Mike Cole Posted January 7, 2008 Share Posted January 7, 2008 this years videos have "2007" in the title, enjoy..........Mikehttp://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=Sparkylights&p=r Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Blessing Posted January 27, 2008 Share Posted January 27, 2008 Mike,after watching the first of your videos, I continued to view as many of your videos as I could find. Very entertaining, your community must have been thrilled. Really liked your music choices, and I noticed your video quality looks much better in 2007 than 2006 too. (I really failed trying to video mine this year. )Thanks for sharing your videos!Scott Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Cole Posted January 27, 2008 Author Share Posted January 27, 2008 Thanks Scott,I wasnt real happy with the quality, but I guess thats what you get with consumer grade video hardware. The viewing angle was different this year. We, my neighbor and I, climbed up on his roof, set up the tripod, and let it run till we had the show filmed a few times. Then I just cut it up and added the music tracks in Windows Movie Maker. I did notice that the timing was off a little after I dumped it to YouTube. Someone here once said it had to do with the way YouTube compresses the video............Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul B. Anderson Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 Mike,Very impressive show!! I have done a sequence to Reflections too however, only 16 channels. Watching your vids makes me want to get many more controllers, so much fun!! Awsome job!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Cole Posted January 30, 2008 Author Share Posted January 30, 2008 Thanks guys for the nice comments!..........................Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taybrynn Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 Great job !Were those mega trees or half mega trees attached to the house somehow? Either way, looks great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Cole Posted January 30, 2008 Author Share Posted January 30, 2008 no, not mega trees, but just 7 strings each tree hung from the tree and staked to the ground. Seemed to work OK. I wanted to be able to animate them so I used 7 channels per tree. ...........Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taybrynn Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 I liked them. I was thinking of trying to do something like that myself someday. I was thinking of making 4 channels per side, and maybe do at least 2-3 strands per channel. I just wasn't sure how I'd hook them onto my gables. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Blessing Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 taybrynn wrote: I just wasn't sure how I'd hook them onto my gables.I would suggest a pulley or some other means to be able to lower the lights for repair. I liked your term "half tree" because that is exactly what mine is. My tree is on my roof, my set up allows me to lower the tree, worked well for this year, twice we had up to 50 (or more) mile an hour winds during the season so I just let it down during those days so I did not have to worry. BTW... mine was only 4 channels, three colors 1 channel each and the topper, no mega tree by forum standards, but it did spin and it was eye catching.Not forgetting why we are at this post, I will say it again, nice job with your display and videos Mike, I enjoyed them! emailed them to some friends too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Cole Posted February 5, 2008 Author Share Posted February 5, 2008 Thanks again Scott,As far as how I hung the lights....................if you look at 2006 videos, you will see two large trees in my yard. This is what the lights hang from. I take heavy wire, about like a coathanger, and cut lengths about two feet long. Fold it in half to make it "double duty". Then make a large hook on one end. Simply tape the other end of the wire to the end of the light string. Now I use my "painters pole" (16' telloscopic fiberglass) and reach the hook up to where I want it in the tree top. Then just stake the other end to the ground. I did the samething, kinda, in the 2006 videos, but hung the lights in different spots in the tree to have more of a "leaf tree" look. Also I used just one channel per tree. Hope that helps........................Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dale J Posted February 9, 2008 Share Posted February 9, 2008 Mike great videos i am excepting my first 16 Chanel kit this monday, and have been planing for next year every day can't wait to get my kit i was curious how are the jumping rope effects done. is it some kind of rope chasing lights or did you have to use several Chanel's to produce it, i also was curious do you have any pictures of the way your yard looks during the day, wondered how all the wiring looked, i have been spending most of my computer time reading lors forum pages and watching videos, thanks, Dale (getting ready to help light up Christmas for NE. next year) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Blessing Posted February 9, 2008 Share Posted February 9, 2008 Dale J wrote: Mike great videos...(cut)... I was curious how are the jumping rope effects done. is it some kind of rope chasing lightsDale,It takes alot of channels and lots of time, and you are going to see alot more of these arches is 2008. Don't forget that mike has 208 channels.I think this link will tell you alot of what you want to know. This is a "good how to" done by Ken Maxwell.If you want to see something totally over the top, check this out: http://www.shadrack.com/christmas/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dale J Posted February 9, 2008 Share Posted February 9, 2008 Thanks Scott, the link you posted is great and very helpful, i'm glad i have all year to get this figured out, thanks again, Dale Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evan.a Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 mike very nice job... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffF Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 evana wrote: mike very nice job...x2. Very nice job indeed. I've gotten soo many ideas for next year(my first) from all the quality displays here. Great community this is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricky Parker Posted February 16, 2008 Share Posted February 16, 2008 Great display, I watched it a time or two then I started finding myself counting the numbers of certain items you had because it worked so well with the music. Well laid out, and organized, keep it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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