![]() These include Tinkerbell, Tinkerbell and the Great Fairy Rescue, Tinkerbell and the Lost Treasure, Disney Secret of the Wings, The Pirate Fairy and Tinkerbell and the Legend of the Neverbeast. Enter into the magical world of Pixie Hollow with this bundle of all six Tinkerbell films. The recent video boom has spawned a number of applications that allow you to do pretty much anything with anything.Start Streaming November 12 Tinker Bell Nail Art. Warping, mapping and multiple layer playback, exotic even a few years ago, are fairly commonplace. But as app designers pack more of these advances into their software bundles, users are yearning for an easy way to arrange and play back some simple files. ![]() As a believer in using the right tool for the right job, I was pleased to try out Millumin on a recent gig. Millumin bills itself as a tool to “create and perform audiovisual shows,” and it excels in this respect. It is not, however, a content creation tool. There are plenty of high-powered apps to do that. ![]() In fact, Millumin has an After Effects plug-in which allows you to see projection-mapping output live from that app… but I digress. As I stated earlier, it’s the playback that I’m most interested in. ![]() Millumin’s interface is sparse and simple. You get a Library Bin, a Work Surface (that mirrors output) with two areas to manipulate the properties of that surface and a Timeline of sorts at the bottom. The Library Bin is where you drag and store all of your files - videos, images, etc. It’s also where you manage your inputs (should you have any). The Work Surface is where you manipulate your output. It comes complete with a Mapping Tool (Warp-enabled, both Rigid and Bezier), a Mask tool and a Quartz Layer tool. It can do these things with buttons across the top - they’re there if you need them, but not in the way if you don’t. The real workhorse of Millumin is down below - the Dashboard and Composition tabs. The Dashboard allows arrangement of media in a column layout familiar to anyone using any type of VJ playback system. There is also a “Continuation” feature of the grid to allow multiple layers to continue playing back. I found this feature to be really handy to create PIP effects that could simply be turned on or off (or faded, if need be). (I kept wishing for a simple “minus” (-) button next to the active layer.) To delete Layers, you’ll need to use a keyboard shortcut or select it from the menu at the top. The Composition tab allows for media to be arranged in a timeline format. In addition to keyframes, it features “cue points” and the option to “pause on cue points” - incredibly handy. Compositions can be put into the Dashboard, and vice-versa, to further enhance playback. For instance, you can create a composition with cue points, then embed it into the Dashboard and play back from there. As far as layer control, using keyframes, you can control things like opacity, position, and scale if needed. Millumin interacts with OSC, MIDI, Art-Net, along with a plug-in called MilluPlug, which furthers Millumin’s extensibility into DMX and Arduino. To sync multiple machines, you can use SimpleSync, another great mini-app that goes along with the main application, and Syphon is supported as well.
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