Resolume to Lights
Send a Resolume Arena or Avenue composition to Spectralite over NDI and drive your lighting rig from the visuals that you already run.
When NDI is on in Resolume, Spectralite reads your composition and drives fixtures from it. The wash behind the screen follows the clip on the screen, and you program only the visuals.
Switch on NDI in Resolume
Open the Output menu and enable NDI. Resolume then broadcasts the composition output at once, at the composition's own dimensions. There is no separate stream or name to configure first.
Arena has a second route through the Advanced Output panel, which treats an NDI output like a separate physical screen. There you can warp the output before Arena sends it, or send only part of the composition. Use this route when the region that feeds your lights needs different framing or warping from the region that feeds your projectors.
Resolume documents both paths in its NDI inputs and outputs guide.
Pick up the stream in Spectralite
Open Edit > Inputs > NDI. Turn on NDI input enabled and Auto-discover sources. The dialog has no source list. Spectralite discovers streams in the background, and whichever effect asks for a stream gets it.
Put the video on your fixtures
- Open the Timeline panel.
- Click + Add new layer.
- Pick the built-in NDI Input effect.
Resolume's output appears on your rig immediately. For more control, add an NDI Input node in the Node Editor and shape the sampled pixels before they reach the fixtures.
Working with clips and decks
Spectralite receives the composition output, so layer blending, transitions, and effects all reach the lights. When you trigger a clip in Resolume, the light changes. When you fade a layer down, its contribution to the light fades with it.
If the lights are the only receiver, keep the composition resolution modest. Spectralite samples a handful of positions, so a 1280x720 composition drives a rig as accurately as a 4K one. It also puts far less load on the network.
Related
- Receive video from another app: performance and troubleshooting for every NDI source.
- NDI input dialog: what each setting does.
- Layout Editor: decide where each fixture samples the video.
- Connect Your Software: guides for other applications.
Connect Your Software
Step by step guides for sending video from Resolume, TouchDesigner, VDMX, OBS, MadMapper, Notch, Millumin, Isadora, and vMix into Spectralite over NDI.
TouchDesigner to Lights
Stream a TouchDesigner network to Spectralite over NDI with an NDI Out TOP and drive fixtures from generative, sensor, or data-driven visuals.