Build the room in 3D, render the product for the reveal, blend the big screen, put titles and live captions up and stream the program to the people at home. One operator runs it from a laptop, a tablet or a Stream Deck.
From the first poster to the session videos, every job opens in the same app, and the show day jobs share one show file.
Lay a dark band and two lines of type over a photo and save it at A3 print size. Then crop the same look square, 4:5 and 9:16, each with its own line, for the posts in the weeks before.
Bring the model in from glTF, FBX, USD or OBJ, light it and circle a camera around it. Record the turn as a video at the size of the screen, or render it live on the night.
Slice the picture across two projectors with an overlap and feather the seam until the join is gone. Each half gets a window on its own output, and a camera can line the projectors up for you.
Fit a picture to each panel of the set in the Projection Mapper, pin the corners of a tilted screen, and wrap a curved surface with a grid warp.
Lay clips out on tracks with fades and titles and play them as a timeline, or start each one from a marker when its part of the show comes up. Pictures, image sequences and video files all play.
Cameras arrive over NDI from across the room or from a capture card. Build a multiview with program and preview marked, follow the tally from an ATEM or vMix, and steer PTZ cameras from a panel.
Put one cue on each Stream Deck key. A touch page served from the show opens on any phone, TouchOSC faders map in one move, and a button on a web page can fire the next cue.
A camera at the stand tracks bodies, hands and faces on the machine itself. Fire a cue with an open palm, key visitors onto a virtual set, or let the wall follow whoever walks past.
Record the program to a file while the show runs, split into parts if you like. Then cut each talk on the timeline with fades and a title, tidy the voice and save it ready to post.
The program out, with a LIVE badge, a name bar and a caption for each sentence. Here the speech comes from a sound file. On the night, the stage mic goes in instead.
Feed the stage mic into the transcriber and each sentence lands on screen a moment after it is said. The speech model runs on the show machine, so the words never leave the room and there is no captioning service to book.
Every line also arrives as a table with its start and end time, ready to save as a CSV or JSON transcript. Add a translate node and a second language can sit under the first.
AudioCaptureInterface the stage mic LocalAIAudioTranscribe one line per sentence TextRenderToImage over the program StreamingRtmpSend out to the stream
Each output is a window on its own display: the blended wide screen, the side screens, a monitor at the front of the stage. The same file runs the stage lights from a cue list, sends the program to the vision mixer over NDI and streams it over RTMP with the sound mixed in. Press F1 and the editor steps aside, and Show lock keeps a stray click from moving the timeline.
Launch in Perform Mode on the display you name. The editor stays out of sight.
$ kinematic event.kin --perform --display 1
Start the show machine with a control port and a token, then move a window to another display from your own laptop.
$ kinematic event.kin --perform --control tcp:0.0.0.0:9797 --control-token-file token.txt $ kinematic ctl --token-file token.txt tcp:192.168.1.20:9797 outputs move main 1
If the show stops or stalls, it restarts on its own.
$ kinematic event.kin --perform --restart-on-panic 3 --watchdog 10s
Answer a health check on a port, for the monitoring the venue already runs.
$ kinematic event.kin --perform --health-port 8080
Sparks that burst and trail light when the winner is named. A flame simulated on the graphics card that also lights the LED fixtures, frame by frame. Strobes that hit on the kick of the walk-up music.
Simulations, sound and lighting run in the same file as the screens, so they stay in step with no render to wait for and no file to hand across.
Keep the projectors, the vision mixer and the control surfaces the venue already has. Kinematic sits beside them on the network.
The live patching you know, with modeling, simulation, sound and lighting in the same file.
Read the guide →Coming fromCinema 4DCloners, fields and splines for the screen content, rendered live and driven by sound.
Read the guide →Every format and protocolWorks withFiles, gear and the other apps on your desk, with what each one does in and out.
Look up your gear →Each tutorial takes about ten minutes and starts from an empty file. The demos come with the app: open one, press Play, then take it apart on the canvas.
Tutorial · 7 minLine up a projection on a wall from the side
Tutorial · 10 minMap moving patterns onto three panels
Tutorial · 12 minMake a poster from a photo
Tutorial · 12 minCut a short video
Tutorial · 12 minTidy a podcast episode
Tutorial · 9 minPlay a video on a wall of LED lights
Projection mapper multi-textureStripes, dots and a star, each fitted to its own panel of a set.In the Demos browser
Projection mapper freeformA pentagon and a triangle mapped by dragging their corners.In the Demos browser
Drifting bokeh fieldSoft warm and teal lights drifting over a dark field, ready for a walk-in loop.In the Demos browser
Retro neon effectsA neon sign built from stacked text effects, for the party after the talks.In the Demos browser
Gesture triggerThumbs up, open palm or a fist, each one firing its own cue.In the Demos browser
Dance visualizerA camera turned into glowing lines folded six ways, with trails, for a stand people play with.In the Demos browserFree. No account and no license key, even for commercial use, so it goes on every show machine you own: macOS, Windows and Linux.