Resolume Arena

Overview

Resolume Arena is what runs behind a very large number of live shows, club nights, theatre productions and permanent installations. It plays video clips, generative sources and live camera inputs as a performance instrument rather than as a timeline, with everything triggerable, layerable and manipulable while it is on screen in front of an audience.

The composition model is a grid. Columns hold clips across layers, layers stack with blend modes and opacity, and triggering a column fires every clip in it at once. Each clip carries its own playback behaviour, transport mode, effect chain and automation, and everything is mapped to keyboard, controller or timecode so a show can be performed live, driven from a lighting desk, or run unattended on a schedule.

The Arena tier is the one with the output stage. Projection mapping through the advanced output panel warps and blends any part of the composition onto any surface, with soft edge blending across multiple projectors, slicing to send different regions to different outputs, mask shapes for irregular surfaces, and per output colour and gamma correction. A single machine can drive a wall, a stage set and a set of screens from one composition.

Around that sits the real time processing: a large effect library that runs on the graphics card, audio analysis that drives parameters from the music playing in the room, a fixture and lighting integration path over the standard protocols, network synchronisation across multiple machines for large installations, and support for streaming sources, capture devices and shared texture inputs from other applications running on the same machine.

Key Features

• Clip grid composition with layers, blend modes and column triggering
• Real time effect library running on the graphics card with per clip chains
• Advanced output stage with warping, soft edge blending, slicing and masking
• Multiple projector and multiple display output from a single composition
• Audio analysis driving effect and transform parameters from the room
• Controller, keyboard and timecode mapping for live or unattended operation
• Live camera, capture device and streaming source input
• Shared texture input and output with other applications on the same machine
• Network synchronisation across multiple machines for large installations
• Lighting protocol integration for shows running alongside a lighting desk

What Changed in This Build

• Improved playback performance on high resolution clip sets
• Additional effects added to the real time library
• Advanced output warping interface reworked for faster on site setup
• Better handling of capture devices that change format mid session

System Requirements

Processor	Intel or AMD 64-bit, 6 cores or more recommended
Memory	16 GB minimum, 32 GB for high resolution multi output work
Graphics	Dedicated GPU with 6 GB VRAM minimum, more for multiple outputs
Storage	10 GB for install plus your clip library on a fast drive
Display	One display for the interface plus the output displays

Release Details

Full title	Resolume Arena
Version string	7.27.1.15990
Publisher	Resolume
Category	Video Editing
Licence	Arena tier, no term limit
Platform	Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit
Interface language	English interface
Archive size	1.34 GB
Mirrors	4 active, all reporting online
Listed	refreshed 4 weeks ago, checked again 40 minutes ago

Installation Notes

• Convert your clips to the recommended intermediate codec before a show, playing delivery codecs live is the most common cause of dropped frames.
• Keep the clip library on a fast drive separate from the system drive.
• Build and save your output configuration on site and back it up, rebuilding a mapping under time pressure is not a pleasant evening.

Before You Start

Read the notes above before running setup. Most of the problems people write in about are covered there, and almost all of them come down to an older version of the same software still being installed, a graphics driver that predates the release, or a security suite quarantining part of the package mid install.

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