CutWire Prism
Trigger. Mix. Create. Live.
CutWire Prism is a live media console for triggering clips, mixing two sources, and running a show in real time. You build a visual graph of media elements, fire them onto an A or B deck, and blend between the decks with a crossfader. The mixed result goes out to a projector, an NDI feed, a virtual camera, a recording, or all of them at once.
It is built for people running real events — school matches, concerts, dance and theatre, sports broadcasts — where you need instant, reliable control and not a week of setup.
What you can do with it
- Play anything — video files, images, slideshows, webcams, screen and window capture, generated canvases, GLSL shaders, HTML/QML overlays, styled text, Lua-scripted text, NDI network sources, and a phone camera over Wi‑Fi.
- Mix two decks — send any element to Deck A or Deck B and crossfade between them with 20+ transition styles.
- Layer and arrange — stack elements, place them on a canvas, and group them using the node editor.
- Process audio live — chain audio effect nodes (EQ, compression, gates, reverb, and more) on clip or mic streams before they hit the speakers.
- Go live — open a full‑screen output, send NDI, expose a virtual webcam, record the program, and drive everything from your phone.
How the pieces fit together
|| Concept | What it is | ||---|---| || Clip Library / Asset Library | The sidebar list of media files you've loaded, ready to drop onto the canvas. | || Node editor (clip canvas) | The main workspace where every media element lives as a card you can wire together. | || A/B decks | The two live channels. Each holds one element at a time and has its own preview, play/pause, and speed. | || Crossfader | The slider (plus AUTO/CUT and transition styles) that blends Deck A into Deck B on the program output. | || Output | The program mix — what your audience sees — shown in the Output window and sent to projectors, NDI, virtual camera, and recordings. |
Start here
- Getting started — load your first sources and make a cut.
- The interface — every pane, button, and menu explained.
- Clip elements — what each media source does.
- Node editor — connect elements, canvases, audio, and scripts.
- Crossfader — transitions and live mixing.
- Hotkeys — the keys you'll press during a show.
Looking for the product page or a download? Head to cutwire.org/prism.