toddmoon Posted November 25, 2008 Share Posted November 25, 2008 I have some sequences that I down loaded off of these forms that do not work with my new LOR system. How do I need to update/import the files to work with the LOR II software?Do I just need to open them and save them with a paticular file extension? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmoore60 Posted November 25, 2008 Share Posted November 25, 2008 You have 2.0.16?They should be able to be opened in the 2.0.16 sequence eiditor. When you say they don't work what exactly do you mean? A better explanation of "don't work" will help us help you.Chuck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toddmoon Posted November 25, 2008 Author Share Posted November 25, 2008 I open up the sequence editor and hit play. However the lights do not come on while the sequence plays.If I create a manual sequence then the lights work. I was hoping to use some sequences that had been shared on the forms but I am not having any luck getting them to make the lights flash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob Posted November 25, 2008 Share Posted November 25, 2008 In the sequences that aren't working, have you assigned the channels to units/circuits that you have hooked up to your computer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toddmoon Posted November 25, 2008 Author Share Posted November 25, 2008 I believe that I have assigned the channels correctly. I have named them and assigned each channel. I will double check to make sure that this has been done correctly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toddmoon Posted November 25, 2008 Author Share Posted November 25, 2008 I believe that I have assigned the channels correctly. I have named them and assigned each channel. I will double check to make sure that this has been done correctly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toddmoon Posted November 26, 2008 Author Share Posted November 26, 2008 I checked the channel assignment and they appear to be right. However I was not having any luck getting the lights to play.When I click play the show the motion bar does not move across the sequences of the shows I have downloaded. However if I copy and paste them into a new format then they work fine. Not a difficult taks to copy and paste. I have no doubt that one of the parameter is not setup correctly and opening a new file and pasting the sequence appears to take care of it.I have not tried to load the music and get it to play with the light sequence. I will attempt that today later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob Posted November 26, 2008 Share Posted November 26, 2008 Could you please send me a copy of a sequence with this problem, and tell me exactly what you cut and where you paste it to make it start working? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toddmoon Posted November 27, 2008 Author Share Posted November 27, 2008 Here we go on the files. Thanks for your help. The first file is the one that will not operate the lights. The second is the one that I copied and pasted using a new file and saving. Attached files Christmas Eve (Sarajevo)_16.lms Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toddmoon Posted November 27, 2008 Author Share Posted November 27, 2008 This is the second new file that I pasted in and works. Attached files TSO seriavio test.las Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amie Posted November 27, 2008 Share Posted November 27, 2008 I've had similar problems, not exactly the ones that you are describing, but strange things with the channel names moving around when I reopen the file (really bizarre). I finally just resorted to creating a brand new music file, copying the entire sequence over into my own channel configuration. It sounds like that's what worked for you as well. Alot of headaches went away after that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 This sequence seems to work fine for me.I notice that the one that doesn't work for you is a musical sequence, while the one that does work for you is an animation sequence. You said earlier that "the motion bar does not move across the sequences of the shows I have downloaded". Does the audio play? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iresq Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 And did you add audio via edit - media? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toddmoon Posted December 2, 2008 Author Share Posted December 2, 2008 I did not edit the music. I simply copied and pasted the lighting sequence. I am still new to all of this and I only have short periods of time to work on things. Usually late at night when I am not at my sharpest. Sometimes my brain goes to bed anyway.I still have a few bugs to work out. I was just wondering if it would be easier to use LOR I software on the imported sequences and see if they work ok for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toddmoon Posted December 2, 2008 Author Share Posted December 2, 2008 The files than I can open do control the lights but the music does not play as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 What happens if you try to play the song directly in Windows Media Player? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iresq Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 I think I know what the problem is. There are two types of sequences, animation and musical sequence. Animation will have a .las extension. Musical sequence will have a .lms sequence.When you open someone else's musical sequence, you have to do two things with it.First, you have to associate the sequence with an audio track. So you will have to have the audio track saved somewhere on your computer (default location is in the audio sub-folder of the Light-O-Rama folder in My Documents. To make the association, click on edit, media, then direct the browser to the audio file. This gets a bit tricky when the author of the sequence does not provide the audio track as you will probably have a timing issue.Second, you will need to go through each channel (either by clicking on the channel name to bring up the properties box or select tools, channel property grid). Then make your name, color and lor assignments.Once you get this down, you need to learn about exporting and importing configurations. But lets get a working sequence first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terrypowerz Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 iresq wrote: I think I know what the problem is. There are two types of sequences, animation and musical sequence. Animation will have a .las extension. Musical sequence will have a .lms sequence.When you open someone else's musical sequence, you have to do two things with it.First, you have to associate the sequence with an audio track. So you will have to have the audio track saved somewhere on your computer (default location is in the audio sub-folder of the Light-O-Rama folder in My Documents. To make the association, click on edit, media, then direct the browser to the audio file. This gets a bit tricky when the author of the sequence does not provide the audio track as you will probably have a timing issue.Second, you will need to go through each channel (either by clicking on the channel name to bring up the properties box or select tools, channel property grid). Then make your name, color and lor assignments.Once you get this down, you need to learn about exporting and importing configurations. But lets get a working sequence first.I think you hit the nail on the head!I was reading through this thread and noticed the same thing...I thought there was an error screen that came up and told you that the media file was missing though??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toddmoon Posted December 2, 2008 Author Share Posted December 2, 2008 The only media file issues that I have to this point are that the system can not calculate the time for the audio song. No matter how long I wait on some songs it will not complete the task and I get an error message. This is not on all files just some. I am using version 11 of microsoft media player I do not know if that makes a difference. It does play the song ok, just when I try and open a new musical sequence the system can not calculate the time on some songs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toddmoon Posted December 2, 2008 Author Share Posted December 2, 2008 I have played with that to some degree but I will have to spend some more time with all of this. My biggest problem is I never have a very large block of time to work on this. I just try here and there when I have a moment.I am making some progress though. Thanks for your help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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