I'm using an ETC Element light board for a school play. I already have all the show cues ready, but we just patched in a basement light, and now I need it to be at full during every cue except the last two. I could manually add it in Blind, but I imagine there's a faster way that I don't know yet.

Thanks!

Hey guys,

I got some pretty basic dimmers setup. When I move their Intensity setting through DMX I see their assigned values change accordingly in the different views. I also see their values being set accordingly in the Universes tab. They are properly setup and eveything is responding as I want.

My problem is that they won't light up in the Live View. Everything else is fine but in the Live View everything stays dark. Any ideas why this happens ?

Many thanks in advance

Hello! I have been programming lighting for my own band shows for a while and have been thinking about reaching out to other bands to help their shows.

The main thing I worry about is working with different lighting rigs at different venues.

Is there any advice or direction to material/courses that could help kick start my research into how to go from novice to intermediate/pro?

I understand it doesn’t happen overnight! Just not sure where to start as to make it a career. E.g. which consoles I should understand. Local lights/integrating into venue lights, best practices.

Thank you so much 🙏

Hello, I have some moving lights in a position where they will strike architecture at parts of their travel. Is there a way to limit the travel range of the light in EOS?

We are doing Hello Dolly for our musical this year and have 75ft of a marquee that we want to light up. What is the best cost effective lights that you have used to accomplish this. We have an etc element, not sure if you can pixel map on this board. Thanks in advance.

I got an offer to be the light technician for a music video shoot, but I'm not sure how much I should charge. Here are some infos about me and the shoot:

• I have now been a light technician for roughly two years at my local Theater/concert hall, where I did roughly 1-2 shows per week mostly on my own with a bit of training from my colleagues at the beginning, but I never learned it properly only learning by doing.

• The shoot will be on a Sunday and will probably last 8 hours.

• The location of the shoot will be my local Theater but it's not associated directly with it. My "client' is renting it so I'm working there externally.

• They want me to do a show similar to a classic concert on the stage for the shoot so moving lights, moving heads, clas, ParCans etc.

• I don't know the budget yet but I want to get in informed

Yeah that's it. I thought of 200-300€ but I'm really not sure because I'm not a trained light technician.

Thanks in advance.

So, I have a problem.

Today, I set up four Involight Trinity200LEDs. However, there are recurring issues. The gobo or color wheel changes unexpectedly, it sometimes creates a strange pan/tilt effect, and one of them detects incoming DMX signals but doesn’t respond to them.

A reset/factory reset makes no difference, and I couldn’t find anything unusual in the lamp’s internal settings.

I’ve heard of others having similar issues and wanted to know if there’s a fix. Could it be firmware or other problems? Everything is running through an MA2 OnPc Command Wing.

Hope someone has answers. Thanks in advance :))

Machine is one week old and running regular Chauvet cleaning liquid through

Hiii guys, I need help. I just started to learn lighting design a few months ago. And I recently got asked to do my first event. YAY!!!

It's a small scale school event with 6 robes and 1 mac700. I'm quite new to this and kinda unsure abt the appropriate way to come up with a rig plan for my fixtures.

Anyone have any suggestion? Any advice is much appreciated🙏 Thanks!

Any DIY fixes any of y’all out there know of? Shooting with a conventional S4 Leko so obviously don’t want to go starting fires or anything. Thanks in advance

I new to ma2 on pc and my dumb coworker just save a show overwriting mine, what I need is to assign the cue sequence to a fader so I can use the cues that I recorded. Makes sense? Sorry, English isn't my native language. Thank you

I am trying to clone some instances from Solaris Flares to some RGB LED fixtures. The Flares are in the 12 cell mode with the master cell. The RGB fixture is just a generic 3ch RGB per instance.

When I do the clone from all the instances of the Flare to the RGB cells, nothing happens. Fixture sheet/seq content shows no data. I see the sources are correct in the clone menu, and the destinations are correct as well. When I hit merge show, overwrite priority, nothing gets moved to my RGB fixtures.

Is this an MA3 cloning bug? Or am I missing something about the way 3 is cloning the instances of the Flare. I am in MA3 2.0.2.0 if that helps.

I've recently run into an issue with one of my Fuze Spots. When it's turned on, it will do its motor reset cycle but then lock itself in one position and won't respond to DMX even though, on the fixture, it's showing that it's receiving pan and tilt dmx. Rebooting, resetting, and changing patches haven't made any difference. I am not sure how to fix it, and I don't want to have to ship it to Elation for them to figure it out. Any insight would be greatly appreciated!

Hey! I'm currently an undergrad student, preparing to do a doctorate in an unrelated field. However, I'm considering doing theatre tech as a double major. How likely is it that I could get jobs or positions that I could do as a side gig, along with a full-time job in the future?

(I'm interested in doing more in this area, as I've done a lot in HS, but I'm not sure I want to make it my full-time career.)

Thanks for the help!

Edit: I am looking more at theatre stuff. Thank you for the replies so far, they've been super helpful.

Does anyone know of a software that uses a live camera input to identify and map LED pixels?

Here's what I want to accomplish:

- A long string of pixels is installed onstage (its my house in this case, but same thing). In this case, its a non-grid situation.
- I can manually map the pixels using Entec's ELM - that's great
- For a quicker setup OR a more complex arrangement, I'd like to automate this.

- A camera pointed at the stage, set to greyscale and stopped down pretty far.
- The camera's frame is similar to the total size of my pixel map (or related)
- The App turns on each pixel, one at a time. It uses the camera input to identify the position of that pixel and records its XY position in the map. Then advances to the next pixel. Rinse & repeat through all the available pixels.

- Then I'd take that pixel map into ELM.

Has anyone found an app for this?

I've started playing with using Ai to create a python script for this, but if I can pay someone to do it that'd be great and save me the weekend.

Thanks!

When submitting a lighting rig for a approval, is the load a dynamic or static load? The rig would be LED Lekos.

Currently I have laptop with ELC dmxLAN doing this task but I was wondering if anyone know of a standalone device I could record a stage look and able to play it back at the press of a button.

There are tons of devices that do this for a 1 or 2 DMX universes via 5-pin XLR, but I need one capable of sending to 12 Universes on sACN.

Thanks for any suggestions.

I bought a Christmas tree that has very white (almost a blue tone) pre-strung lights. Is there a way I could warm the color of the lights up without having them removed or replaced? Something I could paint on the bulbs or add to them? Any ideas would be appreciated! Thanks!

Looking for someone who could help me out, I’m trying to setup some shehds 7r movers with a wolfmix wmx1. I’ve tried some fixture profiles from wtools but they don’t seem to completely work, colors are correct and pan and till seem to be but the orientation of the beam is incorrect, the prisms are not working, gobo rotation is not working either.

Also sorry if I am using the wrong terms, I am completely new to dmx and the wolfmix. What I’ve managed to figure out so far is thanks to YouTube! Any help is appreciated

Recently I've seen some videos of showcockpit being used for MagicQ PC. I was wondering if this bypassed chamsys' first 10 playback fader limit with there midi support (unlocked). The YouTube videos map way more then 10 playback butting to midi. 🤷

I’m running spotlight for a ballet and I’m working on a particularly old spotlight, a 1979 Strong Xenon Super Trooper, one of the first things i noticed is this knob on the ballast, i have scoured the internet and asked everyone who works in this theatre and i cannot find anything on what this knob possibly does. Anyone have any insight?

Rookie Artnet issue.

I have a laptop connected via Ethernet to a chauvet epix drive 2000 IP, connected to a chauvet epix bar tour using artnet as the protocol. I’m sending signal from resolume. I’m using artnetominator to monitor signal. I see signal coming from resolume. The fixture, when first connected, receives signal but then after about 3 seconds it freezes and does not respond. artnetominator still shows signal coming from resolume with no freeze. If I disable and enable the Ethernet port it will work again for 3 seconds and freeze again. Any idea what might be happening?

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Hi everyone, been working in clubs and working raves for the past 3 years in SoCal primarily LA.

Started learning to program seriously this year on Avolites. I have no formal training but am a fast learner and easy to work with. Mainly an audio guy so can help in both facets.

Dont have much knowledge of the AV industry as I spent my teen years mostly learning about studio engineering and production

Have a back injury im still healing from that kills my energy and spend a lot of my freetime resting and going to PT so reaching out to ask where I can better focus my search for work and what to learn.

Full Story:

Ive been working in clubs, doing freelance, and working raves for the past 3 years in Los Angeles. Im actually more of an audio guy and have been doing that for much longer but was so bored doing audio in clubs i transitioned into doing lighting to not die of boredom.

I picked up busking pretty quickly because of my experience as an electronic musician but didn't really start learning to program (efficiently at least) until recently. I always saw club work as something to just pass the time and stay busy as I was working on finding more consistent studio engineering work, but the past year and a half have shown me Live is the shit!

Im still pretty young at 23 but am struggling to find the drive to look around for work day in and day out. I got tboned in 2022 and have a back injury Im still working to heal which kills my energy. I spend a lot of time doing PT and traveling to the clubs I work at since I have to bus and I live in Van Nuys.

I also have somewhat low self confidence when it comes to reaching out and believing Ill be valuable since its so competitive in LA, Ive been taken advantage of many times and I know Avolites not Grand MA... I also have no teching experience but have done a lot of rigging. Just not sure what the shop life is like at all and if thats even something I can do having no skills in that department. Since Im new to this I dont know where I should focus. Any help is appreciated and PMs are welcomed.

I've spent the last couple of months applying for volunteer and job opportunities (mostly stage hand) in my city Toronto, and did not get much of a turn out. I did get one job however I only ended up doing 4 gigs with them and only 1 out of the 4 were for lighting. I understand that's how the industry works where its not an everyday thing, however its the only thing i've gotten so far, not even a volunteering opportunity. I'm just having a hard time landing anything else. Ive been reading other people's advice about how volunteering is a good way to get started. However in my city there are theaters but only on a big scale, there aren't really any smaller ones that are local enough that would take in people with less experience. And yes I do have relative experience from doing lighting from middle school to college with a diploma in Stage Lighting and Video and with that diploma I got hands- on experience with consoles.  Of course I'm not expecting to do lighting in a giant arena, however I just feel stuck and don't really know what to do now. Any advice? btw sorry for the terrible grammar lol

As of the past few months, a theater that I have been working on and off at for about 4 or 5 years kind of took me under their wing. So I've been working as an all day hand more often and recently they have had me work several "training shifts" to shadow other house LDs, play with our Avolites console and ask as many questions as possible. I've been having the time of my life - I can finally be the true stage rat I had wanted to be when I was in high school!

I now have a basic knowledge of how to create a show file, patch lights, understanding all of the different attributes available within each light and how many channels different functions can take up within a single DMX universe. I know how to create groups. And the veryyy basics of camlocks and breakers - still need practice and a better understanding of power. I also need to study color theory a little more and get some nice looking palettes to pull from.

I also understand that you have to follow the mood, theme, and general vibe of the crowd (audience interaction or following rhythm with the blinders).

This is probably the extent of my knowledge so far; of course there is always more to learn. They just informed me this week that they want to put me on a Halloween show (tomorrow) by MYSELF. All the power things will be handled for me - the stage is small but still super intimidating. I'm going there tonight to get some practice in and ask a few more questions about running different groups on faders and transitioning between looks.

Is there anything else I should know before getting thrown into the mix tomorrow? Any advice for quick things I can do to keep the crowd happy and the groove going? I thought I would have at least 3 more shows to work before getting assigned to a show - Super excited but nervous at the same time...

Looking to relocate, to hopefully advance my career. Willing to move anywhere in the US, ideally Nashville I hear that’s where I’ll have the best luck. I have 2 years of experience but would like to be able to learn more and work towards working on the road.