importing Channel lineup
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Topic: importing Channel lineup
Posted By: ChrisL1976
Subject: importing Channel lineup
Date Posted: 03 Sep 2008 at 5:43pm
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For the life of me I cant get the Channel lineup to import into a new sequence. I originally tried to import one from a d-light import and get a error. So thinking it may be the import file, I recreated my 64....uhggg...channel lineup from scratch and saved it as template. Opened a new sequence and when it asked to use a lineup, I clicked ok, picked template and BAM...same error. This happens at both home and work. Error I'm getting is: Aurora encountered and unexpected erro and will now restart debug info 6 overflow imported channels auroradata2 you can work around it by resaving your template as another name, open it an switch the music file, then resave again. ------------- Chris www.lightsonsixth.com |
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Posted By: ChrisL1976
Date Posted: 03 Sep 2008 at 9:47pm
I seem to be the only one having this issue. Well  ------------- Chris www.lightsonsixth.com |
Posted By: LightChristmas
Date Posted: 03 Sep 2008 at 9:50pm
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Rest assured, its being looked into. In the meantime, could you post the sequence so some others can take a look at it? Better yet, just drive down here and deliver it.  ------------- http://www.aurorashow.com/"> 
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Posted By: ChrisL1976
Date Posted: 03 Sep 2008 at 10:23pm
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I'll try and post the sequence I created today at work tommorow. Something has to be fishy with things on my end maybe...I can imput the one that comes with Aurora just fine, but when I try to imput the channels from mine into a new sequence, it crashes. ------------- Chris www.lightsonsixth.com |
Posted By: ChrisL1976
Date Posted: 04 Sep 2008 at 10:56am
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ok here's my template file. If I open a new sequence and import it, it crashes when you click on draw http://www.lightsonsixth.com/sequences/template.dls - http://www.lightsonsixth.com/sequences/template.dls This is a sequence that I imported the template channels, saved it. If I open it and click draw, it opens the Draw page and errors out. If you move you house around the screen, it brings in the picture real choppy. http://www.lightsonsixth.com/sequences/houseonchristmasstreet.dls - http://www.lightsonsixth.com/sequences/houseonchristmasstreet.dls ------------- Chris www.lightsonsixth.com |
Posted By: ChrisL1976
Date Posted: 04 Sep 2008 at 11:04am
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Does the Location of the picture on your computer or the size of the picture make any difference?
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Posted By: Slinkard
Date Posted: 04 Sep 2008 at 11:08am
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Size makes a difference,
sorry had too, but seriously I remember seeing some posts about the size of the pic however he didn't have the same errors you are. his was that the screen would flip upside down.
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Posted By: LightsOnLogan
Date Posted: 04 Sep 2008 at 11:16am
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What are the dimensions of your picture (height x width)? ------------- http://www.aurorashow.com/"> 
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Posted By: ChrisL1976
Date Posted: 04 Sep 2008 at 11:22am
299X599 52KB FILE ------------- Chris www.lightsonsixth.com |
Posted By: peteandvanessa
Date Posted: 04 Sep 2008 at 1:18pm
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I just download your template and opened it in Aurora just fine, it did complain that it couldn't find the picture and defaulted to the default house pic. So somethings fishy on our side. I can see the drawing of the channels and can draw new lights on the channels, so no issues there (initially).
Note I tend to use a house pic of 800 x 600 and have never had a problem.
Well I could innitially then when I went into check something and went into drawing the lights, Aurora crashed and quit.
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Posted By: ChrisL1976
Date Posted: 04 Sep 2008 at 6:18pm
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Pete and venesa did you by chance figure anything out after that sequence crashed? Something is goofy with the file. I just imported a old 16 ch. d-light sequence I have here at home, saved it as test 1 Opened a new sequence and imported test 1 lineup and it goes in clean. No errors in the Draw menu My issue is that the template file I linked above, I created from scratch on aurora and its still goofy. Only thing I can think of is the picture file is somehow affecting things.....I'll resize it to 600x800 because you said that works. I'll try to reload my 64 ch D-light lineup on my work computer and see if I can open, save and relink it to another new Aurora file. I'm afraid I'm going to use my work around (of saving the file under another name, inserting the new music and then sequencing) and I'm going to get to showtime and the file going to be goofy and not work. Right now I'm I have like 2 minutes of very basic voice over sequence done so I can redo those easily. ------------- Chris www.lightsonsixth.com |
Posted By: Tony Furst
Date Posted: 05 Sep 2008 at 4:26am
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Chris,
I opened and edited both with no issues other than not having your original picture file, my guess is that there is something about your picture file it doesn't like.
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Posted By: peteandvanessa
Date Posted: 05 Sep 2008 at 9:03am
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I don't think it's the picture file at all since I have a different picture file and it's still goofy.
I really cant seem to find out the issue.
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Posted By: ChrisL1976
Date Posted: 05 Sep 2008 at 11:53am
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I readjusted the picture file and still get the issue with that template. I'm beginning to think it may have been the original d-light sequence.....but that still does not explain my completely Aurora template did the same thing. I uploaded some d-light seq. I had at home last night and they worked fine when I saved them in Aurora and imported into new seq. I'm going to build a new template in D-light and see if that works. ------------- Chris www.lightsonsixth.com |
Posted By: peteandvanessa
Date Posted: 05 Sep 2008 at 12:56pm
| Post it up here when you created it and I'll see if I can get the same errors |
Posted By: ChrisL1976
Date Posted: 05 Sep 2008 at 1:05pm
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The picture may have been the cause. The picture acted really goofy in the brightness adjuster, 100 was fine...if I dropped between 5-95, the picture changed all kind of colors from green to blues, then from like 5 and under it got dark. Maybe that screwed up the some part of the sequence which was causing to to crash??? Since I resaved the picture, it acts normal all the way through the brightness adjust levels. (It dims normally as you slide to the left) Although now I reload that picture file into a new sequence and it doesn't do it...UHGGG ------------- Chris www.lightsonsixth.com |
Posted By: peteandvanessa
Date Posted: 05 Sep 2008 at 1:26pm
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Let me make a $1 bet that this will come back and bite us. In the template I download it didn't have the pic that you have, therefore it loads the default picture which comes with Aurora.
With the default picture I can get Aurora to crash when drawing the lights. So my bet is that there is still a bug lurking in the code somewhere.
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Posted By: ChrisL1976
Date Posted: 05 Sep 2008 at 2:45pm
I'm about to run around the block screaming.... So I insert a completely different D-light sequence into the Aurora, draw all 64 channels on the house. Half way through the drawing on channels, I save exit and insert into a new sequences.....worked fine. Only thing I did after that was add 3 7 channel leaping arches which I deleted and redrew a couple times to get them to match and then went in and rearranged the channels and resaved... Opened a new sequence and CRASH when I click on draw after it opens. I will play around with a few things and see what happens ------------- Chris www.lightsonsixth.com |
Posted By: peteandvanessa
Date Posted: 05 Sep 2008 at 2:53pm
There, there, I told ya, there's somthin lurking in them there code 
My guess (and purely a guess) is that something is wrong in the drawing code or channel code since that's where the crash occurs.
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Posted By: ChrisL1976
Date Posted: 05 Sep 2008 at 2:56pm
I know......but god man, I want to sequence!!!!  ------------- Chris www.lightsonsixth.com |
Posted By: LightChristmas
Date Posted: 05 Sep 2008 at 2:59pm
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Would help trouble shooting if you could tell us what Error Code it gives prior to crashing.
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Posted By: ChrisL1976
Date Posted: 05 Sep 2008 at 3:13pm
YES!!!! I figured it OUT!!!!  LEAPING ARCHES BUG !!!!!!!!!!! Create new sequence create 6 channels save as file (crash test) and close open lineup into new sequence.....opens , click draw, no crash..close open crash test sequence again create 6 channel leaping arch save and close open new file import crash test lineup click draw CRASHES every time If you erase the Leaping arch and resave and reimport into a new file, it will open CLEAN. Does this help qualify me for any future beta testing.... ------------- Chris www.lightsonsixth.com |
Posted By: LightsOnLogan
Date Posted: 05 Sep 2008 at 3:20pm
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Very helpful... we should be able to look at this and work in a fix early next week.
Still could use the specific error code and message though... I'm going to guess here that one of the arc specific parameters are not being imported (e.g. arcstart, arcend, aspect, radius) and this is resulting in a math error during rendering. ------------- http://www.aurorashow.com/">
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Posted By: ChrisL1976
Date Posted: 05 Sep 2008 at 3:26pm
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Thanks.....I love that arch draw function...it makes them looks so perfect. Here's the error code: Aurora has encountered and unexpected error and will now reset Debugging information 5: invalid procedure call or argument Draw Preview Object LightsOnLoganSequencer ------------- Chris www.lightsonsixth.com |
Posted By: peteandvanessa
Date Posted: 05 Sep 2008 at 3:37pm
| Good work Chris!!! |
Posted By: LightChristmas
Date Posted: 05 Sep 2008 at 3:42pm
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Got my vote. If I had one, that is.
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Posted By: ChrisL1976
Date Posted: 05 Sep 2008 at 3:55pm
Thanks....  Ive always liked beta testing. I like figuring stuff out. I've also done it for Microsurvey for the last 4 years/Releases. They make the Land Surveying Data Collection Software we use at work. Actually doing it for them right now. In any case, at least I can fudge the leaping arches in and sequence this weekend and once its fixed, just adjust the template. ------------- Chris www.lightsonsixth.com |