ArKaos VJ is the dazzling fast software that will enable you to put out outstanding video shows in matter of seconds. Build a full performance using a few simple video loops from your hard drive by mixing and altering them using more than 100 real-time effects.
ArKaos VJ supports full MIDI suites, both on-screen and off, as well as such music authoring applications as Cubase?, E-Magic®, ReWire®. It is equally at home on Macs and PCs and can be learned in minutes, with drag & drop and key-punch functionality at all levels.
On top of the 60+ original ArKaos effects, version 3.5 now supports additional FreeFrame effects; ArKaos VJ comes with 42 pre-loaded FreeFrame effects and you can get many more other effects from the FreeFrame web site! Each of the effects has changeable parameters, allowing infinite customization of each one.
ArKaos VJ renders in 32bit colors high quality and supports resolutions up to 1920 x 1080 px, version 3.5 now supports direct rendering to DV through FireWire - a great way to record your live performances! You can also connect all your favorite video sources (USB / FireWire (web)cams / video acquisition boards / ?) and display them live through ArKaos VJ with or without an effect.
Advanced transfer modes allows you to combine your visuals together with masks (Luma keying, Chroma keying,..) and copy modes (Addition, Subtraction) to produce a lot of different display effects.
Customizable Flash animations with editable text makes it easy to display on-screen messages in just a few clicks.
ArKaos VJ also allows advanced control on movie playback, easily accessible through the Visual Info dialog box, enabling the users to make a frame accurate selection of the part they wish to play inside a video sequence aswell as how they wish to play it (forward / backward / loop, ...).
It's an ideal performing tool with customizable effects and flexible control thanks to the double monitoring management.