The project
Blender · Cinema 4D · TouchDesigner — the scene the whole family grows from.
THE LIBRARY FOR VJs & WORLD-BUILDERS · COMING 2026
Prep with the music on.
Hear a track. Picture the loop that belongs with it. VJ.Tools is a media library and prep deck designed to help you follow that idea into your next set. Find clips by what's on screen, shape their timing in beats, and prepare versions for Resolume. The aim is to keep you thinking about the music and the room while you get your clips ready.
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See it move ↓- LOCALclips, organized
- 128.2BPM, detected
- 0clips uploaded to search
- $0to run the core
SEARCH BY CONTENT · ON
CLIP SELECTED
What if preparing a set felt more like playing one? Imagine a house party, music on, friends watching the visuals. You spot a moment worth looping and want to try a different cut. That is the feeling we're designing toward: small, hands-on decisions that let you stay with the music as you prepare a show. Scrub to the moment. Mark the region. Try its timing in beats.
Preview · Windows install · evidence reviewed 2026-07-23
Preview · local-first Library · evidence reviewed 2026-07-23
Preview features are built but still completing installed-release certification. Experimental features need real environment or provider validation. Hardware validation pending means mappings exist but physical-device evidence is still open. Roadmap is not in today's Windows build.
01 SEARCH BY CONTENT
Find it by
what it is.
Search your library by what's actually on screen: scene, subject, colour, motion, mood, setting, texture, or energy. The AI that reads your footage runs on your own machine — so search works with no uploads, no API key, and no subscription, and never leans on a filename you wrote three years ago. Nothing is generated here; this is AI pointed squarely at finding what you already made.
- Local models read the scene — no footage uploaded, no subscription to search
- Renamed copies still match; DXV files stay searchable, no conversion needed
- Collections update themselves; suggested tags & renames wait for your approval
Preview · semantic search · evidence reviewed 2026-07-15
Preview · organization + dedup · evidence reviewed 2026-07-15
02 ONE CLIP, EVERY CUT
Carry one.
Not ten.
Every aspect-ratio crop, every upscale, every frame-interpolated render, every DXV export lives as a version attached to the original — not ten near-identical files bloating your library. Walk into a gig, tell it the screens and the hardware, and it hands you the best version of each clip for that exact rig. Different room tomorrow? Different renditions, same source, one click.
- Ratio crops, upscales, interpolations & exports attach to the source clip
- One result in search — never a wall of duplicates
- Build a gig-ready set matched to tonight's screens & frame rate
Preview · rendition lineage · evidence reviewed 2026-07-15
Preview · Resolume gig export · evidence reviewed 2026-07-15
03 THE PREP DECK
Find the moment.
Feel the loop.
A clip has the right motion, but the part you want ends halfway through a phrase. Scrub to it, mark a region, and retime it to even beats for Resolume's BPM playback. The prep deck puts those decisions around a preview and filmstrip, with mouse controls and controller mappings for hands-on editing. Try a cut, watch the motion, and decide whether it belongs in the set. Exports and heavier processing still take time; the goal is to make the creative decisions feel closer to performing.
- Cached scrubbing for difficult files — forwards or back
- Retime off-grid clips — AI-generated loops especially — to even beats for Resolume
- Edit by jog wheel — CDJ / XDJ / MIDI — mark, loop, cut, regenerate
Experimental · difficult-codec preview · evidence reviewed 2026-07-15
Preview · deck + retime · evidence reviewed 2026-07-22
Hardware validation pending · CDJ-3000 · mapped 2026-07-15
Hardware validation pending · XDJ-XZ · mapped 2026-07-15
Hardware validation pending · APC40 · mapped 2026-07-15
04 BRING IT UP TO SPEC
Every clip,
gig-ready.
Upscale a clip for a bigger wall, or smooth it to a higher frame rate with interpolation — AI enhancement that runs on your own GPU, no subscription required. Fix a bad patch in place — a stray hand, a melted frame — without throwing away the take. Every result attaches to the original as a version, so the library stays clean and each gig pulls the best fit. For artists who use generative workflows, VJ.Tools can also organize, repair, convert, and route those outputs — but the core library works just as well for artists who never generate a clip.
- Upscale & frame-interpolate (RIFE) to match the room's hardware
- Repair a bad span in place — keep the take, fix the flaw
- Enhancements land as versions, never as duplicates
Experimental · local enhancement · evidence reviewed 2026-07-15
05 SOURCE TO SCREEN
Kept together.
A finished clip is rarely one file. It might begin as a Blender scene, a Cinema 4D project, or a TouchDesigner network, then become an image sequence, an upscale, a RIFE-interpolated version, a DXV export, and finally a Resolume-ready clip. VJ.Tools keeps those relationships attached — so you can find the source, regenerate the render, compare versions, and keep the whole asset family organized.
Preview · project genealogy · evidence reviewed 2026-07-22
The output
Image sequences and raw renders, linked back to the project that made them.
The versions
Upscales, RIFE interpolations, repairs, DXV exports — every rendition, one lineage.
The clip
The Resolume-ready cut that hits the wall — traceable all the way back to its source.
06 VJ.TOOLS WINGMAN
It knows
what's playing.
The Wingman rides beside your set and listens to the room. It recognizes the track by ear — built for real DJ audio, pitched and filtered and mid-transition — scrolls the lyrics in time, reads the booth's tempo better than the booth does, and turns the line being sung into clips on your wall. Resolume runs the show. The Wingman keeps it fed.
Experimental · Wingman · evidence reviewed 2026-07-22
- Names the track by ear — keyless Audio ID may send a short sample or fingerprint — and loads lyrics already synced to the playhead
- When it doesn't know the song, a local engine captions the room live — and a local model can translate the lyrics
- Smart BPM fuses the CDJ grid with what it actually hears, then drives Resolume as the Link master
- The lyric being sung searches your library by meaning; one click reveals the deck in Arena
MODULAR · LOCAL CAPTIONS, TRANSLATION, TEMPO + HISTORY · EXTERNAL AUDIO ID DISCLOSED
ANY LANGUAGE → ENGLISH · LIVE
◐ LIVE TRANSLATION
Sing in any language.
Read it in English.
A reggaeton set, a K-pop drop, a French house edit — the Wingman reads the lyrics in the original and prints the English underneath, line by line, in time with the song. The whole track is translated, not just the line on screen, so nothing catches you off guard.
- Every line rendered in the original and translated beneath it, synced to the playhead
- Translation runs on a model on your own machine — no API key, no per-line cloud bill
- Lines already in English are left untouched; only what needs translating gets touched
LYRICS → CLIP SEARCH · ON
SONG CHANGE · CAUGHT
Audio ID
Keyless recognition that holds up on real booth audio — pitched, filtered, mid-blend. The lyric sheet loads already locked to the playhead.
Lyrics + live captions
Known song: time-synced lyrics scroll in front. Unknown song: a local engine captions the room live, layered behind — they swap automatically. Non-English sets translate to English on your own machine.
Smart BPM
Fuses the Pro DJ Link grid with literature-grade audio beat tracking. Agreement snaps to the grid; a wrong grid gets overruled by confident ears — with hard protection against half-time jumps.
Link master
The fused clock broadcasts into an Ableton Link session as master — Resolume follows the booth, not the other way around. Tap to correct; it re-seats the phase without losing the bar.
Deck Wave
The waveform of the track playing on the decks, pulled straight off the player network — playhead, master deck and all — without touching the DJ's gear.
Lyrics → visuals
The line being sung auto-searches your library by meaning. Click a lyric to feed the visual prompt; click a result to reveal its deck in Arena. Inspiration lands while the bar is still playing.
Song memory
Every track it hears is remembered on your machine. Next time, lyrics recall instantly — even offline — and the sync tightens itself the more you play.
One shared capture, local core
One shared audio capture feeds recognition, captions and tempo at once. Captions, translation, tempo and history stay local; keyless Audio ID may transmit a short sample or fingerprint for recognition.
Resolume first. Not Resolume only. VJ.Tools runs on Windows today and starts with Resolume — that's where many VJs already perform, and it's the path that works end to end right now. The library is built around a plugin layer so the same ideas can reach other visual tools over time — HeavyM, VDMX, TouchDesigner, Blender, Cinema 4D, and more. Treat that as the roadmap, not today's build: broader tool support — and VDMX in particular — arrives alongside the Mac version, which is coming as soon as there's a window to build it. The goal was never to replace those tools; it's to keep the media, projects, renders, versions, and final outputs connected.
Roadmap · macOS Library · noted 2026-07-22
Roadmap · non-Resolume hosts · noted 2026-07-15
LOCALindex and content search
MULTI-DRIVEcatalog awareness
DXVnative preview path
PRIVATEsearch without clip uploads
07 AND THE REST OF THE RIG
Everything else
the rig needs.
DXV & ProRes ready
Built for the formats VJs actually use. A native engine gives you fast preview, inspection, and cached scrubbing — no proxy transcode just to look at a clip.
Batch prep
Upscale or interpolate a whole selection at once. Each result is filed as a version of its source, ready for the export.
Duplicates & dead weight
Find the redundant renders and reclaim the space — so there's room for the files a gig actually needs.
Every drive, every device
Preview · multi-machine sync · evidence reviewed 2026-07-15Track files across all your machines by hash — even the drives sitting unplugged in a bag. Plan the set now, fetch the media later.
Optional Google Drive backup
Preview · Google Drive · evidence reviewed 2026-07-15Send the whole library to the cloud on a Drive plan you already pay for. Backup is a bonus, not a paywall.
Hand off to Resolume
One step prepares a clip — or a whole deck — and hands it to Arena, converted and ready. Built for the software you already run.
Jog-wheel & MIDI control
CDJ-3000, XDJ-XZ, APC40 — mapped from the official tables. Edit your library with the gear already in the booth.
Local models, no subscription
The AI behind search, tagging, and enhancement runs on your own machine — so the core features cost nothing to use, with no API key and no cloud account. Cloud is only ever an optional upgrade.
One person gets a whole team's reach — and, with the event.tools sister project on the way, it opens into a shared workspace: a crew, or a collaboration with other VJs and creatives, all working from the same library. The rule on money is simple: the features run on models on your own machine, so the core needs no subscription and no API key — it's free, forever. A cloud plan is only ever an option, for the things that genuinely cost money to run: offloading a heavy render so it never steals GPU from the machine driving your set, Google Drive backup, hosted compute, the shared spaces. Local is the product; the cloud is the upgrade.
Experimental · hosted compute · evidence reviewed 2026-07-15
08 YOUR DATA
Your library
belongs to you.
VJ.Tools is local-first. Search, tagging, organization, duplicate detection, versioning, and library analysis all work without turning your creative archive into training data. If you choose to give back, contribution is opt-in and always off by default — and only ever with material you have the right to share.
Preview · donation controls · evidence reviewed 2026-07-15
Off by default
Every contribution category ships disabled. Contribute nothing, approve one item at a time, or opt into selected categories.
Plain-language asks
When VJ.Tools asks for an example, it explains what would be shared, why it matters, and what feature it may help improve. No fine print.
Feeds back into free local features
Donated examples help improve practical VJ features — search, tagging, repair, beat prep, dedup, version grouping — especially models that can run locally and benefit the whole community.
Future sharing stays under your control
Turn future contributions off any time. Stored examples can be removed where possible, and future training runs respect your current settings.
Built from the stage up by VJ OpticMystic. VJ.Tools wasn't designed in a corporate bubble — it was forged live in the booth, driving immersive visual sets across warehouse raves, festivals, and club residencies. When you're behind the decks, every second spent fighting codecs, hunting down lost cuts, or waiting on bloated proxies steals from the energy in the room. This system was created to make visual media move as fast as the music.
Go build
a world.
Coming 2026. Leave an email and be first through the door when the library opens.
Preview · waitlist + deletion · evidence reviewed 2026-07-15
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Preview · Browser Library · evidence reviewed 2026-07-15