We had the same thing, scisor lift was broken, and we were using trees 2 winch ups and a push up (oh by the way are push-up trees illegal now?) and Loki and I spent the better part of a day trying to guess where the fixtures would need to be, winching back up and then down again untill everything was perfect, and as we had so little fixtures, every one had to be used to get the maximum performance, no overlapping. That was a hard day.
Nick
I beg to differ. Everything should be patched, working, colored with all instruments sharp on shutter by the time the LD walks in. If the show is running behind it can be okay to wait on color, but anything less is just wasting the LD's time....You don't need to patch before focus...in fact I personally hate pactching before focus as its one more thing to troubleshoot when a light doesn't come on.
But I'm just a little grumpy right now so pay me no mind.
You don't need to patch before focus...in fact I personally hate pactching before focus as its one more thing to troubleshoot when a light doesn't come on.
But I'm just a little grumpy right now so pay me no mind.
I beg to differ. Everything should be patched, working, colored with all instruments sharp on shutter by the time the LD walks in. If the show is running behind it can be okay to wait on color, but anything less is just wasting the LD's time....
You certainly do not need to patch, but it makes life a whole lot easier when using any flavor of ETC Express/ion, to have the correct channel patch for when you want to bring up more then one unit at a time and don't want to live in Park all day on an RFU.
Which is why I ALWAYS load the patch prior to a electrics call.
SB
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