VJing - Breaking the Loop

vvvv beta question
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Hm, I am recently thinking about strategies to break the Problem of the “Loop” when beeing at VJing. While vvvv-is very loop-based (steady process running) I was thinking of dealing ways to get VJs tools that allow very much freedom to tweak, break and transform stuff.

There are basically diffrent IO-Interfaces: mouse, MIDI-Controller, webcam… But I recently have no idea to apply interesting effectchains. Maybe with freeframe or shaders (unfortunately on my machine)? Simple transforms are too weak IMHO, the results are just too 1:1 for the visitor. I want to break, cut, recombine, load new footage, go on and on and on.

Any ideas?

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my pet strategies for dealing with this problems are live cameras (where you can put everything in front) and especially live recording/looping of parameter changes.
touchscreens proved to give much better results than midi faderboxes…

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Maybe it could be useful to utilize the loop. Like having tiles flying around on x layers (groups). The VJ slowly fading over the groups and choosing / manipulation the tiles.