A HISTORIC DAY!!

[Bradfo69]

Lessons learned thus far:

1) What looks cool in the preview window does NOT translate to "cool" from the projector.

2) Being in the US sucks. Looks SO much better when you're "in the beam".

3) Mixing graphics with beams, as so many have done in Quickshow shows, is kinda stupid.

4) There is a certain "high" from seeing your work added to the Pangolin Show site.... that immediately becomes embarrassing after filling a room with haze and watching it for "real". Proof your shows before going public.

5) Once started... show creation can become another addiction.

6) Lasers rock!


All for now...

[swamidog]

hahahah.

i can fully agree with this.

Lessons learned thus far:

1) What looks cool in the preview window does NOT translate to cool from the projector.

2) Being in the US sucks. Looks SO much better when you're "in the beam".

3) Mixing graphics with beams, as so many have done in Quickshow shows, is kinda stupid.

4) There is a certain "high" from seeing your work added to the Pangolin Show site. That immediately becomes embarrassing after filling a room with haze and watching it for "real". Proof your shows before going public.

5) Once started... show creation can become another addiction.

6) Lasers rock!


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[hakzaw1]

Nice work Brad-- PM coming

[Bradfo69]

Lessons learned thus far:

1) What looks cool in the preview window does NOT translate to "cool" from the projector.

2) Being in the US sucks. Looks SO much better when you're "in the beam".

3) Mixing graphics with beams, as so many have done in Quickshow shows, is kinda stupid.

4) There is a certain "high" from seeing your work added to the Pangolin Show site.... that immediately becomes embarrassing after filling a room with haze and watching it for "real". Proof your shows before going public.

5) Once started... show creation can become another addiction.

6) Lasers rock!


All for now...

I forgot one BIG one. Hit "Save" repeatedly!!! I learned that the hard way yesterday and lost about two hours worth of work on a new show.

In the dark, running back and forth between viewing what I was creating and tweaking it on the computer, I apparently kicked the laptop cord loose from the wall. Without warning at some point, the laptop shut down with about 20 seconds left in the song I was working on. The system restore kept it in memory but I wasn't able to save it since things locked up midway through the restore and I had to reboot.

NOT a happy camper last night.

[The_Doctor]

I forgot one BIG one. Hit "Save" repeatedly!!! I learned that the hard way yesterday and lost about two hours worth of work on a new show.

And if the software can periodically autosave with different temporary filenames, so much the better. Show data is fairly small, like MIDI data, compared to what it does. If your files have some text string you can locate, you have a good shot at recovery even in worst case situations, as the OS will write the file to a different spot each time. Opening a disk editor and searching for some known string can find lots of old saved files lost to the OS itself. I have often recovered bits of vital code, specific variants I has deleted, assuming them invalid, this way. Even repeatedly saving to same filename often results in a new copy, and so long as the old space isn't overwritten there is usually a chance at recovery. Files smaller than 32KB are often pulled back intact, having been saved in contiguous clusters.

Brad, try this, if your software DOES autosave without you knowing, and you're sure you have not moved big data around on that drive, you might still recover that work. But this does depend on knowing what you see is right. It really pays to know how a tool saves and formats its data for this kind of recovery.. Best place to learn that is by looking at a known good file in a hex editor...

[ImageLight]

Saw some of Brads work in laser yesterday... Have to say, It's very good stuff.. I think he has a bright future in this lasershow biz..

[Bradfo69]

Thank you kind sir! araugh saw some today and seemed impressed with my first efforts as well. Always nice to hear. (You both actually said "wow" in exactly the same spot so I guess I did something right!) Show number three is coming along nicely.

[mixedgas]

Thank you kind sir! araugh saw some today and seemed impressed with my first efforts as well. Always nice to hear. (You both actually said "wow" in exactly the same spot so I guess I did something right!) Show number three is coming along nicely.

1. Pics or it didn't happen.
2. I put a post-it note on the monitor that's says "save now and save often"
3. Where's the Sabre?

Steve

[polishedball]

Awaiting your beyond efforts

[araugh]

Looks really great in person, I wish the first shows I did were half as good!