The Many Uses of YouTube
YouTube definitely has been one of those inventions that has changed my line of work. Video records of productions are occurring every day and are… Read More »The Many Uses of YouTube
YouTube definitely has been one of those inventions that has changed my line of work. Video records of productions are occurring every day and are… Read More »The Many Uses of YouTube
The staging industry has been looking for ways to go green. But Sustainable Waves seems to be the first to actually make the stage itself… Read More »Solar Powered Staging Emerges
ETCP has changed the way the industry looks at rigging; the way the industry looks at safety; and the way the industry looks at training…ETCP… Read More »ETCP Certification, Training Raise the Bar
Lighting designer Hugh Vanstone uses what he describes as a conventional lighting setup for the Broadway production of Mary Stuart, but the results were powerful… Read More »The Compelling Simplicity of Mary Stuart
Even though most automated lighting fixtures have a strobe function, I very rarely use it, for several reasons. First and most important, it can be… Read More »Using the Intensity Channel for Synchronized Strobing
Some of the fastest growing software developers in the lighting and media server markets today have developed an open network protocol called CITP/MSEX…The importance of… Read More »CITP is MSEXy
"Getting rid of the big video backdrop – willfully throwing away the most powerful visual tool you have – is brave and dangerous, but it… Read More »Solving the Problem of Video with Reverse Logic
Our 3G in the video industry is not their 3G in the cell phone industry. For the telecommunications market, 3G stands for the industry’s “third… Read More »OUR 3G is Not THEIR 3G
There are certain elements of a show file that you should never copy. If you are the programmer for the opening act of a concert,… Read More »Copy That
For one of the biggest pep rallies in the world — a concert in Madison, Wisconsin featuring the UW band and its 72-year-old conductor Mike… Read More »Ken Ferencek’s Old-School Challenge
When asked what advice he would give an up and coming lighting designer, Rick Fisher, LD for Billy Elliot on Broadway, offers a practical response… Read More »Seeing the Show, Not the Lighting
In a pixel mapping application, the user creates a pixel “map” by placing “fixtures” from the software’s internal fixture profile library into the display area. … Read More »Pixel Mapping Software Basics