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Use a lascr connected to the flash. They were popular devices that people connected to a slave flash in the film camera days. I paid about a dollar for it and connected it with a flash extender cable.
Actually..... that wasn't a half bad idea, an external "trigger"; that's thinking outside of the box, I have to give you some creds on that.
I guess I'm really looking for something like this:
https://www.nicolaudie.com/en/slesa-u9.htm
Assuming it works like this external media player:
https://www.amazon.com/VonHaus-1080p-Mini-Media-Player/dp/B00NEIYBK0/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1484797236&sr=8-6&keywords=media+player
Where you just save your video to an SD card and plug the media player into a projector and it starts playing your videio in an endless loop.
The added benefit would be to trigger the lights via DMX signal.
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Anybody ever integrate DMX control into their videos?
Example, I'd like to trigger a strobe light when there's lightning.
How could I do something like this without having to manually press a button or slide a slider on a DMX controller?
Any ideas?
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cparsons, Thank You for the info (and starting a new thread so this wouldn't get drowned in the original thread), it has been most helpful though I didn't have the EXACT same problem as you it was pretty close and your info has helped me troubleshoot this further and move on.
I didn't see the path "%SystemDrive%\users\public" anywhere specific to Cyberlink software; therefore I believe your path problem is due to a local environment variable setting. To view your system's path you can go to the Dos prompt and type path. C:\>path
To view and edit go to Control Panel System and Security System > Advanced tab, Environment Variables button, Sytem variables, select Path, Edit....
I'm new to PowerDirector and have had it for only 2 weeks. It wasn't long before I noticed problems with templates not installing. I first noticed it when I installed a template (worked as advertised) then decided I didn't like it and deleted it from within PowerDirecto14. Then I decided I did want the template and attempted to re-install it is where it would failed. Now even new templates fail to install, its not just install, delete, re-install situaions, that's just when I first noticed it.
So with your help I see they are installing here:
C:\Users\Public\CyberLink\Downloaded Effects\Type Effects\pip00x where x = the number of a successful installation.
When the installation FAILED it would create a folder named __tmp__ in the top level folder and dump the contents in there;
C:\Users\Public\CyberLink\Downloaded Effects\__tmp__
To make it work I would have to delete that __tmp__ and try again. Sometimes it would work on the next attempt and sometimes I would have to try over and over several times until it finally worked. I can't figure out the logic behind why it's failing, I tried several things like renaming the file, re-installing with __tmp__ folder in place and maybe a few other things. Nothing was fully duplicatable. My best results were with deleting the __tmp__ folder and trying again.
Something is definetly wrong with the template installation process in PowerDirector 14. I'm using Windows 10.
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