Search the web
Sign In
New User? Sign Up
Show-Control · The Show Control Mailing List
? Already a member? Sign in to Yahoo!

Yahoo! Groups Tips

Did you know...
Hear how Yahoo! Groups has changed the lives of others. Take me there.

Best of Y! Groups

   Check them out and nominate your group.
Having problems with message search? Fill out this form to ensure your group is one of the first to be migrated to the new message search system.

Messages

  Messages Help
Advanced
Messages 7308 - 7337 of 14196   Oldest  |  < Older  |  Newer >  |  Newest
Messages: Simplify | Expand   (Group by Topic) Author Sort by Date ^
7308
Is this a spam in a can show or are there go buttons to fire sets of effects at important points in the script? {^_^} I'm just curious and in theater tech...
jdow
ferdyfubar
Offline Send Email
Feb 1, 2005
2:33 pm
7309
... Yes, this would be of interest to me as well. If it's a canned show, you could easily pull the Hogs after recording the DMX streams....! ... Um.... as has...
Charlie Richmond
charlierichmond
Offline Send Email
Feb 1, 2005
2:39 pm
7310
In message <Pine.LNX.4.60.0502011437020.18218@...>, Charlie Richmond <charlier@...> writes ... But they do...
Clive Mitchell
pyrokiduk
Offline Send Email
Feb 1, 2005
7:23 pm
7311
... As opposed to those old disobedient Strand, Altman, and ETC Lekos, Fresnels and Par Cans? ;-)) Down, boy, DOWN!!!! I SAID!!!! Or crap, the Leko did a...
Richard B. Ingraham
rbi71
Offline Send Email
Feb 1, 2005
7:42 pm
7312
From: "Clive Mitchell" <clive1@...> ... lights, ... It's the wizards among us having their amusement on us poor muggles. {^_-}...
jdow
ferdyfubar
Offline Send Email
Feb 1, 2005
7:46 pm
7313
Our new DC dimmer is just about ready for sale and I was wondering how important people think adding RDM to it is? I'm sure I won't have it up by the Stage...
Jerry Durand
jerry_durand...
Offline Send Email
Feb 2, 2005
2:12 am
7314
... That depends on what functionality RDM brings to the dimmer. If it's only to add an RDM dot-point to the features section of the brochure, then it's a...
Andy Ciddor
aciddor
Offline Send Email
Feb 2, 2005
2:40 am
7315
... True. ... For the dimmer, it would report back faults (on our little DC dimmer, overheat/overload are the only faults). Also, the default levels the ...
Jerry Durand
jerry_durand...
Offline Send Email
Feb 2, 2005
3:09 am
7316
Hello, ... If RDM is monitoring the dimmer, you should respect that the data-rate is decreasing. We thought of using RDM-Dimmers for a local television studio,...
Oliver Giem
olivergiem
Offline Send Email
Feb 2, 2005
3:49 am
7317
I know this is kinda beside the point, if a three phase dimmer could remotely tell me... - overheat - overload (trip circuit) - no load - current output (in...
John Grimshaw
john_at_cx
Offline Send Email
Feb 2, 2005
4:01 am
7318
... I think the Jands HUB24 already does that. I have one and I'm sure I read something about being able to set the max draw per phase via setup. Or do you...
David Duffy
david@...
Send Email
Feb 2, 2005
4:14 am
7319
... The RDM packets would only be every so often (say 1 in 50), so would not really affect the DMX update rate to any significant degree would they? David......
David Duffy
david@...
Send Email
Feb 2, 2005
4:17 am
7320
... Yep - that is what I mean. Plug in a 3K load, dimmer fades up and checks the load and sets the top trim to 80% of full. Most of points I made can be done,...
John Grimshaw
john_at_cx
Offline Send Email
Feb 2, 2005
4:48 am
7321
... The above isn't hard in larger dimmers (one's with board space and budget to allow the extra parts/firmware). ... This, too, isn't all that hard. ... ...
Jerry Durand
jerry_durand...
Offline Send Email
Feb 2, 2005
6:14 am
7322
It's what I'm guessing you might call spam in a can. The "show" is a 6:30min lighting/sound/water feature/winch/animated set piece show running all Feb for...
Matt Botherway
mbotherway
Offline Send Email
Feb 2, 2005
6:38 am
7323
... I seem to recall that the Bytecraft (StateAutomation) VST Sinewave dimmers were doing about 95% of that (plus a lot of other stuff) in 2000 when they were...
Andy Ciddor
aciddor
Offline Send Email
Feb 2, 2005
6:40 am
7324
As I've just said in another post, it is canned. The show that runs throughout the rest of the year has been recorded onto DMX recorders, however we find it...
Matt Botherway
mbotherway
Offline Send Email
Feb 2, 2005
6:42 am
7325
... Never intelligent, at BEST, obedient!! Andy...
Andy Ciddor
aciddor
Offline Send Email
Feb 2, 2005
6:51 am
7326
... of ... show, you could ... Disclaimer: Horizon grew out of a show control system, not a theatrical lighting system, so I am definitely biased in this ...
horizoncontrol
Offline Send Email
Feb 2, 2005
1:11 pm
7327
ok... let me ask the question: is this a show control or lighting control system? can be triggered from: * SMPTE * Midi Notes * Telnet * Serial * Opto-22...
horizoncontrol
Offline Send Email
Feb 2, 2005
1:26 pm
7328
Hi, ... That depends on your system, if you have a lot of fixtures and they all want to tell you everything they know about themself it can reduce signicantly ...
Oliver Giem
olivergiem
Offline Send Email
Feb 2, 2005
2:09 pm
7329
... Yes, you are quite right! But my point was that if this canned show contained none of those applications, there could be no need for several expensive Hog...
Charlie Richmond
charlierichmond
Offline Send Email
Feb 2, 2005
2:44 pm
7330
... Unless it can be triggered by MSC, then I don't consider it to be a show control system because most other show control systems do that plus everything...
Charlie Richmond
charlierichmond
Offline Send Email
Feb 2, 2005
3:18 pm
7331
... No there won't. Devices only transmit in response to a request from the controller. If it only asks for the temperature once a minute, then that is how ...
Nigel Worsley
nigel_worsley
Offline Send Email
Feb 2, 2005
4:08 pm
7332
It sounds like it is "every performance identical to all the others to the limit of our ability to control it." And yes, they can be quite artistic shows but...
jdow
ferdyfubar
Offline Send Email
Feb 2, 2005
8:43 pm
7333
I think one of the means John "Wrote the book" Huntington uses to discriminate the terms is the answer to "how many different control protocol interfaces does...
jdow
ferdyfubar
Offline Send Email
Feb 2, 2005
8:58 pm
7334
My decider is what the interface is designed to do. I think a lot of systems qualify as Show Control by all other measures, including Horizon. The key is what...
Bruce Wheaton
spearmorgan
Offline Send Email
Feb 2, 2005
9:26 pm
7335
Charlie: Thanks for your input, it's nice to hear some seasoned perspective. You're right about Disney, but that's a case where the lighting control folks...
horizoncontrol
Offline Send Email
Feb 3, 2005
12:03 am
7336
... I know.. it was too opportune an opening ;-) Charlie...
Charlie Richmond
charlierichmond
Offline Send Email
Feb 3, 2005
12:34 am
7337
Except that we own "several expensive Hog systems" (4) which would have no use during this time. They were purchased specifically to program new shows, and in...
Matt Botherway
mbotherway
Offline Send Email
Feb 3, 2005
2:45 am
Messages 7308 - 7337 of 14196   Oldest  |  < Older  |  Newer >  |  Newest
Advanced
Add to My Yahoo!      XML What's This?

Copyright © 2009 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved.
Privacy Policy - Terms of Service - Guidelines - Help