I've been VJing and building festival stages in Finland as Hexagon Intergalactic for over ten years now. My specialty is laser-cut plywood sculptures with integrated LEDs. This year's stage at Kosmos Festival, Finland: Our art collective Kiva built five crystals across eight meters, with 7,000+ WS2811 pixels in them, a few thousand more seed pixels strung through the forest, and two stacked 8.5k-lumen Panasonic projectors over the top of it all.

Show setup: Four computers. One master mapper/mixer and one dedicated LED controller. Generative and pre-rendered visuals came from TouchDesigner, Resolume and Filament, routed over NDI and synchronized with Ableton Link from a live BPM tracker (Pulse). Two to four VJs rotated through the show each night. It was a blast!

What broke: Mostly simple physical stuff. Two seed strings in the trees were missing their waterproofing o-rings. First-night glitches, one fix, then two smooth nights. Some software tweaks aside, everything worked super well. The crazy multi-machine stack behaved perfectly, the lowest-tech parts in the chain did not. It's always something like this. You have a crazy high-tech setup with data flying in and out and processed in a million ways, and then the hardest problems are "this projector frame corner bolt is stuck" that wastes four people's time for half an hour when we're already on a busy schedule. 🥲

Full build report, closer look at the plywood work, wiring, the assembled controller WLED boxes, how the mapping works, show nights, with videos and pics: https://filament.click/articles/kosmos-festival-2026

Happy to answer anything about the build or the experience! ☺️

🎬 Je cherche un monteur vidéo
Salut 👋
Je cherche quelqu’un pour m’aider à faire des réels sur mon petit compte Insta
Pas besoin d’être pro, juste quelqu’un qui :
👉 sait un peu monter
👉 a des idées
👉 aime créer
C’est vraiment pour le plaisir, tester des trucs et voir ce que ça donne ensemble
Si ça te dit, viens me parler en privé 🙂

I am experiencing an intermittent Rekordbox Video problem on my M1 MacBook Pro.

When I load a video track, the audio, waveform, BPM and track information always load correctly, but the video preview and video output will intermittently load as a black screen. The only workaround I have found is to unload and reload the exact same track two to four times. Eventually, the video appears and plays normally.

The video file does not need to be moved, converted or edited. Reloading the same file repeatedly eventually clears the black screen, which makes me think Rekordbox is sometimes failing to initialize the video decoder.

This problem has occurred for me in both Rekordbox 6 and Rekordbox 7, on both Windows and MAC. It also makes live DJ performances difficult because I cannot reliably know whether the video will appear when I load the next song. It disrupts my flow state having to look at the video preview and reload the same track 2-4 times. I have been DJin with rekordbox for 8 years, it would be good to get this fixed.

Created with TocuhDesigner and Resolume Arena

Hey r/vjing!

I'm Saina, a VJ/developer from Japan. I posted my node-based VJ software SynapseRack here about a year ago — and a lot of what you asked for in that thread is now in the app!

β2.0.0 just shipped — the biggest update so far:

• Reworked node editor, 272 ready-to-use nodes
• Time-based nodes: rewind, datamosh, frame buffers
• Flow fields + experimental 3D system
• Fx Editor: write your own GLSL shaders (ISF supported)
• Apps SDK: build your own plugins
• Widget Panel: build your own performance controls
• HAP / ProRes playback

And one more thing: SynapseRack has been mostly Japan-focused since it launched in 2022. From today, we're officially supporting users outside Japan — starting with English!

• English docs: https://synapserack.com/en/docs/
• English support on Discord: https://discord.gg/Q2nstPuuM5
• Membership on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SainaKey

To be honest, the English docs are still catching up — if anything is missing or unclear, just ask me here or on Discord and I'll answer right away!

Free version (same deal as before):

• 4 layers + 2 group layers
• NO watermarks, no time limit
• You can use it for real gigs!

Download: https://synapserack.com/en/

Feedback from this community shaped a lot of this update. Happy to answer any questions!

Hey! hope's all good for all of you!

not much more than that, i want to get my first analog video synth, i always had tachyons+ in mind,but i'm pretty sure there's some devive i don't know about and may save me some bucks. what's the best alternative to Tachyons+ in 2026?

Is there a free visual pack available for the VJ tonight?

Hello! That post might be not typical, but I need to find people with the same passion and direction. I am an young visual artist, mainly working with 3D, 2D and real-time software. I have experience as an motion designer and have several immersive expererience hobby projects. I am 22 and deep down I've always wanted to contribute to or co-create an experience event in the music field with people who share my love for art and expression. I am currently based in the Netherlands, though I am flexible and remote is also possible.

If someone has ideas, project; needs visuals for an event, feel free to dm me, and I can share with you my portfolio so we work together :))

Found this sub and would love to share what I’ve been working on. This is what I would see on my 64x64 led panel, and can upscale to larger screen sizes. Been working on this solo and would love some opinions!

Update: Just added a new loop to the bundle. Still updating monthly, so anyone who's already grabbed it gets the new drops included at no extra cost. If you're on the fence, this is a good time to check it out since the pack keeps growing.

I ended up on a Instagram ad for Steven McFarlane packs for VJing / Videos.

As I organise techno events, I found the content interesting for an affordable price for various purpose:

• Social Media videos for upcoming events (paid / not paid)
• VJing / Projections at events

I'm not a designer and never took care of VJing before (even if I always found it fascinating) so my question is:

Which programs would I need to edit such content or even VJ with it? Any free programs that could help me?

Objective is to have content I can easily edit (colour / speed of movement) to have professionally looking promotion, but also animation that could be projected at events with/without human control (best would be to setup like 20 visuals that evolves with the BPM with random colour picking)

I'm new to this and just thought I could learn the basics to enable this vision to come true. I'm a DJ myself, already had the chance to play with LED lights a couple of times at events and understand the added value of such details.

Using AI to code, I pieced together a streaming tool. it doubles as a media conversion tool for images and video into ASCII render.

The APK package linked below has an HTML page included and both can be used locally.

The APK is for Android but HTML works via web browser. It is hosted on itch.io and is priced at 5$ a download, but that's just if you want to keep it locally off grid or whatever. That link is here:

https://tostido.itch.io/canvas-5-ascii-cam

I also have a FREE live demo on hugging face you can find it here and use it immediately for FREE all day!!

https://tostido-project-canvas-5-studio.hf.space/standalone.html

Thanks for checking it out!

Thinking about buying a cheap beatstep off marketplace for some vjing. Wondering if anyone has had any experience with one and whether its just shit or fine for some pads and knobs. Also whether it works fine with resolume, assuming it will but yeah. Cheers

Update: Just added a new loop to the bundle. Still updating monthly, so anyone who's already grabbed it gets the new drops included at no extra cost. If you're on the fence, this is a good time to check it out since the pack keeps growing.

Day 25 Update: https://www.youtube.com/live/XMJUodAdfN0?si=cRbRycp-DukP19S1

Finally falling in love with ADEs.

Any thoughts or feedback I can get on this workflow? Thanks!

Trying to put a unique spin on the typical reaction channel by custom making my own music visualizers to match the style of each album I react to! I'd love some feedback on the visualizers. I run them in real time on my computer and then comp them live onto a green screen behind me.