Projector or Secondary Screen

When AI VJ starts it automatically detects if there is a projector or secondary screen available. It then launches a second output window

To make AI VJ detect your projector or secondary screen:

– Make sure it is turned on and recognized by Windows
– And make sure it is turned on *before* you start AI VJ

You can set the output window from full-screen to windowed mode using the little square that appears on mouse-over in the top-right corner

If you have more than 2 screens and prefer it to be on another than the one it picked by default, you can drag the window in windowed mode to another display, and set it to full-screen again there

Using your own VJ Videos / Loops

You can import videos onto a Bank by clicking the little folder icon: The last icon on the Banks icon row (left side of the screen)

– Thumbnails will then be generated for your videos; Some patience required

Be sure to set the VJ video's native Beats Per Minute (BPM) in the settings side panel

– Open settings in the right side panel by clicking the icon with the 3 cogs
– Then select the video(s) for which you wish to adjust the BPM and set it, say to 128

Especially VJ Loop type videos often have a BPM specified. Ours are all 120 BPM. I've seen anything from 80 to 160

If there is no BPM specified, leave it at 120 BPM, or experiment

AI VJ will then automatically adjust the playback speed of the video so it always matches the music at any BPM

It will look best when the video was recorded at 60 frames per second, as opposed to the usual 30. Ours all are at 60fps

The following file formats are supported: .asf, .avi, .dv, .m4v, .mov, .mp4, .mpg, .mpeg, .ogv, .vp8, .webm, .wmv

In rare cases a few of these can come in multiple flavours with exotic codecs that might not yet even be supported by Windows. Best try.

– For example .mp4 files with the H265 codec are not supported by default. Though the codec can be installed

We prefer mp4 with the H264 codec and 'yuv420p' pixel format, as it works everywhere. And has hardware decoding support

Using your own Images

You can import images onto a Bank by clicking the little folder icon: The last icon on the Banks icon row (left side of the screen)

The images will automatically be resized to fit the screen without cropping (cutting parts off of them). So especially portrait sized images will have black areas to the side

One picture will be shown on every beat. To half the speed of the slide show, click the little snail icon on the right panel

The following file formats are supported: .png, .jpg, .jpeg, .gif, .bmp, .tif, .tga, .psd. We prefer .png, but .jpg is fine

Using Spout Output

Spout uses your graphics card to send realtime video between Windows applications on the same machine with near-zero latency or overhead

You can enable Spout under Output in the main menu. Either with the UI (for streaming / demos), or with just the visuals, for post-processing with additional effects

The Spout stream will be called: AI VJ Spout

To use it with Resolume just enable it in AI VJ, and then import it in Resolume. Their tutorial can be found here

To use it for streaming with the excellent and free OBS Studio. Enable it in AI VJ, and then:

– Install the OBS Spout plugin
– Then add a Spout2 source as explained in the second half of this video

Keyboard Control

You can select & play banks with your PC keyboard using the numbers 1 - 9, and 0 for 10

But only when the AI VJ window is at the front / active

Other forms of control, including MIDI and controller support will be added in the future

In the meantime, AI VJs automatic behavior should be okay for most uses

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