ArKaos VJ 3 is offering an innovative way to edit and manipulate a visual performance while it is running - something that has not been possible before.

ArKaos VJ is a software-based visual synthesizer that runs on a normal PC or Mac. It is a tool for VJs or visual artists to create and control amazing live visual performances. It is used by thousands of users all around the world, and can be seen running on large displays at clubs, concerts, corporate events and more. The ArKaos VJ can also be used as a powerful multimedia-authoring tool, being so easy to use that for example musicians can create their own music videos in only a few minutes.

Using a custom built version of ArKaos VJ, users will be able to experience an unprecedented visual smoothness and image quality due to a brand new hardware-accelerated video engine taking full advantage of the latest NVidia graphic-card capabilities.

Thanks to Nvidia’s new pixel shaders and accelerated multimedia technology, all video treatment, mixing and effects can now be computed by accelerated the graphic card using special algorithms designed towards image processing. It is now possible to position and resize videos, apply to them advanced 2D & 3D effects and mix several layers using luminance/chrominance keying as well as many different copy modes while retaining a very high image quality allowing top notch projection on big screens. All of it in real-time!

You can connect all your favorite video sources and display them through arKaos VJ (even with an effect). Thanks to the transfer modes you can combine your visuals together by using some masks (Luma keying, Chroma keying,..) and copy modes (Addition, Subtraction) to produce a lot of different display effects.

With the Flash Text you can display on-screen messages thanks to customizable Flash animations with editable text.

It's an ideal performing tool with customizable effects and flexible control with the double monitoring management. ArKaos VJ is fully compatible with the last versions of Mac OS X and Windows XP. The software installs in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. Support for DMX protocol through a special license.

ArKaos Hardware accelerated engine

By using the hardware GPU pipeline processing rather than a standard CPU processing, the approach of image processing becomes radically different: Every image or video has its equivalent as a texture in the video memory; updating several videos together consumes a high amount of AGP/PCI-X bus data bandwidth. ArKaos takes care of reducing this bandwidth to a minimum to keep a good frame rate.

Every image-processing is done using texture as source data: it can easily be mixed with other textures, then being scaled, stretched and deformed using geometry meshes.

Then, per pixel/vertex processing totally changes the way of working on the image. Pixel-shaders allow advanced image-processing in a minimum development time, thanks to the per pixel treatment; whereas vertex-shaders allow advanced light effects and volumes deformation thanks to the per vertex treatment.

The image quality is truly amazing thanks to the hardware texture-filtering, providing high quality images. Moreover, all the treatments are done in full resolution, making the pixellisation disappear, even with low resolution videos.