VIDVOX
Johnny pioneered several important milestones in realtime video software. He founded the software company VIDVOX in 1998, releasing “Prophet”, the first video sampler software capable of outputting hardware accelerated Firewire DV Movies using MIDI keyboards. During his tenure, he also created VDMX, a complete video mixer studio optimized for live performance, which quickly set the bar for video software interface design. Yet another revolutionary video interface was introduced by VIDVOX with “GRID” released in 2003. Today VIDVOX is a mature software company, with many thousands of users worldwide. VDMX continues to be their flagship product, developed by Mr. Ray and Dave Lublin.
Research and prototyping of many software experiments in the VIDVOX lab often led to interesting collaborations with artists, theaters, musicians and the like, and Johnny found himself gravitating towards large scale project work. In 2004 he left day to day operations to further pursue this track, but still maintains a close relationship with the company.
VDMX Museum (screenshots version 1-4)
