Recent content by randerson

Forget your expression and run everything from LF. LF is great with conventionals too. Otherwise use midi if the expression takes it. LF can output midi signals at cues.

I see this thread is really old so I wanted to give a bit of an update. I own lightfactory and really like it. About a year or two ago it went through a huge revision (V2) and added a ton of features. At first, a few years ago, it was unstable, but now the latest build runs flawlessly. I...

The lamps are GLC. So that's not the problem. The lamp cap is correctly mounted as described by Les. I switched the lamp caps and it didn't help. When I put the good one back, it was no longer that good. I found that if I just push on the knob or turn it slightly all of the sudden it gets...

I do have one fixture that is half way decent, I'll try switching the caps. Yes the "base" fits very snugly into the "socket". In fact, so snugly that you sometimes need tools to remove the lamps. The whole lamp cap also fits snugly into the back of the fixture. The lamps do look a bit...

I'm working on the lighting at a community theater and they have a bunch of 50 degree shakespeare (no S4.... :evil:). I can't get rid of the hot spot on these fixtures to save my life. They have a similar adjustment for this as the S4s but if I turn the knob all the way clockwise (moving the...

I want to get a hold of a copy of Stanley McCandless' "A Method of Lighting the Stage". Its out of print, $70 on amazon, not on google books, don't want to deal with Questia.com, and not available at local libraries. Does anyone have a .pdf version?

In DVD Player on your mac go to preferences --> windows --> uncheck "Display status information"I would also copy it onto your HD so that the DVD drive doesn't have to be booted up. Just quicker and more reliable.