Arch sequencing Discussion

The short (and obvious) answer is to ignore what other people are doing and do what works for you.  Personally, I place one marker at the beginning of the leap, and one at the end.  I tend to choose the low bass drum beats for this.  Then I split the cell into "X" equally spaced events.  My arches are firefly arches, so I'll either choose 16 cells for a simple one pixel chase, or maybe 20 if I want it to be a bit more complex with say a tailing shimmer ramp out.  The result is that the leap is evenly spaced and starts and ends on the beat.  Other ways are to guess, or use a previously made chase and the copy/paste option set to shrink/stretch mode. 

For more traditional arches with mini lights, I know people like to ramp in, have an intensity command, then ramp out while the next segment ramps in.  This makes the leap look smooth instead of choppy.

As for seconds, one second is the same as 1000 milliseconds.  (Milli means 1000, so 1 meter is 1000 millimeters; 1 gram is 1000 milligrams, a millennium is 1000 years, yada yada).  You'll also notice the timing shift option (Edit, Timing Shift) is set up in milliseconds instead of seconds.  This is done to give you an extreme amount of accurate control over your sequence.  This incidentally, is yet another example of why I like Aurora.  This level of detail for something so simple is just great.

Ok lets talk Arch sequencing for awhile. In this example we have three(3) arches with eight(8)sections each. Now, we know where we want the sequence to end. Lets keep it simple, a leap from arch 1 to 2 to 3 just your basic arch leap. You also know where you want it to start. Now, This is where the discussion comes in. How do you know how many times to split the cell? All of the arch sequences I have looked at Thanks for sharing everyone by the way. There never seems to be a Set amount of equal time events. I have tried on my own and things just dont seem to look right.. Or am I missing something? I see a lot of people talking about seconds and time. I only see the mili second option under the split cell screen. Is that what your doing is splitting in mili seconds and not equal sections? or does every one do it different? I have done some pretty good seqencing on my own but this whole arch thing has me baffled...