Originally posted by USE
I vj (video jockey[how rubbish does that sound?])[/quote]

Not half as rubbish as Disc Jockey sounds.

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What does everyone think of the state of VJing today?

are they happy with it? – what do you wanna see more of / feel has been neglected?

There needs to be more!!

Especially round this way anyway.

Never see it at free parties and I very very rarely go to clubs and then it’s usually the noraml cheesy bollocks you get. Like the dj’s name spinning round in big letters or the clubs name.

We had it once at our party and I loved it. But that was just a projection on to the top face of our little deck marquee. I’ll put some pics up later maybe.

I haven’t seen enough of it to say what i’d like improved, but I used to love watching the cyberdelia videos of that’s any help.

Originally posted by USE
been doing some political stuff but has the tendancy to scare people off (resulting in me running up to my mate and bellowing
“CHAAANGE THE PAAATCH! EVERYONES LEEEEAVING THE DAAAAAANCE FLOOOOOOOOOOOR!”

LOL… i know exactly what you mean.. I was just reminded of being at shambala last year and starting to come to after eating way to many mushrooms on saturday night (it was also fancy dress night, everyone at the festy was dressed up.. i was a flower and my gf a bee 😀 ) when i wandered past a chai stall which was projecting Barakka… it can be a quite heavy going, but I like that sort of thing (requiem for a dream being another film friends say is too depressing but i find it invigorating)

I’ve been trying to get the VJ’ing off the ground at our parties, but it’s hard to convince people to bring all their kit for fear of it getting wet, dropped or nicked 🙁 personally i don’t think there’s much of a risk, but then it’s not mine 😉

Thanks for the info – 20 secs * 25 frames is only 500 frames total or 10 * 2 second edited shots which isn’t too much of a heavy project; any PC built in the last 4 years will handle editing that.

as before if anyone needs tech help I am happy to provide it. I think miniDV could perhaps be the best exchange format; exchanging AVI files particularly across platforms is IME be bare hassles due to incompatible codecs (the software used to compress the video).

If you’re gonna project “heavy” stuff at raves I’d use the michael moore type of style to get this across – even I wouldn’t be comfortable about putting really harsh stuff out because the imagery is powerful and you do not know what state of mind ppl are in; wouldn’t want to send someone on a bad trip…

for those worried about taking video kit to raves, go searching on google and media techie boards for how freelance news crews operate (particularly those in war zones); they often they mention how they pack and protect their equipment at the frontline. It should be given “safe haven” in the same area rigs are set up (but away from speaker stacks as magnets play havoc with video kit), and needs a good power feed.

Its also often a good idea to gaffer tape down stuff like small PSUs etc and secure everything so it cannot be pulled over when some random k-head trips over a cable (which shouldn’t have been in their path anyway!)

Originally posted by USE
You’re blatantly right about dv tapes being the easiest- i can promise with a 98% garauntee that i can get the tapes back i f u cant copy them (the 2% is your tape getting chewed up or lost in the post. i wouldn’t like the responsibility, but i can cope if you can.

TBH I’d never send a camera original through the post if I could avoid it! (more out of fear of what the post/couriers could do to it…)

The whole idea of DV is you can clone the tape without generation loss by using another DV deck, or provide an already edited or part-edited roll by capturing to computer and then printing back to DV. Those of you in college should be able to get access to facilities to clone DV tapes, or with a 1394 (firewire) cable even XP movie maker is supposed to be able to do this. (I say supposed as I haven’t experimented yet..)

I’d suggest if people want to provide edited segments for other VJs put the correct header stuff such as bars and VT clock between each segment (if anyone wants these I can provide the files) or at least 30 seconds of black between each segment and a list of the time codes..

Hello, I am new to this forum and am also a VJ, losts of interesting things being discussed in this forum that I can totally relate to.

‘there’s a great free download for winamp called milkdrop which has 100’s of different syncopated visualisations of the music.’

I know the guy that made that, although I have never used it myself, however there is a general feeling in the semi-pro vj community that VJs using winamp visualisations are downgrading the market, how can vjs justify their time and effort in creating original material in terms of payment when another vj will turn up and play winamp all night, I am not saying this is what you do, and personally I have never even seen a winamp visualisation, but this is the general feeling of some VJs.

“CHAAANGE THE PAAATCH! EVERYONES LEEEEAVING THE DAAAAAANCE FLOOOOOOOOOOOR!”

Reading that made me laugh soooo much, I do a fair amount of political VJing and I remember when I first started out I totally misjudged the tone of parties at times, people don’t want to see too much heavy shit when they are out having a good time, you can still be political but make it witty and entertaining and you will get a much better response.

If any of you have heard of the vjs yeast then you should learn from them as they are the kings of the political and entertaining narrative Visuals see their website here http://www.yeastdirections.org.uk

I agree that there should be more visuals at free parties but most VJs just do not want to risk bringing £10k’s worth of kit to a dodgy venue, however I will check out this suggestion ‘go searching on google and media techie boards for how freelance news crews operate (particularly those in war zones); they often they mention how they pack and protect their equipment at the frontline’ my day job is based in a broadcast news company so I will have a bit of a nose about wand talk to some of the camera men etc.

Anyway keep it coming folks, is good to have the thing I love the most being discussed like this. 🙂

i’m a bit of numpty when i comes to electronics, but check out the film you can download from http://www.nonom.co.uk

there’s info about the hardware they use, as well as footage of the finished product

pros, them beys

Check out http://www.meek.tv he’s proper bo I tell thee. It should have some show reels on there plus some footage of a night called Earwax we put on….

holler :alcoholic

i did a vj set at the big chill last year… hated it heheh, took loads of shrooms to get over it :satisfied

think i saw some meek visuals for fatboy on telly i think, looks good 🙂

number im’d

matcat