Luminancer - Video Synthesizer

DroneCult

About this app

Luminancer is a video synthesizer for illuminated videos and live light painting FX. It's modeled after classic analog synth hardware and is designed for live performance.

It could be just the app you need to enhance a live VJ performance, create a killer video, or spend a moment manifesting yourself in the Luminiferous Aether.

The lightpainting capabilities of Luminancer has made it popular with hoop dancers, fire and light poi dancers, and dessert rave (burning man) performers.

With Luminancer's analog synthesizer video effect inspired engine it can be used to create VJ visuals for live sets or the calm ambiance that is complimentary to the aesthetic of Vaporwave or simply the peaceful undulation of true analog synthesizer hardware.

Luminancer has been in the app store for 5 years and has been recognized for it’s early innovation and high performance. Skilled artists have utilized Luminancer in the flow arts of poi, fire, and hoop dancing. Luminancer can be found in use on the stage for headliner bands at major musical festivals and and at underground rave parties.

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How it works: By overloading the luminance channel with strobing colors and video feedback, Luminancer defines itself as an instrument of abstract video. Luminancer starts with a luminance threshold filter and sends it’s signal down a video processing pipeline modeled after the early innovations and machines of the pioneers of video art.

Luminancer is a truly independent app. It was conceived, developed, and designed by a single real person without any sort of external help or funding. The money raised from this app goes towards providing for my 2 children thank you and God bless.

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Ratings and reviews

The app is cool, I'm still trying to figure out how it works and such. But anytime I go to export a video the app causes my phone to become completely unresponsive. It wont pull up where to export to, or whatever it's supposed to do. The video just continues to play in the background while all my phones functions cease to work. It takes minutes before I can exit out of the app or even lock my phone. That's a pretty serious problem to have for an app I had to pay for. I'll up the rating after fix

The app works just like the iOS version and is pretty great. the downside is that it saves the videos to /Internal storage/Movies/luminacer/ instead of /Internal storage/DCIM/luminancer/ so it does not show up in the gallery. For the videos to show up in your gallery, all you have to do is move it from the Movies folder to DCIM and they will appear. EDIT TO ADD: Thank you for making this change in less than 10 minutes! it works perfectly!

Limits creativity, lacks technical support, and is definitely not worth paying for. There's a disappointingly long running bug that freezes your phone and doesnt save your videos, and no fix in sight. If you press export more than once, its done for. Theres a saddening lack of effects, as well as types of effects, and most of them just ruin the video anyway. I know its only $3, but its a legitimate dissapointment to have paid for.

What's new

Bug fixes