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Pre-Show Workshop: xLights 2-Day

Join in this unique and exclusive opportunity to learn xLights from the xLights developers! Students will be able to choose between the beginner or advanced classroom and can move independently between the two depending on topic of interest.

July 13-14, 2021 | 8:30am – 5pm
Lunch is included in cost

Agenda

  • Intro to xLights: how to install/update
  • How to create timing marks using audacity plugins
  • How to mark music phrases
  • How to layout your house, megatree, eaves, arches what should be first?
  • Sequence your first song
  • How to import in a sequence created by someone else, mapping file
  • Modeling your layout
    • Build in models
    • Channel block
    • Image model
    • Vendor downloader
  • Best practice setup and start channel configuration
  • Configuring controllers from xLights
  • Working with FPP
  • Singing Faces
  • Moving heads and other DMX models
  • Submodels
  • xLights internals
    • Buffer styles
    • Understanding the rendering engine
    • Understanding how your data goes from an effect to a model to a channel to a controller to a pixel
  • Value and Color Curves
  • Sub-buffers
  • Presets
  • Advanced effects
    • 3D
    • DMX & State
    • Morph
    • Piano
    • Music
    • VU Meter
  • xSchedule
    • Basic playing your show
    • Advanced play list items
    • Events
    • Synchronisation
    • Setting up buttons
    • API
    • Web interface
  • Open Q&A
  • Troubleshooting (logs, check sequence etc)
  • Sharing sequences & importing sequences
  • Views
  • Previews

What’s Included

Includes admission to xLights 2-day Pre-Show and lunch both days.

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Christmas Expo Conference

Main Conference:

July 15-17, 2021

Pre-Show Workshops:

July 12-14, 2021

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Public Vendor Hall Hours:
Thu: 12–5 | Fri: 9:30–5 | Sat: 9:30–4

• The Expo is open to the public
• To attend classes, you must purchase a Conference Pass
• Vendor Hall only is $10pp/day
• Children under 12 admitted free to vendor hall See full policy

Location

Tuscany Suites and Conference Center
(1 block off The Strip)
255 East Flamingo Road
Las Vegas, NV 89169

Reservations Information

Conference Classes

Core conference classes are included in the cost of a Conference Pass which includes access to the vendor hall and all core classes and events on the day(s) of your pass.

Workshops

Light-O-Rama Immersion
2-Day Workshop (July 13-14, 2021)

Lighting Installer Business Workshop (July 15-16, 2021)

Spotlight on RGB
1-Day Workshop (July 12, 2021)

xLights
2-Day Workshop (July 13-14, 2021)

Sponsors

Thank you to our Premier PartnerThank you to our Sponsors

Christmas Light Emporium - sponsor of Christmas Expo

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No audio/videotaping or live feeds in the classrooms.

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