Recent content by SerraAva

Have to agree with soundlight on a lot of things. Rip offs are rip offs are rip offs. They don't move forward, simply keep us where we are.However, I will a test that the Tri-LEDs are amazing. I have a few Opti Par Tri's in. Have to find time and take a few shots of them. Very punchy and color...

I have to agree with a lot of the above. High End Systems, unfortunately, got some of the profiles just plain wrong. I find myself editing profiles and completely building profiles for other lights from scratch a lot. The fact that all the lights exhibit the same behavior leads me to believe...

Big Source Fours aren't much larger, hang 1.2" lower, an .8" longer with the barrel in (how I always transport them), and the barrel is actually .2" narrower then the barrel of a Jr. A truck pack 8 way lamp case to transport them is going to loose maybe an inch off the top if you order the case...

I have been working in a theatre with them and can say I hate them with a passion. The shutters are horrible as others have pointed out. You can't rotate the barrel for tricky shutter cuts and/or gobos. The gobo size is M, all my clients/people that rent the theatre use A or B (mostly B), so...

Hey Guys, been crazy busy the last few months with all the political stuff going on. Anyway, here are some shots of what I have been up to: Spent the whole month of October going all over Pennsylvania for Sen. John McCain. Was a neat experience. This is a shot of Inauguration Day...

Another nice part about the Elation splitters is each output, 3 pin and 5 pin, has a DMX drive behind it. This means you can effectively use it as an 8 way split. However, there are only 4 separate isolated branches. This means that if something causes 5 pin output A to go down, 3 pin output A...

It is indeed the USB drive that comes with the console.

Fixture builder on the Hog is known to be very buggy, hence the reason they warn you not to use it and check on the forums at HES for profiles before making one. Otherwise, it is kinda like a crab shot with the fixture builder. Sometimes fixtures turn out fine, sometimes I can't use certain...

Palettes and blocking cues are your friend. I use a blocking cue at the end of every scene/black out. This way, what I am editing/adding/subtracting only affects the scene I am in.Palettes are written for just about everything, so instead of finding and updating cues, update the palette. Much...

If you open the cue lisit, select the Comment section and hit 'Set'. A drop down menu will open up. You can then do all sorts of cool things when the cue is triggered. For example, when busking, I create a cue lisit for each color and gobo. I then have one blank cue lisit to release color...

Hog 3PC can be downloaded here. When in the program, it will even have the console lay out exactly like a Hog 3, and very similar to a Road Hog or IPC. Then just sit with the manual and read away with the software in front of you. Then when you get the actual console, it is not like jumping into...

You might want to look for a dimmer with built in chases/sound activated mode to do this without a console. I would post some links, but rather hard on the 2.5" screen I am working with right now, lol. Check Chaulvet, Elation, NSI, and/or AMDJ. Posted via Mobile Device

Hmmm, I have yet to have a problem with my DS575Es data wise yet. They have been chained along with other things, like strobe/s other movers, Elation or otherwise, LEDs, and even dimmer packs. I always use a splitter however and only DMX. The cable they come with is like the XLR that comes...

I would take it a step farther and look at a Road Hog or IPC. Touch screens will make life easier, and both have effects engine built in making rock and roll lighting very easy to accomplish. I just finished a Nutcracker show that was more rock and less ballet. Had 84 S4 pars, 24 lekos, 6...

Makes sense that they overkill it a little. Overdriving camera's for effects is a pretty common thing. So if you are going to state it is flicker free, might as well make them flicker so fast that no camera will ever pick it up, even if overdriven to say 60 fps.