09 psychedelia live
Choose Videos → Live FX to open the pane headed Psychedelia Live. It contains the curated Live FX catalog. Playback starts automatically. Effect, category, preset, and native-control changes stay available and update immediately. Final output uses the same frame-packet pipeline as the other procedural workspaces.
Psychedelia Live is visual-only: no media/audio channels. The shared GPU post-effect stack still runs in live preview and exact output.
Live FX with a running procedural preview.
Left: title Psychedelia Live, subtitle about generate/mutate/lock during continuous playback, Preview quality, live surface.
Right (scrollable): Source & render, Quick tools, seed/mutation, Motion & view, Composition & color, Source controls, Reset all to baseline, Exact output, plus the shared Color studio & post effects card.
| Control | Role |
|---|---|
| Search effects (optional) | Placeholder Type a name or keyword.... Filters the Effect list. |
| Category | Catalog group. |
| Effect | The Live FX source. |
| Render final output | Exact capture at Exact output settings, then Resources format/quality/encoder/retention. |
| Cancel render | Stop the job. |
Feedback and density effects reset cleanly for each job. PNG files are written only when Resources selects PNG-only or Keep PNG frame sequence.
Subtitle: generate or reshape a complete Live FX look. Seed and parameter locks preserve the constraints you choose.
| Button | Role |
|---|---|
| Live preset | Starting look for the current effect. |
| Generate any | Seeded variant; may pick another effect. |
| Generate this effect | New variant, keep the current effect. |
| Mutate / Intensify / Simplify | Deterministic builder ops. |
| Next palette / Next motion / Harmonize | Palette/motion/harmony steps. |
| Seed | Numeric seed. |
| Lock seed | Same selections repeat. Off = fresh variants. |
| New seed | Roll a new seed number. |
| Mutation | Strength. |
A control’s Lock (where shown on source controls) protects it from builder operations.
Live FX quick tools and motion controls.
Heading Motion & view. Helper:
Zoom pulse depth controls the in/out breathing; depth 0 stops it. Lock depth at 0 to keep Generate or Mutate from turning it back on.
Stop zoom pulse beside the preview stops breathing immediately.
Heading Composition & color. Effect-specific palette, color, style, brightness, and glow, collected to match Generator Lab. If the source has none: This source effect does not expose separate composition or color controls.
Native parameters for the current effect. Reset effect restores this effect’s native controls.
Conditional controls appear only when their mode makes them relevant. Numeric rows can use Animate (From/To, playback mode, cycles, phase) when the renderer supports a curve.
Reset all to baseline resets the current effect plus shared motion/view. Exact-output choices and the post-effect stack are preserved.
See Videos for the shared Exact output card. Psychedelia exposes named landscape/square/portrait presets, integer FPS from 12–120, duration presets, bounded dimension/frame spinners, and bounded live-motion sliders. Custom values are identified explicitly instead of leaving a selector blank.
Same Color studio & post effects as the other procedural workspaces. Add effect, Professional color studio, Palette remap / Color grade / Hue cycle / Solarize, Event markers, Clear stack.
For deeper psychedelic color, add Color / Palette remap (15 palettes; Smooth, Reverse, Mirrored Bands, Poster Bands, Prism Waves, Solar Folds). Named looks include Acid Zebra, Prism Tunnel, Candy Radar, Oil Slick, Ultraviolet Teeth, Melting Thermal.
Changes composite immediately on the live GPU surface. Exact renderer captures that same effected surface, so effects are baked into the first PNG/video render. Stateful effects (echoes, trails, feedback) use one ordered WebView session; frame-independent effects keep the Resources-controlled parallel budget.
Continue: Animation Lab / Generator Lab.
Live FX Color studio controls.
Live FX Exact output settings.