Tutorial - QS Virtual LJ Walk Through

[White-Light]

35 minute comprehensive walk through for you:

[michelrietveld]

Thanks for this walkthrough!

By the way, did you create the cues in there, i don't recognize them from my quickshow worksheet 2.0 or from the expansion sheet on the pangolin showspace site.

If those were supplied with quickshow (previous version) and you upgraded to 2.0, is it possible to share them? Or can i add them from somewhere?

Michel

[White-Light]

He he, great example of how QuickFX expands the cues.

So far as I can see nearly every single cue is a standard QS 2.0 cue. I think 1 or 2 of mine might have crept in there but only ones you've seen before Michel.

What you're seeing is the just how much the cues change to new cues when Quick FX effects are running (remember at the end I had all 5 Virtual LJ's running at the same time), so thats the Virtual LJ in the main workspace and then 4 Virtual LJ's (layers) working through the QuickFX to give the varied appearances as they combine. Effects such as double, cross, warp etc can totally change a cue into something new.

This is maybe not the best example especially as without the movement of video they can look similar, but these are all 1 cue (the orginal is top left):



The others are just the top left cue with added QuickFX. In fact you can see they're the same cue by looking at the small cue window in the bottom left of each preview window.

[dash8brj]

thats awesome - I cant wait to get my quickshow and FB3

[Carl B]

Hi White Light

When I try to set VLJ to work from audio input, the wave form box next to the BPM box displays "No audio source selected. Click to select an....". When i try to click the box, nothing happens.
Any ideas?
My computer has Windows Media Player installed.

Carl

[White-Light]

Hi White Light

When I try to set VLJ to work from audio input, the wave form box next to the BPM box displays "No audio source selected. Click to select an....". When i try to click the box, nothing happens.
Any ideas?
My computer has Windows Media Player installed.

Carl

Hi Carl,

Its a right click to set the source and a left click to turn it on or off (seen by the appearance or disappearance of the sound wave line and beat boxes).

Otherwise, make sure you have done the following:

1. Right click on Virtual LJ and ensure you have it set to "Trigger Cues on Audio Input" - it's the second option down the list (it's selected via a left click which then collapses the list - re-right click to bring it back and check selection).




2. When you've done that click on VLJ to activate it (it turns green as you can see in the screenshot below) and a Black box should then appear between the BPM Counter and the Virtual LJ button (highlighted by the green arrow):




3. Now if you right click over the black box you should get a list of possible inputs:



You should be able to choose one from there.

If this is completely blank then it suggests that all sound inputs are disabled.

As it uses Windows Sound Settings you need to go to Start > Control Panel > Sound > Recording (tab) and check that you have at least one of these enabled. I'm using "What you Hear".

To enable a disabled Input / Output, right click and select "enable" from the drop down menu.

Once this has been done, right click over it again and go to "Properties". Check that the volume is set to 100 ( or at least a high enough number to enable to be heard".

Restart QS and recheck the inputs 1st enabling "Trigger by Audio Input" as detailed above.

If it still doesn't work, you either need to revisit the Windows Sound settings or try re-installing QS.

[jooopy]

Hey Al
Nice tutorial on the multi level LJ. This is what will help so many to awaken their QS. Every time we learn a new step it changes the entire unit. We appreciate your time. The ever evolving QS rocks.
It's alive!!!~jimmy

[dash8brj]

also on some machines in win vista/7, right click the speaker in the tray, go to recording device, right click and choose "show disabled devices". Enable the stereo mix, crank the gain up to 50 or so (depending on how loud you drive the output on your computer to your speakers/audio gear), and theres your input for quickshow.

[danielbriggs]

Detailed; somewhat verbose...


You stay classy San Diego.

[badger1666]

thanks whitelight

just had hours of fun playing with the beta demo of qs 2
the only problem i had was finding that beat selection in quick fx does not work,except once to change to every beat then nothing after that

is there a newer demo ?
its worth buying the fb3 just for vlj feature,

[norty303]

its worth buying the fb3 just for vlj feature

It is now the £ is better against the dollar! Under £400 some places I think now is the right time to get my second one

[White-Light]

thanks whitelight

just had hours of fun playing with the beta demo of qs 2
the only problem i had was finding that beat selection in quick fx does not work,except once to change to every beat then nothing after that

Not sure on that one. Check Windows sound settings to see if its muting for some reason. Instructions are in my post above.

Other than that I'd try a reinstall or maybe a newer version, if its a very old version you may not have a fully functional VLJ although most builds have been good for some time now.

is there a newer demo ?

I don't know what version you have. If you have an email address that will accept a 9mb attachment then pm me it and I'll attach the latest demo version. I don't want to mirror it on here without Bill's permission and it also might result in a lot of downloads for Spec which wouldn't be good from a bandwidth POV.

its worth buying the fb3 just for vlj feature,

I really couldn't comment as thats an individual decision to make based on your own needs. Its probably best if you watch the end of the demo where the VLJ is running and make your own mind up. It certainly gives much more variety than sound to light from a projector. Also, bearing in mind this was a demo, I had either 2 VLj's running or all 5 (main window + Layer 1 - colours). All 5 can be a little intense especially as Layer 2 has black out and fade / strobe effects that you might not want running all of the time due to the breaks they create, but then again thats the beauty of QS. No reason why you can't run VLJ on say Layers 1 and 4 and manually select occassionally from Layer 2 to suit your needs. Its all very flexible. You can have VLJ running automatically on some QuickFX layers and still select manually from others.