Recent content by XerxesDGreat

no, hardwired speakers. At this point, I've completely ignored the waveform and instead gone completely on sound, setting up timing marks accordingly. I've also exported a video of the sequence and uploaded to youtube; all the effects are in sync with the video on all youtube players, yet the...

So, update to this, I never found a way get the wave form to line up with the music; I'm treating that as a lost cause. However, I did come across another issue which seems to happen for some reason; the timing marks themselves got out of sync with the audio, so now the show is clearly out of...

yeah, those are all good points, and I totally can move a timing mark; the issue is it's an entire song's worth of timing marks which I can't move en masse. Also, it's odd because the same issue doesn't seem to occur when I import a new sequence; the visuals line up with the sound and the timing...

I'm manually adding a timing track (several tempo changes in the song) by creating an empty timing track and tapping 't' at each beat or bar (depending on which I'm working on), but I notice that they're always at least one frame (25ms) and usually two frames (50ms) after the corresponding peak...

whoops, I realize I left the power supply unit out of the diagram; it's connected to both the power distro board and the receiver, so my assumption is that everything is ultimately running on the same ground (the power supply unit). The pixels are not directly connected to ground on the diff...

Hey all, I'm very confused as to the behavior of the display I'm in the first stages of testing. I have a Falcon F4V3 with two differential receivers. Currently, I'm running ~300px off port 1 on the controller (run A), 540 (6 x 90 px stars) off port 5 on one differential receiver (run B), and...

terryk: thanks, and good luck with that run!

i13, thanks for the additional ideas! I've been playing around with how to minimize the straight runs of power injection cable and the longest two I have now is just over 15m/50ft, each with around 300 pixels; I've switched my plans to use 12AWG for those all the way down. Due to what these...

Ah, I think I understand; you're building your own Ys by soldering more than one cable together, then using the automotive connectors to provide quick disconnects in each direction. That's clever; never even thought of doing that. Thanks for the help!

thanks for the comments and I can see that I missed a few key details :-) I'm planning on driving at 30% and using 3 of the falcon 8-port fused distribution blocks at 5A since the pixel wires are 22 AWG and the accepted practice is to fuse to the smallest wire; that makes 24 runs fused at 5A...

I'm putting together a buy list for my display, but am running up against a wall when it comes to the physical power injection wire and, more to the point, connections. The layout I have planned is 5V, ~6000 pixels, running off Falcon F4V3 and two receivers. Based on the power requirements, 3...

ah, yeah thanks for the clarification. I'd seen one of the xEssentials videos by Jonathan DePlanche (S3E13) which goes deep on explaining how the f48 works, how to find the max number of pixels which could be controlled, and how to rearrange the props to best allocate those . The part that I was...

Cool, thanks! That info will help a lot. I guess the next question is whether or not I have it in me to be patient and wait for the v4 or if I want to plan around the v3 :-)

Thanks for the welcome and responses! I'm already going to be using remotes already, so buying expansions is in the plan :-) So, to make sure I understand correctly, let me repeat what I heard you say: - v3 has 680 per port at 40fps, but that is split into banks. Thus, if I want to stay at...

I'm looking at picking up a Falcon F16V3 and am a little confused about how the number of pixels per output is calculated when using expansions. Assuming a bare 16 ports, I get that getting up above a certain number of pixels (unclear if that number is 600, 680, or 800, but that's immaterial...