Best way to trigger lx cues from video feed

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I'm designing a system for an exhibition where a video (AVI) is played on a plasma screen, but I need to trigger various lighting effects at specific parts of the video. Can I link my Das Light controller to a media player on one laptop so that either the video somehow controls the Das Light programme or at least somehow link the start of each programme (like when you insert a video into PowerPoint). This would need to loop all day, so would need to reset each time.

Thanks,

Paul Hyland

[Richard CSL]

There is no timeline function on Daslight, but if you create scenes for various parts of the video, then create a timer scene for each scene with a jump to next scene at the end of the time scene, however this does involve a stop watch , to work out where to put the timer commands.
You also need to use the first scene to start the timers and the video to sync the whole thing, I used keyboard shortcuts to start the whole timer banks and the video start scene.

As for looping, not sure this is possible.

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thanks