In the Light-O-Rama Sequence Editor, sequences are represented using a grid. Rows in the grid represent channels, and columns in the grid represent the duration between timings. Cells in the grid are used to display what lighting effects are set in the sequence for that point in time on those channels.
Right-clicking on the grid brings up a popup menu. This menu contains several items which allow you to modify the currently selected cells, in a variety of ways. For example, you can insert lighting effects, cut, copy, and paste (both effects and timings), and delete or resize timings.
The following items are available on this right-click context menu:
•On
•Off
•Fill
•Cut
•Copy
•Paste Timing at (centisecond)
•Insert Timing at (centisecond)
•Delete Timing at (centisecond)
•Resize Timings to Equal Times
The right-click context menu
Fade Down
This item on the right-click context menu will insert a fade down effect into the currently selected cell or cells.
Fade Up
This item on the right-click context menu will insert a fade up effect into the currently selected cell or cells.
On
This item on the right-click context menu will insert an on effect into the currently selected cell or cells.
Off
This item on the right-click context menu will insert an off effect into the currently selected cell or cells.
Set Intensity
This item on the right-click context menu will insert a set intensity effect into the currently selected cell or cells.
Shimmer
This item on the right-click context menu will insert a shimmer effect into the currently selected cell or cells.
Toggle
This item on the right-click context menu will toggle the effects in the currently selected cell or cells between on and off. Any that had been off will be turned on; all others will be turned off (note that this includes not just those that had been on, but also, for example, those that had been shimmers or fades).
Twinkle
This item on the right-click context menu will insert a twinkle effect into the currently selected cell or cells.
Fill
This item on the right-click context menu will apply a fill to every off event in the currently selected cell or cells.
Background Effects
This submenu of the right-click context menu can be used to insert various effects (such as fades and shimmers) into the currently selected cell or cells, using background effects mode.
Note that this does not turn on background effects mode permanently; it merely enables it for this one insertion.
Foreground Effects
This submenu of the right-click context menu can be used to insert various effects (such as fades and shimmers) into the currently selected cell or cells, using foreground effects mode.
Note that this does not turn on foreground effects mode permanently; it merely enables it for this one insertion.
Change Effect Type
This submenu of the right-click context menu can be used to change the effect type in the currently selected cell or cells (for example, changing the effects in the cells to be shimmers, keeping their intensity values unchanged).
A before-and-after shot of using "Change Effect" on an RGB channel to change to twinkles
Change Intensities
This submenu of the right-click context menu can be used to change the intensities of the effect events in the currently selected cell or cells in a variety of ways, without affecting their event types. For example, by setting various options appropriately, you can change any intensity above 80% on any red channel of any RGB channel to 80%, or add 37% to any intensity on any channel. It has three menu items:
•The topmost menu item is the "quick" item; clicking on it changes the intensities in the same way that intensities were most recently changed.
•The middle item, "Recent", is itself a submenu. The Recent submenu contains up to ten items representing the most recent ways in which intensities were changed.
•The bottom item, "Detailed", opens up a window which allows you to set various options on how Change Intensities will behave.
For more information, see the Change Intensities page.
Smooth to Fades
This item on the right-click context menu will attempt to "smooth" rapid, consecutive effect events in the selected cell or cells to fades:
Sometimes, sequences (especially those created with the help of various automatic tools) will have sections wherein a channel will have many very rapid consecutive effect events. For example, "From time 0.00 to time 0.05, 10%; from time 0.05 to time 0.10, 30%; from time 0.10 to time 0.15, 40%; from time 0.15 to time 0.20, 70%". If done on many channels, this sort of thing can lead to laggy or bursty behavior. Moreover, it's often more or less indistinguishable (to the human eye) from the simpler "From time 0.00 to time 0.20, fade up from 10% to 70%", which is significantly more efficient. Smoothing effects in this way can improve the performance of the sequence (reducing lagginess) and also decrease loading and saving time.
Currently, this tool will only attempt to change consecutive effects that are each a tenth of a second or less in length, and that are either monotonically increasing or monotonically decreasing. Other effects in the selected cell or cells will remain unchanged.
Note that when applied to large selections, this tool can take some time.
A before-and-after shot of the effect of "Smooth to Fades" on the contents of an RGB channel
Test Track's Physical Lights
This submenu on the right-click context menu allows simple real-time control of the physical lights that are associated with the channels in the track. Using the commands on the submenu, you can make all of the channel's lights do a certain basic command (on, off, twinkle, shimmer), or else all behave in whatever way the sequence says they should behave at the exact time that you clicked in the track grid.
See also Test Physical Channels on the channel button popup menu.
The Test Tracks' Physical Lights submenu, when the popup menu was opened by right-clicking at time 0.79
Select Row(s)
This item on the right-click context menu changes the selection so that any rows that are in the selection become completely selected. That is, the selection will stay on the same row or rows, but from time zero to the end of the track.
Select Column(s)
This item on the right-click context menu changes the selection so that any column or columns that are in the selection become completely selected. That is, the selection will stay on the same time range, but from the first channel to the last.
Cut
This item on the right-click context menu will cut the effects from the currently selected cell or cells. Please see "Cut, Copy, Paste, and Paste Multiple" on the Edit menu for details.
Copy
This item on the right-click context menu will copy the effects from the currently selected cell or cells. Please see "Cut, Copy, Paste, and Paste Multiple" on the Edit menu for details.
Paste
This item on the right-click context menu will paste effects into the sequence, starting at the start of the currently selected cell or cells. Please see "Cut, Copy, Paste, and Paste Multiple" on the Edit menu for details.
Paste Multiple
This item on the right-click context menu opens a dialog that can be used to paste several copies of effects into the sequence, starting from the currently selected cell or cells. For example, you can choose to paste the effects three times in a row horizontally, and two times in a row vertically. Please see "Cut, Copy, Paste, and Paste Multiple" on the Edit menu for details.
Copy Timing
This item on the right-click context menu will copy the timings from the currently selected cell or cells. Please see "Copy and Paste Timings" on the Edit menu for details.
Paste Timing at ...
This item on the right-click context menu can be used to paste copied timings into the sequence. It opens a dialog asking you for the time that you want to paste the timings to (defaulting to the time that you right-clicked when opening the context menu). Please see "Copy and Paste Timings" on the Edit menu for details, and Time Format for details on how to enter times.
Paste Timing at (centisecond)
This item on the right-click context menu can be used to paste copied timings into the sequence, starting at the time that you right-clicked when opening the context menu. Please see "Copy and Paste Timings" on the Edit menu for details.
Paste Timing Multiple
This item on the right-click context menu can be used to paste copied timings into the sequence, multiple times in a row. Please see "Copy and Paste Timings" on the Edit menu for details.
Insert Timing at ...
This item on the right-click context menu can be used to insert a timing into the sequence. It opens a dialog asking you for the time that you want to insert a timing at (defaulting to the time that you right-clicked when opening the context menu). Please see Time Format for details on how to enter times.
Insert Timing at (centisecond)
This item on the right-click context menu can be used to insert a timing into the sequence at the time that you right-clicked when opening the context menu.
Insert Multiple Timings
This item on the right-click context menu can be used to insert multiple evenly-spaced timings into the selected cell or cells, based on the length of the entire selection. See "Insert Multiple Timings" on the Timings submenu of the Edit menu for details.
Also see "Subdivide Timings" for similar, but different, functionality.
Subdivide Timings
This item on the right-click context menu can be used to insert multiple evenly-spaced timings into each selected cell, based on the length of the cell. See "Subdivide Timings" on the Timings submenu of the Edit menu for details.
Also see "Insert Multiple Timings" for similar, but different, functionality.
Delete Timing at (centisecond)
This item on the right-click context menu can be used to delete the timing closest on the left to the time that you right-clicked when opening the context menu.
Delete Selected Timings
This item on the right-click context menu can be used to delete the timings inside the currently selected cells. Note that the two timings on the edges of the currently selected cells are not deleted.
Resize Timings to ...
This item on the right-click context menu can be used to change the duration of time between the selected timings. It will not allow any of the timings to be pushed beyond the next timing in the sequence. Please see Time Format for details on how to enter times.
Note that the length of the sequence will not be affected, nor the positions of the timings past the selected range. So, if you choose to resize some timings such that their total length decreases, this will cause the cell just past them to increase in size (since the last selected timing is moved earlier, while the next timing remains the same).
Resize Timings to Equal Times
This item on the right-click context menu can be used to change the duration of time between the selected timings so that all such durations are equal (or as close to equal as possible). For example, if you select two cells with durations of 0.2 seconds and 0.8 seconds, and use "Resize Timings to Equal Times", they will both change to 0.5 seconds.
Clear Freeform Play Range
If a track has a freeform play range selected, this item on the right-click context menu can be used to remove it.