Christmas Lights 2007 – 4
The four new controllers have been tested and work perfectly. Light-O-Rama makes a good product.
So now it’s on to sequencing. For one night there will be six songs in all, and all have been edited to be shorter in length. Then I have recorded the voiceover for an introduction, a story line to connect five of the songs together, and finally a closing. I didn’t keep track of the exact amount of time it took for the audio editing, but estimate it is somewhere around eight hours.
Before I started sequencing the songs, I elected to reconfigure my computer to accept two monitors, with one in a portrait mode so I could see all 80 channels at once, and a second one in a “normal” landscape mode where I can watch a representation of the display in an animation as the sequencing progresses. I also had to modify the animation as there was a last minute change in the light set-up. Here is the set-up of the computer screens.
But the preliminaries are complete and I just finished 35 minutes of sequencing the first song, Reflections of Earth. That 35 minutes accounts for 20 seconds of the song, which is 1:42:15 in length, which is one minute, 42 and 1/2 seconds.
Now that we are getting some much closer to the lights going on Thanksgiving night, I’ve really got to buckle down and get moving. After all, there are only
Tim-I can’t wait to take a Family drive from Smithville to see your 2007 Christmas light display! I am sure I will be making more than one. I know my brother and his family, my parents, my sister and everyone will want to see this spectacular event ! I am so excited for you !!!
Jodi
Comment by Jodi — October 18, 2007 @ 4:39 pm