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Offline jim

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How to make a lid effect on my mini trees?
« on: February 17, 2018, 10:57:44 PM »
Trying to make an effect like a line of lights (top) that wants to fall down but the spectrogram or something similar keeps pushing it up. I saw this at a show last year and looked really nice.

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Re: How to make a lid effect on my mini trees?
« Reply #1 on: February 18, 2018, 09:11:33 AM »

If you have something you like going up, try using the Layer-Panel->Roto-Zoom and change the Rotation Level.  This generally works, but as show in this video (around 2:30) a few effects are not perfect.    (Going up is fine, but coming down there are a few artifacts.)

https://youtu.be/EU6GWv_xGls?list=PLnG4kiQNFoIHROHzNe-2M8mN2tHlf0AjG&t=146

 


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Re: How to make a lid effect on my mini trees?
« Reply #2 on: February 18, 2018, 09:35:19 AM »
https://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/overland-park-father-goes-all-out-with-christmas-lights

at 1:49 timing the mini trees are doing what I want to reproduce

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Re: How to make a lid effect on my mini trees?
« Reply #3 on: February 18, 2018, 10:45:59 PM »
Peak hold? Not directly in nutcracker but maybe....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkkWrry698Y&feature=youtu.be

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Re: How to make a lid effect on my mini trees?
« Reply #4 on: February 19, 2018, 08:04:58 AM »
https://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/overland-park-father-goes-all-out-with-christmas-lights

at 1:49 timing the mini trees are doing what I want to reproduce

I didn't see anything that looked nice around that time.  It just looked like black bars moving down across a red house.

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Re: How to make a lid effect on my mini trees?
« Reply #5 on: February 19, 2018, 02:18:10 PM »
https://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/overland-park-father-goes-all-out-with-christmas-lights

at 1:49 timing the mini trees are doing what I want to reproduce

I didn't see anything that looked nice around that time.  It just looked like black bars moving down across a red house.

Look at the mini-trees in front of the house. The are bouncing up and down with a different color line (looks like a lid being bounced up and down). Or maybe an equalizer with the peak slowly falling...

Offline arw01

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Re: How to make a lid effect on my mini trees?
« Reply #6 on: February 19, 2018, 02:45:22 PM »
Post it up on the facebook feed as a challenge to the group to figure out how to make it.  I begin to wonder if you could not use little box that affects the speed of the effect (cannot think of the right term while typing here) over the time of the effect.

Value curves in the term that eluded me.  You can control how fast things are done or not done over their duration.  Want them to bounce up fast and fall down slow, make a quick vertical peak and a slow ramp down the other side on the value curve.
« Last Edit: February 20, 2018, 03:00:09 PM by arw01 »

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Re: How to make a lid effect on my mini trees?
« Reply #7 on: February 19, 2018, 02:52:03 PM »
Look at the mini-trees in front of the house. The are bouncing up and down with a different color line (looks like a lid being bounced up and down). Or maybe an equalizer with the peak slowly falling...

Based on that description there is no built-in effect that will natively do that.  I'd say don't get so hung up on trying to exactly copy something you see.  Just learn how to use what's there and see what you can create.

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Re: How to make a lid effect on my mini trees?
« Reply #8 on: February 21, 2018, 09:40:44 PM »
Looks like the VU Meter gets you pretty close. Just need something to bounce off the top of it. :)

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Re: How to make a lid effect on my mini trees?
« Reply #9 on: February 21, 2018, 09:42:30 PM »
Actually layered VU Meter with Morph and got really close....I think.

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Re: How to make a lid effect on my mini trees?
« Reply #10 on: February 23, 2018, 09:52:54 AM »
Looks like Jinx is the answer thx Mike.  It would be awesome if this effect was put into the vu meter on xlights

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Re: How to make a lid effect on my mini trees?
« Reply #11 on: February 25, 2018, 07:48:36 PM »
I think this is the effect you're looking for to get a ring of lights to go up or down a mega tree ( I use this for my mega tree), should work for mini trees also.....try this....Single stand effect. Group all arches. Left to right to go up or right to left to go down. Set chases, chase size and cycles to suit your needs.


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Re: How to make a lid effect on my mini trees?
« Reply #12 on: March 12, 2018, 10:28:04 AM »
Thanks Keith for adding this to the Uv Meter