tboerjan

Have you checked lorsequences.com?

I would do it as a "leaping arch" laying down. I seen a video of that effect once, but have no idea where or the name now.

You also need to make sure you have the same artist, length (mins. sec.) etc. and/or they original sequencer may have shortened the song. Videos, also add all of the previous things, too, as they very rarely match up, when and if you do them.

Go to lorsequences.com Download and modify.

Has your file association changed with *.lms to ffdshow instead of LOR?

Thanks, Carrie, David and Dean for hosting such a wonderful event. Everyone was great, it was so nice to visit and see old friends and make new ones! I learned so much my head hurt, too, like others have said. Have to work on a train and dmx; lasers and pixel screens are out of my tax bracket for now....

Also, depends on your layout.

Richard Holdman posted his here(PC) and, I believe, a few other places. Get his, cut it down or use it to learn from; check lorsequences.com. These are for LOR which you don't say if you have AL, LOR, LSP, or something else......

Here is Darryl's site link to purchase his "Virtual Santa"; money well spent, I might add: http://www.christmaslightshow.com/xcart/home.php?cat=3 Then set your dvd player to "chapter" and have it repeat or endless loop to your projector. The dvd has rightside up and upside down versions to fit your situation.... What is this that you mention? " i also think it's neat that you can project the wmp virtualizer."

Yes, I realize that you can't use all of my post (AL and all), but as others have mentioned, starting and stopping projectors is very hard on the bulb, projecting black seems counterproductive. Information, pictures, etc. seems to me, at least, the best way to utilize your projector, between videos. I also project mine on to a mylar screen on the inside of a 4x4 window, so mine is out of the elements and doesn't grow legs, I use a second projector showing Daryl Brown's Santa video in an endless loop in another window - which brings as much happiness as my light show to young and old kids alike.... So, I hope you can use some of my ideas; they took me a "long time" to come up with and lots of thought process; and will give you (and others) a jump start on your display.

Here's a "How to ...." I made and posted on Constantly Christmas and LOR's site, too: I have used some of Ken's video's and uploaded a couple, too. Good stuff ! Synchronizing Videos with Light O Rama

Try lorsequences.com and move/delete channels until it works for you. I would have your blank seq. open and copy and paste into it from another seq. of equal song length.... you may need to practice alttle first and/or try to do one yourself to get the hang of it....

I use .1 second for a couple of reasons. First, I was told incadescents can't turn on and back off again in less time (probably just start warming up and then are shutting off before they start to " glow") and it would give you twice as many "events" to fill in every song, twice as long to sequence, if you were filling every cell. Now, I realize most people don't have that much detail, I also don't think many listeners would pick out those details. Personally, I would rather spend my time doing more songs, building other display elements, or other effects in my shows. There is no correct answer, and everyone is going to defend "their" method. It becomes a compromise of what you want to spend your time on. Keep in mind that as you add channels, you will be locked into this. S2 has some features (tracks) that lets you around this issue to a degree, but I wouldn't suggest it for a novice. Hope this helps you out!

Aurora will read and convert LOR files, but not vice versa. Too bad that would open up a whole bunch more sequences.....

I agree with several others. Have different "shows" on diferent nights and/or the same night. Breaks between? I have a large number of songs and will probably do the former plus I have videos and music sequences and plan on interweaving them. Will post how to do this as soon as I finalize it, but I'm VERY pleased with how it is working so far.