Freeframe, that great open-source video effects plugin system for your favourite VJ app or NLE (and championed by developers from VJamm and Resolume) now comes in a new flavour: After Effects! BigFug (an active FreeFrame plugin developer) has released a beta of the After Effects Freeframe Host. It’s, well, free while in beta. The full […]

Sony have released an update to their Movie Studio line. Doting grandparents, soccer mums, beginner vidcasters, and mobile visualists rejoice! Notable updates from the previous Vegas Movie Studio include: HDV support/Capture 77 new effects 50+ more transitions Primary colour correction (anyone know what that means?) 5.1 surround sound mixing Limited edition Sony Pictures Sound Effects […]

This video is technically from the same crop as the post-apocalyptic roundup, but it’s so fantastic it deserves its own post. Machinima, made in Trackmania Sunrise. 1K Project II. myFlash = new FlashObject(‘http://www.gametrailers.com/umremote310.swf’, ‘swffile’, 480, 409, 8); myFlash.altTxt = ”; myFlash.addVariable(‘umid’, 12321); myFlash.write(); Beautiful. via Ticklebooth

This video is technically from the same crop as the post-apocalyptic roundup, but it’s so fantastic it deserves its own post. Machinima, made in Trackmania Sunrise. 1K Project II. myFlash = new FlashObject(‘http://www.gametrailers.com/umremote310.swf’, ‘swffile’, 480, 409, 8); myFlash.altTxt = ”; myFlash.addVariable(‘umid’, 12321); myFlash.write(); Beautiful. via Ticklebooth

As someone relatively new to Processing, I’ve experienced equal parts excitement and frustration. 0115 is a reasonably mature build, and I’m glad I didn’t try this earlier, but more advanced work is likely to get easier as the software develops, improves, and squashes bugs. Before I dive into the full, technical explanation for those of […]

Nat Jeanneret aka “funnel”, the musician and artist behind the CDM site design, has been busy at work on a new project: creating music my scoring those little spots of gum and dirt found on a train platform. It’s a great example of aleatoric music, not in the best-known sense of “pure” chance but in […]

I’ve had a bit of a personal technological apocalypse over the weekend. There’s a post coming, but in the meantime here’s a couple of things which have caught my eye while catching up on my RSS subscriptions: Cinematical has a great collection of resources titled: How to make a Short Film. DVGuru points us to […]

Ever thought music software would inspire developer tools? Only Apple would try something like this: they’ve copied the interface of their own GarageBand software, almost button for button, in the new Xray developer tool in Xcode 3.0 (part of Mac OS X 10.5). The developer’s work process will be much like someone mixing music in […]

Quartz Composer, the free Mac developer and live visual tool, can be daunting to beginners. Its modular synthesis approach to manipulating live visuals is powerful, but is open-ended enough that it can be hard to know where to begin. And some of its real power — like the ability to create highly-optimized custom image and […]

One of the most sought-after devices this year is the R-09 portable recorder from Edirol. It’s got what everyone’s been looking for in an audio recording device: integrated mics, a gorgeous silver case with iPod-like, pocketable dimensions, SD cards for recording, rechargeable batteries you can actually replace when you need to, and some nice extras. […]