Loads of new footage on Resolume including VJ Hummer, Lucidhouse, and VJ Dubassy, including some HD content.
Prices start at € 29 / package.
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vj.tv : 'VJ Loops'
Bass Visuals, a new VJ loop site out of Australia, was launched today. They’re only offering a few clips at the moment, but all three are well rendered an available in up to 1080p resolution.
The downside is this project follows many others is the ego driven over-valuation. The three clips are 6, 39, and 42 seconds respectively, but the licensing runs a whopping $29-49 (AU) each - simply for the right to perform in a live setting.
This kind of pricing rarely works - artists tend to confuse production value with consumer value such that only a few clips are sold and the artist eventually returns to making Tide and Ikea commercials. There’s a better way…
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+ Artist alias(es) and real name, age: Kyle Lyons, 31, born January 19th 1977 Capricorn.
+ Preferred URL links: http://www.myspace.com/vjloops, http://community.audiovisualizers.com/DmT
+ Primary country and area of influence: España “USA & Europe, 4th Dimension”
+ Primary label, affiliation, collective, and/or residency: VJ Loops (vjloops.tv)
AV Mix featuring Kyle Lyons & Dolom Zero from Kyle Lyons on Vimeo.
+ Promo - upcoming gigs, releases, etc:
27th, 28th, 29th November at Wandû Palace - http://www.grupowandu.com
4th December at Wandû Palace - http://www.grupowandu.com
12th December at Club Baracca, Spain with Laurent Garnier - http://www.barracamusic.com/
13th December at Club Guru, Spain - http://www.gurudisco.com/
31st December NYE party with Club Zone in Valencia, Spain - http://www.clubzone.es/
2009 weekly residency at Club Pacha in Barcelona, Spain - http://www.pacha.com/
2009 weekly residency at MDF in Valencia, Spain - http://www.mdf.es/
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Some good stuff. All of their clips are available as 640×480 avi downloads via Vimeo. Just visit each page and look in the bottom right corner for the download link…
Scanner_CRT from Tokyo UFO on Vimeo.
Space pond from Tokyo UFO on Vimeo.
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I saw his loops a couple months back on YouTube. He’s offering FREE high quality 320×240 mpgs as previews. You can also buy PAL AVIs for $0.99 each, which is a pretty good deal.
Having a solid 4 years of live VJing and content creating behind me I thought I’d offer my loop library up to the community now that I’m not gigging anymore. I’ll try and keep adding more as I go. Please feel free to download the Mpeg previews, and if you use them in your shows at least click through the Amazon links at the bottom of the page. Thanks!
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Universal Everything went on an upload spree last week and posted… well, everything?
New cool stuff: video ringtones (with QT download) and a couple of vids of installations created for Nokia’s flagship store in Hong Kong. Plus many other client projects including Audi, MTV, and the 2012 Olympics.
Video Ringtones / Mobile Garage / Japan from Universal Everything on Vimeo.
Nokia / Hong Kong Flagship Store / Interactive Mirror from Universal Everything on Vimeo.
Two more vids after the jump…
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The folks behind PCDJ have just launched Venue VJ, a new portal for “your complete online source of current music videos, vintage clips, and DJ Pack.” We’ve covered PCDJ before and think they can do well, but the Venue VJ launch has already created a negative reaction in the community.
First off, Venue VJ offers music videos hampered by proprietary DRM, a practice that even the majors have recognized as the kiss of death.
Further, they sell original clips for VJs but the price/value ratio isn’t convincing: $14 (US) per file of what appears to be a 5 second clip of a dancer slowed down to 30 seconds. Compare this with the loop packs released by LightRhythm which includes 20 original (and much more creative) clips for the same price.
The biggest controversy surrounding the launch is their choice to sell public domain content — footage that is already available for free through archive.org. Matt Morgan, part owner of Quality Information Publishers, spoke on behalf of Lyndon Smith and offered this explanation on the VJ Forums thread:
Some of our content originated from public domain sources. About 30-40% approximately…
Many people have told me that they believe it is MORALLY wrong to pay for footage that originated from public domain content. However, a publishing company has to invest time, money and risk into finding where to discover the source public domain footage…
If a customer were to go to an educational district auction, purchase the reels, and digitize the films themselves, they would then be able to use the content. The publishing company is the one that finds the film, then spends money to distribute the info and make it findable and accessible. The added value is in these important aspects we bring to market: Accessibility, Findability, Immediacy, and Interpretation.
Since Venue VJ is powered by QIP I decided run a quick comparison test. I visited the QIP website and picked a clip at random: Isle of Destiny. The I popped over to archive.org and did a search for the same film. Sure enough, there’s actually six different codecs of the film available for free, including a 4.2GB MPEG2 version, which is probably just as good as what QIP is offering, if not the same file. With this, it’s hard to imagine anyone paying $12 for stuff from Venue VJ or QIP when they could get the same content for free, as well as several other codecs.
I understand it’s difficult to launch a new VJ-centric website when you don’t have a lot of content in the beginning. There’s also a lot of misconception among broadcast publishers as to what works and what VJs are willing to pay for and play. I’m sure over time Venue VJ can tweak their model and align themselves better to the needs of VJs. But for now the site is only useful as a list of the more interesting clips you can find of archive.org.
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