Yeah as designs are coming through the most important thing you can do is to imagine you are doing all the different types of events in the building, in your case more than one at the same time. How are you going to handle things when crew needs to get rapidly from one space to another? Where are people in costume going to travel? How are you going to deal with large set pieces? Can you build in the shop while there is a class in the black box?
Go through every event you have done in the last year and imagine how it would work in the blueprints. This is how you discover the need for extra doors. In my case I fought a long time to get a door between the green room and costume shop. In the end I was proven right that it would be a critical access on a daily basis, but the architects had no idea how important it would be.
Go through every event you have done in the last year and imagine how it would work in the blueprints. This is how you discover the need for extra doors.
I'm just curious if you are talking about a professional, full time theatre consultant, or sales reps and/or moon-lighting educators.Due to some odd circumstances, they were not able to go with the people that do the majority of this type of work in our area. I don't know who they went with. I will see what I can find out.
so if I were to grab a pair of THESE and a couple cat5 cables I should be able to send dmx to a network jack on my stage?We've gone all network and nodes. Network taps everywhere - very inexpensive compared to distributed DMX, and I believe longer lived.
As far as doors, circulation, etc, depends but generally if you can get a medium size car and a 21' joint of pipe on stage, you'll be good. If building scenery, you may want a taller path shop to stag, but usually 8' x 10' is OK for stuff from a truck. And depending on if much comes in on trucks, a dock and space for trailer to be level - no exceptions - no matter the cost.
Either way all lines should always terminate into a patch panel then go to whatever gear you need to. This rule should apply to all low voltage lines no matter the department. That will allow the building owners the most flexibility down the line.
Well, tcpip networks, by the rules, must basically include a patch panel. But this us pretty inexpensive compared to a dmx patch panel, and I still recommend against mixing protocols in a patch panel. We do generally provide a (poe) switch or switches for the lighting network sufficient for all taps plus some for expansion. Too inexpensive to not do that. Enough dmx splitters for 20-30 taps is a different story, not to mention for multiple universes.Either way all lines should always terminate into a patch panel then go to whatever gear you need to. This rule should apply to all low voltage lines no matter the department. That will allow the building owners the most flexibility down the line.
The purpose of the DMX patch panel would be to reduce the number of spiltters needed. You'd just patch the taps in use to the splitter for the appropriate universe - the number of taps in use would determine the splitters needed, not the number of taps availible.Well, tcpip networks, by the rules, must basically include a patch panel. But this us pretty inexpensive compared to a dmx patch panel, and I still recommend against mixing protocols in a patch panel. We do generally provide a (poe) switch or switches for the lighting network sufficient for all taps plus some for expansion. Too inexpensive to not do that. Enough dmx splitters for 20-30 taps is a different story, not to mention for multiple universes.
The purpose of the DMX patch panel would be to reduce the number of spiltters needed. You'd just patch the taps in use to the splitter for the appropriate universe - the number of taps in use would determine the splitters needed, not the number of taps availible.
The purpose of the DMX patch panel would be to reduce the number of spiltters needed. You'd just patch the taps in use to the splitter for the appropriate universe - the number of taps in use would determine the splitters needed, not the number of taps availible.
The purpose of the DMX patch panel would be to reduce the number of spiltters needed.
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