Recent content by lorilights

I started in Middle School, then got my degree. Worked free-lance for awhile but the pay and irregularity (too many jobs in March and December, not enough the rest of the year) led me to a job as TD/LD and adjunct faculty at a Community College PAC. Started part-time but have been full time for...

I am excited to report that I recently re-lamped my auditorium with TCP 17W dimmable LED PAR 38s - which would fit in many strip light fixtures. There's a tiny amount of flicker, but quite acceptable to me and my boss when you consider that we went from 12,000ish total watts down to 1,500ish...

I know that this is good in terms of generalities (using a stopwatch to know when a cue happens) but having it happen on a beat of music requires a much more detailed time ....even using a stopwatch it is easier to count beats for many cues. That said, I have students program lighting projects...

Hi John Chenault, One issue I have with using a computer to hold lighting notes is that it wrecks my eyes and alters my perception of color and intensity. Seriously. So all my notes are on paper. Which is fine for your method as well as long as you use a printout! Just thought I'd mention it :)...

Working with dance - nowadays with Go-Pro it's OH SO EASY!!!! If it's something like a rep concert (ie. not storybook ballet, so a bunch of disjointed pieces and no theme throughout) I just have a blank page and a stopwatch and a camera. I go to rehearsal, hear what the choreograghers have to...

I teach at a Community College but recruitment is the name of the game and one thing I find is that it is very helpful to have people who are very positive about what they do go in and talk to students - I steal a lot of actors that way. And having fun stories about real-life situations and...

I am not sure how your ETC port in the house was wired... if it is already connected to port 1 through a linkage or if you have to manually plug it in - all my DMX ports terminate at the "normal" board location so I can choose - since sometimes I want it to be another location for the board (so...

If you want CHEAP, get slide projectors from Gov't surplus (replaced by video projectors) or EBay or freecycle and print logo onto transparency paper, cut and insert in slide mount. I use them to advertise our show sponsors on the side walls of my auditorium and they show up fine with house at...

I usually use port 1 for my dimmers and port 2 for the moving lights. You can plug the moving lights together (daisy-chain) and not use the opto-splitter. You need to address the moving lights (first one should start at "1", second one depends on 16 or 32 bit but I usually use the board to...

I saw the Altman's at a mini seminar - they got around the video issue by having a switch so that they either a) faded up smoothly or b) worked with video. Other mfg's had smooth fading ones that also worked with video (at the same time), so I wouldn't recommend the Altmans - does anyone have...