Can you use your laptop as an Video Mixer? Instead of buying expensive equipment? If so, what software can you use? And how would you set it up?

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OBS Studio

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Isadora by TroikaTronix

Absolutely, there's a couple of options available if you want to try to replicate video mixers functionality on software based live video environments. The most notable would be something like Resolume (https://resolume.com/) which is already very popular amongst vj artists and video synthesis enthusiasts as it was designed with easy integration of midi and sound reactivity in mind. There's also a bunch of more modular environments such as touchdesigner (https://derivative.ca/), Max/MSP (https://cycling74.com/products/max) and isadora (https://troikatronix.com/, I personally use this one on most of my projects, but it's what I started with so it might just be that I'm used to it), in which you have to construct your own patches out of smaller pieces (mixer, basic effects, playback engines, etc.), it's a bit more complicated as these program go way beyond simple video processing and mixing and you have to build your system yourself, but you can also push it way beyond what a standard hardware mixer can go. I've also seen a couple of vst's that can you integrate inside of a daw setup, however I don't really have enough experience with those to properly point you towards a good one. I think all of those softwares I just mention have trial versions that you can try out, I would suggest to try them out before buying, just so you can get a basic idea of the general workflow and see how well your pc runs it.

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Resolume

Absolutely, there's a couple of options available if you want to try to replicate video mixers functionality on software based live video environments. The most notable would be something like Resolume (https://resolume.com/) which is already very popular amongst vj artists and video synthesis enthusiasts as it was designed with easy integration of midi and sound reactivity in mind. There's also a bunch of more modular environments such as touchdesigner (https://derivative.ca/), Max/MSP (https://cycling74.com/products/max) and isadora (https://troikatronix.com/, I personally use this one on most of my projects, but it's what I started with so it might just be that I'm used to it), in which you have to construct your own patches out of smaller pieces (mixer, basic effects, playback engines, etc.), it's a bit more complicated as these program go way beyond simple video processing and mixing and you have to build your system yourself, but you can also push it way beyond what a standard hardware mixer can go. I've also seen a couple of vst's that can you integrate inside of a daw setup, however I don't really have enough experience with those to properly point you towards a good one. I think all of those softwares I just mention have trial versions that you can try out, I would suggest to try them out before buying, just so you can get a basic idea of the general workflow and see how well your pc runs it.

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TouchDesigner

Absolutely, there's a couple of options available if you want to try to replicate video mixers functionality on software based live video environments. The most notable would be something like Resolume (https://resolume.com/) which is already very popular amongst vj artists and video synthesis enthusiasts as it was designed with easy integration of midi and sound reactivity in mind. There's also a bunch of more modular environments such as touchdesigner (https://derivative.ca/), Max/MSP (https://cycling74.com/products/max) and isadora (https://troikatronix.com/, I personally use this one on most of my projects, but it's what I started with so it might just be that I'm used to it), in which you have to construct your own patches out of smaller pieces (mixer, basic effects, playback engines, etc.), it's a bit more complicated as these program go way beyond simple video processing and mixing and you have to build your system yourself, but you can also push it way beyond what a standard hardware mixer can go. I've also seen a couple of vst's that can you integrate inside of a daw setup, however I don't really have enough experience with those to properly point you towards a good one. I think all of those softwares I just mention have trial versions that you can try out, I would suggest to try them out before buying, just so you can get a basic idea of the general workflow and see how well your pc runs it.

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