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    Posted: 11 Dec 2007 at 3:37pm
In the past, I haven't used the visualizer mode with sequencing software because it seemed either too primitive or didn't give me a real good idea of how it would look due to my machine's performance.

Do yourself a favor and take the time to experiment with Aurora's visualizer mode.  My style of sequencing has completely changed because of it - no more "imagining" what it will look like.

To set up the visualizer, you first specify a picture.  Get an image of your house/display area. Aurora Sequencer, click File / Properties.   Assign the picture.

To enter the drawing mode, press d.  Draw the lights for your channels. 

When finished, go back to Editor Mode.

In the Playback portion of the display, click the monitor button toggle it between editor and visualizer playback.  Click play.


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  Quote deweycooter Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 12 Dec 2007 at 12:33pm
I've put a video of the visualizer up on the Aurora wiki page - you'll see the link at the bottom of the article.  I really should knock back the compression a bit - as the image is a bit blurry, but it should be enough to give you an idea of how the visualizer can help your editing.
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  Quote JohnnyL Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18 Dec 2007 at 8:28pm
are there limits as to size of the image?  also what is the best format? .BMP, .JPG...
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  Quote deweycooter Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18 Dec 2007 at 8:34pm
Not sure of any hard limits - the one in my video is an 8KB jpg.  I think the thing to keep in mind is that the image will be resized to fit in the visualizer and for editing purposes, you really only need something decent....not multi-megabyte files needed here.  :)

Also - I used an image editor (gimp.org) to darken my image - the original was taken in daylight.  Not completely necessary, but it helps a bit I suppose.
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  Quote JohnnyL Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18 Dec 2007 at 9:21pm
great, thanks
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  Quote LightsOnLogan Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18 Dec 2007 at 9:56pm
Unless you are dealing with a gigapixel camera or something (yeah right) you should have no problems with image size.  There shouldn't be a performance impact with any size picture.  Formats will not matter much... they are all converted to a variation of BMP in memory but there shouldn't be a performance impact one way or the other.
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  Quote JohnnyL Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18 Dec 2007 at 10:41pm

i wish id found this program 3 weeks ago 

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Well, that would have been something, seeing that publicly, it is only about one week old!!Big%20smile
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  Quote JohnnyL Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 19 Dec 2007 at 5:09pm
well its here now and thats what matters. Big%20smile
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