The releases are coming thick and fast, but you know we always keep an eye on quality. Wherever possible, the DXV3 encoded versions will come with alpha transparency, instead of a regular black background. That means that you can get both Electric and Synthesize with embedded alpha! Happy mixing times, oh yes.

Mathias Muller is king of the particles.


Get FluidMandalas from the Resolume label.

Raw Designs is back with more visual synthesis.


Get Synthesize 2 from the Resolume label.

And Artificially Awake doesn't sleep, he renders.


Get Electric from the Resolume label

///// So yeah, as most of you figured out, this was our April Fools' joke for 2015. See you next year, everyone! /////

One of the exciting new features in Res 4.2 is speech recognition. That’s right, you can now control Resolume just by saying what you want to do.

Check the video for an overview of the basic controls and a some hints on the new special effect commands.



Of course speech recognition needs a clear sound signal, so when using it in a club environment, it’s best to ask the DJ to turn the music down.

4.2 improves on the stuff that you use every day. The stuff that allows you to do your amazing shows on screens all across the globe. Because we know this is what matters to you most. A stable, fast and healthy application.

UPDATE: We have now also released maintenance version 4.2.1 which brings a number of bug fixes.


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New DXV 3 codec
Faster playback, smaller files, better image quality. What more can you ask from a codec?


For most content, file size has gone down 25% when using an alpha channel. Increased file size is no longer an excuse to render your footage without alpha. Luma keying is sooooo 2004.

There is now a high quality option in the codec for those cases where your subtle gradients were showing banding. Beware, with great power comes great responsibility: files are twice as big in this high quality mode. So use it where banding is an issue, not as the default render setting.

2 SMPTE Inputs
Because 2 is better than 1.


Workflow is improved with nice big buttons on the layers & clip panels and you’ll see the timecode on the toolbar so it’s there where you need it.

Smooother playback
This one caused quite a few grey hairs on our balding skulls ;-) It took us very long to find out where exactly things were going wrong, but we finally improved playback smoothness.

To get the best results, render your clips on 30fps (not 25), use the DXV codec, set the playback to timeline (not BPM) and remove audio from your clips.

Respect Bypass on slices with layer input
You can now set a slice to ignore the bypass of a layer. This way you can hide a layer from the composition but still use it in the advanced output.


So here it is. Our baby. Her name is Resolume 4.2, she’s stable, fast, beautiful, super healthy and ready to discover the world. Download.

[NEW] Two SMPTE inputs
[NEW] DXV 3.0 Codec
[NEW] Respect Bypass on slices with layer input
[NEW] Mac QuickLook plugin to show DXV thumbnails and previews in Finder
[NEW] Show Display Info has more detailed info
[NEW] Deck focus is the default focus instead of Layer
[NEW] Noisy Effect, Noisy Blend Mode, Grid Effect
[NEW] New demo footage deck

[FIXED] Improved playback smoothness
[FIXED] Alpha not recognised in Animation codec
[FIXED] Improved support for APC20 and APC40 MK2
[FIXED] Smpte offset spinner doesn't work on clip level
[FIXED] Sources and effects not loading
[FIXED] Crashes with some corrupt DXV files
[FIXED] Double clicking a comp file still opens the last loaded comp
[FIXED] Blackmagic mini monitor crashes Resolume
[FIXED] Flash crashes with autopilot
[FIXED] Problems with rendering to DXV in After Effects and Cinema4D
[FIXED] Transitioning from a clip with less than 100% opacity, starts the transition at 100%
[FIXED] Alpha Type interpretation switches after save and reload
[FIXED] File codec and Alpha channel not recognised correctly
[FIXED] MirrorQuad renders black line with DXV files
[FIXED] Resolume reports screen size as 0x0
[FIXED] After creating a new composition, the blend modes of the previous comp are still shown
[FIXED] Improved Mac Pro multi screen performance
[FIXED] Wipe transitions up, right and left have a small jump at start
[FIXED] midi/osc/dmx mapping smpte delay is not possible
[FIXED] Decklink 4k rgb support
[FIXED] Memory usage increases slowly on audio files
[FIXED] Still images with custom duration values are reset after relinking
[FIXED] DXV Codec Compression type checkbox (in AE DXV Settings dialog) hit area size too small
[FIXED] Cannot load BMD4K device when Decklink is in use
[FIXED] When starting a comp with a BM device, it will default back to its first setting
[FIXED] Switching to a deck with an active BM device

Dalziel-Pow is a London-based agency with over 30 years' experience in brand and retail design, passionate about creating retail experiences that are unique and engaging for the customer.

A few days ago, they sent us the link to their amazing new project:

http://www.dalziel-pow.com/news/interactive-animations-retail-design-expo

They were kind enough to expand a little about how the project works:
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It's a giant screen printed illustration into a touch sensitive midi-controller using conductive ink.
It's proving massively popular in the retail world and we're getting plenty of publicity for it.

And rightly so! The playful artwork looks gorgeous, and the interactive projection elements complement it really well.

Using Resolume has been a great help getting the project up and running:

The ability to play multiple layers at once was really what drew us to the software - very handy and more importantly, very stable. With a powerful enough machine we must have been playing something like 30 layers simultaneously when we where stress testing!

The midi mapping feature meant we could trigger content using conductive ink through the picture itself.
http://www.bareconductive.com/

Be sure to check out their other work at http://www.dalziel-pow.com/

This time we have three familiar names representing the Res footage label.

Ostwerker get their mecha on with Robotronic:

Get Robotronic *exclusively* from Resolume Footage!

Catmac is our resident psychonaut. His new pack SpiritMolecule is full of psychedelic patterns and fractal geometry:

Get SpiritMolecule *exclusively* from Resolume Footage

And Artificially Awake just does what he does best, bang out amazing content:

Get Gimbal VJ footage by Artificially Awake

This list contains all the FFGL effects for Resolume we know about at the moment. Most of them are free, some are premium.

Compatible with Resolume 7 (64 bit)

Hybrid Visuals Chaser, Stageflow and Pulse:
https://hybridconstructs.com/shop/

Subpixel Various plugins (windows Only)
https://www.subpixels.com/

William Rood aceFX bundle
https://williamrood.net/new/store/acefx2

Angelo Dvizion's Mapper 2, Maste rFX, Kaleido FX and Change to Color
http://www.dvizion.net/portfolio-category/tools/

Daniel Arnett's 360 VJ plugin turns your world upside down and inside out
https://github.com/DanielArnett/360-VJ

Motus Lumina's GeneraXYZ footage packs with FFGL plugins
https://www.resolume.com/footage/GeneraXYZ2
https://www.resolume.com/footage/GeneraXYZ

Juicebar Marketplace with FFGL plugins and other helpful tools
https://get-juicebar.com/

FDVJ Fulldome VJ plugins
https://www.fulldomevjs.com/fdvj/

Plus Fisheye and Ascii
https://raduplus.gumroad.com/l/fisheyeffgl
https://raduplus.gumroad.com/l/asciiffgl

Scratchpole's Starglow effect (Mac only)
https://community.vuo.org/t/starglow-image-filter-for-ffgl-export/6209

Shady Headstash collection of shaders and Wire example patches ported to compiled Wire patches
https://www.headsta.sh/shop/resolume/all/

Notch Block plugin (Windows only)
https://github.com/notchvfx/notchblock_ffgl/

VFXArtShop different FFGL plugins (Windows only)
https://www.vfxartshop.com/product-category/ffgl

Medcelerate TouchEngine plugin for TouchDesigner component integration
https://github.com/medcelerate/FFGLTouchEngine

Compatible with Resolume 6 and earlier (32/64 bit)

Hybrid Visuals Chaser
https://hybridconstructs.com/shop/

BigFug fugGlitch, fugFeedback, fugPower and fugScope
https://github.com/bigfug/Freeframe

Subpixel TriTone and AutoMask (windows Only)
https://www.subpixels.com/

Visution Mapio
https://visution.com/

William Rood aceFX bundle
https://williamrood.net/new/vjplugins

Trypta Kaleido (PC only)
http://resolume.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=10008

Angelo Dvizion's KaleidoFX, MasterFX and the amazing Mapper
http://www.dvizion.net/portfolio-category/tools/

Yochee has been porting some Shadertoy goodness to FFGL (PC only)
https://www.7dex.de/works/ffgl-plugins/

We ported Dani Berio's Fireworks to native FFGL and made it part of the open source FFGL repo.
https://github.com/resolume/ffgl/releases

VJ-Spack-O-Mat Lots of fractally and shiny goodness (all plugins PC Only)
https://github.com/trifox/Spack-O-Mat-FFGL-Plugins/tree/2.0.0/release

Daniel Arnett's 360 VJ plugin turns your world upside down and inside out
https://github.com/DanielArnett/360-VJ

FDVJ Fulldome VJ plugins
https://www.fulldomevjs.com/fdvj/

Plus Fisheye
https://raduplus.gumroad.com/l/fisheyeffgl

VFXArtShop different FFGL plugins (Windows only)
https://www.vfxartshop.com/product-category/ffgl

Compatible with Resolume 5 and earlier (32 bit only)

Visution ClipSA, FaderSA, IR OSCSA, IR Keystone2[3], IR Cosmic Pack
https://visution.com/legacy-products/

Dani, Resolume DropShadow and Fireworks
http://resolume.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8506
http://resolume.com/blog/7610

Hybrid Visuals Plexus:
http://www.resolume.com/footage/plexus

Marc Wren sfColorRings, sfSpiderPoints, sfJuniperStar, sfBranches
http://sffreeframe.sourceforge.net/ (careful, these plugins seem to be abandoned)

Oleg Potiy FFGLTriangleMixer (Mac & PC), FFGLVolumeRenderer (PC only)
https://github.com/OlegPotiy/FFGLTriangleMX/tree/master/Bins
https://github.com/OlegPotiy/FFGLVolumeRenderer/tree/master/Bins

Lynn Jarvis Spout FFGL, ShaderLoader, ShaderMaker, AutoThreshold (PC only)
https://github.com/leadedge

Chris Korda Triplight
https://sourceforge.net/projects/triplight/
https://github.com/victimofleisure/TripLight/releases

Team Syphon Syphon FFGL (Mac only)
http://syphon.v002.info/

Darren Mothersele Noise, RGB Source, Spiral Source, Underwater Life, Evil, Plasma Ball (all plugins Mac only)
https://github.com/cyrilcode/ffglplugin-examples

FDVJ Fulldome VJ plugins
https://www.fulldomevjs.com/fdvj/

Plus Fisheye
https://raduplus.gumroad.com/l/fisheyeffgl





So how do I use these plugins with Resolume?

On Resolume 6, drop them in the Extra Effects subfolder in Resolume's folder in Documents. Resolume will load this folder automatically on the next launch.

On Resolume 5 and before, create a new folder called ‘FFGL Plugins’ inside the Resolume folder in My Documents (PC) or Documents (Mac). Copy the unzipped .bundle file (Mac) or .dll file (PC) into that folder. In Resolume, add this folder as an extra FFGL plugin folder in the video tab of the preferences. Restart Resolume and the plugins will be loaded.

Let's try to keep this thread clean, so it stays a good resource. Please post additions and changes as comments below, we will then update the list accordingly.

This is not the place to discuss problems with these plugins. For support, you will have to contact the developer of the plugin directly. This is not the place to discuss FFGL development, there's a separate board for that.

This month we welcome Artificially Awake to the Resolume Footage fam.

His first release Displace is great for adding some extra depth to your visuals:

Get Displace by Artificially Awake from the Resolume shop.

Video2000 is back, and this time he's just showing off. Insanely detailed 3d artwork in his new pack Technotron.

Get TechnoTron by Video2000 *exclusive* from the Resolume shop.

And even though we haven't heard from them in a while, the OWK crew is back with a banger.

Get CityDrives by Ostwerker *exclusive* from the Resolume shop.

Visuals have become a major part of live performances all over the world. From local club to concert hall to main stage on major festivals, Resolume can be seen on screens both large and small.

Top 100 DJ's like Armin van Buuren or Hardwell have relied on Resolume for their live video shows for years. The reach of Resolume is growing with bands like Aerosmith also adding live visuals to their shows.


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Resolume is growing, we have a lot of users and a lot of ideas. What we don't have, is enough hands to build it all.

This is where you come in. Do you have hands? Do you have brains? We have a full-time position available at our Resolume HQ in The Hague, The Netherlands. We work in a small team with a flat hierarchy, so your input will help shape the future of Resolume and live visuals.

What we're looking for:
* 5+ years experience in developing software using C/C++ on Mac OS X & Windows

What makes our hearts beat even faster:
* Experience with OpenGL.
* Experience with JUCE Framework.
* Experience with Objective C.
* Experience with digital audio processing.
* Affinity with creative coding environments like openFrameworks, Cinder and Processing.
* Affinity with live visuals or VJ-ing.

So here it is. Your chance to work for one of the worldwide market leaders in the live visual industry. To apply, send a cover letter, your resume and examples of your work to mail@resolume.com, Bart van der Ploeg.

Here is the first footage of 2015. We can already tell it's going to be a big year for visuals.

STV in Motion delivers some delicious eyecandy with his new pack Lolipop.


Buy Lolipop

Best selling artist Ican Agoesdjam shows he's got more than one style up his sleeve.


Buy OpalMonster, *exclusively* on Resolume Footage

And master of retinal detachment Muzencab returns with some more dancefloor oriented work.


But Metric, *exclusively* on Resolume Footage

December is always a busy time for VJs. We're sure you have some crazy holiday gigs lined up!

Grab your chance to stock up on ammo for those NYE screens and X-Mas LED panels.

Newcomer on the label Visual Delight impresses with a fresh new style. Mixing photographic with abstract 3D, this could well be the new trend for 2015.



SpaceOpera by Visual Delight is available exclusively from Resolume Footage

And both Daniel Knight and Ican Agoesdjam need no further introduction. They always deliver the pixelbangers that you know will blow up the screen.



Get MinimAltitude by Ican Agoesdjam, exclusively from Resolume Footage



Get RedGiants VJ Footage by Daniel Knight