Test your Lasershow Designer (QM2K) Knowledge

[flecom]

You can fade between frames in as little as 1/1000 of a second using showtime. That's not fast enough for you??? (Shorten the width of the frame bar in the timeline... You can make it as thin as you want, down to the limit of the resolution of the timeline editor, which should be 1/1000 of a second.)

ya but then the pattern "resets" for some of the longer slower moving patterns this is not really a desirable effect... its not a big deal its a "would be nice" kind of feature

When you load the frame file you can select how many frames you want to load, and where in the file you want to start. So only load the frames you need, then save them back out as a separate file.

Alternately, you could load the entire frameset and then make a show with just the frames you need, and then save that show out as a string of ILDA frames... (Assuming you have save as ilda enabled on your LD-2000 package, that is.)

Adam

the problem is I don't know what frame I am at during the animation, and this show is already to the music, so if i want to replace part of the animation, say 30 seconds in the middle, and leave the prior part and part after the same, there is really no easy way besides trying to figure out what frames i want to remove and then delete the series of frames, frame by frame...

most people wont run into a situation like that, but we have a LOT of shows on ADAT, and we are trying to go back and tweak them without re-doing the entire show

[decix]

While we're discussing LD2000... anyone got an idea what this "Write out effect" (SFX -> Write out effects....) is for?
I mean, I see what it does in the preview and on the laser but can the result also be saved into a .lds file?
It just does'nt make any sense to me.

[allthatwhichis]

While we're discussing LD2000... anyone got an idea what this "Write out effect" (SFX -> Write out effects....) is for?
I mean, I see what it does in the preview and on the laser but can the result also be saved into a .lds file?
It just does'nt make any sense to me.

Did you try saving it? I only use effects in Showtime so I am not sure you can apply it to a frame in LD and save it so you can you it in ST by "animate only" but that might be cool.

[Pangolin]

While we're discussing LD2000... anyone got an idea what this "Write out effect" (SFX -> Write out effects....) is for?
I mean, I see what it does in the preview and on the laser but can the result also be saved into a .lds file?
It just does'nt make any sense to me.

That feature is only there so you can visualize the write/erase operation -- so you can see how it *will look* in a show. Write/erase is done in a show within Showtime.

This "visualization write/erase" could be handy, for example, to visualize the direction and path of the laser frame. Sometimes things don't write out the way you would expect... You can visualize how it will look using that feature, and then use various tools within LD to change the path if you need to.

Bill

[fotona]

Hi thanks for your post! I am really new to pangolin, and I have just tried to do what you have described. What i get is not really total smoothing, but some blank (white space in between the sections of color) Maybe there is some tick somewhere which I do not know about???

thanks a lot

JJJ