Frequently Asked Questions

There is a lot of detailed information in our node documentation, where you can find out what nodes are included in Vuo, and what they do. Vuo is continually growing, so check out our feature requests, to see what has been chosen to be implemented, and what the community is voting to implement.

We aim to make Vuo work well on any GPU compatible with Vuo's supported platforms.

That said, GPUs have a wide range of capabilities. Here are the results of our testing with certain GPUs:

• ✅ Apple M1
  • (no known issues)
• ✅ AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56, Vega 64
  • (no known issues)
• ✅ AMD Radeon Pro 5500M, AMD Radeon R9 M370X
  • (no known issues)
• ✅ NVIDIA 980TI
  • (no known issues)
• ✅ Blackmagic eGPU (AMD Radeon Pro 580)
  • (no known issues)
• ⚠️ AMD FirePro D500, ATI Radeon 7970, Intel Iris Plus Graphics 640, Intel Iris Plus Graphics 650
  • Incorrect output from Add Noise to 3D Object, Explode 3D Object, and Trim 3D Object — Fixed in Vuo 2.0
  • Slow performance in VDMX
• ⚠️ NVIDIA 650M, NVIDIA 750M
  • Slow performance on macOS 10.13 (possible workaround: either downgrade to macOS 10.12 or set Multisampling ports to Off)
• ⚠️ NVIDIA 9400M
  • Slow performance
  • Sporadic system crash when running compositions that use 3D object filter nodes and some image filter nodes while running other graphics-intensive applications — Fixed in Vuo 2.0
• ⚠️ Intel HD 4000, Intel Iris Pro
  • Slow performance
  • On macOS 10.13 and 10.14, some 3D Object Filter nodes (Divide, Facet, Quantize, Trim) output empty objects. — Fixed in Vuo 2.0
• ⚠️ Intel HD 4000, Intel HD 5000, NVIDIA GeForce 320M
  • Multisampling is not supported
• ⚠️ Intel HD 3000
  • Slow performance
  • Slow performance for the first few seconds in compositions that use certain 3D graphics nodes
  • Incorrect output when rendering at 32bpc color depth with multisampling enabled

Yep. Vuo includes a framework so you can write a C++ (or Objective-C++) app that can load a Vuo composition, start it running in the current process or as a separate process, control the composition, and receive data from the composition.

We're already working with the authors of several visual compositing systems to enable their software to play and control Vuo compositions.

Although determining whether a feature should be in Vuo Pro only or also available in the Vuo Community Edition can be somewhat subjective, we consider several criteria when making the decision. A feature is likely to be Pro if any of the following are true:

• It requires the purchase of special hardware, such as stage lighting or a VR headset.
• It requires multiple computers.
• It interacts with advanced software, such as a database management system or a video editing application.
• It enables advanced graphics, such as 3D stereoscopic rendering or a fisheye camera.
• It enables exporting compositions to a format in which they could potentially be offered for sale.

When we open a feature request for community voting, we decide if it will be Pro or included both in Pro and the Community Edition. This is indicated on the webpage of the feature request.

Yes, and yes! Check out our Gift and Bulk Discount page.

When you launch Vuo, if you haven't activated your license yet, Vuo will show a dialog. Click the "Activate Vuo Pro" button.

In the next dialog, follow the instructions to activate Vuo Pro.

When you click the link in the above dialog, your web browser will open. You can log in to vuo.org, if you haven't already.

You'll then see a page with an activation code for the computer you're currently using.

Copy and paste that code into Vuo's activation dialog, click the "Activate Vuo Pro" button, and you'll then be able to use the additional features in Vuo Pro.

The Vuo website sends email notifications for posts that you're following.

• When you post a new topic or comment in the Discussions, Feature Requests, Bug Reports, Composition Gallery, or Community Spotlight areas, you automatically receive email notifications of further comments on the post. If you want to stop receiving emails for the post, you can go to the post and click the "Stop following" link.
• If you want to receive email notifications for a post you haven't participated in, you can go to the post and click the "Follow" link.
• You can follow all posts of a specific type (Discussions, Feature Requests, Bug Reports, Compositions, Community Spotlights, Newsletters, Polls, Tutorials) by going to your user account page, clicking the "Following" tab and the "Content types you follow" link, and choosing the types of posts you want to follow.
• You can follow all posts by a specific user by going to that user's page and clicking the "Follow" link.

The Vuo website offers several RSS feeds that you can subscribe to:

• https://vuo.org/community/posts.rss — Most recent 25 posts (including blog posts, discussions, Q&A, features, bugs, compositions, and other pages). Excludes releases and comments on posts.
• https://vuo.org/community/comments.rss — Most recent 25 comments
• https://vuo.org/blog.rss — Most recent 10 Vuo blog posts
• https://vuo.org/releases.rss — Most recent 10 Vuo releases (including alphas)

You can earn more votes to use on feature requests by helping sustain Vuo financially or contributing to the Vuo community in other ways.

You can show your support to composition authors by making micropayments with Flattr or Paypal.

All transactions are made between two people through those payment services — Team Vuo does not collect any fee.

Read on for details.

Kosada (the company behind Vuo) plays the following roles:

• Develops, publishes, and provides documentation for Vuo.
• Markets Vuo to grow the community and make the project financially sustainable.
• Maintains and moderates the Vuo website and social media.
• Provides limited free support to community members.
• Provides priority support, custom development, and other consulting services to community members and the wider creative technology community.

We sell licenses to Vuo Pro in order to bring in revenue to enable us to continue developing Vuo (both the open-source parts and the proprietary parts). We do not release the source code for Pro nodes because that would make it much easier to distribute free copies of those nodes, which would reduce revenue and thus reduce the time we can spend developing Vuo.

Vuo Community Edition

• Use Vuo for personal projects.
• Use Vuo's API to incorporate Vuo into software you're developing, allowing your software to create, compile, and run Vuo compositions.
  • Distribute applications you create that link with the Vuo Framework.
  • Distribute the Vuo Framework along with applications you create.
• Turn a composition (.vuo file) into an executable that you can run on your computer.
  • Distribute rendered output of compositions you create.
  • Distribute the composition source code you create.
  • Distribute apps exported from compositions you create — but see also:
    • How do export regulations impact the applications I create with Vuo?
    • What are the requirements for distributing Vuo apps that use Leap Motion?
• Develop new nodes using the Vuo API.
• Develop new nodes using code from Vuo CE nodes and Vuo CE types.
  • Distribute the new nodes you create.
  • Sell the new nodes you create.
• Turn a composition (.vuo file) into a macOS application (.app file) that you can distribute to others.
• Examine and modify the Vuo compiler, editor, and CE nodes' source code for your own use.
  • Access the source code for the Vuo compiler (which turns a composition into an executable) to see how the code works, fix bugs, or add new features.
  • Access the source code for the Vuo editor to see how the code works, fix bugs, or add new features.
  • Access the source code for the CE Nodes to see how the code works, fix bugs, or add new features.
  • Distribute applications you create using your modified Vuo compiler, editor, and CE source code.
• See all of the documentation for Vuo's API to help you program nodes for Vuo and applications that use Vuo.

Vuo Pro

In addition to the above…

• Install the Vuo editor on any number of computers you personally own.
• Install the Vuo editor on one computer owned by the business you work for.
• Use Vuo for commercial projects.

If you plan to distribute an application made with Vuo, and you are based in the United States, your application may be subject to United States Export Administration Regulations if it includes nodes that can access files via HTTPS, such as "Fetch Image," "Fetch Scene," or "Play Audio File". With nodes that access HTTPS files, your application will include the OpenSSL library for decrypting files downloaded via HTTPS.

Read on for details.