Recent content by dbaxter

A couple of years ago in this discussion I recommended a coat of concrete sealer prior to painting. Did anyone ever try that? We'll be coming up on another recover in a year or so and it would be good to know of other's experience.

You may find our Cue Player One software and one or more USB to HDMI adaptors to be a solution. CP One will support sending up to 5 independent video outputs. It is cue based for theater work and each video cue can display that cue's file on any mix of the outputs. Timed fades in and out as well...

The Donner units transmit and receive just like another instrument. Unfortunately, there's not both inputs and outputs so you can't daisy chain them in your DMX run. I mean the input to the receiver is the radio signal and the output of the transmitter is its radio signal. So address the...

This is Les Laisons Dangereuses. The cream color was the lighting designer's dream. She could make it pop in many colors. Hope I never have to hang 7 chandeliers again. With the molding and detail, there are around 80 pieces to each tower. Things we do for 3 weeks of show. (and love it!)

Mount a "T" handle to a 8' piece of molding and tape the sharpie to the end of a broomstick. Line it standing up!

A computer based lighting control system would certainly fullfill your needs and budget. The things to watch for would be that it's not DJ oriented, but designed for cue-by-cue theater work and has softpatching abilities. Both for conventional instruments and your future LEDs. You will need a...

They have a clear water- based polyester that works well. We mix a little of it with the colored paint when we do our floors.

Back again at Pemberley. This is the downstairs of last year's show. This is "The Wickhams Christmas at Pemberley". Real happy with the way the table and benches turned out.

Just added another free tool to my site. It was prompted by a comment I saw here a while back (sorry, searched but couldn't find it) saying it would be nice if there was a program to display a script and be able to mark it for cues. Sort of an on-screen stage manager book. So I had some time and...

I don't have a copy of the Marquee software, but I can say that our software, Cue Player Lighting. is based on the same paradigm as the Horizon for display. It may make it easy for you to transition to something that does run on Windows 11.

There was a picture of Tim on the secret door far SR. It's the door Scarlet and Mustard come out of after entering the other secret door that popped open in picture 3 across the top. We had two stage hands and exiting actors move the periaktoi and stuff between scenes. The floor grid was helpful...

Here are the major scenes in Clue. Probably the most complex thing my team and I have had to build. Two periaktoi and two book flats. The storage V's of the periaktoi were finished as well. Total of 9 doors. But worth it for sell-out crowds and an added performance. (now maybe there will be...

The time has come to replace our older instruments. What is our current favorite general purpose instrument (other than S4)? We have some Chauvet E-910FCs that work really well and are considering a batch of ETC ColorSource Spot Vs. But I thought I'd check in here and see what other folks are doing.

You join them together first, then cover them. Having just made 2 for a production of Clue, here were my steps: Start with a base triangle, in your case 4x4x4. Next add your 8' verticals, we used 2x2's because they had to support a door on one side and an arch on the other. You could use 1x if...

I could suggest our software that has an easy color picker and we just added a map for movers to tell the pan angle given the install location and where you want the light. Tilt is up to you. The submaster control has a setting for a rep plot that would allow for 8 fixed "scenes". Free trial...