Sequence Hershey Kiss Christmas Commercial

[Sequence]
Hershey Kiss Christmas Commercial

FREE SEQUENCE from Listen To Our Lights "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" Hershey Kiss Commercial by the Hershey Chocolate Company. This is the Christmas commercial where instead of ringing bells they ring the Hershey Kisses.
Video Preview (2022): Link to Sequence: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Or9IJeamVt_WHf5EtH84uHtnXl9W1uFB/view?usp=sharing

Xlights Version: 2022.24 64-bit
Timing: 25 ms (40 fps)
Duration: 14.970s

"Hershey Kiss Christmas Commercial.xsq" - This file contains the xLights programming information for the sequence
xlights_rgbeffects.xml - This file contains the layout information for ListenToOurLights display
xlights_networks.xml - This file contains the network information for the ListenToOurLights display
Images/layout_guide.PNG - image describing xLights layout groups used to sequence this song
"Hershey Kiss Commercial Polyphonic Transcription by AUD.txt" - Polyphonic Transcription labels from Audacity

[Contact Info]
Sequence Author: John Storms
Email: listentoourlights@gmail.com
Youtube: http://youtube.com/listentoourlights <-- please subscribe
Website: Listen To Our Lights
Facebook: Listen to our Lights


[Audio]
I don't share music. Below is information for how to purchase and edit the song to get the same mp3 file I used.

Hershey Kiss Commercial

How to convert a youtube video to MP3? Sounds like a good question to ask Google.
"Hershey's Kiss Christmas Commercial HD" posted by "FM1156" on September 15, 2015
Youtube Link:
v2 we added 2 seconds of silence to the audio since it gave people time to stare at the tree and be all nostalgic.

Modified using Audacity version 2.3.3
1. Deleted dead air from start
2. Generate->Silence->Duration 2 seconds at end
3. Effect->FadeOut from 00m12.511s to 00m12.971s
File->Export->Export MP3->Filename: "Hersheys Kiss Christmas Commercial v2.mp3"
Bit Rate Mode: Constant; Quality: 128 kbps; Channel Mode: Joint Stereo

Using Moises.ai | Mastering & Audio Extraction App powered by AI to break out tracks (Drums, Bass, Other)
Used moises.ai to help breakdown song.

73 beats per minute in Eb major.

Used Auto Lyrix Align to import the MP3 and Lyrics to generate a Audacity File .txt that was then directly imported into xlights as a timing track

[Layout Notes]
Display contains 2 megatrees with matrixes encircling the trunks, 13 white wire twig trees in a treeline, 9 reindeer and sleigh, pixel icicle lights, a mess of coro snowflakes, and a pixelized cactus.

See Images/layout_guide.PNG for layout information.
G1 - refers to the one car garage
G2 - refers to the two car garage
T1 - refers to the left side of the house (left peak and below)
T2 - refers to the middle part of the house (there's a bathroom here)
T3 - refers to the right side of the house (right peak and below)
_ - Group names start with underscore
Goto "Display Elements" and select "ListenToOurLights" view and set to be master view.

[Dependencies]
You may need to update the path information in certain effects (shader, picture, etc.). The following were used in this sequence:

None.

[Lyrics]

None.

[Singing Tree]
Purchased "EFL Singing Tree" with star topper from EFL-Designs.com in December 2021.
Tree has 300 WS2811 bullet pixels and the star topper has 50 pixels for a total of 350 pixels.
Tree model was downloaded from EFL-Designs.com and Star model used xlights native star model.
Star model is configured as 1 string of 50 Nodes/String with 2 layers with an Outer to Inner Ratio of 2.62

[3D Model]
ArrowWood 4199578.obj/.mtl was created with SketchUp Pro 2021 version 21.0.339 64-bit (Free Evaluation) using a .skp file generated by Hover app as input.
squarebush*.obj/mtl was created using Blender v2.79b
bigtree.obj/mtl was created using Blender v2.79b
Defined ruler with G2 Garage width = 190.75"