SIGHT TO SOUND
Jan 1, 2006 12:00 PM
If you're trying to make a career out of VJing, The VJ Book (Feral), by Paul Spinrad, is a good place to get started. After a brief history of light shows — going back to late-1800s “color concerts” and color organs (which made visuals by refracting light through colored glass onto walls) — the book features in-depth Q&As with 16 veteran VJs. Along with the VJs' advice on all matters of creating and mixing visuals are unexpected little tips such as using a guitar fuzz pedal to distort video and a detailed video-format conversion chart to help you with connections. The book also has chapters on VJ rigs, hardware, software, legal issues regarding video content, improvisation, lessons from film editing, predictions about the future of VJing and more. And what would a VJ book be without an accompanying DVD including live performance footage and VJ samples? The VJ Book's DVD (produced by VJ Melissa Ulto) also provides demo versions of Isadora, Livid Union, Soyuz and Vidvox VJ software for Mac (Soyuz and Vidvox for PC).
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