vpDude Beta
What is vpDude?
vpDude is an integrated tool to manage, share, and expand your own vj library on your hard drive:
a VJ-Tool independent way to organize and find your clips through tags.
check our short presentation, howto and explanation
Adobe Bridge?
Yes you're right, vpDude has many similarities to Adobe Bridge; we like Bridge, and it is a difficult goal to mimic and improve upon it for VJ use.
But keep in mind that, conceptually, vpDude works in some different areas:
- it keeps track of your downloads and keeps the downloaded clips linked to videopong and their creator on videopong
- thumbnails are already created and previews are prerendered, resulting in smaller movie files to load for preview. this leads to less use of CPU power during your search for clips. this ap proach uses more space on disk and needs more time to sync with your files in advance, but we think this is a good trade off because disks are cheaper than cpu power, and you might need that cpu power during your vj sets.
- the price!
What is the current Status?
basically all important features are available and working. but not everything is perfect, we know.
known problems and areas for improvement with 0.5.2:
- why not dxv? currently there is no open dxv-decoder available. if you want to support us please comment here
- clips and thumbs get squeezed into thumb/preview format
- the gui itself is early alpha as we focused on functionality. (no resize, no hiding of information-lane, ... )
- drag of multiple clips at once is currently not possible, but its planned
- ... still a lot of work to do for version 1.0 ! but its working now.. yeah!!! if you want to help us improve vpDude please donate
FAQ?
a FAQ is here. This is also visible directly through vpDude.
Download where?
download the current version 0.5.2 (march 2012):
- thumb creation fixed, with re-recreating missing thumbs at first startup
- tag handling fixed. unused tags disappear, new tags earlier available...
- better tagging on own sync (numbers at the end)
- lots of other fixes, that should stabilize sync of own clips
- note on upgrade: if update breaks, deinstall manual and then reinstall manual
old versions:
0.5.1 : mac, win
0.5.0 : mac, win
if you find bugs, need help or want to support us please get in contact with us