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Side lights mounted at the ends of an electric, typically in threes, that provide high-angle light.

Two boards are fastened face-to-edge or edge-to-edge, without overlapping.

Thank you guys! Making the absolute effect run presets worked perfectly. My only remaining question now is: how do I get it to snap between steps, rather than the crossfade I'm getting now? I'd love for the effect to fade in with the cue, but then bump between each step.

Hey all, So I'm trying to program a specific-looking effect into the Ion, and I'm not sure how to get what I want. We have an archway of 18 RGBA lights, and we're looking to make a color chase that starts at the top center and chases out to either side simultaneously. I've gotten close a few...

I did a run of "Big River" where the raft was actually a moving platform, much like what you're describing. Since it was all volunteer crew anyway, the theatre's solution was to "hire" a crew member to be under/in the raft for the duration of the show, pushing it around like a sort of ninja...

I've heard several accounts of Google Calendar being implemented successfully in a business situation, though I've never heard yea or nay with regards to theatre. I should think it would work pretty well.

Hey there! I have Vivid-Rs at my theatre. I don't know the answer as far as lighting a painted drop goes, but we had one designer light a cyc with both an electric of SkyCycs and a Vivid-R ground row. I do have to say, when he used both for a single colour, he was able to blend the SkyCycs and...

(Not sure if this thread belongs in the Electrics part of the forum or not. In my own mind, it's directly concerned with safety.) I just moved into a theatre that should be in better condition than it is...... The first production of the season is almost out of tech, and nearly every day I...

I agree wholeheartedly with this. It happens to be the situation I'm in at the moment, though, so just a warning: apparently that kind of attitude can happen in some techies or crews. I find it unfortunate, but it is the case that something like "Hey so-and-so, have you found in your experience...

And it is exactly this that is making me consider a career switch now, now that I have already been in theatre for quite a number of years. I literally don't have spare time. And this is more common than I originally thought when I started pursuing theatre. So while I think it's neat that my job...

I just took over the lighting department at a particular house, and I definitely ran into this problem on my first couple of calls. Here's what to do:1) Do not overthink the issue. 2) Make a plan. 3) Stick to it.In my case, I found that the workers' disrespect didn't end up stemming from...

Source Four PAR lens storageHas anyone come across any ingenious/safe/pretty/efficient ways to store Source Four PAR lenses that aren't being used? In every theatre I've been in, it's been stacks of them in cardboard boxes, with foam in between each. I'm looking for something more permanent...

Good call, JD. I actually have several working fixtures as well.Yeah, I'm just kind of in the dark here. I haven't even seen this "dead" fixture, and I don't know if "dead" means "no power", "not moving", "not striking", or "it fell from the electric and shattered on the deck". The other...

I looked around for a topic like this, but didn't find exactly what I wanted. I've done minor repairs on moving lights with good success, but it's always been a situation when I've clearly seen the light doing something wrong, and tackled that thing directly--for example, the color wheel...

I'm pretty sure she won't be happy with that. She's got her heart set on this one particular time when she did the piece outdoors and it happened entirely coincidentally. Besides, if nothing else is blowing around it's going to look like a floating feather boa, not like something being blown...