Wemix Video MP4 Web Site for All the VDJ Video DJ's the One Stop

0:00 This was an audio video mixer

Right, ladies and gentlemen, a history lesson here and a bit of possibly useful information for at least someone out there. So again, I can't give exact dates or times or anything like that, but many years ago, I think it was sort of like probably 2007, 2008, Pioneer DJ brought out the SVM-1000. Now this was an audio video mixer. It was a monster. It was a beast. It looked as though it had just come out of a starship. Now that was a great deal of money. To begin with, I think it was like £3,000, €3,500, $4,000. And then it actually went up in price quite considerably. So that was all well and good. You could use that with vinyl turntables, with the CDJ-1000 Mark III's. But also what they released was the DVJ-1000s.

So, these were players that could, they were based on the 1000 Mark III's. So, you could play MP3s, just your regular CDs, but also you could play DVDs on them. So what that meant is you had a couple of those, you plugged them into your SVM-1000 and away you went. But the trouble is there, okay... Is it cost a lot of money? I mean, it was extortionate really, to be quite honest. So let's say you could afford to get yourself a set of DVJ-1000s and the SVM-1000. That's all well and good, but you couldn't do anything without, of course, the DVDs. And they cost a fortune. So each DVD had, of course, MP4s on, you know, video files. So you had roughly about 20 or so, 18 to 20 files on each one. And if you wanted to do, say, just a regular gig, all right, you couldn't turn up, say, with five or six DVDs. You had to turn up with an entire catalogue. So you had to have your old school, your new school. Now, of course, there were a couple of companies that were able to sell the DVDs.

2:19 Tech has gone from massive pieces of kit, extortionate prices to somet

But like I said, it was a hefty price tag. So really, you know, if all of a sudden you wanted to become a video DJ, you had to invest at least 20K, not joking, a minimum. If you think I'm wrong there, then please leave a comment. You had to invest a great deal of money, but only a few years later, alright, you could end up doing the same thing On something like this. In fact, now I can do a video setup using a DDJ-400 and a laptop and a whole bunch of MP4 videos. I know it's crazy. So this is a few hundred. So tech has gone from massive pieces of kit, extortionate prices to something as simple as this. In the next part of this video, we're going to go and check out a website. And I'm going to give you a bit of info on why I think maybe you should consider getting MP4s. So hold tight and let's go and have a look. Right, so ladies and gentlemen, you don't need DVDs anymore. You don't need expensive kits. This here...

This is the one-stop shop. This is weemix.eu. Now very quickly, disclaimer, the company is not paying me to do this video, okay? They're not paying me any money. I'm doing this because I like to promote companies that I think have got something behind them, something that you need. Now at the end of this video I will explain why I honestly think any DJ out there who uses a laptop could benefit from video even though excuse me maybe you don't use video and you think you can't believe it or not it's very likely you can now or even in the near future so but i will explain that quite hopefully logically at the end of the video Okay, so what have we got? WeMix.eu. Now this is basically a one-stop shop for your MP4 DJ. So if I go to genres and again very quickly as well, yeah, I could be using OBS but to me this is a little bit more personal because I can point instead of, you know, you just seeing through the screen a little icon.

4:57 Genres, Afrobeat alternative, Arabic, country folk, Christmas, there's

Genres, Afrobeat alternative, Arabic, country folk, Christmas, there's good old Murray I. Carey there, dance, dance classics, a bit of disco, James Brown in the background, electro swing, don't know if you're familiar with that. It's a really good genre actually, so if you like your 20s sort of, you know, two, not two-step, but old school 20s music with a modern day electro sort of style. Go and check it out. Got some football freestyle, there's grime, there's Indian, old school hip hop, pop, R&B, reggaeton, stage and screen, UK garage. Yep, soul. I mean, basically what we're looking at here is, you know, don't just think, oh, I'm a dance DJ, that's all I can get. No, there's all sorts. I mean, you know, let's say for example, you just go to disco. The Weather Girls, It's Raining Men.

First one, an absolute classic. Denise Williams, let's hear it for the boy. Amy Stewart, Gloria Gaynor, another Amy Stewart there. Wild Cherry played out funky music. I mean, you know, the list goes on. So a good thing with WeMix.eu as well is if there's, say, for example, a video that you would like and you can source that video, you can actually send them a link and if they can get it on the website. They'll do their utmost to get it for you. Now, also, you may be thinking, well, how about if I find a track and I like it, but, you know, I can't play bad language at my events? Don't panic because let's just click on one icon. If we look here, just first one, Amy Stewart, knock on wood, clean single. So it's always highlighted or it should be clean.

Or if it's not, it will have explicit. Now here we have clean WeMix intro. So what they have done with quite a few of the files is they've extended them to give it a little bit of an intro which helps the DJ to mix the next track in, which is in my mind, it's a really good feature. Okay, so download icon. There's your crate, you can add that to crate. So in other words, if you wanted to, you could just download it straight away. Download it right now. Alternatively, you know, you want a bit of time, you want to go through them, maybe put your crate and then go through and maybe choose, maybe you don't want that one or you do want that one. Of course, then you go to your crate. So if I go to my crate here, I've got a bunch already. Yeah, all right, top one, Disney High School Musical.

7:43 Blackmore and Ryan, Can't Hold Don, George Ezra, Rufus and Shaka Khan

Blackmore and Ryan, Can't Hold Don, George Ezra, Rufus and Shaka Khan. Once you get me started, seriously, you have to write. Once you get me started, you have to check that track out. That is one of the best, most uplifting tunes by Shaka Khan in the world ever. In fact, what I'm going to do is if we go to the play icon. Now at the moment I haven't got the audio on for copyright reasons of course, but what you're able to do, so if I just cross that off, let's say for example you've just come to the site and you're on the latest and you just want to have just a preview of a track. Okay, so hold on, my web's slow maybe. It shouldn't be slow. All right, let's just try. Oh, there we go. OK, so for example, you know, you've just turned up and you want to preview the track before even bother to put it on or in your crate. What you can do is you click on the play the preview icon.

9:53 Sorry, an MP3 DJ, beg your pardon

There's a little preview. Generally, it's sort of like in the middle or part of the way through the track. It gives you a good idea of the video and also the audio. Again, we can see clean single, so you can happily play that practically anywhere. And on just below the screen there, we can see the download or add to crate. So I'm just going to add that to my crate. Video added to crate. There we go. And hopefully it should be added. There we go. Ironic. Okay, so as I said earlier, you know, why bother with MP4? Well, it's very simply this. When you just download and use MP3s, you can only use the MP3. You've only got the audio. But with the likes of WeMix.eu... When you download the MP4 and you are predominantly just an MP4 DJ, you can still play... Sorry, an MP3 DJ, beg your pardon. You can still play just the MP3, the audio from the file. So in other words, you've got your program in front of you and you load up into your program.

The MP4. Now the program isn't going to say I can't play this, it's an MP4. All that will happen is that the program will play the audio but most programs now if you update them and you pay the extra that will allow you open up the possibility of playing MP4. So what I'm getting at here Let's say today you started downloading loads of MP3s. In a year's time, you've downloaded 1,000 MP3s. You will only ever be able to play the audio. But let's say today you start downloading MP4s. A year from now, you've got a backup. So in the near future, you're thinking now in advance, you know, thinking towards growing your DJ business. You could very likely be in a position a year from now where you can go, do you know what? I'm going to become a video DJ. You upgrade your software, you buy yourself a projector or maybe a couple of TV screens. Bob's your uncle, Fanny's your aunt, as they say. You can now become a video DJ.

Alright, now I hope that makes a lot of sense. Don't forget, please leave any form of comment in the description underneath the video. Maybe you're thinking about going into becoming a video DJ. Maybe you already are. If you already are, let us know the pros and cons. And then if you're thinking about becoming a video DJ... Check out the comments and maybe there could be a good bit of information for you, who knows, alright? So there you go ladies and gentlemen. I will be doing more videos on WeMix.eu and of course video DJing. I hope this has been a help. Check out WeMix.eu in the description. Thank you for watching. Practice and enjoy. Thank you.

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