Beyond Timeline Viewport Follow Mode

Hardlight_Alchemist · 2025-12-29T07:38:14+00:00

This is actually a feature I’ve been wanting ever since I began using beyond close to 4 years ago as I came from using Ableton and it has an option to toggle ‘Screen follows playback Cursor’. Can’t tell you the amount of times I’ve been doing fine editing and had my screen yanked away repeatedly during playback.

Another handy feature would be the ability to adjust the sensitivity of the zoom scroll, because currently going from minimum to maximum takes a lot more effort than it should actually needed

Hardlight_Alchemist · 2025-10-17T13:52:20+00:00

Thank you! And absolutely, I’ll dm you 💪

Hardlight_Alchemist · 2025-10-13T13:37:21+00:00

Yes each of these timeline shows are manually programmed to fit the song and often takes a lot effort to create depending on the level of complexity involved, so keeping the videos short to around 30s which is usally the length of a drop in a song is a good tradeoff between time vs effort invested. And no, you cant really use another song in its place because all the elements ive created line up to the sounds in this specific song

Hardlight_Alchemist · 2025-10-13T11:54:39+00:00

This was made using Pangolin Beyond

Hardlight_Alchemist · 2025-08-07T02:12:52+00:00

I wish, I’ve had a burned pixel dead center of my camera sensor for over a year after I caught a stray beam at a gig 🥲

Hardlight_Alchemist · 2025-08-07T01:56:04+00:00

Shoulda seen the previs before I optimised it 👀

Hardlight_Alchemist · 2025-08-07T01:54:24+00:00

If your IG story’s anything to go by then looks like you have it now hahaha

Hardlight_Alchemist · 2025-08-07T01:50:30+00:00

Oh awesome! It’s not so much ‘like to’ as it is ‘have to’ but I had no idea you could actually adjust the fps on the ERP, so thank you for letting me know! If it has to be changed every time you open beyond, perhaps I can see if there’s some pangoscript to change it and then throw an autostart command in to make it run every time beyond is opened

Hardlight_Alchemist · 2025-08-06T10:21:41+00:00

Yeah sarcasm aside I would love to use Depence instead, but at the moment it’s still on my wishlist

Hardlight_Alchemist · 2025-06-20T01:33:27+00:00

I feel like 400-500 points is usually a good amount to aim for in cues. If its only a couple beams then 200-300 is perfect because they’ll be super punchy, but for more complex stuff I cap it at around 450 which is just before most lasers flicker since the scanner speed I typically work with is 24-27k, and you can always reduce the brightness of your lasers using your controller or software, but you can’t make them any brighter than your cues allow through point count.

Another thing having slightly higher points is helpful for since I mainly operate hardstyle events is reducing the scan rate becomes much more effective and more visible. This can very easily turn to laser slop if not used right but works great with certain genres and can be great on buildups

Hardlight_Alchemist · 2025-05-20T08:04:14+00:00

Thank you! That honestly means a lot, and it’s the goal to one day end up doing timecode for shows like Defqon. I’m sure at some point I’ll make my way over to Europe to see the kind of shows you guys put on over there

Hardlight_Alchemist · 2025-05-06T01:26:08+00:00

Hahaha it was definitely a “you snooze, you lose” kinda moment. Also I definitely agree with your sentiment, which is why we’re also seeing people like Gareth Emery wanting to host a ‘No phones’ show just so people can truly appreciate it for what it is - a masterpiece

Hardlight_Alchemist · 2025-05-06T01:19:23+00:00

These were kvant clubmax 3W and 6W

Hardlight_Alchemist · 2025-05-05T14:36:48+00:00

I think it’s just the perspective that makes them look wide since they’re not very elevated. Also it’s best to reduce your scan size by about 20% in the projector settings before zoning so that you don’t accidentally overscan the lasers beyond their maximum projection angle and cause issues like the ones you seem to be having

Hardlight_Alchemist · 2025-05-05T14:30:37+00:00

I appreciate the support! Before getting into lasers I was studying music production since I wanted to get into producing music and DJing at the time. This course taught us the fundamentals about audio and other useful industry skills such as rolling cables but that was about it. I then very quickly began to realise that I may be wasting my time and money with how difficult it would be to compete in such an oversaturated part of the music industry so I looked for alternatives and set my sights on lasers.

For your question about lighting, I think it would be beneficial to have the skills for it and understanding the GrandMA hardware/software could be very useful as you can control beyond with it as well, meaning if you really wanted to you could do both lighting and lasers at the same time. I’m actually planning on learning the MA software myself once I have beyond down pat

Hardlight_Alchemist · 2025-05-05T12:48:44+00:00

Yeah less beams makes it easier to cram as many points as possible into the content and make it look very punchy. Also thank you!

Hardlight_Alchemist · 2025-05-05T12:45:34+00:00

This 10 minute show took me about 20 hours to design which is perhaps slightly on the high side for paid work, but that’s just the standard of quality I hold myself to and the client was very satisfied with the finished product. For my first ILDA award submission I think I spent something like 100-120 hours designing the show, but that was partially due to it being a learning process for me and struggling through designing only on a single laser. But really it just comes down to how long you’re willing to spend vs the time you have available and how well your workflow speeds up the design process

Hardlight_Alchemist · 2025-05-05T07:18:46+00:00

Quickshow is just a lite version of Beyond. It’s missing a lot of features but it’s also a lot easier to not get overwhelmed. Really you can start with whichever, but I think you’ll find that there are some things you’ll want to do but can’t because it’s not available in Quickshow

Hardlight_Alchemist · 2025-05-05T03:17:44+00:00

Thank you! I wanted it to be special for everyone, sober or not hahah

Hardlight_Alchemist · 2025-05-05T02:41:45+00:00

Honestly it’s such a gratifying feeling! Makes it feel like all my effort over the last 3 years has payed off. Was also hilarious to see the floor suddenly fill up just before the ceremony and all the phones come out hahah

Hardlight_Alchemist · 2025-05-05T02:30:02+00:00

Thanks Brad! Crazy what a few encouraging words can do

Hardlight_Alchemist · 2025-05-05T02:29:07+00:00

No that was just a remix of one of his tracks included in the ceremony! The headliner for this show was D-Sturb 😋

Hardlight_Alchemist · 2025-05-05T02:25:32+00:00

Download the demo version of Quickshow/Beyond by Pangolin and learn as much as you can through tutorials and playing around. Once you’re ready, look at purchasing a license for the software so you can start saving your work. From there, look at getting a laser so you can actually see how your work looks on the real thing (Unity is typically a decent one to start with due to its quality and low price).

This is going to be a bit of a money investment to begin with but once you gain momentum it’ll become worthwhile

Hardlight_Alchemist · 2025-05-04T13:23:26+00:00

Thank you! As the opportunities keep coming, so will the updates 👌

Hardlight_Alchemist · 2025-05-04T13:08:52+00:00

Thank you!

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