Problem 6.= For some reason the beams of light seem to have all moved up a bit so they are pointing through the objects instead of the holes and yet I never ungrouped them meaning that I couldn't move them without moving the whole light! Unfortunately ungrouping the lights means no animation! I had grouped the spot light with the objects that made up the case so that when I animated them they all moved together. Ungrouping any objects means that the animation is lost, but I had to in order to move the lights up to stop them from looking out of place.
Solution.= Ungroup move the lights and start all over again with the animation process! This time I didn't group the objects. Although grouping tidies the select objects window I will have to do with out and just name them all, which I did anyway I just didn't want to have to scroll down a huge list of names to find what I wanted.
Problem 7.= For some incomprehensible reason max seems out to get me because the smallest a beam of light can go is 0.5 which is fine to get a laser effect as is shown on the left of the screen shot below. The problem is that I would set it to 0.5>test it>fine>move to the next light>set to 0.5>test it>not fine. The previous one has changed to 2.5! this is truly baffling and nothing I can do will stop it from changing it. Now obviously some clever person would give me a quick easy explanation and it would turn out that I am just being an idiot, BUT the real problem was that sometimes it would change it and sometimes it wouldn't. So...
Solution.= I have to change them all, click render and hope for the best! (i.e. max sucks!)
Problem 8.= I took this re-animating opportunity to tighten up the timing of the lighting to the music. It is now a lot better and now fully in time. But Now that I have changed it my previous problems (number 3 and 4) have come back to haunt me! The reason being is because when the new video cuts out and the old one shows the lights are in a different position because I hadn't tampered about with them.
Solution.= The source of the problem is the self-illuminating materials so I would have to render two versions; the first having everything as it should be then the second with the materials removed making the room dark. Then I would have to re-cut the 2 to alternate rapidly in premier pro again to achieve the flashing/strobe effect. This should solve the problem as is currently shown below.
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