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Tip Of The Day #022

Www.motionloops.com has a number of free videos which look great on matrixes and trees and they change the free selections from time to time. I am sure there are other similar sites. Using the hue adjustment slider on the colour panel it is possible to drop the video in a video effect and then colour shift…

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Tip Of The Day #021

When things are not working right don’t be scared to take a look in the logs (tools menu view logs). Go to the bottom of the file and search for [crit – these are either crashes or messages indicating we are about to crash. Not much you can do here. As long as you sent…

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Tip Of The Day #020

When you do a render all the progress through the render is shown in the status bar at the bottom of the screen. Clicking on the progress indicator will bring up the detail progress dialog which shows rendering progress on a model by model basis. If you are experiencing slow rendering it can help you…

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Tip Of The Day #019

On the layer settings panel is the sub-buffer box (the black one with the yellow dashed rectangle). Did you know that you can: 1. Double click on the black rectangle to reset it to the default full size. 2. Right-click to: – choose from a number of predefined sub-buffers – manually edit the settings ……

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Tip Of The Day #018

Presets are your library of saved effects which you want to reuse again and again. To access the preset right click anywhere in the sequencing grid and select the presets menu item. Once there you can select effects and add them as a preset or insert an existing preset into your sequence. Note the number…

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Tip Of The Day #017

When using start channel specifications other than absolute … if your start channel is invalid because a universe doesn’t exist, or you are short outputs, or you refer to a non-existent model … then your start channel will not calculate correctly … and will default to absolute channel 1. In the layout tab in the…

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Tip Of The Day #016

If you are using a LOR controller and xSchedule and you suffer a triac failure and need to move some lights from one output to another … you can quickly remap the channel in xSchedule and save yourself from having to change and rerender all your sequences. Go to the edit menu in xSchedule and…

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Tip Of The Day #015

When you have pixels on models doing weird stuff in your preview be on the lookout for “overlapping channels”. Overlapping channels are when the same output channel is mapped to more than one model. While there are times when you would do this on purpose it also commonly happens accidentally. To find overlapping channels check…

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Tip Of The Day #014

To reset xlights and xschedule to their fresh installed condition don’t uninstall and reinstall … instead run them with the /w command line switch. How you do that is slightly different on each operating system. On windows open up a command prompt and typically type the following. “c:\program files\xlights\xlights.exe” /w

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Tip Of The Day #013

Every week (and yes I mean every week) 50+ lighting enthusiasts gather for 5-7 hours in a zoom video/teleconference room to ask and answer questions about xlights and prop building and fpp and 3D printing and and and … The United States call is held on a Wednesday night at 7pm eastern time. The Australian…

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