 New features in ArKaos VJ 3.6.1
- Added support for LED Mapper Extension
- Per layer Keystoning through a new DMX Fixture
- Code optimization and various bug fixes
Main ArKaos VJ features
- Hardware Accelerated video engine (HW Mode)
- More than 60 totally customizable effects in Standard Mode, 40+ effects in HW Mode
- Core Image support (Mac OS X 10.4 and above only)
- Support for additional FreeFrame effects (comes with 42 effects pre-loaded)
- Allows any MIDI keyboard or device to control images, movies and effects
- Supports still images, video loops and flash animations
- Support for full video streaming of camera (USB, FireWire…)
- Enables full-screen usage for events, e.g. concerts, presentations
- Multiscreen or widescreen projection with Soft-Edge from a single computer
- Built-in recorder to create visual remixes
- Direct DV output through FireWire
- Multiple keyboard mapping to trigger images and effects
- Powerful automatic beat-matching technology
- Unlimited number of simultaneous video layers, sophisticated Transfer modes
- MIDI latch on/off for live performances
- Remote Patch selection
- Automatic Fade option
- DMX Fixture mode (ArKaos VJ DMX only)
- Compatible with the MSEX open protocol allowing on most lighting desks to see the file names and thumbnails of your visuals and monitor the output directly from the lighting desk(ArKaos VJ DMX only)
- High optimization for fast frame rate
- Engine integrable with any MIDI sequencer (OMS, ReWire, ...)
- Advanced Movie Loop Control to change the way a movie is played, enabling:
- Movie synchronization to BPM
- Forward / backward playback with constant or MIDI-controlled speed or through BPM sync
- Selection of a loop within the movie
- Definition of the looping zone using MIDI controllers
- Two different random looping modes: with or without BPM sync
- Video For Windows & DirectShow support on the PC's: .avi -including DivX- .mpg .mpeg .asf and .wmv files
- Overlay display support on the PC's: with two monitors, you can switch to another application without shutting down ArKaos' full screen mode
- Multi-lingual: English, French, German, Italian and Spanish
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License or CD-Rom?
The software installer that you can download is the same as the one in the software box, however it comes with fewer visual content.
The download version contains:
- Software installer:
- ArKaos VJ 3.6.1 (Mac or PC)
- Additional visual content and demo mixes:
- Mac: approximately 45 Mb
- PC: approximately 75 Mb
(same content as in the Mac installer but compressed in .avi instead of .mov)
- PDF user manual
- PDF Release Notes document
You can purchase a license to register the downloaded version and remove the 21 days demo limitations.
The CD-Rom version (Software Box) contains:
- 1 CD-Rom with:
- ArKaos software installers:
- ArKaos VJ 3.6.1 for Mac
- ArKaos VJ 3.6.1 for PC
- Third party software installers:
- Acrobat™
- QuickTime™
- FlashPlayer®
- Windows® Media Player™
- DirectX™
- Enttec DMX USB drivers
- Fixture files for most DMX consoles
- Additional visual content and demo mixes:
- Mac: approx 45 Mb of new visual content
- PC: approx 75 Mb of new visual content
(same content as in the Mac installer but encoded in .avi instead of .mov)
- 1 DVD-Rom with:
- Additional high quality visual content and demo mixes:
- ArKaos Content (1.07 Gb):
All the visual content and demo mixes available in previous ArKaos VJ versions (3.0, 3.0.2 and 3.0.3) in high quality 640x480px
- AV3 Media Content (703 Mb):
Exclusive new high quality visual content created by AV3 Media especially for ArKaos VJ
- MariLoR Content (100 Mb):
Exclusive new high quality visual content created by visual Artist MariLoR especially for ArKaos VJ
- Printed user manual
- Printed Release Notes Document
- Printed License Agreement
The CD-Rom version comes shipped with a license code to register the software, you don't have to purchase a license separately.
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Documentation
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 Click the PDF icon on the left to download the Release Notes PDF document for ArKaos VJ version 3.6.1
The user manual describes ArKaos VJ until version 3.0.1, this Release Notes document describes the changes between ArKaos VJ 3.0.1 and ArKaos VJ 3.6.1 it also deeply describes and explains the different features from ArKaos VJ DMX and ArKaos VJ Medialon.
If you don't have the free Adobe Reader, click here to download it
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If you have bought an ArKaos VJ software box, the user manual and the release notes document for your version are printed in your box.
When you install ArKaos VJ, the user manual and the release notes document also comes as PDF located in the software’s installation directory on your computer. If needed, you can also download the PDF user manual from our support centre.
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