Recent content by Thomas Johnston

Having an actual theatre technician or designer come and give insight on the design is crucial. We have a wire tension grid but 60% of it is useless because of how the lighting pipes are the lights just hit big steel beams that support it. Non dim able lights and dmx patch panles in the...

Hi All,Just curious. As a LD, Assoc LD, Asst LD, what do you have in your lighting bibles? What are important things you always have on or around you, other than the obvious?

I could set you up a database with a web page. I would need the "parameters" of the gobos that you would want to be displayed on a web page. Search the web page and it would bring up the set "parameters". If you have no budget I feel free to do it for free. I am in Toronto, Canada. Message me...

I Totally Agree But he is firm about it and will not let me…. I wish I could and I agree with all the points made

Hi Folks,We have 3 or 4 Gobo Rotators, the have their own power supply and than are controlled through DMX as per usual. I was wondering if it was possible to control the speed they rotate at through a fader on our Ion. We recently bought our Ion and I am not sure how and if this was possible...

ethernet from one of the ports on the ion. thats my best suggestion. wifi will slow the process down and lag the system a lot ethernet right out of the console dchp should be active.

We don't actually use a truck. The get wheeled to an elevator than up the elevator, rolled to the next building through tunnel, than to another elevator that takes them down to the studios. It is a school, and they didn't really keep us in mind when they designed it haha

Hi All,At the high school I attend we have 2 drama studios, and one 350 seat sized theatre. Our theatre manager is also in charge of the lighting and sound in the drama studios. We have lighting gear in all 3 venues and transfer the gear, cables, fixtures ect. between the two venues. Right...

yes we are running 2.2.2

we are running one universe

Hi All,I have talked to my TM and he said that I couldn't. He did not give me a reason. We already use up both the ethernet ports so if there is another way that would be great, one is for the dimmer node conversion and the other is for a wifi connection for the irfr. I am going to move one...

Hey CB,We recently bought and Ion and the TM at my high school won't let me move the ion. I am designing and programming for a show. It is very hard to design from in the booth because we are under the balcony and can not see the fixtures on the grid or above the stage. I asked him if I was...

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We have on section for our podium on the SL and SR for our custom podium. Normally there no more than 5 or 6 feet of cable running from our floor box to our podium. This is all surrounded in a multi cable and the podium is always on the platforms no room for more than 2 or 3 people

Hi All,I am in grade 10 at the high school I attend. The school will not give anyone who is very involved in theatre, keys to the booth. Does anyone know why this would be? It's not just myself it is the student that is our head lighting designer, and myself who is the Assistant Lighting...