So what do us lampies really want from a media server and how does Resolume stack up? We’ll start with our typical Lampie Demands and see where it gets us. Resolume has a setting to Hide Audio Controls, which clears thing up for us. We will completely ignore the fact that it does quantised audio playback for simplicity today.
#Resolume arena 5 tutorial mapping software#
Resolume is in the software camp and the interesting thing for us about Resolume 4 Arena is that they have added features to their Avenue VJ platform that are relevant to what we do. They come as hardware/software or simply as software that you run on your own machine such as a decent spec laptop or desktop PC/Mac. To precis, media servers are used on all kinds of show to play digital media which is then either projected on screens, the set, the floor, or even pixel mapped to starcloths or other low resolution outputs. What might we want from our media server? If you didn’t get that joke and have little experience of media servers in show production, read on anyway after checking this media server primer from a few years ago.
If you have some experience of media servers or the complexities of current projection and mapping trends, you’ll find some ideas on using Resolume 4 instead of your more familiar Arkatalyst Hippo Box software (see what I did there?). This article simply looks at Resolume 4, which is in Beta 2 at the time of writing, from the point of view of a Lighting Designer/Programmer and asks if we should give the new Arena offering our attention. In order to give you a look around the software, we finish up with a video poke about under the hood. Here at OSL, we don’t really do product reviews and the following piece continues that tradition. In a world where both traditional lighting and digital visual media are the domain of the modern lampie, On Stage Lighting considers the forthcoming release of media software Resolume 4 Arena which looks like it has potential in the small to mid scale show visual market.
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