Sean Meighan
Welcome => Do You Need Help? Post it here => Topic started by: Jerry-Rigs on December 19, 2017, 07:12:39 PM
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I am trying to import timings from an old LOR sequence. I no longer have LOR installed and I would like to avoid re-installing it. I followed the instructions that Leechburg Lights gives in his video " Import a Timing into Xlights 4 from LOR .LMS file" but it fails at the point where it is time to "Choose Timing Grid to use for timing import".
I get to get this point in his video: https://youtu.be/g1lvYr5Sc2E?t=3m3s (https://youtu.be/g1lvYr5Sc2E?t=3m3s)
It appears that XL tries to something but does not fill in the dialog. I've attached a screen shot of what I see.
In the video, he has multiple tracks to choose from in LOR. I do not but I don't think that's relevant.
I tried this with XLights 2017.42 64bit, 2017.30 64bit, and 2017.30 32bit. I get the same behavior with all of them.
The computer is a Win7 64bit box. it is not a screamer but it is pretty speedy with 16G of RAM. The sequence I am importing timings from has 64 LOR channels and about 2.5 minutes of audio. I do not know what version of LOR generated the file.
I setup an 800 pixel tree in XL to map to for testing but I never get that far.
Suggestions?
thanks
--je
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Are you sure you have timing grids in the LMS file? You should be able to open the file in Notepad++ and see them in the file.
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I just tested and the feature still worked in 2017.42. I don't generally try to do any importing when creating a new sequence though. I'd just create the sequence and then hit the gear icon on the toolbar to open up Sequence Settings, goto the Timings tab and hit Import and choose LMS file.
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Thank you for checking. I expected it be be something I was doing wrong or not doing.
I'm not educated enough to know if the "timing grids" are present or not. I took a shot and opened the file. I searched for "timing" and found the following section:
<timingGrids>
<timingGrid saveID="0" name="Fixed Grid: 0.05" type="fixed" spacing="5"/>
</timingGrids>
That's all and it doesn't look like what I was expecting.
I've attached the file in question. Can you confirm that I will/will not be able to "import timings"?
Is there a way to convert the effects to timings?
Is there any documentation about the LMS format?
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Thank you GILROCK for your assistance.
After reading and playing some more, I have decided that I am changing my plan. It seems easy enough to just import the LOR sequence instead of the timing marks. When I was lat trying to do that, I remember it seeming to be very difficult. Now, it looks fairly easy. I need to order my XL channels to match the LOR channels then simply import the LOR sequence from the .LMS file. That will get me a lot closer.
There has obviously been a lot time put into XL since I really worked with it last. Thank you to the devs!
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If your timing Franck is just a fixed interval timing track then XLights won’t import it because it is easier to just recreate it. We only import custom timing track from lor.
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Yep that's it. We only import "type = "freeform"" since you can easily create your own fixed grid in xLights.