Hi folks;
Steve Shelley here. First, Derek, i **think** you're absolutely correct. i say **think** only because i'd have to read huge chunks of the text again to figure out where i got crossed up; in the first edition, the
house console was an Expression 1. in the beginnings of the second edition, the idea was to keep some of the movers after the cuts in chapter 6, so i changed the
house console to an expression 3 to more easily dea with that programming--but after i submitted the manuscript 6 months late, they told me i was 150 pages over. in the melee [and without a hard editor] that anomaly fell through the cracks until it was caught by you. i'll
mark it for correction in the next reprint. whenever that is....
and by all means, please let me know if you spot any other anomalies, misspellings, or just general bad grammar/concepts/whatever. without a hard editor, i was stuck putting this together by myself. and no matter what you think, after you have read the same thing five times, it all looks like mush.
to rochem, aka michael; the
masking snafu was based off an ill-fated
load-in into the Doolittle
Theatre in LA, trying to put Patrick Stewart back onstage in his one-man Christmas Carol in four hours less time than we had at the Broadhurst in New York. and if you can tell me how to more quickly determine how to jenga the wrong
masking in the right place in less than 30 minutes, while they're trying to
lay the
dance floor and you're trying to
spike the
stage, please let me know.
as i state in the beginning of the
book, what's included in the
book isn't necessarily the best or smartest way to do any of this stuff. it's just the fastest way that i could figure out how to deal with the challenges placed in front of me at any particular time. in this second edition, i decided to include at least one real story of the
load-in going south, in order to provide one way to deal with an immediate challenge. sorry if it didn't meet your needs.
yep, i wish i could have kept some of the more intelligent gear as well. but having to cut over a hundred pages, i had to make some hard choices. with luck, there will be the third edition to
address all of this.
finally, sorry i commited the sin of listing both vw and autocad as "Computer Lighting Design Software". it seemed like a more elegant way of mentioning them, as opposed to "Place the Pillow Against the Brick Wall Before Using These Programs" topic listing.
please do post any other thoughts or comments you have. while i can't do much about the
current edition, as i said, with luck there will be another edition. maybe then i can put the rest of the gear back into the final
plot.
all the best,
shelley