Rick's Show setup 2010 (I want to be like Bill)

[rrowan]

Thank guys

For the nice comments

Mike, I have been working hard to get the show layout even and neat, for years it was very heavy on the left side with just the Nativity on the right side. Many thanks for noticing

Cheers

Rick R.

[rrowan]

Hi Folks,

Today the weather is taking its real first shots at my display

We have a Wind Advisory today along with heavy rain.

The tall choir girl next to the nativity scene has already fallen over. I just added a pole to support her.

Concern about the LE on the back of the roof and did I miss anything while setting up?

Cheers

Rick R.

Hi Rick

Yes you did miss something

1 - The rope light little train and Santa sled were not staked down
2- One walkway Blown Mold was missing a screw to secure it to the 4x4

The roof lights, most are now not a straight line.

Overall Not a too bad of a job.

All the lights worked just fine in the wind and rain last night (Dec 1, 2010)
Xlights started and stopped the show at the required times

Cheers

Rick R.

[rrowan]

ok, I dug this post out of the pile. 

I finally was able to edit my first video of the season. I have more to do but here is Music box Dancer 2010

I decide not to use the HD upload since I can only do it once a week and it take so much space. The video's this year is shot with my Nikon Coolpix P-100 on a tri-pod of course. The show starts around 5pm so there was some daylight at the beginning. Hope you like it.

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Cheers

Rick R.

[Rainlover]

Very nice Rick!
That is one of my favorite songs.
Did you use any special settings on your camera?

John

[Ron]

Great job Rick!  Love the show.  The mini trees look great.

Ron

[rrowan]

Thanks John and Ron,

The camera?
I will have to check the setting tonight. I know I set the focus to manual so it wouldn't try to keep changing since the camera and display don't move. The rest I will check on.

Cheers

Working on When Christmas comes to town video at the moment. Some days at work are tough, there is also a Holiday Party at noon for the employees.

Rick R.

[Made2Rock]

I love the show. You really did a great job. I watched what you did last year and now you have me fired up about close encounters. 

[rrowan]

ok

Second video is up (man I love my new macbook pro and imovie-2011)

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Thanks Rock, I forgot about Close Encounters for this year

Cheers

Rick R.

[Rainlover]

Second video is up (man I love my new macbook pro and imovie-2011)

Cheers

Rick R.

I love my MacBook Pro too!


John

[rrowan]

Third Video

2010 Winter Wonderland (yeah finally a new seq for this year LOL)

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Cheers

Rick R.

[Made2Rock]

Rick,

  I got 46,000 lights across 420 channels (or something like that). So when I saw what you did I loved it. This is one of those ideas you just got to take and run with. You did a great job on it Rick, I just want to take a shot at seeing what is would like to run out the whole 2 minute sequence...... Then I could add a fog machine and several Aethers for a really bright light. OK, I'm not going that far.

Joe

[rrowan]

Hi Joe,

That would be so cool. You have to go for it. I fully believe that a hobby is suppose to be FUN. Without having fun why do it?

I have no idea how many lights I use and I am just slightly more that half of your channels. Then again channel count goes crazy with the SS. Hmmmmm, Smart Strings and Close Encounters..........

hehehe, the encounters mp3 was made to ROCK

Cheers

Rick R.

[Made2Rock]

I'll send you the link once I get it done.

Joe

[rrowan]

Hi Folks

Last video until later

forth video  Christmas Vacation. Now this one I am not totally happy with and I should work on it some more. But the show must go on..hehehe. I still have Carol of the Bells to edit and upload. That should do it for now.

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Cheers

Rick R.

[Made2Rock]

Like everyone tells me. You may not be happy with it but it looked really good to me. You timing is really GOOD.

Joe