Receiving and Displaying MIDI Time Code (MTC) with ISF
Note: This is an updated workflow for our original tutorial on receiving MIDI SMPTE Time Code (MTC).MIDI Time Code (MTC) is a robust specification for sending SMPTE values from a master playback...
View ArticleFour Outputs From One Mac: Using VDMX Advanced Output With an Affordable...
Getting 4 independent 1080p HDMI streams from a single 4K output — without breaking the bank. With the lack of eGPU support in the Apple ecosystem, Mac users are given a delicate task of balancing...
View ArticleWhen Good Pi Goes Bad
Download the ISF Shaders from this postAs Pi Day approaches this year we've found ourselves Pi-nspired to examine the usage of Pi in some of the more commonly used GLSL generators and FX that people...
View ArticleVDMX Eurorack Clock Sync Tutorial with the Pamela's Pro Workout
Pamela’s Pro Workout alongside the VDMX Clock plugin and options panel When working with Eurorack systems alongside VDMX, a particularly useful technique is to synchronize the clock timing between the...
View ArticleSpooky Halloween Projections with VDMX
It's that time of year again! In this tutorial, we're going to build on the concepts from our guide on Extending VDMX6 Plus with Vuo to create some custom Halloween visuals. We'll be using Vuo to...
View ArticleExtending VDMX6 Plus with Vuo
Download the example Vuo compositions for this tutorialVuo is an incredibly powerful node based editor tool for creating interactive compositions that can be run as standalone applications, or loaded...
View ArticleVDMX and Ableton Live: A Beginner's Guide to Animate your Music.
Want to make a visual synthesizer to go along with your Ableton performances or projects? Here’s a quick run down on how you can link VDMX and Ableton Live together to do just that.(DOWNLOAD: Link to...
View ArticleCreating glitchy hologram style visuals with the Remove Background FX in VDMX6
Using the Remove Background FX along with VHS Glitch and Layer Mask. One of the popular stylizations for science fiction is the classic glitchy hologram communication. The techniques for doing this...
View ArticleSome techniques for drawing text in GLSL
Download the example ISF compositions from this tutorial. Rendering TG Character Test.fs in the ISF Editor utility. While GLSL is not a particularly great language for rendering text strings, many...
View ArticleVisualizing and adjusting color levels with the VDMX Scopes plugin
The Scopes plugin in VDMX6.1 provides a set of powerful real-time tools for visualizing the color data of your video streams. These scopes can be incredibly useful when used alongside color adjustment...
View ArticleAdapting the v002 Glitch Analog GLSL shader to ISF
Using the v002 Analog Glitch.fs FX on a live camera in VDMX6. As VDMX6 and other tools were forced to sunset Quartz Composer, we've gotten quite a few requests to help revive some beloved FX patches....
View ArticleTracking faces, bodies, and hands with VDMX
The Video Tracking plugin provides an interface for detecting faces, bodies, and hands and using their locations as data-source values and masks that can be used to control virtually any part of...
View ArticleIntroduction to OCR & QR code capture in VDMX
VDMX 6.1 introduces a powerful new OCR (Optical Character Recognition) plugin that allows you to scan text and QR codes from live video input. These scanned results can be published as data-sources and...
View ArticleUsing Color Transfer FX & Segmented Color Transfer
Using the New Color Transfer FX in VDMX6The Color Transfer FX is one of the new additions in VDMX6, providing a powerful way to match the color and brightness levels of a video stream to a reference...
View ArticleCreating custom video FX for VDMX6 Plus with TouchDesigner
IntroductionDownload the completed .tox file from this tutorial.In this tutorial we will be creating a simple ‘flip’ FX in TouchDesigner to use inside of VDMX6 Plus with a basic set of sliders and...
View ArticleExploring the new Blur Faces and Face Overlay FX in VDMX
Welcome to this tutorial, where we dive into face-specific effects in VDMX powered by Apple’s Vision SDK and CoreML. We’ll explore how to blur faces, create face overlays, and experiment with...
View ArticleHow to instantly remove backgrounds from video with VDMX
Welcome to this tutorial, where we dive into the latest effects in VDMX powered by Apple’s Vision SDK and CoreML. We’ll explore how to use and combine these effects to create dynamic visuals without...
View ArticleEurorack & Live Coding Guest Tutorial with Sarah GHP!
For this guest tutorial we are joined by Sarah GHP for a deep dive behind the scenes look at her setup connecting a variety of different video worlds using window capture, Syphon, and digital to analog...
View ArticleUsing the OSCQuery Helper and MIDI OSCQuery Helper tools with Max
Download the example Max patches and sample JSON files for this tutorial. An example Max patch, a JSON file describing its OSC routing and the OSCQuery Helper utility. One of the most powerful tools...
View ArticleHiding the orange privacy dot on external displays (Official Apple method)
Set the Privacy Indicators toggle to off to hide the orange / green dot on external displays. Good news everyone!As almost every visual artist on using macOS knows, in recent years Apple has added an...
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