How To Create a Laser Show (A Detailed Beginner's Guide)
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- Опубліковано 13 лип 2024
- This one's for the beginners!
When I was starting out, I would constantly check the QuickShow wiki and Pangolin's tutorial videos to find any hidden information that would improve my programming.
I created this video for the beginner me.
It's a bit longer than I expected but it contains all the information and tips I wish I knew when I was starting out.
I hope it helps!
Missed Points:
• If you experience strobing on the laser, try reducing points per beam first!
Then point count or size.
• Color effects. Totally missed it. Make sure they're placed in the 'correct' order in your effect list. A size or position effect will change the way your cue interacts with color effects. Move the color effect above to retain the whole color effect at all times. Move it below to have the cue take on position-based colors.
• In key effects, 'Enable auto-keying' will automatically create a keyframe when you change the associated value. I always have this on.
Store - tinydeskraves.com
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QuickShow Demo - wiki.pangolin.com/doku.php?id...
Socials
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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
01:10 - What's a Cue?
02:08 - Shape Editor
08:41 - QuickTimeline Icons
11:46 - Set Beat Grid
15:16 - Tracks
18:01 - Events
21:43 - Key Effects
24:11 - Oscillating Effects
33:14 - Effect Track
35:14 - Workspace + Timeline Integration
38:48 - Show Finalization
40:38 - Outro - Навчання та стиль
The most anticipated video of humanity
seriously
Finally i can watch the tutorial of a profession that i will never get in.
Can you make a video discussing the safety concerns and precautions we should be aware of? Or a video dispelling safety myths would also be appreciated.
Bruh Finally. Those shorts have been edging me. FInally came through again and its so good to see a tutorial now.
dude
same even im edging to those laser shows
Dude this is just..such a good video! I mean seriously "Beginners Guide" software videos can be a lot of things.. Often times making it seem even more daunting than before you even started looking up how to use it, but this one is just outright - helpful. Love your hella calm vibe, I feel like this was so 'fully' informative, and nicely paced. I was just curious to see how this worked, I dont even have a laser, and honestly I was just gonna have this on in the background to ignore but now I feel like I can (and want to!) dive right in and start busting out my own badass light shows. Thank you laser guy
Great explanation and tutorial, Vox! You're truly amazing. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with the community and providing another way to learn laser show programming! 😄
glad you enjoyed the episode little buddy 😊
Amazing. I hope Pangolin sponsors you as you are the reason many of us are buying their products. Getting QS next week and will be trying it on Chinese 5w Ilda Lasers. I hope this wont hinder me too much until I can afford Unity/KVant projectors.
Will be purchasing your shows first thing.
After 5 of your videos in my short feed, I am sooooo happy I opened your channel to find this
Thank you so much for this! I bought a Raw 1.7 awhile back because I saw your videos last year. I've been fiddling with it, trying to piece it all together, but it's definitely not easy. Super excited to watch this all the way through, cus I know there'll be something that I didn't know in here. Thaaanks!
got my projector delivered recently so perfect timing on this thanks!!!
There's some really helpful tips in this video, a couple things that are handy that I wasn't aware of! If you actaully created a course that we could take to learn how to make shows like you do, I would absolutely buy that! Thank you for making this tutorial Vox, love what you make! :D
thank you so much for this! i never knew where to start even with the basic and this is a big help. my listening room for music will be incredible in the future thanks to you
Great video!!
Sooo interesting, thank you so much and keep it going!
Thank you very much for your good work
AWESOME!!🔥👍
My guy, these are absolutely insane. Can you do a massive compilation of your sets/some really long ones for insanely nice visuals. Would die for this for getting on the cook
Wow amazing ❤
Keep them coming please! There isn’t to much to learn from :(
Your shorts drew me in I haven’t been interested in lighting for years but I did also use a crap old software called das light on XP LOL
Hey dude awesome tutorial! I'm still really new to laser design and was wondering if you could do a tutorial/brief explanation on safe zones? I would really like to be able to project with a setup similar to what you have in your immersive videos. Anyways you're a huge inspiration and I'm looking forward to seeing more content from you! 😊
Thank you my goat
😃😃😃😃 thank you for this omg
Hey Vox, love your shows, keep up the great work!
The problem you uncountered around 38:00 can be easily solved if you use a cue list, it's in Beyond but I'm not sure if it's in quickshow. Once you drop a cue to your timeline it gets added to the cue list. If you want your cues to be linked, drag them from the cue list to the timeline instead. This way, if you want to add an effect to all the linked cues, you add it not to the timeline but in the cue list, and it'll affect each and everyone of them. Likewise you can replace cues in the cue list and it'll change all the linked ones that are in the timeline!
Hope that helps if you weren't doing that already!
Right! I actually haven't done this using the cue list directly but I'm gonna start haha thanks for the tip! I was surprised that this wasn't a feature in QuickShow. It's the biggest timesaver for me so I was pretty excited to share it with beginners.
Nice one
Just wanted to say, the laser shows you make for these beats are dream visuals. i wish we had more of for rythm games in VR.
Its a real shame we dont get more stuff like this there considering a lack of worry for burning peoples retnas out.
Bless sir
muchas gracias
like before see the video!!!
i will see the video,manu thanks!!!!
@VoxDaemon I'm looking to chain two lasers together, one FB4 and one ILDA. Can you run them both from one Quickshow instance?
I wanted to ask you a question, what is the signal that comes from your PC to the laser? Is it from one laser to another or is there a central one to distribute?
Will this software work with other laser brands that are ILDA/DMX compatible?
Давай еще видео туториала, ты делаешь мощно💪
What kind of projector is good for this application?
Yesssss
Have you made a video on how you setup your preview window yet? I want you to get into it lol
Are there any more budgetfriendly lasers u can recommend?
I have so many questions. Can I use these light in soundswitch? Does the software you are working in have Link? Can this be controlled using a Roland SPDX Pro for triggering. If I have two lasers, can I just mirror the movements from the master to the slave through a daisychain? How many shows can I create in one universe? How many midi CC slots, ei (A1, A2...) does the software have? I'm about to buy 2 and I'm looking for answers. Hope you can help. Great video.
How much would you charge to Remote Desktop it and set it up for us?
can you show how to setup 2 laser that show difference projectile
Can I purchase/download your shows once I have a projector?
came back to see if there was a second video coming out
Thank you for this video!!! Will there be more tutorials to create a good/prefossional timecoded laser show or a tutorial for Beyond? (which I believe you also use for your online videos?)
I’ll see what I can do! Creating a video focused on the useful Beyond timeline features sounds like a good idea
@@vox.daemon Okay thanks ;) . I've only used Pangolin Quickshow so far, but I've been thinking about buying Beyond for a long time. Beyond will be for more professional purposes, right? Do you have many more options for creating a better laser show with Beyond or is it worth the extra charge compared to Quickshow? Or should you just get Beyond if you want to control more than 9 lasers? I don't make any money from it (yet).
Does your setup use a fog machine? Your beams look very distinct compared to what I've been able to get even when using a high number of points per beam.
Hey your store is down? When will you have your site back up? Interested in the show files you have for sell.
Thanks for posting this! Thoughts on number of lasers for starting out for small indoor shows ( typical large house)? awesome!
Start out with two lasers. Programming will be easy since you’re just mirroring! If you go for an odd number you’ll have to get very intentional with your designs. If budget allows, try to grab some with at least 3W of power
@@vox.daemon Thanks!
Around the 6:22 mark could you potentially use the stuttering effect to potentially make “machine gun” lasers? I saw a video I don’t remember how long ago of a show where the dj had a machine gun effect with the lasers. It was bad ass! I don’t know if it’s really possible, but curious if you could give it a shot in a future video??
It definitely could be! I would probably pair it with a strobe effect (oscillating brightness w/ 2 discrete steps) and maybe an X position effect to give a sweeping motion. Great idea for a future video I like it
man i cant order the lazer box thingies since its only in United states lmao. maybe someone knows an alternative?, im from Philippines
Great content.
I would say the background music is a little annoying for things like this. Now I need to fight the urge to buy a laser since I’ve only just seen this kind of thing and my ADHD will make me start a new hobby on a whim.
Show what 3kae we can get for laser show
Any way to set this up with a DJ software??
Yes! You can connect it to VirtualDJ for beat syncing. If you use Beyond (the paid laser software) you can timecode your sets
I wonder what the name of the laser system?
In the description
Sheeesh
Is Quickshow compatible with Apple silicon?
I believe QuickShow will work properly using a mac with an Intel chip running Bootcamp. Not too sure about M series chips.
Wait what kind of lasers do you use?
It's in the description
Is there any way to Crack this program Quickshow?
I believe you need an FB3/4 to use QuickShow. It comes free with the controller
Be aware if you get caught using cracked versions of the software that you can get banned.
Probably won’t ever spend 2000 on a laser light
nah beyond is better than quickshow.
🤩❇passionnant thank you for all these tips, I love your creations🤩😍
lol, overpriced laser setup comes with ability to buy overpriced "patterns" for your laser show.....