I am done with virtual DJ, I will be moving to different program. I waited so long hoping for a stable, truly cross platform version of this program, that had allot of great ideas, and instead we went from bad to worse. I tried my best to be objective in this post, but I am very annoyed and frustrated. The cross platform label should be removed since they clearly develop it for PC. They spent 3 years developing it, and apparently never tested it on a 13' Macbook. > the text plugin is very poor, and is too cumbersome to use during a live set.Īll in all Virtual DJ 8 has less working features than 7.4, and seems less stable.

> there is no scroll text, and the SBDJ version is not compatible with 8 (although it was very unstable with 7.4 on mac) > there is no visualizer (but there is on the PC version, although its very low res and runs to fast on modern processors) > there are no video skins at 1280 x 800, and skin scaling is not great. They disappear once I reopen the program. > the CPU is constantly at 45 to 50 percent even when nothing is happening. > there is no way to choose the second display as your output in the settings, instead you need a skin that supports the video out button. (just like in 7.4, they work fine on a PC) > Most of the video transitions do not work. > None of the video effects (like spectrum) work correctly, instead they dull the video and cause random garbage in it. > Setting up looping clips to play in the sampler (like 7.4's clip bank) is so cumbersome I could never set it during a live set. > I cant use the video sampler automatically when playing an audio only track. This is with all video sources, regardless of encoding or resolution. > When using the sampler for video (clip banks replacement), the audio slows down and starts to stutter.

Virtual DJ 8 is worse than 7.4, which was very unstable on mac. I also tested it on a 3 year old Sony Vaio. I DJ with music videos in NYC, I use a new 13' macbook I bought last year. VDJ8 didn't pass a one hour test on my kitchen table.

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