Analog Fields is a video sample pack created for the VM-1, an open-hardware live-video mixer developed by Julian Jungel and Nils Zweiling at the Digital Lab of the Ernst Busch University of Theatre Arts Berlin. Built on a Raspberry Pi 5, the VM-1 lets VJs, artists and performers trigger clips, mix live camera feeds and apply effects without a laptop, and is freely available to build and adapt. Analog Fields is one of the video packs distributed with it, giving new users material to start performing right away.
The pack follows a concept called Camera Shaders: everything is recorded footage, treated so that it evolves and moves.
It is organised in four mini-series of four clips, each series sharing a consistent style. Within each series, the first two clips are slow background layers, the third brings mid-level movement, and the fourth is brighter and more energetic, for peak moments. The pace leans slow by design: in a VJ set a clip can always be sped up, but slowing one down rarely works.
All clips within a series crossfade into one another without hard jumps, making them easy to blend live, while effects can shift their mood dramatically. Colours are kept flexible, so they can be enhanced, removed or fully desaturated, and the blacks are crushed for clean compositing, with enough gamma range left to play with.