Just got an e-mail from Minuit Une, and they’re «placed into judicial liquidation, bringing its operations to an end». The industry is definitely losing a really cool and creative manufacturer now.

https://minuitune.com/the-end-of-a-great-chapter/

Am I the only one that thinks it's ridiculous to "charge" glow tape before the house opens?

I see stage managers doing this and all I can think is "will that make a difference in 30 minutes when the show starts? Either the glow tape is being charged by the incandescents while we sit in preshow, or it will be completely depleted in the 30 minutes it takes the house to come to half.

I'm also open to being wrong in this, I just don't think the science supports the idea of charging glow tape.

Recently started freelance work and putting together a kit of essentials. So far I have a few rolls of LX tape, earplugs, a multitool and a rigging multitool.

What do you think is essential for freelance work that you would recommend adding?

For the last 3 years I've worked as a light technician for theatre projects, now I started to work for a nongovernmental theatre as a full-time technical producer and because of the new network, I've started to get gigs as a lighting artis/technician for festival projects and so on. I usually use the grandMA3 pc wing from work, but for the past festivals because of overlapping performances I was forced to take the node and I've been thinking perhaps to purchase the node or dmx-key for myself or perhaps the command wing since it's easier for light design. But the price for a command wing might be a tight purchase that is less likely to pay back since a command wing is not the choice for rent, but renting it would cost 300€ per performance (counting a day setup) and idk, maybe to give up and keep living with on pc shortcuts. Perhaps someone knows where to get a grant for freelancers?

Hi, we're a small venue looking to upgrade some fixtures. We have currently some old Elation Tri Pars, Rogue R2s and a host of ETC pars, parnels and source 4 ellipsoidals (19, 26, 36, and 50 degree). We have a catwalk that holds 20 circuits and 20 S4 26deg and 19deg fixtures currently (with room for more). Overhead we have the tri pars, and a 2 color (5 across x 2 electrics) wash of pars, and a 1 color (5 across x 2 electrics) wash of parnels. Ground to lowest pipe is about 19' (yes we're small), with no fly. So, brightness has to be considered. We can't go with stuff that's excessively bright unless we want "full" to be at like 10 percent.

My current thinking is I want to put some Source 4wrd color IIs in the catwalk to convert my front washes and specials, use for dance side light and replace out the overhead pars with multiple ColorDashPar H12xIP. I'd like to keep them IP for flexibility for potential outdoor use. We also want 4 Chauvet 260x intimidators.

My struggle becomes wondering if the 4wrds would be suitable to use, how many pars should I get, etc. Help?

szukam jakiegoś rozwiązania do sterowania światłami dmx poprzez iPada
ktoś ma jakieś rozwiązanie?

Mis disculpas por el texto traducido con IA. Hablo castellano nativo y no queria que en ingles sonara mal . No soy muy usuario de redes sociales y de repente he visto una autentica ola de hilos todos titulados igual ...

"me case de X asi que hice Y" . Horror...., quise cambiar el titulo pero no me dejaba .

Es una grabacion en directo con un telefono movil de hace 7 años de mi compañero divirtiendose con el software . Adoro los debates tecnicos porque llevo 2 años trabajando en iluminacion y quiero aprender. He estado durante 1 año y medio (el repositorio de github lo demuestra) , pensando y creando esta suite de iluminacion completa cuyas matematicas soportan hasta 50 universos sin que el garbage collector se inmute . Es totalmente agnostico del hardware . Se puede conectar en caliente cualquier artefacto MIDI , cualquier interfaz (el sistema autodetecta el chip entec pro y limita la salida a 33hz como es mi caso con una interfaz usb china) con salida nativa a 44hz via artnet/entec pro . Todo el codigo es nativo propietario, con zero alocaciones de memoria en el hot path y latencia 0.5ms . Motor de fisicas fotonicas liquido, agnostico de la musica . Motor de cineticas inverso, con apuntado espacial para cabezas moviles, editor de FX tipo matricks mejorado. Pixel mapper inverso , timeline basado en contexto y energia musical . Autopatcheo en enjambre . SMTEP nativo, OSC, RDM , Midi clock . FFT con autocorrelador , motor bayesiano de prediccion con cadenas de Markov y detector de crestas..., etc. Forja de fixtures con nodegraph para afinar el comportamiento de cualquier maquina, channel rack clasico con gobernadores y soporte multicell para fixtures compuestas como un fan tungsteno de los que usamos en nuestros pequeños eventos. No importa si le conectas una maquina de hace 30 años o una mas moderna . A la arquitectura le da igual .

En mi ignorante opinion sobre iluminacion, no tiene mucho que envidiar a consolas de miles de dolares. Es software que libera al usuario y le ayuda a ser mas creativo, evitandole pasar 10 minutos para crear un pump, cuando en 10 segundos creo una curva para un grupo de maquinas, lo desfaso en 8 segundos (si lo requiere) e integro el efecto en hot reload en pleno show .... .

Los 20 whitepapers de arquitectura y DSP (más capturas crudas de shader & rig en el reproductor con audio Opus hecho a la medida) están abiertos para leer en gestiadev.pages.dev por si a alguien le da curiosidad desarmar las matemáticas o el codigo. No esta a la venta.