EO Video is an advanced media player, converter and joiner, divided into four main sections:
Explorer View is functionally similar to Windows Explorer for all file operations - browse disks and folders, move, copy, rename and delete files and folders, etc. You can undo or redo up to 30 operations. From here you drag and drop files to the Playlist View.

The Player Page will play video, audio and bitmap files appearing in the Playlist. Supported formats are : AVI, MPEG, Apple QuickTime, Real Media G2, Windows Media and various audio and Bitmap-Formats.

I downloaded this magical piece of kit only a week ago and i'm totally hooked!!!!If, like me, your tiring of loop based packages and have a love for the 'random' then this is for you.

It enables you to manipulate footage, live input, text, and even 3D OBJECTS - all in a 3d environment.

Once you've input your material and mapped your textures onto the choosen elements you can generate infinite transformations which are NEVER loop based.

You can control the mapping of textures onto 3d objects (or 2D if required by simply using a 'plane' or 'background' object).

I've tested and used the MXW for a few days now and i am quite impressed with the features! You will need a newer GPU with Pixelshadertechnology to run it as it uses hardware acceleration. Check the FAQs on the website on this.

Hiya,
Thought I'd post this up. I used Resolume2 at one of my gig's recently (RainDance, SEOne club, London, UK, 25th Sept).

This isn't supposed to be a conclusive fully featured review, but as stated above just my thoughts after using the software.

This text is basically what I sent in email form to the developers of Resolume with a few edits (by me) to make it readable.

Sticks.

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Evaluation report - resolume2 beta.
25/9/2004 - RainDance, SEone club (main room).

NEW in VJamm 2.6:
- BPM auto clip sync
- Improved FreeFrame support
- Additive layer blending
- TV out overlay
- Live clip loading & drag drop
- Direct Show support for MPEG, stills etc.
- Live clip position indicators
- Transportable patches
- Crossfade and MIDI upgrades inc AV scratching and Global BPM

And check out the new VJamm Forums

GRID is not a full blown VJ mixing program but a clip triggering program with a unique interface and very good scratching, scrubbing and midi support. It also supports uncompressed component video, DV and highend output cards meaning it is being used a lot in theatre and other areas besides the VJ world. I believe GRID and VJAMM are the only VJ Apps with good solid support for scrubbing with DV and component video. It also has good solid audio support, another reason why it is in use by the theatre and AV crowd.

Isadora is a graphic programming environment for Macintosh (a beta version for Windows is also in development).

UPDATE:Livid Union 1.5:
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Livid has updated it's RT video software Union to version 1.5 including lots of new features and improvements that i want to bring into this review as an update. The Livid team has concentrated on performance and workflow, fixed bugs of the previous versions and made additions to the fx arsenal of Union. Within the next months we'll also see further additions i.e. plugins for Union. New features include the following:

- Larger clip grid with 6x6 cells

Onadime Composer is a realtime multimedia authoring system, used to create so called compositions, that can later be played back with Onadime Composer itself or one of the Onadime Players. There is the Free Player and the Player Plus. At this point of time all products by Onadime are for noncommercial use only! Player Pro will be coming soon and may be used for commercial purposes also. The fact that all files belonging to a composition (e.g.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Since this review was written, the developers have changed strategy with the English version of this software. It has been sold to a company which are using it as part of a hardware solution, and despite a brief mention that a standalone software version would follow, there appears to be no sign of it so far. Therefore I cannot recommend this software at all unless you can cope with the Japanese version.