A easy question i think about Vixen

[glaforce]

I have been looking at post where they say the sequence is "FLATTENED" i have seen this in the software but have no idea what to do with it or why i would what too either. looking for some input here kind of like Johnny 5 IN NEED INPUT!!!!

[Livermore-Dad]

As a newb, it seems to be that it inserts the entire "profile" piece into the sequence. Natively you have a sequence, the music and the profile. Flattening puts all the information into the sequence file (not the music).

So you are not going into profiles and mucking with channel count, channel order, or outputs in the profile, it's now part of the sequence.

I was flattening sequences when I moved them to my "production" laptop, the one that I was not developing on (sequencing).

Maybe there is another reason.

Tory

[budude]

There's basically two ways to go with sequences - and specifically when you want to create multiple sequences based on the same display item layout. You can either completely set up your first sequence with all the proper layout, colors, etc and then save that as the "master" sequence. For subsequent sequences, you copy this file to another name (safer than opening and doing a Save As...) and start up from there and it will have all the details in as the first one did.

The other way to go is to use profiles - basically it contains all the layout information and once you create that properly, you can start a new sequence and point to the profile and you're good to go. At this point there really isn't a better way since you basically have a common starting point whether a "master" sequence or a profile. However, there is one benefit to using profiles and that is you can make a change there and it will carry over automatically into all your sequences attached to the profile. Of course this can be a curse as well - but you can see if handled properly, that it helps manage things a bit easier. Without a profile, you have to edit each sequence one-by-one.

The good thing is Vixen allows every combination - attach a sequence to a profile, create a profile from a sequence and also "flatten" all the profile information into the sequence to make it completely standalone. If you're going to share sequences, sometimes it's a little easier to flatten it, remove all hardware plug-ins and leave just the Adj Preview. That way whoever you give it to can view and copy/paste to their own sequences.