What is Video Vector?
What is Video Vector?
Video Vector is a low resolution 3D rendering engine for macOS 15.5+ specifically designed to create assets for video art. It comprises of a text based scene file and editor (which defines object geometry and video asset details), a preview pane (with timeline scrubbing controls), custom post-process filters (which can apply various effects to the final video frame) and an export pipeline which renders the scene as a transparency supported .MOV video (ProRes 4444).
But Video Vector is so much more... it is an oasis of creativity in the desert of the "modern" digital age. If you grew up through the 1980's you'll remember, and feel nostalgic for, what the kids call "retro" computer graphics. Big, fat pixels, or sharp geometry, Tron-like glowing and virtual worlds more alive in your mind than on the screen. These were amazing times when computer graphics were more pixel based paintings of impressionism than photo realistic neoclassicism. Like reading a book, these virtual worlds existed more within your mind's eye.
The industry pushed the technology towards realism and we are now at a point where anything can be created to perfect quality, with little more than a phrase passed to AI. To put it bluntly... things are boring as fuck now. Anything can be created now with very little effort on your part. The value of it's magic and wonder is long gone. Replaced with automaton motion of pretending it's interesting because it used to be hard to create. It's not just AI slop... it's human slop. Creativity through middle management of AI agents and tools that do your work for you.
Video Vector is hard to use.
That's why I created Video Vector. Video Vector is hard to use. Video Vector is slow to use. Video Vector is everything you are not used to using... unless you remember the 80's. If you remember the amazing adventures you went on at a text prompt, with a pad of graph paper, and long for spending an afternoon with those feelings again... you might just be ready for Video Vector.
Embrace the text field as your user interface. Learn new cryptic languages to build geometry and virtual worlds. Spend the time applying equations one character at a time, like placing stones in a Zen rock garden. Expand your mind, body and soul and embrace the tranquility of the Grid one vertex, line and face at a time.
Meet our team
Meet our team
Um... it's just me.
Joby Bednar
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