Beaver State Rich Posted September 2, 2014 Posted September 2, 2014 Hey all. Trying to get up and running for Halloween and I am having trouble with getting the show to run. I have 2 sequences that I am trying to get to fire up and repeat during show hours. The first is my 2014 show that is 9:15 seconds, the 2nd is our filler piece of 20:45. Last year we ran similar sequences that timed out playing every top/bottom of hour every night. Yes they are long but again-it worked last year and breaking them apart would be problematic. This year on either simple show builder or show editor/schedule editor the first sequence will fire and the 2nd will then flash about 3 images of the video and then die turing all lights on to white. I have run Verifier and the only errors on either sequence or the show on a whole were that the 2nd sequence didn't have every channel used but this is the way it's supposed to be and was not an issue last year. I have tried changing order of the shows and regardless of how they are ordered the first will fire, 2nd crashes. Both sequences play fine in sequencer or by themselves in a show. Software:LOR: 3.11.2 Advanced Hardware:32 channels LOR, hardware purchased spring 2013 from LOR-fully assembled.DMX: Holiday Coro ActiDongle # 53/V2 running 12 of the HC led flood kits.PC: HP i5 processor, 8GB ram, 1TB HD, Radeon HD 6450 graphics with 512 dedicated memory. Windows 7. Again, the sequences work, lights do what they are supposed to-I just can't get the show to go with multiple sequences. And, of course we have the video won't open in full screen issue but that will be another post.
Beaver State Rich Posted September 3, 2014 Author Posted September 3, 2014 FYI: I edited part of the longer sequence last night down to to 6 minutes thinking the long/larege file may be the issue. No resolution.
Don Posted September 4, 2014 Posted September 4, 2014 I can't say I've heard of this before. If everything is checking out on the Verifier, then I would think that a ticket to the help desk would be in order.
Beaver State Rich Posted September 4, 2014 Author Posted September 4, 2014 Thanks Don, I appreciate the reply. I also tried just loading one sequence into the show and it would play and then crash when it was time to repeat/loop. Ticket sent to LOR and we will see what they can come up with.
Beaver State Rich Posted October 8, 2014 Author Posted October 8, 2014 OK, I think the issue is that my file size is too large. It's 1.2GB!!! I was looking at length of time from last year not file size. So, here's my question now. My video file size is 56mb. I am running 32 channels of LOR with 12 RGB channels from an actidongle. That is only 70 channels. How is the file size getting so large?
Beaver State Rich Posted October 10, 2014 Author Posted October 10, 2014 OK played around with sequence a bit this evening. 12 RGB DMX channels are adding over a GIG to the file size. ?????? How is this even possible that's only 36 channels. My file size goes from 172K to 1.2 million K as soon as I copy in my 12 DMX channels. I think this is what is causing the program to crash. How are folks getting 100+ channels to run when I can't get 70 to play in a show?
rwertz Posted October 10, 2014 Posted October 10, 2014 One thing that could cause the file size issue would be the number of individual 'effects' on those channels. But even with a 20 minute sequence it's hard to envision how that could happen. Any chance the effects for those channels were imported from another program? I think I've heard of cases were effects exported from other programs had issues when they got translated to the LOR format.
stanward Posted November 9, 2014 Posted November 9, 2014 Are you using compressed sequences? Did you install the 4GB patch?
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