So you’ve wanna be a VJ? You’ve bought your copy of Arkaos…or Resolume…you have your laptop all fired up and ready to go…now what? You need clipz! MPEGS, JPEGS, Flash animations, 3D animations…you get the picture… Of course you could go out with your DV camera and shoot nicely lit, nicely exposed footage in prime locations…if you have a DV camera and access to prime locations…or you could get down with some serious computer graphics software…or, if you lack the facilities and technical abilities to do either, you could spend ages searching for stuff to download, but you’d be wasting valuable time that would be far better spent reading The Technofile and my blog.

Another alternative is to buy pre packaged content. Arkaos have a range of homemade titles that can be downloaded or purchased on CD. Each title is about 300 meg in size, so if you want to go for the download option, you’ll need broadband and a burner, as you’ll want to back up your newly acquired content…especially if you want to use it to ‘play out’. But so long as you have these, downloading is a good money saving option…and a far better bet than relying on the British postal service… Continue reading »