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Hello,I'm the ME for a production of the Tempest and the LD wants to use MIDI controlled strobes for the opening storm sequence. There will be an electric drum set that should be able to control the strobes individually. I'm not sure how to hook it up. I've never used MIDI with lighting...

Here's a very comprehensive list, compiled by ship in 2002-03, primarily for electrical tools (with pictures!). Here's a list from IATSE local 33. Anyone else have any lists to share? EDIT: Since the IA list is member only now, here's an internet archive of that list.

Hello,I'm an intern at Long Wharf Theatre. My theatre is working on a play called Lewiston. It's set at a fireworks stand. We need to make a bunch of set dressing firework boxes. I'm looking for some kind of printable fire resistant paper, but Google has so far given me nothing to go on.My...

Hi all!I'm setting up our light plot from a university designer for our spring musical this year. I've had experience with our ION board, using conventionals as well as intelligent lighting (DMX). The problem I have when circuiting a plot, I'm not too sure how to figure out how many of an...

Title says most of it. I need opinions and ideas for an upcoming show I am doing. The name of the show is Shamrock Showcase. Basically the idea of the show is a bunch of Frats and Sororities on my campus are coming together to have a large dance show.Here is a preview of my idea so far...

General I'm a student at a college theater, and we have an incredibly annoying problem where a random number of our intelligent lights will power up as soon as our lighting board turns off. Our SetupETC Eos Lighting Board Connects to an ETC Net3 Show Control Gateway Ancient ETC Dimmer Rack...

Hi again, I am a young student who is very excited with the world of lighting and attends a school where we use ETC. On a school issued laptop I had IT install NOMAD offline. However, due to file location of the library I cannot use it. Does anyone know where that file hides once downloaded?

Hello,Thinking about purchasing from a Chinese company some simple utility cases, nothing that needs to be incredibly rugged, but want to make sure the company is legit. Has anyone ever dealt with the company Rack in the Cases Limited? chinaflightcases.com?

So we've now had a problem twice where when we inserted a thumb drive into our Ion that has a copy of the show that is also on the board (although not the most up-to-date copy), it messes with the cues that are on board. Has anyone else encountered this problem?

Hello,I need to light a 20' cross section with Led lighting shining from the floor to the ceiling and I'm unsure what to buy. Our budget is very small. Do you all know of any good Led (DMX controlled) lighting I could purchase that is known to be reliable?

Hello!I just started grad school and the way they use Vectorworks seems to be a little different than how I did it at undergrad. Is there a "cheat sheet" or set of standards that USITT or the like have put together for design packages? Line weights, etc.