Auto Sequence Singing Faces feature documentation

[nunofernandes]

thanks Brian, i will send email shortly, I have S4.4.4 Advanced with SS 2_CCR

 

[nunofernandes]

On 7/14/2019 at 6:15 AM, james morris said:

That is how I do it I find a gif file of a hole face set one mouth close with face set 2 mouth at the AAA  with face set 3 mouth o with face  set 4 mouth 3/4 open with face  set 5 mouth full open with face making sure you have the full face with all mouth movement looks great save as sup file then when I need to do a face I open instant face then open face sup file then set all 5 then load audio there run sequence face

do you have the gif files that you can share? I am using the holiday coro RGB faces with 5 movements

 

[james morris]

The faces are for the auto face for the pixel tree there are sup files

Edited November 12, 2019 by james morris

[Diveau]

Need some help please? I used this tutorial however  when I do the second part to sequence the RGB singing faces, I have no preview when I play it on S5. The super star preview is fine and display when I play the song. Did I do something wrong? I even tried it on a separate pc that have no props/previews on it.

[dibblejr]

10 hours ago, Diveau said:

Need some help please? I used this tutorial however  when I do the second part to sequence the RGB singing faces, I have no preview when I play it on S5. The super star preview is fine and display when I play the song. Did I do something wrong? I even tried it on a separate pc that have no props/previews on it.

I do not use S5 however for the Auto faces in SS when I import them (testing only) in to S4 only one row per my moments are populated. Therefore I have to copy paste each row by 50. That sounds like it may be your problem as well.

Open the sequence RGB if you can and ensure it is populating all strands per port.

JR 

[BrianBruderer]

In version 5.3.14 there is a bug that the Sequencer only displays the first item in a group. The bug will be fixed in the next release.

Are you using 5.3.14 ?

[Diveau]

8 hours ago, BrianBruderer said:

In version 5.3.14 there is a bug that the Sequencer only displays the first item in a group. The bug will be fixed in the next release.

Are you using 5.3.14 ?

Hi, Yes I'm using 5.3.14.

[BrianBruderer]

Wait until the next release and it should work.

Alternatively, you could uninstall 5.3.14 and install 5.3.12

[randy88cougar]

On 10/29/2019 at 5:44 PM, BrianBruderer said:

Auto Sequence has been in superstar since 4.3.34. But I think you are referring to the "Auto Sequence Singing Faces" feature. If you copy the SSEdit.exe from an S5 installation into an S4 installation, the SSEdit.exe will run just fine in S4 and you can do the "Auto Sequence Singing Faces" feature on a visualization the same way you do it on a Preview.

Also, if you send an email to brian@superstarlights.com I will give you a way to get the latest SSEdit.exe that you can use in your S4 installation.

hi, brian i am using the s4.4 with SS add on advanced however i just bought pro have not used it yet. from what i am understanding i could use auto sequence to make 4  regular 8 channel led lit faces that i use  with my lor controllers is that correct? how would i go about that, i dont see a video on it and dont know where to start or how to find the SSEdit.exe from s5 nor do i understand how to get it into S4. any help would be greatly appreciated. my email is randy88stang@gmail.com

[BrianBruderer]

Randy,

 

Yes you can do auto sequence singing faces using S4 and using your own singing faces. But it takes some work to make a visualization of your singing faces.

 

Have you made a visualization before?

[randy88cougar]

1 hour ago, BrianBruderer said:

Randy,

 

Yes you can do auto sequence singing faces using S4 and using your own singing faces. But it takes some work to make a visualization of your singing faces.

 

Have you made a visualization before?

 

yes i have

 

 

 

[randy88cougar]

3 hours ago, BrianBruderer said:

Randy,

 

Yes you can do auto sequence singing faces using S4 and using your own singing faces. But it takes some work to make a visualization of your singing faces.

 

Have you made a visualization before?

i have made visualization before? never a singing face one, not sure how to start

 

 

 

 

On 9/11/2019 at 10:01 AM, Sparky4u said:

 

[BrianBruderer]

Are your face elements regular light strings? If so draw each face element as a light string. If you have a picture of your singing faces you can set the picture as the background and draw the light strings on top of the picture. If you don't have a picture just draw the light strings best you can to approximate how they look.

Each face element will be a fixture. Make a Prop and name it something like "Face1" and add all the face elements as fixtures in the Prop. Order them in a logical way such as putting the mouth elements at the top, then the nose, then the eyes, then the face outline.

When you import the visualization into superstar I would suggest setting the orientation as "vertical." This will make the green sequencing grid be a vertical column of squares.

Go to the lightorama main page, click on "Support" then click on "Tutorials and PDFs." Scroll down to the superstar section. Look for the tutorial on "auto sequence singing faces." Watch it just to give you some background on how the feature works when using the standard lightorama singing faces. Each face element is a one pixel "image." You will set pixels on the sequencing grid to create the different mouth positions.

But first make your visualization and then get back with me. You can email me at brian@superstarlights.com after you have your visualization done and we can arrange a time for me to remote into your computer and show you how to do things.

 

[randy88cougar]

thank you i will work on that soon as i can. i appreciate it

[dibblejr]

1 hour ago, randy88cougar said:

thank you i will work on that soon as i can. i appreciate it

If you wait until after the holidays and seriously want to learn this, if you ask my great friend James Morris he may be willing to show you. Just ask nicely but as stated please wait until after the holidays. Its very busy for us sharing sequences and getting our shows up and running.

He has mastered the art of SS faces. I stick with the LED and RGB faces and he takes care of the others.

JR

Edited September 29, 2020 by dibblejr

[MSB]

Is there any way to save the colors of the singing faces? I'm using 5.5.16 pro and whenever I go to the motion effect row and create a singing face, I have to change the colors from white to the ones I need. Very time consuming. Or am I just missing something?

[BrianBruderer]

No, you're not missing anything. But there is a way to save the colors. After changing the colors to what you want but before you do your sequencing, click on the File menu and select "Save As" and save it to a name like "MyColors." Then the next time you come in you can click on the File menu and select "Open" and you can open that file.

[Damon Hobbs]

On 11/24/2020 at 11:05 AM, MSB said:

Is there any way to save the colors of the singing faces? I'm using 5.5.16 pro and whenever I go to the motion effect row and create a singing face, I have to change the colors from white to the ones I need. Very time consuming. Or am I just missing something?

Did you figure this out? I’m struggling with the same issue. I’ve just started with SS. 

[dibblejr]

31 minutes ago, Damon Hobbs said:

Did you figure this out? I’m struggling with the same issue. I’ve just started with SS. 

The way Brian describes it above as stated, open superstar and set your colors for your faces. Before writing any sequence save that sequence something specific so you will know it is your colors. Brians suggestion should work.

This will become a template for your faces.

Each time you want to create a new face sequence open that one and use save as with a new name for the new sequence. This will lock in your colors.

JR

[MSB]

That is correct. With S5 it's really confusing for an old timer like me as the file after sequencing never gets saved in the traditional way...it just works.

[Damon Hobbs]

1 hour ago, dibblejr said:

The way Brian describes it above as stated, open superstar and set your colors for your faces. Before writing any sequence save that sequence something specific so you will know it is your colors. Brians suggestion should work.

This will become a template for your faces.

Each time you want to create a new face sequence open that one and use save as with a new name for the new sequence. This will lock in your colors.

JR

Thank you, JR. I will try that out tomorrow. Thanks again!  

[Damon Hobbs]

31 minutes ago, MSB said:

That is correct. With S5 it's really confusing for an old timer like me as the file after sequencing never gets saved in the traditional way...it just works.

Thank MSB. I think I’m putting too much thought into it. I will try it in the morning. Thanks for responding.