Vuo

Vuo lets media creators make interactive animations, exhibits, performances, and professional-grade media projects by connecting up simple building blocks. Media creators can use these blocks to manipulate audio input, images, layers, videos, and 2D + 3D graphics, as well as record high-quality video of the results.

Vuo's features include:

• Real-time interaction using audio input, MIDI, OSC, and Art-Net DMX integration, or Kinect and Leap Motion device input
• Sharing visuals with other Mac apps through Syphon
• High-quality video export and interactive recording
• Exporting compositions as Mac apps
• CPU and GPU performance optimizations, including automatic multi-threading, compilation to machine code, and shader-based OpenGL
• Support for new users (https://vuo.org/start), including video tutorials

Vuo has a free-trial version. Vuo costs $49, and Vuo Pro (Vuo plus nodes for stereoscopic rendering, Art-Net, projection mesh, and fisheye camera; antialiasing and motion blur when exporting movies; and a dark interface node) for $149.

• Subcompositions: the ability to turn a composition into a reusable node in your Node Library.
• New 3D graphic shapes and 2D image filters, including a frosted glass effect, a radial RGB offset effect, and noise image generators
• Timing nodes to trigger animations at a certain time of day or relative to events such as a mouse click
• Beat detection for syncing visuals with audio tracks
• A fisheye camera, which can be used to warp 2D + 3D scenes and render them on a dome
• USB HID support for joysticks, game controllers, and other USB-HID-compliant devices