Regardless of what software is being used, it is recommended that you have whatever adapters or dongles are needed to get at least one VGA, DVI or HDMI video output from the computer being used for connecting to an external display or projector other than the screen you will use for your control interface. It is recommended to have a Macintosh running 10.10.5 or later to use with VDMX.

Project Milk Syphon is a free app for creating audio reactive visuals that can be used by any Syphon input enabled application, such as VDMX.

GifToSyphon is a free utility powered by the awesome Giphy search engine that instantly pull tagged GIFs from a huge online library and use them directly with any Syphon input enabled video application.

The Syphon Test Apps are a set of test applications for working with Syphon Enabled applications.

Soundflower is a ‘virtual’ system sound device that can be used to send stereo and multi-channel audio streams between software on a Mac.

These apps can be used to publish and receive audio / video streams over a network.

The NDI Tools are a set of test applications from NewTek for working with NDI® enabled applications.

There are several free utilities available for this task that can be used for this class, such as:Ī free utility for creating and editing GLSL shaders to use with VDMX and other software packages.įree utilities to connect and test connections between software: One of the common tasks in this course will be to convert media files from one format to another. Many of the lessons included in this course will translate to using other similar software on other platforms as an alternative if needed. This course is designed to be taught with VDMX on a Macintosh running 10.10.5 or later.

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