Awesome christmas lights

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2005-11-22 05:07am

Video with sound, amazing stuff

I really want to know what equpment they used for this.

Soontir C'boath · Post by **Soontir C'boath** » 2005-11-22 07:25am

That is the coolest Christmas Decoration, EVER!

Edit(forgot light boards can preprogram stuff in): Heck, depending on how many channels he had, I wonder how many light boards and what kind he used.

And it's a damn good tune to go with too.

Majin Gojira · Post by **Majin Gojira** » 2005-11-22 08:22am

Ho-Lee-crap. That was complex!

The Guid · Post by **The Guid** » 2005-11-22 08:53am

He must have fainted when he was the electricity bill though.

Soontir C'boath · Post by **Soontir C'boath** » 2005-11-22 09:03am

With detail such as this, he would have to know how much power he's using as to not overload the circuit breakers or whatever possible system he added to it(a work such as this should have its own dimmer box with its own set of breakers anyway). With that, he could calculate how much he's using and thus the price can be found already before lighting it up.

Mrs Kendall · Post by **Mrs Kendall** » 2005-11-22 09:12am

That was amazing!! I passed the video along to my family members, this certainly gives us lazy people no excuse not to decorate

Fleet Admiral JD · Post by **Fleet Admiral JD** » 2005-11-22 03:34pm

Soontir C'boath wrote:That is the coolest Christmas Decoration, EVER!

Edit(forgot light boards can preprogram stuff in): Heck, depending on how many channels he had, I wonder how many light boards and what kind he used.

And it's a damn good tune to go with too.

You wouldn't need many...The ones I've worked with should have been able to do that.

Soontir C'boath · Post by **Soontir C'boath** » 2005-11-22 04:29pm

Fleet Admiral JD wrote:You wouldn't need many...The ones I've worked with should have been able to do that.

Well, I was thinking an amount of two light boards at the most. Eyeballing this guy's work, he definitely has at least 50 channels going there.

I definitely want(but most likely can't) to do something like this for my dorm's exterior. There is just this one long section which faces the parking lot that is begging to be lit up.

Fleet Admiral JD · Post by **Fleet Admiral JD** » 2005-11-22 04:58pm

Soontir C'boath wrote:
Fleet Admiral JD wrote:You wouldn't need many...The ones I've worked with should have been able to do that.
Well, I was thinking an amount of two light boards at the most. Eyeballing this guy's work, he definitely has at least 50 channels going there.

I definitely want(but most likely can't) to do something like this for my dorm's exterior. There is just this one long section which faces the parking lot that is begging to be lit up.

I'm an AV nerd, operating lights/sound at my high school, local community college as well. Where would one get a light board?

Soontir C'boath · Post by **Soontir C'boath** » 2005-11-22 05:10pm

As far as I know at the moment since I never contemplated into looking into light boards before, this 48/96 channel lightboard plus some features I never got to look at (since I graduated) that my high school theatre director bought cost him around 5K, he had a consultant come in for it though so I don't know exactly which company it came from. There are some that I see such as from music123.com but they simply don't hold as much channels as one would need for this type of stuff(I think I saw at max a 32/64 channel system there for a couple hundred).

Of course 32 channels is still a lot as that's what my high school used to work with since one scene section was broken, heh. Still did the job.

Post by **Gandalf** » 2005-11-23 06:16am

That's downright bitchin.

It seems there is truly a new benchmark in home decorating.

Morilore · Post by **Morilore** » 2005-11-23 06:51am

Mother of God.

Did the decorator actually play that music while all that shit was going on?

Dennis Toy · Post by **Dennis Toy** » 2005-11-24 01:44am

reminds me of "close encounters of the third kind"

The Jazz Intern · Post by **The Jazz Intern** » 2005-11-24 11:56pm

How do you suppose they did that?
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to tape my jaw back up.

Sriad · Post by **Sriad** » 2005-11-25 12:49am

Morilore wrote:Mother of God.

Did the decorator actually play that music while all that shit was going on?

I'd say 99.999995% certain that it was. The odds that a Christmas-y rockin' song synchs up THAT well with a random lights display over a 3:30 period is like Heart of Gold improbable.

Ketira · Post by **Ketira** » 2005-11-25 01:09am

YE GODS!

That reminds me of something I saw on the news last year: someone in Orlando had a short-range radio broadcast station going and had programmed his lights to go along with the music --with a sign outside telling passers-by just where on the FM dial one should tune to.

Now there's something I know I can't do; a programmer, I ain't. *sighs*

Braedley · Post by **Braedley** » 2005-11-25 02:31pm

In all likeliness, he used a fully computerized light and sound board (or even just a light board with a good sound input). I unfortunatley have never used a light board like the one that he most likely is using, (I'm a sound guy, not a light tech), but one was used for my high school musical when I was running the sound boards. There are a number of ways to set this up, but the easiest way, which also happens to be the most tedious and time consuming, is to wait for a single trigger from the sound source, and then have each slide independantly timed to the music. This reduces false positives from the music cues to the light board, and guarentees that the lights will follow the music, as long as the lightboard gets the cue. To make it even more extravagant, you could set it up so that it only takes syncing cues at key points in the music to make sure it stays in sync.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2005-11-26 06:06am

What song was that playing? Fucking righteous tune to go with that christmas-light wankage!

Fleet Admiral JD · Post by **Fleet Admiral JD** » 2005-11-26 09:07pm

Soontir C'boath wrote:As far as I know at the moment since I never contemplated into looking into light boards before, this 48/96 channel lightboard plus some features I never got to look at (since I graduated) that my high school theatre director bought cost him around 5K, he had a consultant come in for it though so I don't know exactly which company it came from. There are some that I see such as from music123.com but they simply don't hold as much channels as one would need for this type of stuff(I think I saw at max a 32/64 channel system there for a couple hundred).

Of course 32 channels is still a lot as that's what my high school used to work with since one scene section was broken, heh. Still did the job.

Our 48/96 Colortran "Innovator" can hold up to 144, IIRC. We only have 76 lights, a few of which don't work. It's enough to get the job done, but I wish we had more.

Post by **Beowulf** » 2005-11-26 09:46pm

Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:What song was that playing? Fucking righteous tune to go with that christmas-light wankage!

Wizards in Winter - Trans-Siberian Orchestra

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2005-11-26 10:03pm

Beowulf wrote:
Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:What song was that playing? Fucking righteous tune to go with that christmas-light wankage!
Wizards in Winter - Trans-Siberian Orchestra

Got it, just couldn't be arsed to post so. Thanks

Braedley · Post by **Braedley** » 2005-11-27 12:52am

Fleet Admiral JD wrote:
Soontir C'boath wrote:<snip>
Our 48/96 Colortran "Innovator" can hold up to 144, IIRC. We only have 76 lights, a few of which don't work. It's enough to get the job done, but I wish we had more.

5 bucks says it's either 128, 192, or 256, only because most of the boards on the market today are all digital inside.

Singular Quartet · Post by **Singular Quartet** » 2005-11-27 02:45pm

That has soooo got to piss of the neighbors.

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2005-11-27 05:29pm

Was I the only one that was cracked up by that? I can't put my finger on it, but there's something about the lights flashing to the music that I found wierd.

Soontir C'boath · Post by **Soontir C'boath** » 2005-11-27 05:40pm

Beowulf wrote:
Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:What song was that playing? Fucking righteous tune to go with that christmas-light wankage!
Wizards in Winter - Trans-Siberian Orchestra

I should've know it was them. I definitely have to get their cds.