Tips & Tricks

There are a few obvious reasons for touring carts. The first and most important is that they allow you to hang large walls quickly. Time… Read More »Video Touring Carts: Meeting a Crucial Need

Having fixtures all facing the same direction is key – not just for pan and tilt movement, but also for the default direction that color… Read More »The Other Left

Creating art while working inside client-imposed limitations can be more difficult than coloring inside the lines of an M.C. Escher painting. Constraints would seem like… Read More »Artistic Constraints and Creative Solutions

A “mix” is more or less a concept of assigning layers and sampling regions of pixels in the raster that you want to be displayed… Read More »Mix Manipulation Adds to Media Server Capabilities

Over the years, I have noticed that a majority of the automated lighting programmers I know also enjoy eating sushi. There are, of course, some… Read More »Feeding the Machines – with Raw Fish

“I love big, bold graphic looks, audience sweeps, stabs, etc. and don’t have a problem putting lights in the audience. I use a ‘five second… Read More »In an Era of Excess, A Little Praise for Restraint

The shift from projection to LED and regular house lighting to color-changing house fixtures has almost become a given in church circles, but the fact… Read More »Helping Churches Optimize their Investments in Technology

There are different perspectives out there when it comes to assembling things in this business, whether they are going to be flown over people’s heads… Read More »Factor Your Potential Liability into Cost Calculations for Appropriate Fasteners for Mounting LED Screens

And, no, we’re not talking about credit cards. You need a visa to work in China. If you already know this, congratulations, you know one… Read More »Got a Gig in China? Make Sure You Have a Work Visa

The Grand Master fader is known for causing many headaches and needless calls to support lines. Because it is rarely used, it can often be… Read More »Before Calling the Help Desks, Check the Grand Master Fader

I’ve written about codecs in the past, and generally speaking, they more or less do the same job: compress and decompress video frames. And with… Read More »Hap Video Codecs Growing in Popularity

The data in the lighting desk is not just created by the lighting programmer, but the total protection and distribution of the data falls on… Read More »Have a Data Protection System In Place