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Once you have
your frames and animations, the Showtime program puts them
together with music. It works with any music: the computer's
internal CD player, waveform or MIDI files, and external SMPTE/MIDI
cueing.
There is nothing easier or
more precise than Showtime's editor. It uses familiar
timelines, like those in Adobe Premiere or Macromedia
Director.
Pick a frame (or animation), add
an effect (such as "rotate" or "fade in"), and put them together on
the timeline as an event. Move the event start and stop times to
match the music -- it's that simple.
This lets you use sophisticated
transitions like those in TV and computer graphics. Just
drag-and-drop to make fades, wipes, zooms, moves, reveals, real-time
morphing, color cycling and much more. Showtime can also
trigger external devices such as beams, lumia, fog, pyrotechnics and
lights VIA DMX 512 Protocol .
With Showtime's
masking feature, your foreground laser images can "mask" or hide
background laser images. All you do is specify which frames are
masking, and which frames will be hidden. Showtime does the
rest.
Showtime lets you become
much more productive. It is trivial to do stock shows, where you
substitute different clients' logos. That's because Showtime
is frame independent. Replace one frame with another, and the show
plays exactly the same -- even if one frame is much shorter or
longer than another.
Shown below are
the "SHOWTIME " Show creation windows.
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TOP LEFT |
The Timelines
for dragging and dropping laser frames to synchronize to music |
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TOP RIGHT |
The effects
window allowing for the creation and implementation of
transitions and effects to affect the frames dropped into the
timeline. |
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BOTTOM LEFT |
The Frame
list of available laser frames |
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BOTTOM RIGHT |
The laser
preview / playback window |
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