Recent content by NevilleLighting

I have a channel range and some random channels that will not acceot a dimmer in patch. I can bring the light up by address, I can patch that address to a channel and everything looks good. I go to Live and bring it up and nothing. The channel is even grayed on the screen (unpatched). I've been...

Does anyone know where I can get some CD-80 packs? They can be either single or double sided. Single preferred. I can arrange payment through the death labyrinth of university accounting.

Those movers you mentioned aren't too heavy. Moving head and yoke weights can mean a lot. That's a bonus since with movers you have to take into account not just weight but inertial twisting forces. Keep in mind that the max forces you inflict are often not how you cue them but what you put them...

...what Tim said. The 70 and 90 degree lenses really do well with less distortion than you might expect. Perhaps a touch more difficult to get en even pattern edge across the whole field but I'm always impressed. Since you're going for soft focus you shouldn't have a lot os issues.

Sounds like you're headed to NSMT. I've designed a number of shows there. The rep plot is pretty thorough. I've never felt a strong need to make changes to the area lighting except tweaking some PAR washes. The hard part is finding available real estate to shoehorn in additional equipment. If...

I worked as production manager for a large summer stock company. Most of the people I hired were either college students or recently graduated. The one stock question I had was "what do you want to be when you grow up?" It helped show me how much people would be dedicated to the job as it is or...

And, relating to my post and others I read COLLEGE WILL NOT TEACH YOU EVERYTHING! Get out there and work while you are in college if you possibly can. Even though I teach in a BFA program I consider a tech theatre program to be a weird bastardization between an arts/philosophy degree and votech.

I am a professor so I am confronted with this question often when students are burned out, getting carp jobs and wondering why they should finish the degree and get the paper. That happens most often when those students have taken all of the theatre classes that interest them and are left with...

I don't think that colleges are necessarily becoming de-skilled. I think technology has become much more complicated and layered. I'm an bit of an old timer, a free lance designer and a professor so I have multiple perspectives on this. Most of what I do today I did not learn in college. When I...

I like the technical terms which is why I call them wiggle lights. They wiggle this way, that way then go blinky, blinky, flashy, flashy. Sometimes they have those patterns things.

Although the incandescent has better color rendering than the other two choices I find that the color temp is way redder than what we see in stage lights now. Your average 60w bulb has a color temp around 2600-2700 K while our stage lamps run at 3200K (when full). I work at a state college and a...

I agree with sound light, Chauvet can be hit or miss. Sometimes their manufacturing can be iffy and that can lead to issues like connector problems or bad color matching. Overall though I think a lot of what I have seen from them recently seems more robust. I do think that price is always a big...

That tour was '87 I believe, maybe '86. The video I've seen from it is of such poor quality that you won't get a lot of satisfaction from it unfortunately.

Its a small Flat screen monitor I need to feed. I agree, I should bite the bullet and go directly to the QLab solution. Mostly I am dreading an agonizing VGA run. I'll probably see If I can get them to hire a contractor for that chore.

I'm looking for a dmx controlled video blanker. A switcher might also do the trick. I'm working on a museum project that is a large diorama that has a model drive-in movie theatre. The movie is played by a dvd player under the model. Ideally I'd like to blank the movie screen while we are in...