Vjing!?

[Xonetacular]

This is why I like this new DJ VJ Duo K@_BOOM, because they tag back and forth. One person doing visuals and the other djing. Then they swap. The DJ gets to focus on the mix and the VJ gets to focus on the visuals. Because they are both DJs they understand the build up and break downs of the tracks. That way there aren't crazy fast visuals during a break down and they add their own style of visuals from peewee herman to visuals of that chick go-go dancing in outfits with other effects on top. I aso see that they bring down a video camera to get the crowd involved and a part of the visuals to edit or leave it as is to hype up the crowd. I just noticed it at the end of that promo video.

Having a VJ at any show it great, because you can show off what DJ is playing and add you own flavor to it while they play. Not being a DJ but understanding music I feel I could do Visuals for shows. But I still need to get that program and play around with it. As I did more research last night I am learning there are a lot of options as to what I can do. I'll let you guys know how this works out.

yeah I'm thinking of getting my friend involved and would be cool if we could do a duo.

I also want to figure out a way to have my db4 and controllers for traktor also trigger vj stuff to correspond with filters and loops. I would like some stuff to correspond with what I do on the mixer and traktor and I want to find the video of the guy who was doing that with his db4 it looks sweet.

[Xonetacular]

anyone know anything about projectors? there are so many and I'm wondering what is the best value/quality/brightness. I would want something vivid.

[MrPopinjay]

Probably worth hopping over to some VJ forums dude!

[Xonetacular]

Probably worth hopping over to some VJ forums dude!

are there any other forums for vjing other than vjforums? it keeps going down and content seems pretty disorganized

vjforums keeps getting a database error, hopefully not going the way of djforums

[MrPopinjay]

You could try the forums for the major VJ programs like resolume?

[nem0nic]

I just popped into this thread to say that while VDJing is not my thing at all, I think it's been given a bad rap from the examples shown here. DJ 2nd Nature is amazing, and has been involved in the scene since it's existed. His sets are incredible, even for people who don't necessarily like VDJing.

Give these a look...

http://player.vimeo.com/video/25062390
http://player.vimeo.com/video/14305887

Of course a lot of this is prepared for. In his case specifically he specializes in this kind of work. But he still works his ass off live, and anyone who's caught him at DJ Expo can attest to that.

As for equipment, he's a Pioneer guy and uses their video mixing gear.

[Xonetacular]

I just popped into this thread to say that while VDJing is not my thing at all, I think it's been given a bad rap from the examples shown here. DJ 2nd Nature is amazing, and has been involved in the scene since it's existed. His sets are incredible, even for people who don't necessarily like VDJing.

Give these a look...

http://player.vimeo.com/video/25062390
http://player.vimeo.com/video/14305887

Of course a lot of this is prepared for. In his case specifically he specializes in this kind of work. But he still works his ass off live, and anyone who's caught him at DJ Expo can attest to that.

As for equipment, he's a Pioneer guy and uses their video mixing gear.

That's some cool stuff and definitely a lot of hard work but I'm not a fan of that kind of VJing at all. To me most of that stuff looks pretty cheesy.

VJing is a pretty blanket term to describe working with video and I know a lot of it is associated with mixing music videos (or in this case some custom made videos for songs too) in serato or VDJ which I'm not a fan of.

What interests me more is the video effects visual landscape type stuff that goes along with a lot of bigger shows. Not mixing two music videos and crossfading between them and scratching the video- to me that is corny. I really like a lot of the abstract eye candy stuff that adds in another visual element that takes you on another journey. That amon tobin video was pretty good and kind of what I'm talking about. Same with a lot of the light shows that tour with big names- deadmau5' recent tour is another good example and I need to fine te vid I saw on here of a DNB producer...

Basically I'm interested in kind of separating the video stuff from the actually DJing a bit and having the video looping be kind of complimentary instead of strictly mixing music videos.