Resolume to Lights
Send a Resolume Arena or Avenue composition to Spectralite over NDI and drive your lighting rig from the visuals you are already playing.
Resolume already holds the look of your show. With NDI switched on, Spectralite reads that same composition and drives fixtures from it, so the wash behind the screen follows the clip on the screen without you programming the two separately.
Switch on NDI in Resolume
Open the Output menu and enable NDI. Resolume starts broadcasting the composition output straight away, at the composition's own dimensions. There is no separate stream to create and no name to invent first.
Arena adds a second route through the Advanced Output panel, where an NDI output is treated like a separate physical screen. That is what lets you warp the output before sending it, or send only part of the composition. Use it when the region feeding your lights should be framed or warped differently from the region feeding your projectors.
Resolume documents both paths in its NDI inputs and outputs guide.
Pick up the stream in Spectralite
Go to Edit > Inputs > NDI and turn on NDI input enabled and Auto-discover sources. The dialog has no source list; discovery happens in the background and the stream is claimed by whatever asks for it.
Put the video on your fixtures
Open the Timeline panel, click + Add new layer, and pick the built-in NDI Input effect. Resolume's output lands on your rig immediately. For anything more deliberate, add an NDI Input node in the Node Editor and shape the sampled pixels before they reach the fixtures.
Working with clips and decks
Because Spectralite sees the composition output rather than individual clips, everything downstream of the composition reaches it: layer blending, transitions, effects, the lot. Triggering a clip in Resolume changes the light. Fading a layer down fades its contribution to the light with it.
Keep the composition resolution modest if the lights are the only consumer. Spectralite samples a handful of positions, not every pixel, so a 1280x720 composition drives a rig as faithfully as a 4K one while putting far less on the network.
Related
- Receive video from another app: performance and troubleshooting for every NDI source.
- NDI input dialog: what each setting does.
- Position Map 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.