running ribbons just with superstar

[james campbell]

A friend of mine just bought three ccrs and I told him I would help,I have only played with superstar and the ccr programing a little bit. can you run the ccrs without running s3 or do you have to cut and paste into the se

[BrianBruderer]

james campbell wrote:

A friend of mine just bought three ccrs and I told him I would help,I have only played with superstar and the ccr programing a little bit. can you run the ccrs without running s3 or do you have to cut and paste into the se

As you probably know, SuperStar does not have the ability to play directly to your CCRs. SuperStar exports the sequence to a .lms file that the LOR Sequence Editor can load and then you play that to your CCRs. You can of course run the exported file standalone and just see the CCR sequence. But most people want to play the CCRs along with their other lights, so that means you have to get the CCR sequence into your main sequence. There are two ways to do this:
1) Play the CCR sequence as a subsequence in your main sequence
2) copy/paste the sequence from the CCR sequence into your main sequence.

Here are instructions for each way

Subsequence
Launch the Light-O-Rama Sequence Editor
Open your main sequence (The one that you already had before you ever even heard of SuperStar)
Right click on the first channel button at the top of your sequence.
In the popup menu, select “Insert Channels”, then select “Insert Channel Above”
Right click on the “New Channel” button that you just inserted
In the popup menu, select “Change Channel Settings”
The “Channel Settings” dialog box appears.
Change the name of the button to something like “SuperStar”
In the “Device Type” drop down, select “Sequence”
On the “Sequence” line near the bottom of the dialog box click on the “…” button
The “Open” dialog box will appear
Select the file that you exported. In this example, the exported file name was “MyAwesomeSequence.sup.lms”
Click on the “Open” button
Click on the “Ok” button in the “Channel Settings” dialog box
YOU ARE NOT DONE YET!
The sub-sequence will be played only while the grid boxes for this channel are “on”.
So you want to set the little grid boxes to “On” for the entire row all the way to the end of the sequence.
To do this, select one of the boxes on the row, Click on the Edit menu, hover the mouse over “Select”, a flyout menu appears, on the flyout menu click on “Row(s)”, right click on one of the boxes in the row and select “On” to turn the entire row “On”.
Now when you play your sequence, the subsequence will be played at the same time. You of course want the main sequence and subsequence to not try and control the same lights or the results will be unpredictable.


Copy/Paste
Prior to last weeks update release the exported CCR sequences had the channels at the top as non-rgb channels, and then at the bottom the same information is repeated as RGB channels. You can ignore the RGB channels, I threw that in because it looks so pretty, but it is a repeat of the same info, you don't need to copy it.
To do copy paste on an exported sequence in the old format do the following:

1) In your main sequence, right click on whereever you want to insert your CCR and select "Insert Device" and insert a Cosmic Color Device. Do this for as many CCRs as you have.
2) In the exported CCR sequence, select all of the top non-rgb channel section (the section that does not have all the pretty colors). Click on the copy button.
3) Select the top left pixel of your CCR rows in your main sequence (they can be grouped or degrouped it does not matter)
4) Press the Paste button

If you have exported a sequence using last weeks update release then step number 2 is easier, you just select the grouped CCR rows and click on the copy button.

[james campbell]

thanks Brian,,,,,,btw you are the man when it comes to ccrs:)