shiben
Well-Known Member
So we are conducting a feasibility study right now for a show that will be going up next spring. The study is assuming the play will be taking place in an abandoned museum, comprising 1 main room, 4 side rooms, a lobby, and 5+ connecting hallways. We are wondering how possible it would be to run the show on 1 lighting board, from a central location, with action taking place in the main room and 4 side rooms at the same time, and the hallways being used once the acts were done. Concepts so far are really cool, and I like them a lot (it helps I would get to design multiple aspects of the production, LX and projection. )
Can an ETC Ion simultaneously run multiple cue stacks, using the "bump" buttons on our submaster wing as "go" buttons for each stack, so that we can run 5 acts at the same time? The only "quick and dirty" solution I can come up with is cobb together our motley collection of boards, an ION, 2 Innovators, and an ancient Strand MX? (not sure about that one), and then borrow another board from someone else? Also, how would this type of show generally be run? Obviously, a single stage manager could not accurately call cues for all the rooms, and having 5 SMs is a bit complicated, but at this point, its all in the planning stages. Also, can said cue stacks incorporate video into them? Would I need to rent a media server for this task, or is there a cheaper and dirtier meathod of incorporating static projection (effectively PPTs) into various scenes without setting up a massive and expensive system?
Next part of our little study will be how much it will cost to get all the extraneous gear we need (more dimmers, more cable, instruments, Video, etc). Again, this is all in the "is it possible, what will it cost us" stage, so just wondering about the feasability of running that many cue stacks simultaniously, and the video issue. Computers to run software are not a problem, is a college, and if we have one thing in bulk, its computers. Thanks for your help!
Can an ETC Ion simultaneously run multiple cue stacks, using the "bump" buttons on our submaster wing as "go" buttons for each stack, so that we can run 5 acts at the same time? The only "quick and dirty" solution I can come up with is cobb together our motley collection of boards, an ION, 2 Innovators, and an ancient Strand MX? (not sure about that one), and then borrow another board from someone else? Also, how would this type of show generally be run? Obviously, a single stage manager could not accurately call cues for all the rooms, and having 5 SMs is a bit complicated, but at this point, its all in the planning stages. Also, can said cue stacks incorporate video into them? Would I need to rent a media server for this task, or is there a cheaper and dirtier meathod of incorporating static projection (effectively PPTs) into various scenes without setting up a massive and expensive system?
Next part of our little study will be how much it will cost to get all the extraneous gear we need (more dimmers, more cable, instruments, Video, etc). Again, this is all in the "is it possible, what will it cost us" stage, so just wondering about the feasability of running that many cue stacks simultaniously, and the video issue. Computers to run software are not a problem, is a college, and if we have one thing in bulk, its computers. Thanks for your help!