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Thanks for the ideas, everyone! I will pass them on.

Found it!http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0010BHHHW/?tag=controlbooth-20

Hi all,I recently visited a church, who had a rolling cart for their confidence monitor. The unique thing about this cart was that it was nice and low to the ground, unlike virtually every cart I can find that mounts the flat panel somewhere around 4' high.I've attached a really lousy...

Apologies for resurrecting an old thread, but my wife's HS is doing this show, and she is looking for non flame ideas for Lumiere. Any suggestions, websites, instructables, etc., would be greatly appreciated!

We are only using it as a locked down wide shot of the stage, for our lobby. I'm very happy with the image quality: low light sensitivity, etc.I am, however, a video NOOB! It looks good to me, but we just upgraded from a 20 year old VHS camera feeding 25" TVs, so anything is going to look...

Just to follow up, we ended up with a Canon VIXIA HF G10. It should come this weekend. Thanks, Tom

Great questions, and thanks for the clarification! The $1-1.5K is for the camera only. I don't see the need to push 1080 at this point: from what I've read, the bang for the buck just isn't there (yet), and I don't think hardly anybody would see the difference in 720. I can also see...

I'm looking for advice on purchasing a video camera. This camera's mission is solely to send a video signal of our stage to a couple of 47" lobby monitors. I don't need recording capability, but would like to get a decent looking HD signal. I know I'm going to have to convert the HDMI to Cat6 or...

FollowupJust thought I'd give you all a followup as to the decision/direction we're going. Long story short: we're going with Chameleon. I was having trouble with my Enttec USB PRO DMX interface —*it would only send DMX through the Pro Utility, but no other software. Ben, the developer of...

"I would suggest going the chamsys route, just switch it over to the "simple" mode."Thanks, guys. I'll definitely give Chamsys another look. I wasn't aware it had a "simple" mode.I'm in Central California. I've already got a vendor/installer I'm really happy with (Rick Franke of...

Never checked the brand, but they're 1K dimmers. 8 sets of 4 dimmers. Circa 1985 or so. Definitely DMX, though.

I hadn't thought about asking around within the district. I'll definitely have my wife do that!miniStageConsole is a simple 1:1 program. No combining of channels, although that's a good thought. We could easily assign several dimmers to one channel. I'll check that while evaluating other...

That's certainly a possibility, although I was hoping to avoid it. At this point, any costs are coming out of my pocket, so I'm looking for best bang for the buck. Also, we are three weeks out until opening night, and it would be great to have some lighting cues in place before the last week, so...

Greetings, all. I'm sure the answer is on this forum, however I feel like after 60 minutes of searching/reading, my head is swimming with more information than I'm able to process!! Here's the situation: My wife is a HS theatre teacher, and they're putting on a musical at the end of...

I've taken several apart, and it is, indeed as you say: silver is neutral; brass is hot.While it would be nice to convert over, frankly that's the least of their worries. This poor theatre has been so neglected, that a conversion would probably be about #12-15 on the list. Just a few par cans...