The loops:
Each of our albums is made of 20 loops with a similar style or theme. We select and edit them to look good when mixed with other loops - they have clear visual subject, have good amount of one colour (usually the darkest or the brightest) to easily luma-key them, they have bright colours and high-contrast objects so they make sense even when screened in bad conditions - smoke, spotlights on the screen, bad projector... you know.
All loops are made to be looped too! On few of them the last frame won't match the first but these are still visually seamless as these loops usually has many cuts inside. there are one or two long ones that are best played as ping-pong (backwards than forwards and so on).
Video codec:
We encode the loops with PicVideo from Pegasusimaging with 4:2:2 subsampling and quality 16. This is the best setting we know for very fast playback with little load of the computer. While it makes biggish files in size it also preserves the quality of the image so it's good for editing and resampling!
License:
All clips used to be licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA but this license is not very clear when it comes to VJing. So we extended it with our License agreement. Here is a non-definitive guide what you can do with the loops:
- You can perform them live commercially or not, at any venue or over the internet or on TV. Anyone who is part of a project where you use them can perform them too while you are part of the project.
- You can record your work and give free copies of it or put it on video sharing websites. You can't sell these recordings without our permission.
- You can use use the loops or in any not-for-profit work and distribute it as you like. You can give them to anyone who uses them in this way.
- You can't distribute or sell the loops in any way without the agreement of their creator (which you can obtain directly or through us).