Pixel Mapping Videos + Still Images + Effects

Use Your Lighting Fixtures As An Extended Pixel Matrix

Lightjams allows you to map videos, still images and live effects on your lighting fixtures as if they were part of a large matrix. The most straightforward use is to display content on a RGB LED wall. You can go further and map any lighting fixture attributes, including dimmer, iris, pan and tilt.

Let's look at Quixotic Fusion performing live with the LED wall they've created for the show ONE. The wall is composed of over 1100 RGB LED fixtures. The content is synced with the music using the MIDI input feature of Lightjams. Lighting design by Daniel Parks.

Thanks to Derek Parkins for the next video. A 7x7 LED grid shows multiple effects generated live by Lightjams. Some effects are audio activated and others have fixed parameters. Lightjams outputs DMX via the E1.31 protocol to a LED controller (in this case made by J1SYS). Download the Derek's project file.

Here's another low res pixel mapping designed by Oliver Kulpsoo. A wall full of parcans with a smooth effect running on it and live control via a Behringer BCF2000.

24 DMX universes

Enough for 4080 RGB LEDs when using sACN E1.31 output. You can also use the 16 ArtNET output universes. More about ArtNET and sACN. As the led controller taking sACN E1.31 input, you can find many affordable options.

Integrated Media Server

Lightjams acts as both a powerful media server and a lighting controller. So unlike many other pixel mapping solutions requiring multiple complex software, Lightjams is all you need to generate and map the content. Just select your media files from your hard drive and you're ready to go! I'm giving you these video loops to get started. See more info about the media server.

Interactive Triggers

You can use any live inputs, ranging from a MIDI keyboard to an iPad to generate and trigger your effects in realtime. For example, it's really easy to trigger your videos from another lighting console.

Transform Your Content

Easily change color, intensity and saturation. For example, you can make all your videos black and white or you can force them to appear a certain color. This is a great way to ensure some consistency accross all your media. The video playback speed is also fully adjustable.

Asymmetric/Irregular Matrix

Tired of perfect rectangle screens? Lightjams lets you create unique mappings with the shapes you want.

Low Res Content

Lightjams embraces the low resolution aesthetic and empowers users at creating great content where every pixels count.

Walkthrough

Fist, I'm giving you these video loops to get started. Pixel mapping implies working with a lot of fixtures, mostly RGB fixtures. Lightjams has specific features to ease this work.

Patching

How many: You can patch all your fixtures at once.

Group: Tag your fixtures by typing a few words in order to be able to fastly select them later.

List Multi Selection: Once patched, you can select many fixtures in the list at once to do batch modifications. To filter your selection, you can type keywords in the search box, for example group names, universe name (U1, U2...), fixture model...

Attributes Selection

Back in the main interface, now it's time to put the fixture attributes on the grid.

List Multi Selection: You can select all attributes at once by pressing CTRL+A. Then you can remove attributes by clicking the item while holding CTRL.

List Sorting: The attributes are added to the grid in the same order as they appear in the list. So if you want to add them in the reverse order, simply sort them in reverse by clicking the column header.

Search Box: To filter the attributes in the list, type some keywords in this box. For example, if you want to see only the hue attributes, simply type hue in the box. If you want to see all hue attributes part of a specific group, type both words one after another like this: hue group1.

Paste Array Mode: The little grid button at the left is to enable the array mode. You enter your array width and Lightjams will put the selected attributes on the grid by adding "line break" when reaching the specified width.

Paste Attributes

When the array mode is activated, you can add all selected attributes to the grid in one click by clicking the top-left corner of your future array.

In the image at the right, 1020 hue attributes (6 universes) have been added by clicking the first grid cell (top-left).

Flip/Mirror/Randomize: To quickly reorder the attributes once added to the grid, select them and go in the Edit/Attributes menu.

Reuse Attribute Layouts: Once you've created your layout with, for example, the hue attributes, you can duplicate your grid and use the Replace By List Selection of the Edit/Attributes menu to quickly replace all hue attributes by another type. This avoids needing to redo the work for hue/saturation/intensity.

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