Some software I've found really helpful.
Quicktime Pro with iSight camera- I use it when sitting
FOH to record rehearsals so I can go back and refrence it for cueing.
Curio- For those scatterbrained designers. It's a program that allows you to sort your creative ideas. It offers a 5,000 by 5,000
pixel workspace. Drag and
drop photos, sound files, documents onto the workspace to
track your ideas (it can even embed the file so when you burn the whole Curio project onto a disk, it's self contained). Another cool feature is the internal linking capabilites. You can make a link
in one idea space to another
page/place.
AudioXplorer- For all your audio spectrum analyzing needs
Amadeus- Live recording at a birate you can set
iView Media Pro- It's a media indexing program for Video/photo/Audio. You can then print or export your catalog to print or others using the free iView viewing software downloadable from their site (this is cross
platform)
Keynote and Apple Remote Desktop- If you're trying to do Digital Lighting a cheap way, make your show in
Keynote and put it on a
mac. Use Apple Remote Desktop to trigger the cues remotely (even over a wireless
network). I did a low-budget-one-time-deal show this way using 4 macs (three macs driving Video screens and a little 12-inch ibook running Remote Desktop to trigger over 50 video cues).
side note... I just saw
screen shots of Microsofts new OS 'Vista'. TOTAL
MAC OS RIP OFF.... ok... that's all