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    CHAUVET Professional Lighting Insights: Creative Use of Gobos

    Everyone uses gobos, but are you really getting the maximum effect out of them? CHAUVET Professional's Jim Hutchison offers some insightful tips on how to have more fun with gobos while adding an extra depth and excitement to your light show.
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    CHAUVET Professional Lighting Insights: Mastering Color, Part II

    We're back with another episode of Lighting Insights from CHAUVET Professional! This month we revisit the second part of the Mastering Color video from last month -- let's talk Color Groupings, differing color schemes, and ways to utilize your color choices wisely!
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    CHAUVET Professional Lighting Insights: Mastering Color, Part I

    Lighting Insights is back for this month's look into light! Jim Hutchison talks about a subject that we all think we know until it shows us who is boss: COLOR! Check it out!
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    CHAUVET Professional Lighting Insights: Focus Palettes Part I

    Every LD loves focus palettes – and why not? Using them to remember the pan and tilt parameters of moving fixtures can save load in time when you move from venue to venue, while also helping to preserve your sanity! In this first of a two-part series Jim Hutchison “focuses” on getting the most...
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    CHAUVET Professional Lighting Insights: Focus Palettes Part II

    Focus palettes are just too important to cover in only one video! So, in this video, Jim Hutchison gives us the second installment on the subject, providing details on creating focus palettes for a variety of applications from dance to opera. Along the way, Jim shares his insights on using...
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    Atmospheric Impact

    Fog and haze are light and airy substances, but in the hands of a skilled lighting designer they can have a weighty impact on audiences at a concert or theatrical production. Aside from accenting the effect of lighting fixtures, atmospherics add their own visual dimension to a show, especially...
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    The Case For sACN

    Lighting designers have an ever expanding array of networking and protocol options to choose from. Sam Bowden, European Product Manager for CHAUVET Professional, explains why sACN, a relative newcomer on the scene, deserves your consideration if you want to make your life easier when it comes to...
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    Tobias Rylander Shaping Light

    There is a cinematic quality to Tobias Rylander’s lighting designs. The subtle shifts in shadows, the sharp contrast between light and dark, the bending of scenic elements, all evoke images of the convention defying New Wave films of the 1960s, such as those created by his fellow Swede, Ingmar...
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    CHAUVET Professional Lighting Insights: Making Useful Color Palettes

    Jim Hutchison's back for another Lighting Insights video! This month we'll be talking about making useful and effective Color Palettes for your lighting programming -- the more effective your palettes, the faster you get to make the art! Check out this month's Lighting Insights video!
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    CHAUVET Professional Lighting Insights: Making Effective Beam Palettes

    Want to manage gobos, zooms, prisms and other looks more effectively? It starts with creating the right beam palettes. Our own Jim Hutchison explains how creating beam palettes will make it easier to add more cool effects to your show. Jim offers detailed tips on making beam palettes for...
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    CHAUVET Professional Lighting Insights: Programming Tips and Tricks

    Looking to make your programming go smoother, faster and easier? (And who isn’t?) Then check out this month’s Video Insights from CHAUVET Professional with Jim Hutchison for some nifty tricks that will help you organize your programming time more efficiently, avoid surprises and come up with a...
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    CHAUVET Professional Lighting Insights: Moving Head Maintenance Basics

    It’s time to take the base covers off and get down to the nitty-gritty of moving head maintenance. Mike Graham walks you through the maintenance basics for everything from belts to lenses to gobos to CMY bulkheads so you can keep your moving heads in top shape. Watch now.
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    CHAUVET Professional Lighting Insights: Environmental Lighting

    Here are a few tips on how to replicate outdoor natural lighting on stage. The three key items needed for success as shown in application. Check it out.
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    CHAUVET Professional Lighting Insights: Learning The Ropes

    If you can’t tie a knot, tie a lot! This Lighting Insights video explores types of rope and the knots that everyone in our industry should know.
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    CHAUVET Professional Lighting Insights: Dynamic Video Setups

    Want to expand your video display, but can’t make the investment in a gigantic wall? No worries, you can still get a big video look without a big investment by mapping the appropriate fixtures with video content so they work with your panels to immerse an entire stage. Chauvet Europe’s Sam...
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    CHAUVET Professional Lighting Insights: Playing with Focus - Gobo Morphing

    Want to create some novel new looks without investing in new gear? The answer may be right inside your current lighting fixtures, or more precisely in their gobo wheels. In this video our own Mike Graham shows how you can use gobo morphing to open a world of new creative possibilities.
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    CHAUVET Professional Lighting Insights: ArtNET - Broadcast vs Unicast

    Art-Net has been around for some time, but recently it’s undergone some profound changes. A new generation of Unicast Art-Net has arrived on the scene allowing data to be transmitted more efficiently than was possible with the earlier Broadcast mode. Our own Sam Bowden, explains how Unicast...
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    CHAUVET Professional Lighting Insights: Spot & Hybrid Prism Basics

    Prisms should be an essential tool for any designer. In this Video Insights, CHAUVET Professional’s Mike Graham reviews some basic steps you can take to increase your prism power, from rotating prisms at different speeds on your spot fixture to combining prisms on a hybrid. Watch now.
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    CHAUVET Professional Lighting Insights: Hex LED Technology

    Sam Bowden of CHAUVET Professional looks at Hex LED pars and explains what the addition of UV modules means to color mixing.
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    CHAUVET Professional Lighting Insights: Layered Effects 2017-02-07

    Hybrid fixtures bring a lot to the table in terms of creating stunning aerial effects, but the fun doesn’t stop there. Our own Mike Graham explains how these fixtures can help you add layered effects to your show with features like split colors, animation, rotating gobos and other features.
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