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    High School Venue Survey

    My school's theater is a performing arts center in a public school that gets funded jointly by the school district, township, and donations. We have all the the district music and events as well as some road shows and concerts and ballets from outside.It's a thrust stage with the house raked...
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    Hanging A Projector from Batten

    It seems like the only mounts that Panasonic makes for this projector are expensive and don't allow a pipe or clamp connection.I'd suggest getting a universal projector mount (or something similar) that accepts a 1.5" SCH 40 pipe, and use a short length of pipe attached to the batten with a...
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    SeaChangers Not Marking

    Can you enable automark?If you do need to write autofollow cues for movement, writing a macro will speed up the process dramatically.
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    Booth Pictures :)

    Yeah, there is hardly any knee space but the sound op has to stand to see the stage anyway, so it isn't too bad.
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    Hanging Moving Lights in a Weird Position

    Under the catwalk can be a problem. For me, once hung I can barely reach the locks, and seeing the screen is impossible.
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    Phase rotation?

    Phase rotation determines the direction that the motor spins? Which would explain the phase reverse switch on distros?
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    Hanging Moving Lights in a Weird Position

    Yup that's what I was suggesting. Although the safer sidearms would work great if you did want to go out in front.
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    Hanging Moving Lights in a Weird Position

    Yes I meant 1.5" pipe, thanks. I keep doing that.
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    Hanging Moving Lights in a Weird Position

    Is this a permanent thing or just for one show? Are you trying to hang below the catwalk or out in front?I have hung movers from under catwalks in a way similar to this successfully. If we ever need movers from the cats, we do a ~2' long taildown with 2" sch 40 in a U or upside down T...
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    Setting up an MA2 ONPC rig

    MA2 onPC is free to download and play around with, as is MA3D if you want to play around with a free visualizer. In order to output DMX you'll need a node, the simplest version is 1 universe and runs about $1900. Alternatively, you can get a command wing for roughly $5800 which also serves as...
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    Rigging incident Adele concert

    I did once witness an old, overloaded chain motor fail and the truss (which was a Foy rig) freefall 15 feet... Although I'm sure this isn't too common, I do wonder what the frequency of such accidents are. Though it was definitely avoidable had the motor been used properly..
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    Rigging incident Adele concert

    Can you explain what that means? In regards to flipping chains and running over over.
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    Booth Pictures :)

    Just wanted to show off the new booth at my school. This was built with the installation of a new sound system and new spotlights.Electrics side, running an Ion 1024. You can also see the new Canto spots in their booths that were built last year. On the right is the SM's centerSound...
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    Replacement for Martin Krypton 250

    I highly recommend Rogue R2 Spots. I recently used both Krypton 250s and Rogue R2s, and they both have the same features. But the R2s are faster, brighter, and much sharper than the Kryptons. Also, the R2s have a great diffusion.
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    New to Lighting

    I think that the first step would be to confirm with the designer that he doesn't need individual control of the lights that you wish to two-fer. I don't know how extensive the plot is, but usually if two lights are able to be two-fer'd, it would be noted. Why do you want to load up those...
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