I love this idea: take your LUTs (color Lookup Tables), and mess with them creatively via code. Resolume covers the technique in their latest tutorial, though you could also drop these into other environments (or your video editor). They’ve also got a how-to on packaging Wire presets, taking advantage of that functionality.
First, let’s glitch out those LUTs. Description: “Are you ready to break stuff?” which, obviously, summons me like just saying Beetlejuice three times.
Also worth mentioning, they’ve added a preset system to Wire Patches, their modular environment. Okay, I got a complaint on the last post about the limitations of Wire. Look, it’s not TouchDesigner; that’s not the point. It’s a lightweight, simple environment inside the Resolume environment. There’s a lot you can do with it, but Touch users are going to keep doing what they’ve done for a long time, which is use the two tools in tandem. (And Mac users also have the option of running TouchDesigner in VDMX Plus, to mention the competition.)
No, what’s cool is that you can now make presets in Wire and load those into Arena, Resolume’s powerful media server. That means you can package up presets for other people, or just make them a convenience for yourself. This tutorial shows you how:
Where to find stuff:
Previously:
And if you had the feeling like we were just doing something glitchy involving visuals, yes, we were. It’s sort of fun using these two tools side by side, as well. (I’m old enough that I remember doing that with the early, Windows-only Resolume and a much more primitive VDMX on a PowerPC Mac!)