Millumin to Lights
Add an NDI output to a Millumin canvas and let Spectralite drive stage lighting from the same media timeline.
In a theatre or a museum piece, the video and the light are one design, and they usually get built in two applications that know nothing about each other. Sending a Millumin canvas over NDI means Spectralite sees the media as it plays, so the fixtures can hold the same palette without a second cue stack tracking the first.
Add an NDI output
Open the Output panel with Cmd+;. Hover NDI in the list of output types and a submenu opens with two modes. Use without alpha unless you specifically need transparency in the stream, in which case choose with alpha.
The stream announces itself to other applications as CanvasName #OutputNumber, so naming your canvas well is how you keep several outputs apart on the network. A settings item in the same submenu controls whether the NDI server sends audio and at what volume; those settings are shared across all of Millumin's NDI servers. Millumin covers the panel in its Outputs documentation.
Pick up the stream in Spectralite
Go to Edit > Inputs > NDI and switch on NDI input enabled and Auto-discover sources.
Put the video on your fixtures
Add a Timeline layer with the built-in NDI Input effect, or use an NDI Input node in the Node Editor to control how the image becomes light.
A canvas the audience never sees
Millumin lets you add an output to a canvas that drives no physical display. That is the cleanest way to feed lighting: build a canvas holding only what the fixtures should follow, keyed to the same timeline as the projected media, and give it its own NDI output. The projection design stays untouched, and the lighting feed can be as plain as a few blocks of moving color.
Because it rides the same timeline, the lighting follows the piece automatically. Retiming a sequence in Millumin retimes the light with it.
Related
- Receive video from another app: performance and troubleshooting.
- Position Map Editor: decide which fixture reads which part of the canvas.
- Effects and layers: how an NDI layer blends with the rest of the show.
- Connect Your Software: guides for other applications.