ETC Express Educational DVD

[chadgreen]

I'm considering purchasing the DVD that ETC had produced to learn more about the Express console. I have two questions though.
1. If you go to ETC's website now you can view the current element videos they have them grouped as disk 1 and disk two. Will this be similar to the Express DVD's?
2. Anybody have a set that is collecting dust?

Thanks.

 

[xander]

Is this purchase for an educational environment, like a school, or is for your own personal use? If it is the latter, I wouldn't bother. While I will not pretend to know what is best for you, maybe you are a very visual learner, I think that the manual is really the best way to learn the ETC Express. I have not seen these DVDs, so I cannot say for sure, but I don't think they will teach you anything that is not in the manual. One (and there are many) of the greatest things about ETC, in my opinion, is their manuals. They take so much time and energy into making everything so easy to understand and follow. Nearly everything I know about the Express(ion) consoles I have learned from the manual. "How do I do such and such? Let's look it up." I have probably read it cover to cover a couple times, granted not in one sit down, but over time. You add in the OLE and you can teach yourself anything you could possibly want to know.

My $.02, not that you were even asking for it...

-Tim

 

[derekleffew]

See the thread I need instructions.

 

[chadgreen]

Thanks. I found the manual a little challenging at the start but once I started to figure out what I needed for lighting then I was much more focused for getting info from the manual.

 

[SteveB]

Can't say for the Express, which is a vastly less complicated console then the Ion, but I watched the Ion basic DVD end to end, some 8 plus hrs. I've also watched a good bit of the Eos advanced sections on YouTube.

I found them all very helpful, much more so then reading the manual. It helped to have the off-line editor on the 'puter as I could stop and try what they had just demo'd.

I found it a great way to learn the console and would recommend the YouTube for Express along with having the OLE available.