Sean Meighan

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Title: New video tutorial on setting up your show
Post by: sean on June 07, 2015, 02:16:05 PM

I have made a new video. This video is "How to setup your show in xLights". https://vimeo.com/130035888. I cover using a spreadsheet to calculate starting channels. I also show how you can build your entire show and worry about what kind of controllers you use (usb LOR, DMX, Pixelnet, Renard, E1.31) later. I remind you that xlights has this object oriented design that separates the actual lights or controllers from the concept of models (or display elements). Around 46:10 i go over the process of changing all RGB models into dumb rgb. I then change every model into single channel AC lights.  I am attaching the simple spreadsheet i use for setting channels. I received 6 phone calls (from SWMBO), so there could be some jumps in continuity. Ill post this and hope it is helpful.

thanks
sean

Title: Re: New video tutorial on setting up your show
Post by: ValentinoRx on June 07, 2015, 02:32:26 PM

Thanks for the video Sean and for making me google SWMBO.


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Title: Re: New video tutorial on setting up your show
Post by: gerry on June 07, 2015, 03:40:18 PM

Thanks Sean and Gil too for the videos.
They are a tremendous aid and extremely useful.
I have watched almost all of them (yes going back to Sean's earliest ones), (I have a decent train commute) and quite often go back again to watch selected ones. Not many other sequencers have the  number or level of these videos.

As I often said re LSP . No point having the ability to do complete stacked stuff, if not many people know what to do..or how to achieve it.

Title: Re: New video tutorial on setting up your show
Post by: dkulp on June 07, 2015, 06:21:55 PM

Why would you use a "Custom" and draw a funky circle thing for an RGB flood?  That's a lot more work than is necessary.   Use a single string, length 1.   Click on Appearance, set the size to 50 or something, set the transparency to 50% or so.  Would likely look better.

Title: Re: New video tutorial on setting up your show
Post by: nzlongfellow on June 08, 2015, 01:12:02 AM

Thanks again for another great video.

By way of sharing I offer....
When I am sequencing and setting up my models I find when I COPY a model, so long as it is the last one modified, the start AND end channels are the same as the copied model. I can then just look at the END number and then add 1 and that is the start of the next copied model. I then refer to my list for the end of the LAST one in a series to confirm.

Title: Re: New video tutorial on setting up your show
Post by: sean on June 08, 2015, 06:22:10 AM

Good idea, I use that also..


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