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1. will be displayed as black triangles onthe ruler To delete the marks press Ctri space If you have installed Winamp in the standard program folder of your ponow ie i eT spilt ODT Deiker computer or have Winamp plug ins in Frames lok i k i 51 a folder plug ins in the Laser Controller folder you can display the waveform of the song as in the picture Options other options See troubleshooting for problems with newer Winamp versions If possible use wav format to increase performance User Manual Page 19 5 14 Preview Psa arre Enrareraar Er re If not in playback mode the preview area shows an overview of the frame editor When zoomed as in the image above you can drag the visible area the visible area of the frame editor will be adjusted accordingly Otherwise the preview area will disolay the current show when monitor output is enabled If you have set the show to be displayed on more than one physical projector you can select the output you want to preview from a list above the preview area 6 Geometric correction UGC Press one of the buttons to the left to enter the geometric and 4 onc color corrections a r To the left you can select the physical no l i Projector settings projector for which the adjustments should apply Standard projector Here you can also change the orientation M Invert i o fh Invert 5 of the output e g for front back projection E2. AE FO oma example to the right here the effect User Manual Page 21 of attenuation is smoothened by an additional area with less attenuation You can turn on the laser output so you can directly see the area but make sure that no one is in the area while you are adjusting 7 The live player Click el to open the live player screen Laser Ci Intr oller Close Open files Open keys Save keys T Midi device Ch a W ary ch Offs i hold Open session Save session Save session with keps P assign keps to framelists L Key FA shift cte Pitch bend Fa A m 3 play speed EZ ANIMSILD id POOKZILD gt rot speed L BOOK ILD Boxer ILD fe rot x pos al L bugle ild Js rot y speed L camera ild id rotyros UE camera ild 11 rot z speed L 12 rot z pos L Fl2 Current ANIME ILE ET gt 11 m 15000 PPS e Projector Pre Pos Size Post Pos Size Rot O Rot 0 Rat O Sines O Pichep 10 i Don t recolor Use single color Use rainbow rep 1 In the live player you can quickly switch laser output between pre loaded frame lists You can either use the function keys on your keyboard the mouse or a MIDI device attached to your computer Use these buttons to close the live player open frame Open files Cave session lists and to load save compilations of frame lists including A effects 7 1 Effects You can add effects to the
3. input device from the list Pressing a key on the MIDI keyboard starts output of a frame list The output stops when the key is released When hold is checked output continues until you start a new frame list The key representing the MIDI note O stops output the notes 1 48 start the corresponding frame lists Counting then starts again 49 stop 50 first frame list etc User Manual Page 23 Offset shifts the notes so you can set the start to the left of your keyboard The note and channel received are displayed next to the Key label so you can see whether MIDI input works and on which channel the device is sending When you click the L button you can teach in offset and channel unless any ch is checked Press the leftmost key on your keyboard If you want to abort the operation press the L button again You can also select a range or a single slot in the frame list table and the assign MIDI keys for these frame lists Select assign keys to framelists form the drop down list right to the P button select the slot s in the frame list table use shift plus the arrow keys on your computer keyboard to select a rectangular range then click the P button and a MIDI key Keys will be assigned from top to bottom and then left to right to the selection To assign a key for stopping playback select Key to stop playback from the dropdown list click P and press the key on the MIDI keyboard The Open
4. shown on the lower left of the screen Adjust the values with the spin edits or drag the scene or its borders to the desired values Holding min sec 17 2543 values to the tick marks timeline 10 min To select a scene simply click on it Select multiple scenes with cirl Selected scenes can be saved from the local menu User Manual Page 10 Tip From the local menu right mouse button a selected scenes can be saved as a show From there you can also load a show into the current show That way you can copy paste scene sequences between shows With the spin edit timeline you can change the length of the timeline 5 3 Effects The content of each scene can be manipulated by assigning effects The effect editor appears underneath the timeline when a scene is selected The tab labeled GEO contains adjustments for rotations size and position of the scene each with a start and end value The scene content will smoothly change from start to end value over its duration To lock start end value while changing hold shift key while changing the start value To repeat the effect more than once adjust the Rep spin edit next to that value pair Rot x Yl 5 Moverscale from Ll JOO Double clicking the rotation handles sets the value to 90 180 270 360 degrees if the Tm Old adamga value was O 90 180 270 degrees respectively and to O otherwise Holding the shift key will turn counter clockwise negative angle
5. A A KE A Kew Keg KE gam foa i CAS ecm ame ie ey EEE A EA ee ee Im leet l 0 00 40 a 10 00 00 0 00 10 l oo 20 b 00 30 i b 5 1 Tracks On start up you will see one track on the timeline the white rectangle To add tracks use To select a track click on the text to the left of it Std projector in the image below The text of the selected track will oe disolayed on white background o Tracks 1 W Std projector 2 W Std projector 1 W 2 effects The checkbox to the left controls visibility of the track uncheck to temporarily disable the track 5 2 Scenes _ eae Pi A a wn a a a A gt k e DE cr RE wil E an a Ec ae ic m i ua fm 157 To add a scene to the timeline use The scene will be added on the leftmost empty spot of the selected track and will be l second long You can also add a scene by dropping a frame onto the timeline The frame will Then automatically become the start frame of that scene A scene can contain frames from the open frame lists or text both static and scrolling Ela EE E mam ae The buttons on the bottom right let you select the type of scene Pause nothing will be displayed Use this to temporarily disable a scene Play frames the scene will display the frames sequentially from start to end value User Manual Page 9 Morph start to end the scene will morph start to end frame ignoring all fra
6. EEE M Change Y Click Rest values to set all sliders to zero Old values Show testfrarne i Nnmm 3 MF0d0mmm5 l or Old values to restore the values at program start User Manual Page 20 6 1 Geometry tab E Keystone Shear Linearity Pincushior Position Scale E Y A Y Y 5 x Y A 0 r r r pr r 00 r 35 E is a P A a 2 2 E 0 i L i A T 2 T z oe El D a F Here you can adjust for geometric distortions of your projection plane You can also adjust the size and position The button labeled O to the bottom right of each slider pair sets both sliders to 0 Holding shift while adjusting scale locks the two sliders 6 2 Color tab E Intensity Red Green Blue mno max mir max mn max mno max E O L A T T E gt _ x gt i 0 355 O 255 0 255 0 255 Here you can adjust the minimum output level in case one of your lasers needs a bit more than OV to start and maximum output level in case one of the colors is too bright of each color channel 6 3 Attenuation tab Here you can define areas where the output power is reduced e g the audience area To define such an area draw a Select a rect angle in the draw editor and change the attenuation value AQ rectangle in the drawing editor then enter the output level and press use A value of O turns of laser output You can combine multiple areas as in the moin aAa
7. NON TA Brad A E 20 THETIVE PLAYER iia cien 21 7 1 EFFECTS nas sota aaaoaas 21 IL MIDC ONO ne os seen ee eos a 22 7 3 CONTROLLING EFFECTS WITH MID rennan e LO O 23 User Manual Page 3 Be SETTINGS 2d io ia 23 8 1 OTHER SETTNO Sis 24 9 HARDWARE SUPPORT ui decis 25 9 1 DRIVER Ss aS Wize ANVOTIBUE PROJECTORS diosa 26 10 KNOWN DUES as 26 TE STROUBEESHOO TIN Gitana dd dis 26 IUE GENERAD triin a a a id 26 I2 PROBLEMS WITH MUSIC VISUALIZATION nei a E te aaedeasnditeietriabiiaieeeeis 26 User Manual Page 4 1 Installation Start the program setup exe from the CD Note Win98 will ask for a driver Cancel the installation and then start Laser Controller You may have to restart the computer to activate the driver If you have problems during installation see section troubleshooting below Windows and TrueType are registered trademarks of Microsoft 2 The 4 main parts of Laser Controller X Laser Controller File Frames Settings RE Pago al a Layer A 4 afal p cur mtroller r E ASE LONUTOI Let F Layer 3 Accent o jd S 3 Preview Play control Scanspeed Source als Hu e ee Qutputto 15000 PPS al 2252 ZA 7 Open Save Track Scene Effects 3 Aia iS Frames 33 iS Add K Aol 0 e Show Wk fi Del Ne 6 Tracks 1 M Std projector 2 WM Std projector 3 M Std projector 4 M Std projector m Mo
8. User Manual 2 3 la Nn N NJ User Manual Page 2 Contents INSTALLA TION Sroa E E A 4 THEA MAIN PARTS OF LASER CONTROLLER Zsira O A 4 EDITORFERAMENMS TS ios 4 3 1 EUF TOOL a aaa dio lcd 4 3 2 BC SCN AS oS acces ace cess cate tector aaiheeelit bo tacemt gaara eaten treat acct Sones inant eaten abet ontacdaetaiencedaoievele aes 5 5 3 SELECTING OBIE aid a do tn ds eel o E do o 5 3 4 CHANENE COLO ur ria e ree acre e io ae ia e ae tes Oo ei de 5 3 5 ARAS AM E N 6 3 6 Pa A a RARE 6 THE FRAME ARE Adalat l dos 7 4 1 EDITE AMES E tauseieuetee 7 4 2 ADDING FRAMES TO YOUR SHOW e a A 7 SHOW FEP OR 0 sa 8 5 1 A aN EO E CRE NT ON OSE ONG RE OER RTT NO SEE OTT At OUT TT OER ANE aT 8 9 2 A Ge EAN E E EEE AEOS E E A A E EENI AAA E A OE EE E 8 5 3 A at ee ar a a oat ht tad Le aa 10 5 4 FOTON ERC 11 DO POSIMON SIZE de te de e tah dad e eect lo te ds shat ode ad do io nado 12 5 6 BOI os ALN UE SUB al slag eG ES estoi ee ee Coe nee NE datan a ente AU eo te 12 57 COMPOSE ASHOWFROM MULTIPLESCENES a a N tyaut 13 5 8 OVERVIEW AREA df o a 15 5 9 AAA SA tesa easnasdacend eaenastaniaueooue 15 A A 1s Serer ree re eC O E TD 16 SIT SHOW FER OI LAR IEE Scat RL OEA 17 LIZ RATTA CONTRO A A OO 17 Sal MUSEE PLAVBA CO a ll ta do il leen de ataca hile ea de 18 A TS A 19 GEOMETRIC CORRECTION UGC sssssseessssssssssssssssssesescscsssssssssssssccssosossssssssssssscsssesossssssssssssssesssso 19 6 1 IS E 20 6 2 Bala a AA N 20 6 3 AMENA
9. amp if installed instead of Windows Mediaplayer for music playback Visualize music use winamp plug ins to display the waveform of the song See troubleshooting for problems with newer Winamp versions Default tramelist format use this format if not otherwise specified Rearaw delay on older PCs redrawing the timeline when scrolling may occur too soon so that scrolling is interrupted Increase this value if you have this problem Invert blanking well guess Analog blanking if your laser supports analog blanking fading will be output to the blanking port Map intensity colors will be translated into different shades of intensity on the blanking port 9 Hardware support 9 1 Drivers 4 Output settings Extra blanks O You must select the output device emer repeat Repeat first point Repeat last point 1 USB Box from Output device in 2 fi Settings Output settings before Interp distance 150 interp in blank J250 fi Shift Max canspeed 27000 gt el li E output to laser Adjust automatically e Don t return to center Output device Channel o User Manual Page 26 9 2 Multiple projectors To use multiple projectors select the tracks you want to assign to Tracks Logical projector name a different projector Std projector 1 i Std projector Then right click on Assign logical projector to selected tracks 2 oi Side pro
10. blanking long MT Use Winamp W Analog blanking l l l Visvelise music Map intensity blanking jumps will be Keep color in blanking interpolated Point oriented Grid distance 300 a Check for Updates frames ild fra only Checking interval days JU gt Auto scroll the timeline will scroll to the right when playback reaches the end of the visible area Use UGC when exporting when checked the save output to file function will use the current UGC settings No scene overlap when checked a scene moved over another will not overlap but stop when reaching that scene and jump over it when moved far enough Paste scenes relative when checked scenes will be pasted from the local menu on the track under the mouse pointer if not on the track where they were copied from Show tramelist when checked clicking a scene will change the frame list tab to the frame list that is used in that scene Close framelists When checked closing a show opening a new show will close all current frame lists Create backups when checked saving framelists shows will create a copy of the old show same file extension with a leading User Manual Page 25 Auto lock zoom in when checked the zoomin tool will stay selected until another tool is selected Auto lock fools when checked frame editor tools stay selected until you select a different one Shift will force one shot mode Use Winamp uses Win
11. e pete 15000 PPS aie Pets malos Se SI The buttons labeled Play control start end pause the playback Output to laser lets you select monitor and or output to laser projector Inthe Mode section you can select high quality playback and whether blanked lines shall be visible User Manual Page 18 Note If you want to export a show to use if use the Save output to file E button When both play and pause buttons are pressed you can set and or drag a position marker by clicking on the ruler below the tracks or the overview area above the tracks If a song is selected about 1 second of the song will be played You can press Ctrl B and Ctrl E to set a begin end marker The buttons in the Source section select the part of the timeline that is displayed All of the show the currently selected scene the current editor frame or from start to end marker You can add perspective this only affects 3D frames or when you rotate about the X Or y QX S 5 13 Music playback You can load a song to be played with the show E Press the amp button to enable music playback To delete the song right click on the song title and select Clear song select Setmarks tosetthe begin end marker to O and the end of the song You can press the space key to put markers on the timeline while the show is played back This allows you to A proof put scenes to specific positions along the music The marks
12. he folder will be located in a folder named release of your Laser Controller User Manual Page 17 folder and have the name of the show unless you change the name in the dialog You can also select framelists to be merged into one framelist This only includes the frames that are actually used so you don t have to give away other frames which happen to be in the same original framelist You can also exclude framelists from being merged for example a framelist containing beams to gratings which have to be adjusted to the location It s easier if they stay in one short framelist instead of being spread over a large one The frame file format you can select only applies to the merged framelist If you check read only the show and merged frame file are encrypted and can not be edited This does not include the unmerged frame files if any for example for beams that have to be editable Note you also can not edit these shows So don t delete the original show files 5 11 Show from ILDA filelist If you have a framelist of a show at a constant frame rate e g 25 frames per second you can automatically create a show for that frame list Laser Controller will then prompt for the original frame rate The show will consist of one scene containing all the frames The scene s length will automatically be calculated from the number of frames and the frame rate 5 12 Playback control Play control Scanspeed Sourc
13. jector 4 the track label Std Device Standard device Ch jo B projector and select Change logical Assign device to logical projector projectors In the dialog enter a name for the logical projector and assign it to the tracks Then HL Else Advanced select an output device channel and assign it to the logical projectors This two step assignment lets you easily change the assignment if the number of projectors changes The names of the logical projectors will be disolayed on the track label 10 Known bugs Win ME 98 tracks are not disolayed correctly when zoomed in out Windows Vista can tT work in this OS Undo isn tworking correctly 11 Troubleshooting 11 1 General Make sure you have the latest Windows updates If possible try on a different computer 11 2 Problems with music visualization Laser Controller uses the input plug ins of Winamp to visualize music if Winamp is installed on your computer Unfortunately newer plug ins requires additional DLLs that is not within the normal search path of Windows or cause other errors when used by other programs Therefore you may receive error messages about missing DLLs after you turn on music visualization in Settings Other settings There are two ways to fix this User Manual Page 27 Copy the DLLs that are missing from the Winamp to the Laser Controller program folder If you still get error messages es
14. keys Save keys keyboard layout can be saved loaded independently or Save session with keys together with a session 7 3 Controlling effects with MIDI Pitch bend play speed You can use the Pitch bend and up to six Control wheels Control r fol speed i L of your MIDI keyboard to change different effects during E rok pos L playback Select the effect from the dropdown list To assign 5 rot y speed rl the control wheels press the L button left to the list and 1 tot po 11 rot z speed L then move the wheel TT j 8 Settings Color and output settings will be explained in chapter Hardware support Settings Help Color settings Output settings Other settings User Manual Page 24 8 1 Other settings Break up native frames General settings when checked point oriented mM E E Default framelist format frames ild fra will be M interpolate blanking Save FRA x P Autoscroll Eaman FLX separated into different Use UGC when exporting Recent files entries objects at blanking points if SHOWS Wo scene overlap E not they will be treated as Paste scenes relative AE Aight click selects track 5 one object needs less FF Show framelist Redraw delay E F x01s Cloze framelists Trackcalor memory Has no effect W Create backups Effecttrackcolor on fra frames e Autolack zoom in P Autolock tools Invert blanking Interoolate
15. lt key while selecting an object you can change the size of the object e g polylines You can centre selected objects e g text from the local menu right mouse button To select unselect multiple objects hold down the ctrl key You can group objects by pressing the group objects button Ungroup with the ungroup objects button AA To select a single object within a group hold down the shift key Copy cut paste objects with the buttons above the layer list T 8 Ce If you select a text object you can edit the text or change the font 3 4 Changing color Color selected objects by clicking a color on the color ee O User Manual Page 6 pick The color in the top left corner is black by coloring objects or parts of them black they will be blanked Double click fo change a color You can save load a palette from the local menu right mouse button of the color pick area The selected color stays active new objects will be drawn in the active color If you want to color only parts of the frame use the Select rectangle a tool to select a rectangular region and then click on a color 3 5 Accentuation Change the value to increase the brightness of line points along ccent o lt Pad an object Press the pick color button then a color on the color pick see above to change the color of these points Tip select an accentuation color and then change the object to black if you want to sh
16. mes in between in case the frames you want to morph are not consecutive in your frame list Morph all frames the scene will moroh each two consecutive frames from start to end value See Frame area above on how to add frames to scenes Text you can enter text in the text area below the EER ROB buttons and select whether the text should be scrolling or static A ee St ay E ets For scrolling text you can adjust the soeed with the Bo slider either relative to the scene s length a value of 10 means once from right to left 20 2 times from left to right etc or absolute so if you change the length of the scene the scrolling soeed won t change For static text the slider will change the horizontal position of the text The options scrol and absolute will not be visible when the laser controller window is very small you can change them from the local menu in the text edit field mILF To change the font click for TrueType fonts or A for simple fonts from our older LaserPainter software Currently the same font will oe used for all scenes displaying text Clock displays the current time Comment no display text is show on the timeline Use this to mark sections in your show Each scene has a position and length on the track which is Starttime UA gt E ndtime a la Length the Ctrl key while dragging a scene or its start end will snap the g lt a bs at hal nd
17. or 4 l f l 0 00 00 b 00 10 b 00 20 irttime Scale al ale Axis px gt x start x start 0 Radius start 50 Frequency 250 dtime Start angle HIE zj f y Y start Y start O Size end 10 Amplitude 50 EE o Rep lemmas hi k ar as A End angle 1 3 a gt n sec 1 25s i 1 Pac E g i z Laser Controlle Add single effects by clicking on the desired effect on the list on the right In the example 2 rotations were added Use the check boxes below the effects to turn them off the checkbox on the left disables all effects To delete effects use the local menu right mouse button 5 10 Release shows Normally a show is composed of frames Create releaseable show from different frame lists and the show Mame pourshow R Create folder keeps references to these with the full file IW For serial number password T Read only Create single frametile from frameltsts AAIM 2 ILD CI ANIMBALD on a different computer When you want to ENTE path on your computer which may not exist give the show to someone else you can create a releasable show Menu File Laser Controller then copies all the frame lists used in the show together with the show file and Select all Inwert selection music file when Include music is Frametlleformat checked into one folder and replaces the de references to the original file paths to the X Cancel local folder XxX T
18. output you can change size and position of the output the control to the right is applied before the rotations the one to the left afterwards User Manual Page 22 You can also add rotations about the 3 axis either with the sliders or with your computer Pre Pos Size keyboard ine Rot r The x y Rot Sins and z key ay IcHep add rotations C Dont recolor about the Use single color le Use rainbow respective rep 3 axis pressing again will increase the rotation speed Holding the shift while pressing the keys decreases the speed control key resets the rotation The threshold value to the right of the sliders changes the stepping angle between rotations by 15 e g a value of 3 lets the picture rotate in steps of 90 Pressing r changing the PicRep slider increases the frame repeat rate thus slowing down the speed of the animations Pressing s changing the Sin X slider adds a sine wave pressing again increases the speed For both the modifier keys shiff and control work as described above You can recolor the frames selecting a single color from the color circle or applying rainbow colors Flash adds flashing 7 2 MIDI control Check the Midi device checkbox to activate MIDI control You can select responding to a w Midi device MPU 401 Ch D W any ch Offs 1 hold l single or any MIDI P assign keps to framelists L Kep channel When enabled you can select your
19. ove to the next previous frame list Ctrl F4 or the cross button close the EA current framelist 4 2 Adding frames to your show Drag a frame to a scene track to include the frame in the current Frames stark end show To add multiple frames add one as described before then 18 adjust the frames start end value of the scene to the desired values As an alternative you can select a sequence of frames click on the first frame then hold shiff and click on the last frame and drag the a whole sequence to a scene or an empty part of a track The frames Fersat 1 si that are currently used in the selected scene are marked with a red frame in the frame list selected frames have red numbers Change the repeat value if you want to repeat the frame sequence more then once in the scene Frames are saved in the FRA format This format saves the object information You can also save in ILDA ild or older frame formats FL The object information will then be lost the frames are saved as an unstructured list of points Use this option to export to other editors or for playback on the live player To export complete shows use the Save output to file button see Preview further below User Manual Page 8 5 Show editor A show is a collection of scenes Scenes can be added onto tracks that are shown on the timeline a gt Ls gt L4o gt La Loe LAL PAN ae ag A A li la i M 2 scenes E
20. ow only the intermediate points Changing the accentuation of beams will increase the time the beam is displayed it will then appear brighter 3 6 Local menu You can also use background images to recolor objects In the folder colors of the program folder you will find example background images When the background image is loaded select Recolor from background from the local menu right mouse button of the editor area If no selection is active all objects will be recolored You can select objects and or regions to recolor the selected objects regions regions of the selected objects only You can centre selected objects by choosing Center objects from the local menu Copy point from the local menu annotates a point from the selected objects or the current location for later use in the show editor for example as rotation centers User Manual Page 7 4 The frame area 4 1 Edit frame lists The frame area shows all the frames in the current frame list Right click on a frame or use the menu to add delete clear frames or open save frame lists Double click on a frame to open it in the editor You can copy paste frames between frame lists To select the frames click on the start frame then hold shift and click on the end frame the selected frames are marked with red frame numbers To copy paste click the right mouse button Use Ctrl Tab and Shift Ctrl Tab or the arrow buttons see picture to seta p m
21. pecially other than missing DLLs you can create a folder plug ins in the Laser Controller program folder and copy the plug ins into that folder they are located in a folder plug ins of the Winamp program folder and start with in_ You may have to copy missing DLLs into the Laser Controller folder as above That way you can use only those plug ins that work and or that you need Or of Course you can try to get plug ins from older Winamp versions
22. s Holding the Ctrl key when changing will round the values to multiples of 5 degrees Double clicking the move size areas will rest the size to 100 100 if it was changed otherwise the position will be set to 0 0 So two double clicks will reset the values Click on the Button to change Move scale controls to sliders as in the image below User Manual Page 11 Moves zcale fram aa Double clicking the sliders in the lower part where the tick marks are will reset the values Move from to x rf lt a Y 15 AAA 23 Sede am to _ 65 m ea 110 f O BA nn 110 ZO 1s A 100 When you check smooth start end the effect will not start end abruptly but will slowly start and then accelerate decelerate I Smeothstart 7 Smooth end 5 4 Rotations The following example uses a small rectangle in the upper half of the Z frame Let s add a full rotation about z The scenes will then look as o al 1 following To Change the centre of the rotation you can right click on the rotation handle From the menu select center from selection This allows you to change the rotation centre to the corner points or the centre of the currently selected object s in the editor window So select the rectangle in the editor and use center form the local menu of the rotation handle The scene will look like this User Manual Page 12 5 5 Position Size To move
23. s a scene by clicking if you can use Bring to front and Send to back from the local menu to change the stacking order of the scenes You can turn off scene overlap in the settings Scenes then can only be moved to areas that are large enough to hold the complete scene s 5 8 Overview area Pe Located above the track area there is an overview of the current show Green lines indicate scenes the currently selected scene Is shown in red On the bottom and right a white line shows the currently visible track area the ruler below the tracks A red line on the bottom shows the area between begin end marker You can also click on the overview to position the time marker In the image above you can see one scene on track one and 3 scenes the second of which is selected on track two If there are more than 7 tracks the rest will not be displayed 5 9 Effect tracks You can add effect tracks and place effects on those independently from scenes This is quite helpful when a certain effect should span over more than one scene or only part of the scene Select the track for which you want to add an effect track click on the label Then User Manual Page 16 add an effect track with the Button and then add an effect with the E Button The following picture shows an example with an effect reaching over two scenes 6 Tracks V Std projector IV 2 effects IV 1 effect MV Std projector Y Std project
24. sec 14253 W Sey 4 7 Repeat 1 la la 1 Mo x 1 3 NE So X 1 3 Note when saving shows that use frames from the unnamed editor frame list you should first save the frame list Otherwise the show has no reference to the frames and you will have to assign frames to scenes manually when reloading that show A selected scene can be copied pasted It will be pasted at the current time position on the current track to change these see below if you use the paste button You can also right click and paste at the current mouse position You can select unselect multiple scenes by holding the Ctrl button Multiple scenes can be moved or copied pasted Press Ctrlt A to select all scenes From the local menu you can swap assign the start end effects of a scene This can be helpful when copying scenes as in the following simple example We start with a simple rotation h l l l l I l 0 00 O 0 00 70 0 00 20 lo 00 bo o 00 10 0 00 20 User Manual Page 15 Now from the local menu select Change effects andthen Set all to end vals for the second scene Reverse all effects for the third and Set all to start vals for the last scene a ooo lololo o I l I I l 0 00 20 e0010 Now we have a rotation to the right followed by a static picture then rotation back and static again Scenes can overlap although this is not recommended When scenes overlap you may not be able to acces
25. the frames you drag the grey Kayesscale from areas in the Move Scale area For example to move the frame the one we have rotated in the example before from top left to bottom right If you drag the border of the grey areas you can change the size of the frame a Y 5 6 Color intensity effects h eon O 0010 0 00 20 fame ore Fade Flash 1 25 3 Layer invisible Change color Draw Ir ut from 2 2 O a T ontime 25 E Laver a all P Ne can O offtime 0 Layere out L T to Layers To back ontime Layerd offtime Layer Repeat 100 Rep The tab labeled COL selects color and intensity effects for the selected scene Use the Fade in out sliders to fade in out the scene from to black The sliders show percent of the scene length Add a flashing by entering the desired on and of time values of 25 25 give one second on and one second off Check To to change flashing soeed values of 0 25 and 25 0 will start with a black scene then increase flashing until User Manual Page 13 the scene is permanently on Check layers that you want to disable in the scene With the color morohed you can select a color range that is changed into another color range The settings in the image below select the whole range second dial is turned one time to be morohed once around the color circle the lower two dials are turned one and two times respectively Tip Yo
26. u can select this setting one complete morph from the local menu right mouse button of the dials Also set the dials to zero from the local menu poro e0010 0 00 20 lames end Fade Flash 125 2 Laver invisible Change color Draw Bo Bo an ane rimel M all Tn Y E JE c E l dit a FT back Draw in out select draw in out to turn on off a scene point by point Recolor a scene either rainbow or pick a single color To pick F Recolor i ee nn C Ralmbow 1 a color click the button then select a color from the colors in the a ae A frame editor The button then will be reset if you want to pick a different color you will have to click it again If you want to abort the operation press the button again Re coloring rainbow can be repeated by changing the value below the checkbox 5 7 Compose a show from multiple scenes Here we have our example from above copied to the second track and then changed movement from bottom right to top left An ellipse rotating around Y axis with movement and stretching And a scrolling text together with if User Manual Page 14 2 Tracks If 2 scenes W 2 scenes Pier ee a ened amar l eee ae eee fee eee eee I lb 00 00 b 001 O 0 00 20 Starttime Frames G Rote Y y q Move scale from Too om start end a i 3 2o 2 TE a b d T Endtime 7 F i l ki e x D i o oe o Y 0 Y i e Length poo gt poe oo p 5 l 0 E O i O og min
27. ve scale from to J MLF Ct Qa m sa E relative C saral mni n IU C 313 Gite Smooth stat P Smooth end T FEE FE Laser Controller Starttime Frames G Rot x y y y tart d fo o o m y 5 Endtime a E mee o A 0 he y Ml 0 0 Y 1 Y 0 Y L f Length 2 0a l min sec 1 25s tH y Timeine 60 gt min Repeat E E 1 E 3 Editor Framelists 3 1 The tools Rectangle eclipse line ojoj click and drag User Manual Page 5 Polyline Bspline a left click for each point right click to set last point ye Free hand ed press left mouse button and drag Press the ctrl key to round the current coordinates to multiples of 100 When finished drawing the object is selected and the tool Select is activated If you want to draw multiple objects of the same kind you can hold down the shift key while clicking the tool button lt is then locked until you select another tool You can invert this behavior in the settings see below Text beam A x click on the canvas to position 3 2 Background images You can load a background image by clicking on the B button This is useful when creating logos Turn the background image on off with E the button 3 3 Selecting objects Click on or close to the object at a corner point or the lines in between to select objects You can drag an object to another place or change the shape by dragging the markers at the corners When you hold down the a
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