Keyframe Animation
Animate in keyframes, like a pro
Every LED effect in LSS4 is built from keyframes — snapshots of your color palette at specific points in time. Between keyframes, LSS4 smoothly interpolates the colors, creating fluid transitions that look polished even on complex multi-color palettes.
Double-click to add a keyframe, then define the color palette for that moment. Add as many keyframes as you need. The animation plays through them in sequence, looping back to the start. It's intuitive enough to pick up in minutes, but deep enough to create genuinely complex animations.
- Keyframe-based timeline for animation sequencing
- Smooth color interpolation between keyframes
- Multiple color points per keyframe define the palette
- Set duration, time offset, and invert direction per animation
- Color Style options for different rendering modes
- Copy/paste keyframes between animations
Color Palettes
Advanced palette generator with full control
Color palettes in LSS4 aren't just gradient pickers — they're multi-stop color definitions that get applied to your LED segments in position-based ways. Each color point in a palette has a position (0–100%) that determines where it appears on the LED strip. Scrolling the palette across the strip creates chase and sweep effects.
The palette generator supports advanced color palettes that go far beyond simple two-color gradients. Define 10, 20, or more color stops to create complex patterns that repeat and scroll naturally across your installation.
- Multi-stop color palettes with position control (0-100%)
- Palette scrolling creates chase and sweep effects
- The Morph transition lights up the strip from first to last LED
- Default Animation for quick scrolling effect setup
- Animation library for saving and reusing effects
2D Color Effects
Shape-based effects: line, circle, rectangle, cone
For video scenes, LSS4 includes 2D color effects that let you create animated patterns in specific shapes — a pulsing circle, a sweeping linear gradient, a radiating cone, or a rectangular color wash. These effects work as independent layers in the video scene, composited with other video, image, and text layers.
The color effects system is like the Strip Scene animation editor but for 2D content — giving you the same palette and keyframe controls applied to shapes instead of linear segments. It's how you get animated backgrounds and overlays that aren't pre-rendered video files.
- Linear gradient effects (horizontal, vertical, diagonal)
- Circular/radial gradient effects for round glow effects
- Rectangular color fill effects
- Conical gradient effects for spotlight-style patterns
- All 2D effects work as video scene layers
