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Learn to perform.

Visuals, projection, lighting and show control. Build the look, then press F1 and run the show.

5 tutorials8 demosevery one stands alone
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Tutorials

Pick something to make.

Pictures that move with the music, panels of light, a wall that takes a projection. Each tutorial starts from a new project or one demo and ends ready for a screen, a projector or a rig. Pick any of them, in any order.

Soft circles of warm light over a dark field, pushed in by a loud beat of the song.
First stepsFirst hour12 min

Make a visual that pulses to your music

A field of glowing bokeh that zooms in on every loud beat of a song you choose, playing on the whole screen.

  1. Open the bokeh demo
  2. Drop in your song
  3. Let the loudness drive the zoom
  4. Go full screen
Starts from the Drifting Bokeh Field demoRead the tutorial →
A walking fox in the video, and the same fox up close on the 32 by 18 LED panel, each light the color of the picture under it.
First stepsFirst hour9 min

Play a video on a wall of LED lights

A video playing on a 32 by 18 LED panel in the app's own panel view, every light the color of the picture under it, ready to wire to a real panel.

  1. Drop in a video
  2. Shrink it to an LED panel
  3. Make the panel 32 by 18
  4. Wire it to a real panel
Starts from a new projectRead the tutorial →
A sunset photo pulled into a slanted shape by its four corners, the way it goes out to a projector sitting off to one side.
First steps7 min

Line up a projection on a wall from the side

A picture that lands square on a wall even though the projector sits off to one side, ready to go full screen on the projector.

  1. Drop in a picture
  2. Add Keystone
  3. Drag the corners
  4. Show it on the projector
Starts from a new projectRead the tutorial →
Stripes, dots and a spinning star, each bent onto its own tilted panel.
Getting going10 min

Map moving patterns onto three panels

Three moving patterns, stripes, dots and a star, each fitted to its own panel of a set, the way a projector sees them.

  1. Open the demo
  2. Open the mapper
  3. Drag corners onto your panels
  4. Send it to the projector
Starts from the Projection Mapper Multi Texture demoRead the tutorial →
The DMX channel grid with channel 1 lit red at full on a beat of the song.
Getting going8 min

Flash a light on every beat

A light that flashes full on each beat of a song, shown on a channel grid on screen, ready to send to a real fixture.

  1. Drop in a song
  2. Flash on beats
  3. Watch channel 1
  4. Tune the hits
Starts from a new projectRead the tutorial →
Demos

Pull these apart.

Open any of them from Help > Browse Demos in the app, watch it run, and change whatever you like.

Projection mapper multi texture
Pose hand particles
Three pass neon bloomAudio kaleidoscope feedbackDJ performance controllerTrack anything spotlightKaleidoscopeFace particle fountain
See every demo
Go deeper

Guides and ideas.

Guides, under Help in the app

Projectionin the app
DMX and lightingin the app
Trackingin the app
Capturein the app
Streamingin the app
Shadersin the app
UI panelsin the app
OSCin the app

Things to make

Projection→Lighting→Cameras→Video in & out→Shaders & looks→Control→Show mode→

Elsewhere

The Perform page→Your first hour→The reference→Get help→

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