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Love projectM!

To this day I use it for VJ work and it always gets rave reviews.

With the OSS project I've been able to build a great workflow for previewing and picking the best patterns for my aesthetic.

If I had one feature request it would be a way to take a set of patterns and an MP3 file and render an output video faster than real-time. It's much easier to use pre-rendered videos and tempo adjust them in VJ software than doing live rendering.

Edit: GH Issue discussing rendering: https://github.com/projectM-visualizer/projectm/issues/205

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You might dig NestDrop for queuing up presets and then outputting the visuals to a Spout video stream, which most VJ softwares can ingest. Or you can install the OBS Spout plugin into OBS and then record the full rez visuals directly. Here is a tutorial I made demoing it - https://youtu.be/yHqs-EeoIfQ?t=414

This also allows you to inject live video into the Milkdrop engine. Here is another tutorial I made - https://vimeo.com/599028390 https://vimeo.com/450122956

I did a ton of curation of presets and here my cream of the crop pack containing 9,795 presets - https://thefulldomeblog.com/2020/02/21/nestdrop-presets-coll...

More info about NestDrop - https://nestimmersion.ca/nestdrop.php

And on a tangent, you might enjoy my StyleGAN VJ loops - https://www.jasonfletcher.info/vjloops/

NestDrop and the dome look amazing! I found the Cream of the Crop presets thru that project. If that's your work too THANK YOU.

Unfortunately the NestDrop windows dependency doesn't work for me now, but we're on the same wavelength.

My workflow uses OBS to preview presets on top of videos to make sure the patterns will look great with alpha / luma filter in VJ stuff, as well as OBS to record.

Thrilled to hear that you've found my Cream of the Crop pack useful! So rarely do I get to hear back from performers.

Not sure if you also saw my mashups pack, you might enjoy it - https://thefulldomeblog.com/2020/08/18/nestdrop-presets-coll...

Yes I saw. It’s on the list to go thru these someday too :)

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