i have the signed contract and I just booked my non-refundable airfare. Seminar is a go!
I am arriving Fri late morning and leaving 3pm on Monday.
Note classes are 9-5pm on both Sat and Sun. Everyone who attends will get the edited dvd that will cover the 16 hours of instruction. People who dial in to the webinar will receive the DVD as part of their $40 fee (postage free to continental USA). This could help those who might need to leave Sunday afternoon.
Giving a two day seminar with two populations of people is a challenge.
1) We have people who are learning to use xlights for the first time. Models, Effects, Timing, E1.31, LOR, Renard setup will be their focus.
2) We have people who have been using xlights for many years. They are most interested in the advanced subjects.
Here is the first pass at the syllabus
There will be 16 1 hour sessions. Each session will include a lecture and sometimes hands on workshops. For example: We will explain the three ways to mark up a song, 1) Manually, 2) Audacity Plugin's, 3) Lilia's method. Everyone in the class will be given the same mp3 file, we will walk and watch as you actually mark up your songs.
Sat: Learn to use xLights and create a complete sequence.
o Installation. 5 minutes.
o SETUP. Discussion of all of the various ways to connect to xlights.
o TEST. How to perform testing of your lights. How to save pre allocated channel ranges for reuse
o LAYOUT. How to create Models. How to load a picture of your house. Laying out your display.
How to check for over lapping channels.
Hot to make custom models.
o SEQUENCER. How to create new sequences. How to create timing marks. How to add models into your Display Elements list.
o How to add effects. How to change Effects. How to choose color palettes.
o How to copy/paste. How to move a block of effects. Model Preview vs House Preview.
o SCHEDULE. Create playlist, create calendar, schedule multiple playlists.
o How to create effects in xLights and bring them back into LOR, Vixen, HLS, LSP
Sun. This will cover more advanced subjects
o How to share sequences between users. We will give out a sequence by Lilia and have you convert it to your home before you try to open it. We will give you the scripts that do this transformation.
o How to import Superstar *.sup files.
o Two ways to import in LOR lms files. Bring it in as a data layer, do import sequence to map lor effects into xlight effects.
o Papagayo. You no longer need the Papagayo tab in xlights, all of Papagayo functionality can be created directly in the SEQUENCER tab. We will go through and create singing faces (both the hardware and the software).
o FPP. We will go through the process of setting up some FPP's, we will set up master/slaves and run lights.
o Multi projector setup and Whole house projection. We will do an overview of how to creeate whole house effects.
o P10 panels. We hope to have a P10 panel at seminar and will go through process of setting it up using the BBB running FPP.
o Playing movies and pictures in xlights, some suggestions.
So for those who have indicated interest in the Seminar April 16,17th 2016 at the Palace Station, Las Vegas. Check the above syllabus and see if it meets your expectations.
Are there other subjects you would like to see covered?
Store should open for purchasing either the seminar or the webinar middle of this week.
thanks
sean