Tips & Tricks

Whether you find yourself sitting or standing behind a console, you must always consider the working height. Anytime you are too high above the desk,… Read More »Ergonomics 101: Console Height

I once saw a show where an artist had a wall of low-res video panels hanging upstage, with lights upstage of the video panels. So… Read More »You Can Use LED Displays to Convey Lighting Effects

I once saw a show where an artist had a wall of low-res video panels hanging upstage, with lights upstage of the video panels. So… Read More »Try Using LED Video Content for Lighting Effects

Skycam is a high definition camera system that flies in three dimensions above a playing field. The system is computer controlled, driven by cables and… Read More »Football’s Skycam Depends on Human Operators

Our consoles give us the ability to manage timing in varied methods…When a parameter changes from one value to another, a time is assigned that… Read More »It’s About Time

“Programming a film is different, because we are always looking at intensity levels on everything: the band, the set, the audience. We still had the… Read More »Metallica Concert Scenes for 3D Film Included New Programming Challenges

Some venues care about the act and theater, even if the design of their venue is a tad outdated. Sometime in the 1980s, people came… Read More »Tour-Friendly Venue Design

Tony Award-winning LD Kenneth Posner got a chance to limber up some new artistic muscles for Pippin on Broadway, which featured European-style circus performers. An… Read More »Pippin: Sharing the Grid with Lighting, Acrobatic Gear

“Years ago, Shep Gordon (manager for Alice Cooper and Luther Vandross) taught me that the key to creating a memorable show that is equally as… Read More »How to Create an Epic Show

How do you take two different DMX sources and combine them into one signal? The answer, until recently, has been to use a piece of… Read More »Kling-Net: An Alternative to Merging DMX

I have found that the biggest “gotcha” when working with a visualizer comes not from the differences with the plot versus reality, but rather with… Read More »Pre-viz Fixtures: Results May Vary

I believe most people have a favorite color. I’m partial to a deep blue myself. I asked around. Guys seem to like blues and purples.… Read More »A Lemon of a Color