Here’s my little nest.

Hi hive mind… I am running 8 strips of led pixel tape made by enttec via a pixelator mini as the led driver and a etc ion xe as the control. I have patch in the strips and created a RGB profile but when I try to turn on a colour, IE red , the strips output in CMY. What am I missing. The chips are definitely RGB so why would they only be outputting in CMY. This really has me flummoxed so any assistance would be great

I’ve got 24 slimPar pro H lights that won’t give me control. They’re patched correctly and programmed correctly but I’m still unable to control them. Does anyone have any ideas or advice you could send my way?

One of the cast of the show tonight dropped his heavy prop onto his foot and let out the most impeccable Wilhelm Scream.

Pretty much every member of the production crew looked up from their stations, and looked at each other with excitement and knowing delight. Obviously we would have run to help if we weren't stuck up miles away in our booths. There were 30 other people by the stage who ran in to help, and he was fine, just a bit over dramatic.

I thought someone had accidentally triggered a cue from the wrong play!

I’m looking into colleges and wondering which is better. Any information or advice is helpful. Thank you!

seeing photos of people’s followspot setups is fun, so here’s my current situation! easily one of the nicest setups I’ve had in some time. gonna miss it when my show closes in a few days!

Ours just get kind of junked in a cabinet in between shows. I'd like to clean this up and had been thinking of a cubby type situation to at least give each person's pack and headset a home, but I was wondering if anyone else had any clever solutions they'd be willing to share!

Greetings,

Just got a new lightboard coming from an express 24/96. I loaded up the settings from the express, so all my dimmers are patched. Existing cues transferred over.

But how does one map the sliders to channels? Or sub masters? I can’t seem to find a good YouTube or any tutorial on how to get these to be programmed. Ideally, it would be great to be able to have them be channel mapped and then toggled to be sub masters.

Links? How tos? Thanks!

Thx to my friend - Dave who secretly snapped a photo of me from the audience

Hi, I'm new to Vectorworks and I'm currently trying to make a new plot for my theatre from an old Vectorworks file the last master electrican made before he left. I put some fixtures in my design layers but for some reason whenever I got to sheet layer they're not there. Sorry if this is a simple fix again I'm new to Vectorworks and working off of someone else's plot.

https://www.reddit.com/r/stagelighting/s/mnFhI4YpJq

Hi!

I am putting in a show and need a door or at least a door frame. The only thing I find online is made of plywood and that will be too heavy. We need to get it on and off stage quickly, and we will have two people that will need to walk through it. We also need something we can travel with.

I’m not particularly handy, but willing to try. I will potentially have help.

Would a photographer’s backdrop stand work? A clothing rack?

I’m at a loss.

TIA!

Hey i’m a theatre student working with isadora what are you favourite pieces of hardware to use with it

Hi,

I have a beamz range 1800 snow machine. It came with a wired remote with some control functions and a wireless remote.

I want to use the wireless remote, so i can start/stop it as needed. I can easily start the snow effect with a press of the button on the wireless remote but is absolutely no way to stop it wothout going up to the machine and switching it off.

I have searched online and can't find any information. I also asked beamz and have not got a reply.

Im just confused as to why i can start it and there is no way to stop it without switching the whole machine off. Instruction manual is no help either.

It also has a DMX connection but i have no idea what that is.

Any help would be appreciated.

I have basic carpentry knowledge learnt from doing some home renovations with the help from a friend who is a trained carpenter.

I need to create a spinning platform for a music video. The platform needs to be able to have space for two people to sit on, side by side and be sturdy enough for people to enter and leave the platform.

The table needs to continuously spin 360 degrees.

I was thinking of buying a heavy duty rotating bracket (large lazy susan) and simply attaching a large platform ontop.

How would you go about this, bearing in mind carpentry knowledge is basic and budget is small (under £200 / $250)

Thank you

Hello everyone, welcome to the What Are You Working On thread. You can post anything from what you're working on, including process photos, show photos, plots, paperwork, ground plans, etc. You can also post pictures of your booth, be it sound, lighting, stage management, or your scene shop, props shop, costume shop, storage, backstage, etc.

Hello everyone, welcome to the No Stupid Questions thread. The only stupid questions are the ones left unasked.

Hello!

I'm currently PSM for a non-equity educational production at a theater that does usually produce eq productions. One of my actor's will be using their (very nice) personal guitar for the duration of the rehearsal process and run. In the LORT rulebook, there's a clause regarding negotiating a rate, but there are no numbers mentioned. Does anyone have experience with this so I can make sure that the theater is providing the actor a fair rate?

Thanks!

Our community theatre has an older LS9 board and I would like to be able to use outbound automation when a particular channel is muted/unmuted or fader up/down to trigger a tally light backstage in the wings to indicate that mics are live…

I’m not overly familiar with what the LS9 can do from an automation or control standpoint… MIDI like the Qu or X32? RS232? IP? Something else?

The lighting aspect can be done relatively simply, using LED strips, but I need to find a way to send a trigger from the LS9 - are there any good options for this? I can build a RPi integration that will send OSC, or even control the lights directly.

Failing that I can probably just build a cue into the light board and use DMX, but I’d prefer to have it reflect the actual sound board status rather than relying on lighting op.

Greetings all,

Anyone have some good places where to get 525W or 750W OSRAM lamps for Source 4/Source4jr and Pars? Some of my regular sources are having some delays getting them.

Thanks

Hello! I’m trying to get into this industry, and I know people are wishy-washy on the effectiveness of college as a whole, but I am very interested in a PNW college to kick-start my career. Any input about UW specifically would be greatly appreciated, along with any other colleges nearby that might fit what I’m looking for. I’d love to be an electrician more than a designer, but lighting is definitely where I see myself. Any help would be appreciated. I love this region, and would do anything to stay here. Thank you!

hi! my tech crew is currently in the process of preparing for our winter musical “SpongeBob: The Musical”. we are looking to do some projections, nothing big, but small things. We have a 21,000 Lumen projector so brightness isn’t a concern. I was wondering what program would be recommended to cue these projections? We have a QLab license that we use for other stuff (sound, playing some videos, timecode, etc). We could use that, but i’m wondering what they use on Broadway shows or what the community uses to project stuff. Thanks!

Hi All,
I've recently finished my technical theatre training and I am now working as a freelancer. I'm fairly new to the industry and was wondering, what advice would you give to a new freelancer?

Hi I have some left over production equipment from jobs over the years. Looking to clean up my storage area. Not sure if this is in rules of sub but looking for recommendations for sale or donation (taxable)

I'm mounting a pulley so I can store a small boat on the wall to save space.

The boat is 125 lbs. With an 8:1 for working loads and a single pulley, I need 125 * 2 * 8 = 4000.

So I need a 2 ton pulley?

Any good places to buy pulleys?

Hello you wonderful people. I happen to be doing a production of Grease and we have all the music in ROCS. The problem is, I am the only operator and thus was looking to control everything from the light board (ETC Ion). I know I can send OSC from the board to my laptop for Qlab but I was wondering if there was any way to send a trigger to ROCS. The idea was that I could trigger the sound and lights with a single press of the go button and have everything auto-follow through to the end of the track. Any help would be much appreciated.