Avenue puts all your media and effects right at your fingertips!

Resolume Avenue for Mac

Resolume Avenue for Mac

  -  1.3 GB  -  Demo
  • Latest Version

    Resolume Avenue 7.24.2 rev 62935 LATEST

  • Review by

    Sophia Jones

  • Operating System

    macOS 10.12 Sierra or later

  • User Rating

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  • Author / Product

    Resolume / External Link

  • Filename

    Resolume_Avenue_7_24_2_rev_62935_Installer.dmg

Resolume Avenue for Mac is an instrument for VJs, AV performers, and video artists. It puts all your media and effects right at your fingertips so you can quickly improvise your live visuals.

Resolume is created by Edwin de Koning & Bart van der Ploeg together with Tim Walther, Joris de Jong, Menno Vink, Danny Van Swieten, Sander Cox, Andreas Lo-A-Njoe, Zoltán Pálffy, and a team of specialized freelancers.

"Resolume was born because we wanted to VJ. But we wanted to do it better. Back in 1998, VJ-ing was done with VHS tapes and an mx50 video mixer so it was hard to quickly improvise video to music because tempo could not be adjusted, or even reversed.

Effects were limited to what the mx50 had to offer. We thought the software would allow us to improvise more and be a better VJ."

Features and Highlights
  • Accepts movies, flash, pictures, and live camera input
  • Full 18 band fft audio analyzer to link effects to music
  • Audio driven flash animations
  • Stream video over a network
  • Multiple screen output
  • Live harddisk recording (sampling)
  • 60+ built-in effects including ascii art, zoom, solarize, invert
  • 150+ effects available through free frame plug-ins
  • Automated effect parameters
  • Up to six simultaneous effects
  • Mix up to three layers using 18 different overlay modes
  • User-definable transitions and masks
  • Control resolume with any midi or dmx controller
  • Send dmx signals from flash movies
  • Scratch video
  • Synchronize clips to the tempo of the music with a bpm clock
  • Various play modes: loop, bounce, etc.
  • Control playback speed and direction
  • Change in- and out points of clips
  • Easy access to 160 clips in an interface
  • File browser with clip information and preview
  • Chaos autopilot mode
  • Custom configurable keyboard shortcuts
  • Dvdmax support for matrox videocards
  • Theater mode support for ati videocards
  • Y2k compliant
  • Superstar veejay status guaranteed
How to Use

Import video, audio, or image files into the media library

Drag clips onto the layers in the composition panel

Use the mixer to adjust opacity, blend modes, and effects

Trigger clips live with keyboard or MIDI controller

Apply real-time visual effects from the Effects panel

Set BPM for audio-visual synchronization

Map output to multiple screens or projection setups

Record your performance or stream it live

System Requirements

macOS 10.13 High Sierra or later

64-bit Intel or Apple Silicon processor

2 GB GPU (AMD, NVIDIA, or Apple Metal supported)

8 GB RAM minimum (16 GB recommended)

SSD recommended for media playback

OpenGL 4.1 compatible graphics card

PROS
  • Flexible real-time VJing and AV mixing
  • Supports advanced MIDI and OSC control
  • Wide range of real-time video effects
  • Multi-display and projection mapping tools
  • Stable performance with high-res content
CONS
  • High system resource demands
  • No built-in media content library
  • License is relatively expensive
  • Lacks detailed audio editing tools
Note: Watermark on output video in demo version. You can hear a robot voice in the audio.

Also Available: Download Resolume Avenue for Windows

Why is this app published on FileHorse? (More info)

What's new in this version:

Faster Composition Loading (again):
- In the past couple of releases we have improved loading compositions with a lot of layers, groups and clips. And in this version we're dialing this up to 11. One of our beta testers has a big composition that took 8 minutes to load and this is now just 1 minute with 7.24. Nice!
- Faster MIDI Processing:
- Big compositions often require a lot of MIDI to be processed too, this is now also much improved. The interface will not lag anymore when processing a lot of MIDI data from and to controllers or Wire patches.

CRT Effect:
- Crisp, clear gradients are nice — but sometimes you just want some old-school analogue grunt in your visuals, and the new CRT effect helps you do just that. It emulates big, chunky CRT monitors that'll have you feeling nostalgic (if you're over 40 or so ??).
- This effect is completely made in Wire, so you can fork it, look under the hood to see how it's made, and patch your own variations.
- While we're on the subject of effects: the Strokes effect now has an image input, so you can stroke your visuals with your own brushes instead of only the built-in ones

Show Composition Loading, Saving & Closing State:
- We've always been surprised (and honestly a bit frightened) by the sheer size of the compositions some of you are making
- Do you really need more than 40 layers and 900+ columns!?
- We've made loading and unloading compositions quite a bit faster in the past few updates, but it can still take a while sometimes — there's just a lot of clips to load
- With this update, you can now see in the title bar that Arena is busy while opening, saving and closing compositions

Updated macOS App Icons:
- To be a good citizen on macOS, we've finally updated the app icons of Arena, Avenue, Wire, and Alley to adhere to Apple's icon design guidelines
- Can we now complain about the liquid glass UI design of iOS 26 and macOS Tahoe? It's a neat trick, but way too glossy and distracting in our humble opinion.

MIDI & OSC Monitor Stop & Resume:
- Sometimes you have a lot of MIDI or OSC messages coming in and out
- Now, you can pause the monitor for a bit to inspect messages without new ones flooding in

REST API Updates:
Thanks to REST API power user Allen, we're continually making updates. You can now:
- Load compositions
- Open multiple clips
- Check if files can actually be opened
- Add multiple columns to a composition in one call

Capture Improvements:
- Thanks to our new team member Marcel, we can now put a lot more energy into improving capture device support in Arena and Avenue
- We've updated to NDI version 6.1.1 and Blackmagic version 12.1
- All capture devices are now capable of inputting and outputting 10-bit colour depth
- Let us know what your favourite capture devices are — we might be able to support more popular choices in the future

Wire Patch Navigator:
- The Wire Patch Navigator is a small panel with a miniature overview of your entire patch
- Use it to quickly pan and zoom in and out of your giant spaghetti patches

Notes Panel in Wire:
- The Notes panel from Arena and Avenue is now also available in Wire, so you have a nice spot to jot down your thoughts — or your favourite spaghetti meatballs recipe

Texture Preview on Mouse Hover of Outlet:
- To quickly see what a node is outputting, hover over the outlet — it now also shows texture outputs
- They're only the size of a stamp, but very useful for quick previews

Insert Node After & Before Current Node:
- When an inlet or outlet is wired up to multiple other nodes, it used to be a bit of work to insert a node and reconnect all the cords. Not anymore!
- You can now right-click an inlet or outlet and choose Insert… to quickly add a new node and rewire all the connections automatically.

Node Image in Search Popup:
- To help you quickly find the node you're looking for, the search popup now shows a full-scale preview of the node with all its inlets and outlets

Cylindrical and Spherical Nodes:
- The From Cylindrical and From Spherical nodes allow you to turn cylindrical and spherical coordinates into Cartesian coordinates — which is a very nerdy way of saying you can generate sphere and cylinder coordinates now.
- Stable Sort
- The Sort node now supports stable sorting, which means if two values are the same, their original order is preserved

Stride:
- The Texture from Data node has gotten an update and now supports two-dimensional textures by setting a stride value. These function more or less as columns for the generated texture and will give you a lot more possibilities when using the Texture from Data node.

Arena & Avenue 7.24.2 Fix List:
- UI reacts poorly with composition with many columns (900+) when clips transition
- MIDI output not always updating when loading composition
- JuiceBar TBOT Feedback Machine Wire effect broken

Wire 7.24.2 Fix List:
- Some nodes give errors when opening patch in Wire 7.24
- Patch doesn't open Text Render node, unknown attribute Font
- JuiceBar TBOT Feedback Machine Wire effect broken
- Chroma Key, Ripple and Mask Blend with Bypass disable texture output