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Offline RobertB

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Re: Timing marks
« Reply #15 on: September 30, 2015, 04:15:43 PM »
Ok. That worked. Wow. That is going to be a lot of work for the chart I picked ;-)
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Re: Timing marks
« Reply #16 on: September 30, 2015, 06:37:58 PM »
This has also been described in the manual with step by step instructions and screen prints..
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Re: Timing marks
« Reply #17 on: September 30, 2015, 08:02:47 PM »
Ok....
Where can I get that?
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Re: Timing marks
« Reply #18 on: September 30, 2015, 08:19:57 PM »
The user manual is available from the xLights/Nutcracker releases page where you find all Windows releases of  the software.

http://nutcracker123.com/nutcracker/releases/

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Re: Timing marks
« Reply #19 on: September 30, 2015, 08:35:11 PM »
That's pretty new  ;D Thanks!
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Re: Timing marks
« Reply #20 on: September 30, 2015, 08:55:55 PM »
Actually not too new as it is already into the second revision - version 1.1 of the manual.  The guys are doing great with keeping up with changes. 
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Re: Timing marks
« Reply #21 on: October 01, 2015, 07:45:25 AM »
Quote from: RobertB on September 30, 2015, 04:15:43 PM
Ok. That worked. Wow. That is going to be a lot of work for the chart I picked ;-)

Not sure why you think it's more work than you thought.  It's really dependent on how picky you are about the placements.  If you arrange the phrases and do the breakdowns it will be pretty close by default.  Just remember you can break down all the phrases in one command.  We give the option to do them one at a time but if you use the command on the row heading you can do them all in one step.  Same with the words.  Don't click each word and break it down.  Arrange all the words across the entire song them do the row heading breakdown words command all in one step.
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Re: Timing marks
« Reply #22 on: October 01, 2015, 03:41:39 PM »
If you are doing speech, the default breakdown is pretty close. Singing requires a good bit of tweaking the word placement (and even phoneme placement) because certain lyrics will be held longer. Also, as a general rule, the vowel sounds are held longer, too. Knowing that you can pretty quickly guess where the timings should be repositioned after a little practice.
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Offline Gilrock

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Re: Timing marks
« Reply #23 on: October 01, 2015, 04:01:39 PM »
We need a song breakdown repository.
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Re: Timing marks
« Reply #24 on: October 01, 2015, 04:13:29 PM »
Wish there was a copy and paste within the Lyrics or Word Breakdown. Make life easier. Getting quicker at it though  ;-)
+1 on song depository.
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Re: Timing marks
« Reply #25 on: October 01, 2015, 04:30:16 PM »
👍 for a song breakdown repository


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Re: Timing marks
« Reply #26 on: October 01, 2015, 08:03:26 PM »
Quote from: RobertB on October 01, 2015, 04:13:29 PM
Wish there was a copy and paste within the Lyrics or Word Breakdown. Make life easier. Getting quicker at it though  ;-)
+1 on song depository.

I'd love to have cut and paste there also.  Every time I describe all the issues related to that nobody seems to have any wisdom once I spell it all out.
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Offline RobertB

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Re: Timing marks
« Reply #27 on: October 02, 2015, 03:55:00 AM »
Gill I have notice that within the lyrics if there are "  ", it caused issues. Also the possibility of a hyphen. For example the word Heart-breakers shows up, but the lyrics tool had no idea how to break it down. There in turn would have loved to go in and tweak the lyrics.  The song is sooo fast, dropping that word isn't real noticeable but is still there.  I also have a whole dropped phrase. Guess that is when my coro singing 8 channel pumpkin will take over ;-)
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Re: Timing marks
« Reply #28 on: October 02, 2015, 07:48:42 AM »
Can't you just double click on the timing element and type in whatever you want?
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Re: Timing marks
« Reply #29 on: October 02, 2015, 09:19:13 AM »
You can. But the breakdown word does not work when I try to break it down.
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