Sean Meighan
Software => Nutcracker Effects => Topic started by: RandyS on November 15, 2016, 06:16:58 PM
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I have a large wire frame snowman near the front of my display. He is made of LED's. He is kind of the spokesman for the show, he is off most of the time, but lights up and 'talks' during voiceovers. I use 2 Green C-9 Retrofit LED bulbs for his mouth, and vary the intensity of the bulbs to simulate speech. (did it in Vixen 2.1) Still learning xl, and wondering if there is an easy way to accomplish the same sort of thing with this prop and xl?
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To do manually, one command 100% start, 0% end. Place timing marks, copy paste
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To do manually, one command 100% start, 0% end. Place timing marks, copy paste
I sorta knew about that way, was hoping one of the xl effects could perform the task for me...............
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Vumeter could do this using the on mode.
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You could do this with the faces model and papagayo features in xlights too. Most people use this for the coro type faces or those on P-10 panels, but you can use that for a single channel as well. Just define the color intensity differently for the different phonemes. For a green LED, you could set it at G-255 for harder sounding letters where you want it to shine brightly, set to G-128 for softer letters where it's on but not as intense, and G-0 for resting. You could add several more in there if you wanted too, just depends on how much detail you want to get for each. Since most of these sounds don't last long and the difference in color isn't that great, I would guess fewer is easier and just as good.
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Vumeter could do this using the on mode.
I found that VU meter could do exactly what I was looking for in the 'Intensity Wave' mode. Thanks!