Xlights to LOR conversion

[ed26105]

I am trying to convert portion of my program from Xlights to a LOR animation sequence.  I originally played with over 50 universes in Xlights.  I changed the show directory, deleted the configuration and reset it with 6 E1.31 universes. I did some patterns on the 80 spindles around my front porch, 10 lights per spindle in 5 sections and export to LOR.  When I export to LOR, I end up with 30,000+ channels, taking long time to load and making it hard to edit in LOR.  I can get rid of the excess channels, but wonder how I end up with them, since I started in a new directory.  Any help is appreciated.

[Gilrock]

If you started with a blank directory then you should only get the number of channels you see on the Setup page.  What is the last channel number shown on that page?

[ed26105]

3060

[ed26105]

When I do the conversion, there seems to be a pause around channel 2400, the last channel used, at the bottom left, but the numbers keep scrolling on until it reaches 35699 as you can see in the bottom left of the convert jpg.

[Gilrock]

And you created that fseq file from scratch in the new directory?  I haven't tried to convert in that direction so maybe there is a problem but I thought we had a lot of other users doing it.

[ed26105]

I thought I had started from scratch, but to be sure, did it again from scratch and problem is not there.  So apparently I did copy over more than I wanted.  I may have simply saved previous sequence in new directory.  I will advise if it happens again. 
I appreciate the help.

[jeffl]

I'm doing some playing with this where I had a bunch of channels defined.  Removed them from setup.  Stopped and started xLights and it still exporting 16895 channels.  Is it best to start with a fresh directory?

[Gilrock]

I'm doing some playing with this where I had a bunch of channels defined.  Removed them from setup.  Stopped and started xLights and it still exporting 16895 channels.  Is it best to start with a fresh directory?

Did you delete the fseq file?  If you create a file with x number of channels we don't just whack the channels when you reopen the file and you're setup has changed.

[gerry]

I'm doing some playing with this where I had a bunch of channels defined.  Removed them from setup.  Stopped and started xLights and it still exporting 16895 channels.  Is it best to start with a fresh directory?

Did you save the setup  changes explicitly on the setup tab ?

[jeffl]

Yep.  It always exports the same number.  The only thing that changed was when I did a delete all then it exported the same number of empty channels.  I probably need to blow it away and start over beings I'm just testing and learning.

[Gilrock]

Look we don't have anywhere to hide the channels.  They either exist in the fseq file or in your setup.  I just tested this out.  If you change the number of channels in your setup currently you must exist the sequence, delete the fseq file for that sequence, and then reopen the xml file for that sequence and save to regenerate the fseq file.  Then when you export that fseq file the channel count will match your setup.  You can also see the size of the fseq file change.

[jeffl]

Look we don't have anywhere to hide the channels.  They either exist in the fseq file or in your setup.  I just tested this out.  If you change the number of channels in your setup currently you must exist the sequence, delete the fseq file for that sequence, and then reopen the xml file for that sequence and save to regenerate the fseq file.  Then when you export that fseq file the channel count will match your setup.  You can also see the size of the fseq file change.

That process worked.  Thanks for the tip.