The project
Blender · Cinema 4D · TouchDesigner — the scene the whole family grows from.
THE LIBRARY FOR VJs & WORLD-BUILDERS · COMING 2026
One artist. A whole world.
VJ.Tools is a smart media library and prep system for VJs. Find clips by what's actually in them, keep every version attached to one source, retime for Resolume's BPM playback, and prepare the right cut for the room — then send it into Arena ready to use. Built for artists who love their performance software and want the library around it to finally keep up.
- 11,851clips, organized
- 128.2BPM, detected
- 0clips uploaded to search
- $0to run the core
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Festivals and rooms like the Sphere build entire worlds for a crowd to stand inside — with whole teams behind them. This is the library that gives one person that reach: thousands of clips, organized, versioned, and gig-ready, so you spend the night playing Resolume instead of hunting for a file — and the visuals stop merely reacting to the music and start becoming a place. And when the work grows past one person, it grows with you.
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
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
03 THE PREP DECK
Beat-map it
before the set.
Preview and scrub any clip — even keyframed, non-DXV files that normally refuse to run backwards; it caches frames as it goes. Then drop a beat grid on anything that never cared about tempo and retime it to even beats, so Resolume can actually lock it to BPM. This is where AI-generated clips finally earn their place: a model almost never renders on a clean beat, so a gorgeous loop is dead weight in a BPM set until it's retimed — and the same fix rescues a livestream grab or a loop from anywhere. Mark a region, loop it seamlessly, cut it, or hand it back to be regenerated — with a mouse, or with the CDJ / XDJ jog wheel already in your booth. It's a prep and edit station, not a live tool.
- 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
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
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.
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.
- Names the track by ear — no API key — and loads lyrics already synced to the playhead
- When it doesn't know the song, a local engine captions the room live — and can translate to English
- 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 · REORDER, DOCK OR HIDE EVERY PANEL · RUNS ON YOUR MACHINE
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 pipeline, all local
One shared audio capture feeds recognition, captions and tempo at once. Local models, no API key, no subscription — tuned to stay out of your GPU's way mid-set.
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.
0clips, indexed & searchable
0files across your drives
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0clips uploaded to search them
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
Track 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
Send 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.
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.
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.
Go build
a world.
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