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Don't know if any body caught this on the Today Shows this mouring, but not being familar with movers, at all, I thought this was a clever use of them. They are in the forground of Daniel Craig, being interveiew by Matt Lauer. Today Show Video Player

My first memory board was an EDI Troubadore 3, not sure the date but late 1980's or early 1990's. Installed on a nearby military base theatre. The next board was an ETC ACT 1. Both nice boards. Unfortunately, the Troubadore, being my first experience in memory boards, opened up an...

Who knows what is in the can, just put it on the self opposite the duct tape.:rolleyes:

There is no reason for the local school board not to install a catwalk system, or band dangerous ways of doing the lighting. Safer to put a couple of trees in the audiance for front lighting. This is life and death. I have a similar situation in lower South Carolina. I saw a staff member...

Gee, such fun. I generally make "H" shaped mounts using 2X4 and C-clamp the instrument to it. Two parellel 2X4's with a cross bar over the top, so it looks like an "H", I think everthing is about 12" long or so, depending on what I am mounting on it. A center hole can be used to bolt a light...

I should think that except for some small spaces or teaching, that two scene preset is history. However, I find that in smaller venues having a 48/96 is very handy to bring up single lights, or light a small set. More so if inexperience souls are doing the lighting. i can't imagine doing...

Grog, I also use ellipsoidal as much as possible. I also use ERS, however, too many know them as Lekos so one goes that route at times. I am surprised to hear about the Plano Convex, but then I have a couple of Parelliaspheres floating around, which if I am correct and someone may know...

Grog, I tried to avoid the Leko thing, but who calls them anything else these days, though I think the S-4 may change things a bit. I once work a theatre that had real Strand/Century Lekos. I also worked a theatre that still had a couple of plano convex instruments and they worked. I have...

I first saw magic sheets with touring companies as a way they had of keeping track, in the many different theatres or venues that they performed in, of what was supposed to be going on on stage. I would never call them a cheat sheet as they are not cheating on anything, they help the...

Think y'all have touched on most possible reasons for the damage. I have had connecters just melt down for no obvious reason. I usually suspect loose screws. Who knows what a dying lamp might create when the filiment shifts. Super bright, and a short explosive life.:lol: Gorg 12, there is...

In the strange world of things, I am about to become a sort of a consultant on a new high School theatre (backround only at this time). I checked with a supplier and said that the ETC Ion and a Marquee board are the current 'in' boards for high school theatres, the Ion being less expensive...

Gee, there was the Kliegl something or other around 1977, just saw it didn't understand the concept or have a chance to use it, somewhere in the mid to late 1980's learned to program a EDI Troubadore III, A shame the house lights where also in the board. I learned blind editing in a hurry.

Any chance you are talking about the v shaped thread witha 60 degree angle.

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You generally use color correction to match inside lighting to outside eg Rosco 3204 or others in that series or outside light to indoors eg as Rosco 3401 (roscosun 85). Lots of options here. If working in Daylight and you are indoors and you are useing 3200K lights then you need to color...