User manual for PHOENIX – LIVE
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1. TE otart LIVE Select Settings in the menu Option Close the windows with OK 26 e version 2 00 File Options Help selection of a laser effect window an empty frame me i fck Edit NU Tem v SMe E cm Tact fiectTime Place the picture into the time line by dragging and dropping To add a rotation or another effect drag and drop an effect below the picture Olose the window by pressing OK Finished 5h SMS 4 Laser With PHOENIX and your standard Mobile phone Just selected models a list of available phone models will be updated and find on our website you can display incoming Short Messages SMS as runtext on your laserprojector Further more you will have several Tools and Functions as well as exportfunctions as TxT of all SMS and phone numbers First of all you need to create a new effect button Drag n drop a TxT Event into the timeline and doubleclick on it Activate the Use SMS Text checkbox in the window we ur Key dependent scanner Ro t Event Settings Choose Font MIR v use TTF LJ Chinese multibyte character ELE Color 07 LJ Invert direction Flags L Use SMS text Pur SoftBlank LJ PreGeonet SMS Settings ania Lance Soft2. Enable omen T f heat ap n the menu File are all kind of adjustment to load save Also export the list of messages and numbers is here z 77 Enable poss b e 34566343 Mode classic mode repeat mode un l Load fiter Save fiter O random repeat mode When yOU finished all adjustments In the Settings C Block all Block unblock SMS by clicking the right mouse button Block by filter in the main window O Dont block e e ey SMS Tool you just need to activate the SMS Function on the main page Click for that on the button with the little phone on it to connect your mobile phone again A Connecting window will be opened for a short time If you want to doublecheck the adjustments of the SMS Tool you can do so if you click on the SMS button BUT it will be not possible to change the Texts inside or something like that For that you have to go back into the Edit Window of the effect button Use Filter Change Connecting 28 Ansonsten verhallt sich der SMS 4 Laser Effekt wie jeder andere Lasereffekt auch 5 i PHOENIX Mobile Option The Mobile Option offers the totaly freedom for the User to work with the laser in realtime from everywhere Just connect by Wireless LAN your standard Window Mobile Phone or PDA with your computer and control in realtime your lasers and also your DMX Devices which are connected with PHOENIX Switch to the bea
3. oS PHOENIX for PHOENIX LIVE Version 2 0 10 04 2009 copyright by PHOENIX Showcontroller GmbH amp Co KG Boris Bollinger GERMANY Beforehand Software concept PHOENIX LIVE was designed and programmed for laser jockeys in clubs and discos as well as for LIVE performers at raves and concerts Within 2 years the entire structure and philosophy of PHOENIX was developed into a very powerful laser control program which immediately stands out positive from most of the controls on the market Main focus was the simple and intuitive user guidance that allows inexperienced users to learn the software within one hour Even without his manual every light jockey is able to perform a Live Laser Show synchronous with the music within a few minutes Hardware concept For PHOENIX LIVE an affordable USB interface was developed that suits monochrome and full color standard ILDA RGB laser projectors It doesn t matter if the laser comes from the USA China or Europe the only important thing is that the laser is set up completely according ILDA It s important to note that beside DMX in and DMX out and the X Y signals the LIVE USB Interface only emits 3 colors intensity Signals This means that color crystals as mainly used in gas lasers are only partly activated in a correct manner For this clientele the deployment of the PHOENIX NET interface is required These interfaces have 6 color channels intensity as output For t
4. Picture Name of this effect f CURVE Effect for all effects and animations g How a laser effect is formed from the beginning Quick guide from a drawing logo in PicEdit until LIVE Includes importing a BMP Logo Torro h SMS 4 Laser Einstellungen i PHOENIX Mobile Windows Mobil Controlling for PHOENIX 6 Main menu a File b Options C Help 7 Tips and Tricks a No laser emission b Problems under Windows VISTA C The Laser output flickers or is unaesthetic d The preview windows don t work properly and or are transparent e Problem announcements a Hardware requirements to be able to use PHOENIX LIVE All the specifications are absolute minimum requirements and are considered the optimum for the version released until april 1 2009 The development is permanently running and the requirements increase accordingly Window PC with Windows XP or VISTA min 2 GHZ Duocore 2x2 recommended 2GB RAM Memory 4GB recommended 10 GB hard disk 128MB graphics card 256MB recommended with OpenGL and DirectX 9 0 or higher 15 screen with min XGA 1024x768 resolution recommended 1240x1024 Keyboard mouse Touch screen recommended Optional external DMX control desk Midi Keyboard Joysticks Touch screen DMX equipment of all kind b ILDA Signals Interface Connection Plan for PHOENIX PRO USB amp PHOENIX NET Interfaces S oignal name Pin Notes D 1 5to 5V Y 2 5to
5. can draw pictures into the timeline It works x exactly like this for other effects An effect ONLY refers to the cartoon above it When you have 2 cartoons as in this SEN example then you also have to use two LEN TEES M D effects Like the cartoon here the ATTENTE Z4 effects may also vary in length and can b ooa vo me be moved with the mouse When the effect is double clicked the curve window or other further menus open You will find more information about curves in part 5g 2 C All Effects MOVE X Y Z Clipping X Y Z moves the cartoon in the respective direction makes the cartoon rotate around the respective axis Size of the cartoon oize of both axes X and Y At the same time In this event a simple DMX output can be realized For instance smoke machie_ on off screen up down etc Not suitable to make a complex light control Cuts off the respective side of the projection Pivot X Y Z Fade in out Clock TxT For rotations you can define the middlepoint axis for the rotations Fades in out the effect With this effect you can show the actual pc time on your laserprojector Analog or Digital version Further more its possible to draw the own individual pictures for the analog version Write texts with your laser Several settings possible eme r
6. for starting shows in time only for P3 User LIVE Starts PHOENIX LIVE Videohelp Starts different Video Tutorials for PHOENIX d Interface Selection By starting PHOENIX will dedect automaticly how many Interfaces are connected the pc Cancel j 95 Scanner 2 Qo No Device assigned Please select a device 3j Scanner 3 Qo No Device assigned Please select a device z Choose your individual Interface for each Channel Or click on Automatic to let PHOENIX organize the Interfaces The selection will be kept also in the future of course You will be able to reorganize and rename your interfaces any time in the program also Note PHOENIX can control up to 10 interfaces and PHOENIX LIVE up to 3 at the moment If the interfaces will be changed This settings window will appear again the next time by starting the software Otherwise it will be just started without showing this window 3 Master settings of the Laser projector a Scanner settings How a laser projector is set up Every laser projector has depending on its quality make different scanner settings Beside scanning speed scanner velocity the scanner settings also include important information regarding the latency times in the corners etc Because of this it is very hard to make default settings To obtain the best results these data has to be set up correctly for your projector once Every make requires different value
7. install the software on your hard disk You can start the software from your desktop when the installation is finished Note The possibility exists that the software has to be run in administrator mode on some Vista versions In this case release the files where applicable b Hardware Install the interface after a successful software installation only Installation of the PHOENIX USB Interface Insert the USB cable A windows installation screen opens You DON T want to look for a driver on the internet Install the driver MANUELLY Or else Windows won t be able to find the correct driver on first installation Specify the correct path for the driver Program files PHOENIX Showcontroller Interface Drivers The interface will now be installed correctly and can be used afterwards The PHOENIX Net Interfaces will not be installed like the USB Devices They will be dedected immediately when they are available in the network Depending on the interface adjustments they will be found automaticly or you have to set the correct IP Address for your individual network Please follow these steps to adjust the IP Addresses 1 Your PC should have the IP Address 192 168 1 135 for example amp Gateway 259 255 255 0 2 The Net Interfaces are delivered with the standard IP Address 192 168 1 100 This IP can be changed of course any time in your normal Webbrowser i Plug in your network cable in your pc and into the Networ
8. the beginning until the end You can also let the cartoon or the animation respectively being shown at a certain moment in case you on the edge of the cartoon and change or shorten it by pulling and towing it Now you can also move the cartoon in the timeline by holding the left mouse button You can set up important effect settings in the cartoon By drag and drop the start and end frame can be set up here once more In case for example an ILDA animation is run only the end frame has to be different Morph from one picture to another When this function is activated then the points of the first picture will be morphed i e moved to the respective points of the end frame All the pictures lying between these two pictures are not considered 19 Enable autoanimation When this function is activated ALL the pictures which lie between the start and end frame will be morphed picture by picture Autoanimation ONLY works when the Morph function is also activated Edit Morph Curve Allows the user to determine exactly how the morphing proceeds from the first until the last second On request for instance the possibility exists to morph to and from The functions of the curve animators you can read in chapter 5g CURVE animators since the curves can be used in all areas of PHOENIX Scanlimit functions When the function is activated the effect is drawn point by point Without furthe
9. 5V Intensity Blanking 3 3 o V to 5V Interlock A 4 Connected to pin 17 inside interfacecard Red 5 OVto5V Green 6 OV to 5V Blue 7 O0Vto 5V Deep blue 8 OV to 5V Yellow 9 OVto5V Cyan 10 OV to 5V DMX out 11 DMX output signal Shutter h3 OV 5V X 14 5V to 5V Y 15 5V to 5V Intensity Blanking 16 GND Interlock B H7 Connected to pin 4 inside Interfacecard Red 18 GND Green 49 GND Blue 20 GND Deep blue 31 GND Yellow 22 GND Cyan 23 GND DMX outminus 24 X DMX out minus Ground 25 Cable shield For PHOENIX LIVE USB Interface S oignal name Pin Notes X 1 5 to 5V Y 2 5to 5V Intensity Blanking 3 3 0 V to 5V Interlock A 4 Connected to pin 17 inside interfacecard Red 5 OVto5V Green 6 OV to 5V Blue 7 OV to 5V DMX in m DMX Input Plus Signal DMx out 11 DMX Output Plus Signal Doo Me A OV to 5V For PHOENIX Net and RIYA Sauter is Interfaces X 14 5V to 5V Y 15 5V to 5V Intensity Blanking 16 GND Interlock B 17 Connected to pin 4 inside Interfacecard Red 18 GND Green 19 GND Blue 20 GND zw DMX in 23 DMX Input Minus Signal DMX out 24 DMX output Minus Signal ET ee for as Cable shield for LASER and DMX 2 INSTALLATION a Software After inserting the CD or downloading the CD kit from the website www phoenix showcontroller de respectively you have to carry out setup exe Follow the windows typical prompts and
10. Color PestGeonet 2 Click on SMS Settings to open the window for the SMS Settings Hauptseite ERR Select first of all under Settings the GSM Options und select a your phone Of course you must have installed it by WLAN Bluetooth before incl all drivers for the correct communication Press on Auto Scan to detect your phone Also you are able to select several options in this window e g how often you want to refresh the sms and so on After you finished press OK E Settings The next step is Options gt Settings Create here SUE c x Some standard Messages which will be shown after eessensu XX incoming SMS or if no new SMS came in Also you Cs can define how often SMS will be repeated Close the Check For new SMS every 30 seconds vl window with ORK again Messages Transfer only unread messages v Handle long SMS as S one SMS O multiple SMS The last step is Filter from Settings Create some individual Black words and Black Numbers which should not be shown on the laserdisplay at all With different kind of filtertypes you can define how the filter will work Maybe you want J m keck each single sms by yourself before you display it Choose it here Automatic text Display Following text every 3 w SMS Please send a SMS to 0102010349 Filter Blocked words f that also words containing parts of these are blocked Add men
11. EN please turn on this function ONLY if you really use it Otherwise it should stay off Scanner Startadress gl Slider Startadress 18 gt 14 4 Explanation of all the operation modes on the LIVE main page Live version 2 00 PHOENTIxX Showcontroller com LIVE MODUS paads 1224 3 1 Effect banks 2 Laser effect 3 Group buttons 4 Slider Presets 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 On every effect bank 40 laser effects can be saved With the right mouse button it is possible to assign a name to each bank The laser banks can also be accessed with the F1 F8 keys Every button has the possibility to save and load animations tickers morphing and to save pictures of any kind By pressing the right mouse button functions like Copy Paste Delete etc can be accessed On every button an arbitrary amount of effects can be saved For this the Multieffect Hold button button 32 must be activated Now also an arbitrary amount of effects can be called the more effects that are activated the more the laser will jitter When all the desired buttons are pressed the Group button has to be pressed for 2 seconds with the right mouse button Only then all the active laser effects are saved together on this group button the preset buttons are only responsible for the slider 5 Since the sliders are valid for every individual effect and are saved with the effect individually this functio
12. Step by Step Start PicEdit PHOENIX Pic Edit Show Player Sass 700 WURFIL Mew Tint Orte Teneo Heb M im oo PR aaee her oos LJ m A n T a a EM XU m Draw picture more about drawing with PicEdit can be found in the PicEdit manual Or import a picture und convert it Under Tools Bitmap Trace logos or pictures in BMP file format can be imported With help of the settings possibilities very good results can be reached in short time Important Collinear point treshold T h e p l ct u re S m u st IINE ETE UE RET E E TUERI n RN always have a black Beta version V Optimize For laser m pou background and if trace routine race possible have a lot of contrast The higher the contrast the better the results R 255 G 255 B 255 25 Save a picture in CATalog Picture Editor 2005 WURFEL je QQo oPoRe es Load CAT File The best would be PHOENIX showcontroller CAT PHOENIX Live cat Then place the picture in an empty green field From the 2 frame onwards Frame 0 and 1 CAN T be used PHOENIX calculation frames Click Editor Animator to save the picture in the catalogue When all the pictures are in the catalogue then click File Save as and save the file Close the program PicEdit afterwards File Options Help SESS s ES
13. a correction of Extra Preblanking and Extra Interpolate MaxdistSoftColor a Postblanking Interpolate MaxdistSoftBlank 0 The minimum and maximum L 5 i i Scan Speed Min i scanner velocity IS set up here 030 EIJ Scan Speed Max More on this under 3d 3b Color settings Setting up the colors of a laser projection is of elementary importance When the fraction of green power is too high all effects and colors will always have an onerous green fraction In this case the colors have to be trained once To do so two important functions are available To do so proceed as follows Start Settings in Option Top Men First of all choose your Scanner Laserprojector and ces wweewecr the Projectionzone you want to edit IBHHHHHRHRE Click on Advanced Settings NOTE Each laser and each 4 Projectionzone has its own Advanced options eo e gt Trapez 0 00 7 f aan 0 00 gt 4 Jf san Clip X1 Clip X2 1 00 el Clip Y1 Clip Y2 1 00 7 un Swap XY bead Anglez 0 aed EE Move Y ETE 0 01 Se el Brightness 99 Scanner Invert X Ld LI Heel s lol Sae 11 Choose Wahlen Sie Color Settings Choose a testpicture for adjusting the colors perfectly Select use Testpicture Possibility 1 More or le
14. ans button 6 is activated the slider is deactivated and the effects are varied in time with the music if the checkbox is active the effect will be played only one time precondition is to deactive the Loop Button within the Effect Inside the Edit Window Bo im When the button is activated the active effects in the autorun mode aren t played back one by one but in random mode End effect for Autorun Activate Deactivate the SMS 4 Laser Function as well as the PDA Function whereby it is possible to control with a standard Windows Mobile PDA the PHOENIX Software After activating the PDA Button a Window will pop up for adjusting the IP Address If everything is correct PHOENIX will connect the PDA with the computer automaticly More will be written in the special manual part PDA Connection owitching on or off the BPM function respectively In case that the BPM function is enabled the active laser effect is started in step with the music beat It is important that the music beat is also set up when the BPM function is active 7 or spacebar The X and Y axis of the active laser effect can be positioned over here Turns on off the preview Animation on the Lasereffect buttons If the CPU Power becomes to low just deactivate the preview to improve the quality oelection if the BPM function should be automatically or manually With the aid of this key as with the spacebar the current rhythm of the music can b
15. e more intensive and therefore more dangerous a laser projection is How the scanning velocity 13 has to be set up can be read under 3a Further more PHOENIX contains Safety Zones in which you can adjust special areas with less laserpower Go for that in Scannersettings Safetyzones File Options Help PER ESL Em Pu ER DES Drag n Drop the corner with the right and left mouse button to adjust the safety zone The laser Power will be adjusted with the slider unter the field and JUST for the pink square and is called the Safety Zone On this way you have 2 adjustable Safety id Zones 3e DMX in amp Midi in Controlling of the software with external Controller PHOENIX can be controlled by external DMX frr and Midi Devices A special Settings Window gc usemisiinput will be found under Options DMX Midi Midi Device MEN LJ Use DMX Input Settings After opening the settings window you will find different start addresses for each single part of 1 7 the software For example Sliderstart 001 Misco a A a ip aoe means that the first slider of the effectsliders will be controlled by Midi Channel 1 the second Esc Startadress Slider by Midi Channel 2 and so on On this way it is possible to control all parts perfectly with DMX or Midi Devices Button Startadress To avoid wasting unnecessary PC Power
16. e set up Until the correct beat is set up to the music appropriately the key has to be pressed 10 times in time with the music correctly Over here the frequency of an effect in BPM mode is indicated BPM 6 being switched on is a prerequisite Example An orbital effect should be started 4 times within a cycle the Tact must then set up to 1 4 In case that the effect should arise every 8 cycle then the value to 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 be set up is 8 In contrast the duration of an effect is set up with the Effect Time 13 value Effect Time How long an effect should be shown in BPM mode depends on this value Example Every 8 cycle would like to see the effect 4 beats long The required setting then would be the value 8 at Tact 12 and the value 1 at Effect Time 13 Now the effect will be shown every 8 beat for 4 beats long When the effect has to be shown 4 times in a beat then also the max effect time is only 1 Master brightness Setting of the laser brightness of all effects Master speed Influences the general speed of ALL effects ON OFF Switching on off the laser output Effect Position The active effect can be moved by the 4 position buttons accordingly Lock to Key When the checkbox is active the activated laser will be saved to this lasereffect By switching to the next lasereffect the laseroutpu
17. e trickfilm itself otherwise the movements will not be correctly If you select Key dependent Scanner then all scanners are allowed to use and display that effect With scannerselection on the main page EM Cul zu 23 e Set Picture Preview To get the best possible picture together with E amp Bank amp megan EGi Bani a the name of an effect in the preview you have to scroll the effect to the correct position in the edit window then press pause and make a snapshot with Set picture Subsequently this picture will be taken as preview for your effect button Sc 1 Sez Sc 3 f CURVE Windows The CURVES are one of the most powerful tools in PHOENIX Curves can be used for movements rotations morphing etc Basically there are always 2 values where something can be varied in between The CURVE Line then shows what happens how at which time point Edit CurveRotate7 It is important to know that the screen always StL Ache Sees o ven amc aw raa refers to the entire time frame of an effect 90 e s mu me tam When the effect CurveRotate Z lasts for 10 hie 0 gt 295 9 woos 00 gt 100 gt Seconds this curve and its motion sequence rr qg eee also refer to a time frame of exactly 10 uw 7 seconds We use for instance the Rotation Z as in this example Here the frame animation would rotate from left to right appr 3 4 of a rotation then 1 4 of a rotation to the left then a
18. egarding font animations s w number of letters etc Contains all the possibilities for a m 4 m y A spontaneous run text we pema 27 Singlebeam In this window you can agjust singlebeams These beams Are not adjusted to ANY worlds at all The laserjockey in the Club needs to finish start up Startloop Event If active the animation will be repeated all the time d Which Fixed scanner Scanner 1 Scanner 2 Scanner 3 If not active The Animation will be shown only ONE time after that the laseroutput stopps even if the effect is still activated This is very important for the countdown effect for example it should be display only once effect for which world and for which projector When you create an effect then you should also assign it to the correct world immediately so the effect is shown correctly when played Select from the worlds Screen Audience and Text Further more it is possible to set this effect to only one special laserprojector or for all For example You want to show a graphic animation only on Scanner 2 you must select Fixed Scanner and click Scanner 2 in that case For that click on the event once now on Fixed scanner and now on the selected Scanner Done You can see the word Scanner 2 written on the event itself Just make sure that you also do this to all animations below th
19. gram PHOENIX LIVE manual 2 Installation a Software b Hardware USB Interface USB Dongle Key LAN Interface c PHOENIX Main menu and first start of PHOENIX d How and where are the interfaces set up 3 Master settings of the Laser projector a Scanner settings How a laser projector is set up b Color settings Adjusting the individual laser colors C Size of the individual worlds projection zones for up to 3 scanners and 3 worlds d Safety settings Limiting the scan velocities and safety zones e DMX in Midi in Controlling the software with ext Controller 4 Explanation of all the operation modes on the LIVE main page Laser banks Formation of groups Slider Presets BPM functions Sound to Laser Autorun function Color change of an effect Menu functions on the right side DMX Midi control of external equipment Master brightness and velocity of all the effects together Position adjustment of the laser effect etc 5 Setting up a laser effect Edit Mode a Drag and Drop of a trickfilm and its possibilities Incl Morphing Repeat Surface Masking and Scanlimit functions b Adding animations rotations etc C All effects Move X Y Z Rotate X Y Z Size X Y Zoom DMX Clipping X Y Z Fade in out TXT Runtext oinglebeam Pivot Postion X Y Z k Clock Event d Which world for which effect Screen Audience Text and for which Scanner Multi Scanner Programming e Set
20. he USB type the scanners are driven by 12 bit In contrast the network interface is driven by 16 bit which results in a finer resolution of the scanned objects Because of the pleasant use of the LAN interfaces which can also be driven very well via WLAN a change to the more professional version pays off for a lot of users The advantage of the USB version is of course the quick setup and the easy connection as well as that the interface doesn t require an external power supply Note During the laser output all PHOENIX interfaces can shortly be disconnected from and connected to the pc again without causing a stoppage of the laser or a software error This is especially of main importance when WLAN is used since under certain circumstances the signal a standard Windows network may break down in General You can always find the latest information free updates and tips about PHOENIX live on our website www PHOENIX Showcontroller de Therefore you should always download the latest update before every reinstall so you are up to date from the beginning In the forum www laserfreak de a forum with lots of PHOENIX LIVE users is set up For additional help software trainings ideas or even critics we are naturally at your disposal under supporto PHOENIX Showcontroller de at any time 1 What you have to know a Hardware requirements to be able to use PHOENIX LIVE b How a laser projector is properly connected ILDA connecting dia
21. k interface li Open your webbowser and type in 192 168 1 100 and press return ii A new Webwindow will be opened select Settings iv In the next window you will be able to choose your individual IP Address v After you are done pls reset the interface unplug it wait 10sec and plug it in the power again Finish The interface is reprogrammed to the new IP Address now 3 As long as the Network Interfaces and your PC are in the same network PHOENIX will find all Interfaces automaticly and will show them up If not please check again your Network Settings of the pc Note It is no problem to mix Network and USB Interfaces for using PHOENIX Installation of the blue USB Stick USB Key Just plug in the USB Stick It will be installed automacily by Windows Without this USB Key it is NOT possible to run PHOENIX at all Starten von PHOENIX c After finishing the installation you are able to start PHOENIX Just doubleclick on the desktop icon of PHOENIX Plug in the little blue EJ USB Stick now It will be detecet as HID Human Interface Device BATEIA you don t need any driver in this case The PHOENIX Main Menu will be opened Depending on if you bought use the complete PHOENIX Package or just the LIVE Software you will see more or less on the menu PHOENIX Starts PHOENIX 3 Showcontroller PicEdit Starts the 3D Picture Editor for drawing graphics and logos Show Player Timeschedule
22. n Sinus motion bidirectional long fast No change Exact size Sinus motion small large slow fast The Scan velocity can be set up between 0 100 of the allowed minimum and maximum scanspeed settings Big turning Buttons The small icon above the slider shows the uno pesde ugac intensity of the sine waves It pops up with a mouse over The bigger intensity of the poti the bigger the sine wave becomes e g for the Move X Effect the effect would cover a longer bidirectional distance Note The effect will be seen ONLY when the 16 6 K Speed Window Shows the actual speed of the effect in Point Per Second 30k 7 SCN Selection 8 Startframe 9 Autorun 10 Autorun Loop 11 Random 12 End 13 SMS PDA 14 BPM On Off 15 Position 16 Preview 17 Man Autom 18 BPM Beat 18 Tact Selection of the active Scanner for the the effect sliders 1 2 3 all The Startframe is used for the Autorun mode After pressing the starting key the currently active laser effect is applied e g key 11 Optionally the laser effect number can be entered manually The starting frame is required together with the Endframe 10 and the Autorun Function 9 Activating deactivating the Autorun function running light start and end effect are to be set up with the buttons 8 and 9 The velocity of the autorun has to be set up with the slider below Note When BPM this me
23. n is very helpful to load special situations quickly and uncomplicated For instance a laser effect should be equipped with a strobe light effect and should be applied on short notice at the correct moment Since the slider position of the first slider has to be set up at a certain value and this can take a second under certain circumstances you can set up this slider or all sliders in advance so its setting is perfect and then save this setting by clicking the right mouse button hold it for 2 seconds 15 5 Sliders Brightness Effectspeed Effectcolor Rotate X Y Z Move X Y Zoom 000 010 011 139 140 255 000 010 011 255 000 010 011 040 041 080 081 120 121 160 161 255 000 010 011 090 091 120 121 179 181 255 000 010 011 089 090 255 000 010 011 199 200 255 ocan Speed 000 255 amp 0 op Long press right mouse button for sat 4 1 O 9 o 9 0o CN Ssauqybug paadg 1224 3 uoge 100g x aJEeJoH A 81IEIOH 7 ajejoy J aro No change Strobe light slow fast Brightness 0 100 No change Effect speed 0 100 No change red green blue yellow color change slow fast No change Exact rotation position permanent left hand rotation long fast permanent right hand rotation long fast Sinus motion Effect rotates right left hand slow fast No change Exact Positio
24. pens and now has to be set up in such a way that the color on the screen exactly matches the real projected laser color 255 lt gt lt gt Now you have set up the base colors perfectly PHOENIX LIVE will now blend all the other colors which are based on the base colors by linear interpolation 12 3c Size of the individual worlds projection zones Go to Settings under Option in the Top Menu TII z Esg 1 ES Geometrical trapezoid corrections With PHOENIX LIVE it is possible to sete scanners with 3 worlds each A World is a projections zone in which the respective laser projection is currently located This World set up is very important since when allocating the effect on a later stage it only has to be selected where the effect has to be shown When someone changes the location only the worlds have to be adjusted and all effects adapt themselves automatically When somebody doesn t use this world functionality every single effect has to be adjusted to very environment which means a lot of work A typical world is the Screen As the name already says the screen of the room when available st ould be set up here Beside the dimensions alsoposition trapezoid corrections and inversion are r quired to be able to project the picture on the screen perfectly Especially for screer s it is very impo
25. pinning Now you add the next effect a dancing woman Normally the lines of the car would go THROUGH the woman and you would see both animations at the same time which of course is not so nice No you give the dancing woman the surface value 2 which gives this animation a higher priority In our example the woman would now dance in front of the car and always cover the lines of the car correctly 20 Masking Begin picture End picture Morph from one picture to another bask QO Q l enable amp uta amp nimation repeat Show an surface E EM amp canLimit iwriteaut effects of current picture Or Sa Sn Mask belongs to Surface Equal to the Survace the priority gets the higher value The only difference to the Surface is that the second object will be kept within the lines of the first object Optimize This function should always be switched on since the graphics are automatically optimized by PHOENIX Especially in case of imprecise graphics with too less points in the corners this function becomes noticeable Softcolor When activated all the color transitions of the pictures will be blurred and won t be chopped of anymore The colors are quasi morphing in each other Softblank With Softblank all the ends of the lines are faded out slowly This is an outstanding effect for faces etc However the total brightness of the picture is reduced 5b Adding animations rotations etc aBy drag and drop you
26. r editing the SIN is carried out in the timeline time point by point At the moment that the drawing is complete the effect has come to an end This effect for instance an Can be used to generate draw a logo slowly etc For the start and end curves has to be set up how the starting and end point should behave over time Default value for Start Edit Curve is 0 This means the first point of the drawing will be shown from the first until the last second If the curve slowly moved towards 1 then the first point of the drawing will be erased towards the end The same counts for the End Edit Curve settings Here you can see that a linear drop from O to 1 takes place This means that with the progression of time more and more end points are drawn This until the last second where the value 1 is reached and ALL the points are projected Repeats Depending on the value the entire animation is repeated Show on surface Begin picture End picture Morph E one picture to another LJ enable amp uto amp nimatio KDE effects of current picture repeat u on surface n Er Surfaces are most of the times better known as Layers PHOENIX is built up with 32 Surfaces This means that the higher the surfaces value is the more in front the animation is located compared to the animations which are projected at the same time Example You project the animation on a screen E g a car that is continuously s
27. rtant that the Clipping Slider is set up perfectly so under no circumstances the laser projection or the individual laser beams are aside the screen Whe picture is then cut off immediately Because of this there are 4 Clipping Zones for all sides top bottom left right With the inversion the output can be inverted mirrored and or X and Y can be swapped All these values are saved in this world in this case Screen Set up all 3 worlds for all 3 projectors like this as required With LOAD SAVE the values of a location can be saved and when required loaded Otherwise the last made settings are saved and loaded again the next time 3d Safety settings Especially for laser shows safety is important Because of this some important settings have to be made Beside the installation of the laser projector at a minimum height of 2 m depending on the directives of the responsible authorities this value may vary or Audience scanning may be forbidden completely also a safety clearance to the public is standard Furthermore from the software side some helpful functions are also available The above mentioned Clipping function belongs to this these settings also have to be applied in case of Audience scanning to set up a minimum distance to the public Also the minimum allowable scanning velocity can be set up Basically no laser output below 10k 10 000 points per second should take place The slower the laser beam th
28. s Please proceed as follows Start Settings in the Option top menu Settings First of all choose your Scanner Laserprojector and EE oe ome 2 the Projectionzone you want to edit Adjusting Laser and ProjectionZone Ica ar 3 Een da tt Click on Advanced Settings Trapez 0 00 uli ummum D Size Y 0 00 5 STA 80 E l Clip x1 TET 0 00 5 li 42 m Clip x2 Move Y ae 100 ll 0 01 Clip Y1 OR 0 00 T Eee ae E e u Clip Y2 1 00 7 Brightness mit 0 99 Swap XY bad Scanner Invert X L Invert Y L RENT EN mt mr Settingswindow Settings Choose Color Settings and choose a testpicture Trapez 0 00 2 fh ene 0 00 2 cool ae After that click on Use Testpicture zn 2 E mt Move X 0 03 mn Clip x2 Move Y x 1 00 gt Lun 0 01 mu Clip Y1 Wan a AngleZ 6 0 00 gt f Lans EHI a Clip Y2 S 1 00 5 s gru R A Swap XY LJ Es Ll canner i y nve Invert Y NN mt Si use current effect use testpictures ind Show colorlines on Lase 10 wshec E MM With visible laser projections you now set up all the values in such a way that the picture looks the best and so that the ends of the lines don t show overshoot The largest effect can be reached with
29. slow right hand rotation and finally it rotates to the left rather quick again N Curve node points can be set with the key ET With you can delete points With the crosshair points can moved With the settings values aside the node points can be moved more precise The grid spacing can be set up with high detail in Grid XY When a certain movement should be repeated this can be set up under Repeat Phase is a shift of the entire curve Exponent only works when under Type of animation also Exponential has been selected In the Expression field also interactive possibilities can be selected like for instance Joystick or Mouse which more or less means that the ACTIVE node should react on the joystick mouse In this field also mathematical formulas can be entered to create more abstract movements 24 g How a laser effect is formed from the beginning The entire programming if an effect starts with the PicEdit Program PicEdit is a 3D capable drawing program where besides simple lines also complex 3D animations can be drawn with As soon as the drawing is finished it will be saved in Animator also called CATalog For a show in PHOENIX LIVE as for a show in the large version PHOENIX always a CAT file is required in which all the pictures for this show are saved Afterwards the pictures are the Keyframes of an effect and are absolutely required
30. ss power of a color channel basically has to be set up with the MAXIMUM slider When the slider for green is set to 0 7 then only 70 of the power is dispensed Hence all colors proportionally loose 30 of their green power The Minimum Slider serves the optimal starting point of the laser power Since diodes most of the times don t start emitting laser radiation at exactly 0 1 V i e all 3 diodes behave different the starting values of al diodes must be set up in such a way that also at minimum power the correct color is blended For the extreme value white the color can be set up with a color test picture Slide the slide bar slowly so far to the right that the whitened line just becomes visible Now slide it back a little to the left again so the whitened line becomes invisible again Carry out this procedure for every color Finally you have reached the optimal setting Maximum R Minimum R Minimum G Maximum G Minimum B 00 Minimum Intensity Maximum Intensity v Analog Blanking Possibility 2 When you want to set up the colors 100 correct once then the color correction has to be carried out manually To do so proceed as follows Set the minimum and maximum Slider both to O or 100 respectively no correction Select the test picture with 19 color lines The color bars correspond with the lines of the test picture exactly By double clicking the color bars the color o
31. t of the music the lasereffect and or laserprojectors during you are drinking a beer at the bar The setup of the phone is done in only few minutes Just setup the correct IP Address of your E phone and your PC Connect them by Wireless LAN install the little PHOENIX Mobile Tool and run it Within 10 seconds PHOENIX will upload all effect pictures on the Mobile Phone so you will see exactly what you have Even pushing some smoke into the room will be no problem anymore from everywhere in the Location Use it with a standard Wireless Router up to 300m With Powertuner without any problems Standard Devices are welcome you don t need any extra expensive hardware anymore More information you will get from your PHOENIX Dealer or directly from the PHOENIX Team in Germany 29 6 Main menu a File Load Save New Show Exit b Options Language selection Settings For Scanner and colors New Page existing page is then deleted c Help Information about PHOENIX 7 Tips and Tricks a No laser output The Interface isn t correctly selected in the PHOENIX Settings The selected Interface isn t suitable for PHOENIX LIVE The Interface isn t installed correctly Please check if the Hardware is installed correctly in the System manger and doesn t contain an exclamation mark No Dongle with LIVE output installed ME Problems under Windows VISTA Sometimes VISTA tries to install the drivers of the Interfaces au
32. t will be changed If the checkbox is inactive the laseroutput will be kept for the next lasereffects and doesn t change SCN Switch Shows the active Laseroutput Laserprojector Edit Calling the edit window of the active laser effect Velocity controller oetting the transition time for the Crossover Fade in out in sec Blend in out fading in out of the effect when switching on off Crossover Blends out the 1 effect while blending in the next effect Deactivate Deactivation of all effects Hold Flash Hold The effects remain activated until they are deactivated again Flash The effects are only activated for the time the laser effect is pressed Multieffect Hold When the switch is activated an arbitrary amount of laser effects can be activated at the same time Preview Activate the 3D Preview for the Direct X Window Preview Switch Activate Deactivate each single Scanner for the preview Colorwheel The active laser effect is emitted in the color selected from the color wheel 18 5 Setting up a laser effect Edit Mode a a Drag and Drop of a cartoon and its possibilities File Options Help no 5 Som SD Ea A simple effect you obtain by clicking the picture out of the catalogue and dragging it to the timeline by holding the mouse button In this case the cartoon is visible from
33. tomatically and then doesn t ask for a correct driver when the installation failed Please first check in the hardware manager if the interface is installed correctly and if required repeat the steps described in 2b When the Software doesn t start then try to execute the exe file as administrator c The Laser output flickers or is unaesthetic Are the scanners set up correctly Are the Min Max Scanspeed settings correct d The preview windows don t work properly and or are transparent Install the latest graphics card driver for your PC as well as DirectX 9 or better If the preview still doesn t work then unfortunately your graphics card isn t able to output 3D visualization under DirectX This problem often occurs with low priced Onboard solutions in low Cost Laptops Unfortunately we can t provide you a remedial action here e Problem reports You discovered an error in the Software Or you have a good idea that we should implement We are happy to receive criticism and proposals and we try to implement them Send us an e mail support Phoenix Showcontroller de Many thanks and enjoy PHOENIX LIVE 30
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