Recent content by NABster07

My worst would be in our last production of Beauty and the Beast, where i was "discovered" at a production meeting and cast as gaston. While rehearsing the battle/death scene, i fell off the "safety" platform from about 10 feet, landed flat on my feet, tearing my ACL and patellar tendon. Had...

With my theater, a highschool space that was just built eight years ago, we have a TD that is incharge all the time. He also teaches some tech theater classes that help out with building huge sets and such. He is always busy because when we dont have one of our own productions, we are being...

Just because they stopped making it doesn't mean you cant still buy one. I am sure there are plenty of houses with them still in stock. Sounds to me like you want the express, and it would be perfect for your situation. I would call around, because they are still out there, just because they...

I completely agree. I am currently working with two express boards and couldn't be happier, but in the summer I use a smartfade and I HATE IT. It seems like there are replacements, but not all in one. The smartfade take care of the two scene preset part, the Ion will take care of all the heavy...

One thing just to watch out for is the name of the file. For an express, it will only find the file if its named EXP2.shw. I ran into this problem when writing shows on the offline editor, and naming them with the name of the show and having it not be able to find the show on the board. But...

How do I insert a lighting position that is vertical? We have 4 box booms and it would be great if I could actually have them vertically in my plot (at least for the renderings). Anybody know how to do this?

Having spent the summer programing shows on the smart fade, I would not recommend it. If you are running a festival type event with a bunch of subs, you will be fine with it. If you are programing shows that run for weeks on end as I was, with over 100 cues per show, your life will be a living...

We just acquired 5 High End Studio Spot 250's and I am wondering about the photometrics of these. Right now they have the standard 18 degree lens in them. We are looking into getting the 27 degree lens to use in them occasionally. The only time they would be used with the 27 degree lens would be...

Does anybody have any experience with both of these fixtures? We are looking to rent some for our upcoming production of footloose, and I was wondering if anybody had any advice on which way to go. The Studio Spots are much closer (They are in NH where as the MAC's are in Mass, and we are in...

does anybody have any experience with both of these fixtures? We are looking to rent some for our upcoming production of footloose, and I was wondering if anybody had any advice on which way to go. The Studio Spots are much closer (They are in NH where as the MAC's are in Mass, and we are in...

on an express, just make the channel not dependent of the GM. Just go to channel attributes, and make it independent. I do this with my house lights and rotators.

Here is a link to a good video of how to coil cable. http://stagecraft.theprices.net/gallery/cablewrap/cablewrap-rm.html Hope it helps.

As far as the 750 on the side of the instrument, that doesn't mean that they have 750 lamps on them. A source 4 is rated for up to 750 watts. We personally use 575w lamps most of the time, but for some of the longer throws we use a 750 because of the light lost over the throw.

I run the same board, and did something like this earlier in the year using extra dimmer packs. The way I ran it is we had our house dmx in the 1st universe, but that only used about 205 of the 512, so in the setup, I made the 2nd universe start at 250 or 300. When you address the equipment...

two words: EDUCATIONAL DISCOUNTS I'm not sure if you are a student or teacher, but based on you signature you work at a school, in which qualifying you for educational discounts. I recently purchased Vectorworks Design (includes spotlight and 4 other versions) with Renderworks for a student...