Live visual performance and projection mapping in one application, with a clip based composition grid, soft edge blending and output warping onto any surface.
Resolume Arena is used to play video live. The composition is a grid of clips arranged in layers and columns, and you trigger them from a keyboard, a control surface, a timeline or an incoming signal, with each layer blending into the ones beneath it exactly like a compositing stack that happens to be running in real time. That model is simple to learn and holds up under a two hour set, which is why it is the standard in the room.
Every clip has its own transport, playback direction, speed, beat sync and loop mode, and every parameter in the application can be animated, tied to the tempo, driven by audio analysis or bound to an external controller. The effects chain sits on clips, layers and the master output independently, so you can build a look at the source and then push the whole composition through a further stage without touching the individual clips.
Arena is the tier that adds output handling, which is what separates a visual player from an installation tool. The advanced output window lets you slice the composition and send each slice to a different projector or display, warp each slice onto the surface it is actually hitting with bezier and mesh correction, soft edge blend where projectors overlap, and mask off the parts that should not be lit. A whole multi projector mapped surface is configured and saved inside the same file as the show.
It also carries the live sources and integration that a show needs: camera and capture card input treated as clips, network video in and out for sharing frames with other applications on the machine, timecode synchronisation, a DMX interface for taking control from a lighting desk or driving fixtures from the visuals, audio analysis with frequency band routing, and a timeline sequencer for anything that has to run the same way every night.
Read the whole list before you start. Most of the reports that come into the desk about this title turn out to be a step taken out of order.
| Processor | Intel Core i7 or AMD Ryzen 7 or better, 64 bit |
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| Memory | 16 GB minimum, 32 GB for 4K multi layer work |
| Graphics | 8 GB VRAM strongly recommended, more for multiple outputs |
| Storage | 10 GB free plus fast storage for your clip library |
| Display | 1920 by 1080 for the interface plus your output displays |
Convert your clips to an intraframe codec before a show. Long GOP files will drop frames when several play at once.
Save the output configuration separately as well as inside the composition. Rebuilding a mapped surface from scratch on site is a bad evening.
| Title | Resolume Arena |
|---|---|
| Developer | Resolume |
| Version | 7.27.1.15990 |
| Category | Video & Audio |
| Release type | Arena (full) |
| Operating system | Windows 11, Windows 10 (64 bit) |
| Architecture | x64 |
| Interface language | English |
| Archive size | 1.62 GB |
| File name | resolume_arena_7.27.1.15990_x64_full.rar |
| Shelf updated | 5 days ago |
| Total downloads | 116,416 |
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