Engineering

By ArKaos Team

on 23 Aug 2013 1:33 PM

grandvj
development
beta

GrandVJ users rejoice! Version 2 is coming and here is the Public Beta already.. It comes with some major changes, some of them obvious and some out of sight, but nonetheless visible. Let’s go for a quick overview.. Interface improvements First of all, we’ve improved the user-interface. We tried to make it even more user-friendly, especially for those using the bit more complex “Mixer mode”. We’ve introduced a simple color coding to differentiate parameters and controls related to layers (orange) from those related to cells (blue). This will help you to know what you are editing at a first glance.

GrandVJ 2 upgrade information

By ArKaos Team

on 28 May 2013 4:05 PM

grandvj
development
videomapper

As most of you know, we have been working on GrandVJ 2 these last few months and we are approaching the release. So here’s a little recap so that you know where we’re going to. Two versions of GrandVJ: Next to GrandVJ, we will introduce GrandVJ XT that will have the Video Mapper support:

MediaMaster 3.1, GrandMA2 and Ma-Net2

By ArKaos Team

on 28 Nov 2012 12:00 AM

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mediamaster
grandma
grandma2
ma-net
ma-net2
citp

Until now, MediaMaster could only be controlled through DMX, ArtNet and MA-Net1. The new MediaMaster 3.1 adds support for the Ma-Net2 protocol. Of course MA-Net1 remains available for those who wish to keep using it. And since the GrandMA2 desks bring support for CITP, we can now send thumbnails from the library to the lighting desk’s screens, making it easier and more convenient to control any MediaMaster connected to your lighting desk by visually selecting your visuals. Read on for some nice pictures and tutorial videos.. These 3 tutorial videos explain how to setup the MediaMaster and the GrandMa 2 so that they work together: Video 1: Settings in MediaMaster

By ArKaos Team

on 01 Mar 2011 12:00 AM

We’re now offering multiple Blackmagic Design SDI input cards as an option in the A10 media server. Below is a little video presenting this setup, read more for the details. We have the following setup for the video above: One standard A10 media server One custom A10 media server with: 2 x Blackmagic Design DeckLink Duo™ 1 x ATI six output Card Our standard A10 media server outputs in DVI to a Folsom Image Pro that converts the DVI signal to an SDI 720p 60 Hz signal, and this three times. Then we capture these three SDI outputs from the Folsom Image Pro with the two DeckLink Duo™ cards in our custom A10 media server. The connections on the DeckLink Duo™ cards are represented on diagram below:

By ArKaos Team

on 21 Dec 2010 12:00 AM

A few months ago we have been asking our users to participate to a survey and rate the features they would like to see implemented in the next GrandVJ updates. Since then we have taken some time to analyze the results, define how the requested features could be implemented and prioritized depending on the users rating (as much as possible). In the mean time we have been working on the MediaMaster 2.2 update that has just been released, with some new effects and the geometry module, and now it’s time for some GrandVJ development again.. From now on, as we are working on a major update to GrandVJ we will provide several intermediate development versions that will include a few new features, before we release the final update with all the new stuff packed in.

By ArKaos Team

on 28 Sep 2010 12:00 AM

mediamaster

ArKaos MediaMaster now fully supports multi-screen output in Windows Vista & 7 for Multi-head graphics cards. This means you can connect several displays to one graphic card and MediaMaster will spread the output across those connected displays. To illustrate this, we’ve filmed the results of the tests we’ve done with a six-heads graphics card – the “ATI Radeon™ HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition” – installed in an A10 media server which we connected to a bunch of DVI screens.

GrandVJ Users Survey

By ArKaos Team

on 26 Aug 2010 12:00 AM

Let us know what features you would like to see implemented in the next major version of GrandVJ so we can focus our resources on what’s important for you first! We have set up a little survey that will only take you a few minutes of your time, if you’re a GrandVJ user it’s your chance to prioritize the features we will add in the next versions of your software. This survey will be closed on September 15th. >> Survey Closed <<

MediaMaster 2.0 Public Beta

By ArKaos Team

on 28 May 2010 12:00 AM

development
dmx
mediamaster
midi

This year at the Frankfurt Prolight+Sound show we demonstrated a new way of using MediaMaster through a new “Simple Mode” interface inspired from the features that made ArKaos VJ DMX a success. Recently we wrote an article on this blog to explain the direction we were taking about the development of MediaMaster 2.0 and how we will be releasing it under two different license levels: MediaMaster Express and MediaMaster Pro (read further below) And today we release the first public beta version of MediaMaster 2.0, you can download if from here: https://pro.arkaos.com/software/mediamaster-pro/download

By ArKaos Team

on 22 Mar 2010 12:00 AM

development
grandvj
mac
prototype
quartz
visuals

3D is spectacular, eye catching and can amaze your audience.. But unfortunately it was not really accessible to live VJing.. until now! Recently we’ve been in contact with Alioscopy, a French company that develops auto-stereoscopic 3D displays that can produce a sensation of depth without needing cumbersome eyewear and they asked us if we could bring live VJing to their 3D screens. The problem is, even if you are only mixing footage that is compatible with 3D projection you are still missing live visualizers which are, most of the time, a very important part of the mix and which obviously can’t be pre-encoded for 3D projection..

By ArKaos Team

on 08 Jan 2010 12:00 AM

grandvj

Here’s the last step on the road to the final version, this is the first (and hopefully the only) Release Candidate of GrandVJ 1.2 (RC1). It comes with the final audio engine, several bug fixes and includes every features that will appear in the final version. Read more for changes and download links.. Changes in this version: Quicktime audio playback has been re-implemented as fallback solution for movie files with soundtrack not supported by FFMpeg. GrandVJ 1.2 should be able to play sound from 99.9% of the movies files you throw at it :) We’ve added an Audio setup panel in Preferences, giving the ability to choose both input and output devices as well as their buffer size: