Resolume Avenue Performance Analysis
I had a good play around on Resolulme Avenue (mac) last night in live environment. One of the newly joined members for vjforums.com Gavan Bright was doing a gig in my town – and I took over his system couple of times during the Halloween night, Thanks Gav! It was a a massive Mac Tower, pretty fast.
Well my thoughts on Resolume Avenue so far.
For the performance to flow smoother, midi controller HAS to be used at all times, there are way too many parameters that could be adjusted throughout playtime, just due to the lack of time to set one up for this gig this wasn’t possible.
Strong Positives of the Software:
Very good manipulation parameters implemented to deal with positioning, scale, screw, movements and tilting of the video layer + more. I think this part is my most definite favourite from previous versions.
Few manipulation of the layer visibility in relation to other layers controls are improved as far as my own performing techniques are concerned. Very happy with those.
Shortfall of having on my own collection of (paid) Freeframes to the current default could be felt as I would normally have lots more. Now questions stands will any of my old frames work or will they all need to be re-purchased to be used as part of Avenue?
Overall I sense some massive potential and would have to practise a bit further on this system to figure out some of its ins and outs as there are a new new features and tricks of the trade.
Downsides:
No support of Flash (swf) files… At least for now. I have read that this will be added with 3.1, yet for those who use swf files on a regular basis this is strongly lacking. One of the reasons for me not to full switch to Avenue is primarily this at his point.
No recording functionality. Like it or lump it, this is something I have been doing fairly regularly, always love that feature as you can make up live play fields that can be re-worked and re-added back to the play selection. A bit sad that this feature has been completely dropped.
Program crashed few times through the night, the good thing that relaunching the program is almost instant and it reverts to the saved last specs within 2/3 seconds… Quite brilliant if you had to deal with it. I guess it has a lot to do with performance of the computer, but still impressive.
I sense this tool will gain some greater support from me with time, I’ll keep perusing to seek deeper knowledge and techniques about it with full midi support as its the only way to manage this efficiently and most likely pursue its audio capabilities also.
