You open LumaDeck and the visuals are already moving. But they're its visuals, not yours. The difference between a nice background and a show with your signature is one single thing: that it's YOUR material up on that screen. And loading it is drag and drop.
Anyone can have a visual pack, and the moment two DJs use the same one it stops saying anything. Your screen is part of your brand exactly like your track selection: when the tune that defines you drops and your clip appears behind it — your logo, your look, that video you shot — the room understands that this is yours and nobody else's. LumaDeck is built for you to play with your own material, not to pick from a catalogue.
Drag videos or images onto the load area: MP4, MOV, WebM, GIF, JPG, PNG (plus .luma presets). House tips: short loops that sit well in a cycle — a few seconds that don't give themselves away when they repeat — good resolution for a big screen, and high contrast. Material that breathes and has clean blacks reads far better on a projector than something oversaturated. You don't need fine editing: a well-chosen phone clip works.
This matters and it's literal: when you load a video, it stays in your browser. It isn't uploaded to any server, it isn't stored in the cloud, it doesn't travel anywhere. LumaDeck reads it on your own machine to paint it on the screen, and that's it. Your material is yours; the browser is the table you put it on, not a mailbox to the outside world.
Every item you load takes a slot in your set. Think of them like the tracks in a session: put them in the order you're going to play with, keep the ones you know you'll fire at the peaks within reach, and leave the filler for the plateaus. Building the set in advance is the difference between playing your visuals and chasing them.
The moment you drop the file, it appears in your set and you can fire it at the screen. With audio connected — if you haven't got that yet, see the audio return guide — your clip reacts to the track live. That's all there is to it: your video, your music, your screen.
LumaDeck doesn't edit your videos or export them: it plays them live. It's an instrument, not an editor. You bring the material; the app puts it on the screen and makes it respond to what's playing.
Open LumaDeck, drag your videos in and fire them at the screen. No sign-up needed.
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