spout support.

I have a Res Arena 4 license but Arena 5 is a paid upgrade. Do I have to pay for bug fixes?
You don’t. If you don’t want to upgrade to Arena 5 just yet, Arena 4.2.2 is a free upgrade for anyone with a Arena 4.x license. It has all the bug fixes of Arena 5, just not the fancy new Advanced Output. Download Arena 4.2.2 for Mac and PC.

I just bought Arena 4 last week and now you bring out an update. This sucks!
Don’t worry. If you bought Arena 4 after September 1st, just contact us and we’ll give you an Arena 5 license, no questions asked. If you feel we’ve treated you unfairly in any other way, just drop us a line and we’ll work something out.

What about feature X ?1?!?!. You said it was coming in Res 5. I really need feature X! I can’t live without feature X!
Yeah, that sucks. We wanted to pack so much more features in this release. As it turns out, putting all of that in and getting it stable, would mean you’d have to wait another 2 years for the next version. And we couldn’t let you wait that long. So just make awesome shows with all the cool new stuff that’s in Arena now, and we’ll continue working on all the other things.

These three release have us picking sides in the eternal battle between light and dark and the soul of our audience.

Hybrid Visuals gets in touch with his inner Sith. Never underestimate the power of the Dark Side.

Get FerroCious VJ Loops by Hybrid Visuals *exclusively* from Resolume VJ Footage

Ican Agoesdjam follows the path to the Light Side of the Force.

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And Catmac is always on the road to enlightenment.

Get Inferno VJ Footage by Catmac *exclusively* from Resolume VJ Footage

The Viaje Tour Ricardo Arjona has been called the most successful latin tour in 2014-2015 by Pollstar and Billboard, with an attendance of more than 1.7 million people.



The man behind the visuals on this tour is Camilo Mejia, also known as VJ Bastard. Read more about what he has to say on the touring experience below.
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We have been touring for a year using Resolume with no issues. We've been to Argentina (8 cities, 25 shows and we're going back for at least 5 shows more in November), Mexico (16 cities, 35 shows), Uruguay, Paraguay, Panama, Costa rica (2 shows), Chile (7 shows), Puerto Rico (5 shows), USA (13 cities, and we're going back next month to 8 cities), Ecuador (3 cities), Venezuela (5 cities), Guatemala (2 shows, 3 cities), El Salvador, Honduras (2 cities), Nicaragua, Colombia (5 cities) and we are waiting for the confirmation of the Europe tour.

I have been using Resolume since 2.4.1, and have a good 15 years of experience playing with video.

I was called for this tour in May of 2014 as visualist and video engineer. We made rehearsals for a month in Mexico, during which we decided that the perfect system for our tour would be Resolume Arena.

First of all is the stability. I've played HUGE clips from 2gb to 70 or 80 gb, with no issues, so I know i will not have any problem with that. Because we don't run with a backup signal, that's a serious point.

Second of all we have a lot to stuff in our tour. Props (cars, trains, bikes, chairs…), back line, consoles, screens, and everything is travelling with us. As you may notice the screens of the tour are huge, and it is the first thing that we prepare for the show. Build up time is around 4 hours for the screens alone. With other systems it's easy for things to go missing, so the portability is really important for us.

The set up for the show that we use for the tour consists 436 modules of 6mm pitch LED screens. Resolume runs on a MacPro 12core 2,7Ghz /dual gpu with 64GbRam DDR3 with 1TB of storage, and 2 GPU Fire Pro d700 AMD of 6gm of VRAM.

The outputs are set up 1 for the main screen, 1 for the “leeds” or totems by the sides, 1 for the backing for the musicians (moving door), and 1 for the tunnels. The full comp is made for 2115 px X 1080 px, with no scalers, Folsoms or anything, I go straight to the processors with dual links and that's it.

I play the show with an Akai APC40 (older version) and some of the songs had SMPTE sync sent from Pro Tools. A Blackmagic capture card is used to capture an HD-SDI signal that is used in some cues to show the musicians and other live shots.

Read more about Camilo at his website: http://www.vjbastard.com or check out his work on Vimeo at https://vimeo.com/visualbastard

Just when you thought you were running out of clips, we've got you covered with three supersized releases.

STV in Motion does it like IHOP, with a pack of clips ready for stacking and layering.



Get FutureTribe by Stv in Motion from the Resolume Store

Raw Designs goes big like the Whopper with the first 4K release!



Get UberWeapon by Raw Designs from the Resolume store

And Laak drops another Happy Meal with no less than 99 loops of 3D goodness.



Get 3D Essentials by Laak from the Resolume store