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How to Care for Your Stage Drapes – And When to Let Them Go

Bought to you by Theatre Safe Australia Whether you’re managing a school hall, professional venue, or performance space, your stage drapes play a bigger...

1st December, 2025

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How to Choose the Right Load Monitoring System for Venues: 7 Key Criteria

Bought to you by Theatre Safe Australia Once you recognise the importance of knowing what’s happening overhead in real time, the next question comes...

21st October, 2025

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ANALOGUE VS DIGITAL: DOES IT MATTER? AND IF SO, WHY?

When it comes to technology, there’s a question that surfaces time and time again: when is it appropriate to implement the next big thing?...

18th March, 2024

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Swapping diesel generators for solar-powered battery banks on live events

By Richard Cadena A stagehand was setting up for Willie Nelson’s line check on the first day of his Luck Reunion festival outside of...

22nd May, 2023

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Tech Topic: The Good Ol’ Disco Days

By Brad Schiller I have been programming automated lighting since the late 1980s and have seen many things change and grow. However, most of...

17th October, 2014

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Which Luminaire Are You?

Have you ever wondered if you were suddenly converted into a luminaire, which one would you be? Would you be a Robe? Chauvet Professional?...

7th October, 2014

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Tech Topic: The Magical Layout

Written by: Brad Schiller One of the newest automated lighting features that is getting talked about often is the Layout View, or Magic Sheet....

25th September, 2014

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Tech Topic: What NOT to Do

Written by: Brad Schiller A career as an automated lighting programming can be both fun and rewarding. It is important to always improve your...

18th July, 2014

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Tech Topic: I’ve Been Framed!

Written by: Brad Schiller Automated lighting fixtures have many great features such as rotating gobos and color mixing. Some also include motorized framing shutters....

21st May, 2014

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Tech Topic: Lights That Battle Video

Written by: Nook Schoenfeld For years, lighting designers have been matching lumens between the lighting and video elements. The video was always brighter. For...

11th April, 2014

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Merging Art-Net with an MA2

Written by: Vickie Claiborne A while back, I wrote an article describing the process I used for pixel-mapping the RGB values from a media...

2nd April, 2014

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Making It Affordable

Written by: Nook Schoenfeld Illustration by Andy AuFew shows are put on without a budget. In the 30 years I’ve been gigging, I may...

5th March, 2014

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What’s the Deal with Intensity?

By Brad Schiller Programming is largely about adjusting parameters and storing data. There are many different parameter types we adjust, but one is treated...

27th February, 2014

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The King of the Work-Around

By Brad Schiller Automated lighting fixtures and consoles are very complex systems based on millions of lines of computer code.  No system is perfect,...

20th January, 2014

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Tech Topic: Show Lasers (part 1)

By Guido Block Show lasers are changing the face of the entertainment industry. The most powerful light source on earth has got more and...

11th December, 2013

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It’s About Time

Written by: Brad Schiller People everywhere struggle with time. They set alarms to signal when to awake or perform certain tasks. They wish that...

5th November, 2013

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Tech Topic: The Venue

Written by: Nook Schoenfeld No matter what show I design, I always strive for one aspect — to make my show look theatrical. It...

22nd October, 2013

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Turning Virtual Lighting Into Reality

Written by: Brad Schiller Our industry is very exciting as it is filled with many different types of technology. Automated lighting programmers are skilled...

15th October, 2013

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The Joys of Interconnectivity

Automated lighting programming often encompasses more than adjusting intensities and moving lights around a stage. Quite often, we find ourselves in circumstances that require...

17th May, 2013

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Set in a Bag

Written by: Nook Schoenfeld Each year I get a few calls from bands looking for a set or lighting design for their tour. It’s...

9th April, 2013

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Smooth Moves

Written by: Brad Schiller Automated lighting fixtures are extremely sophisticated, to the point that some people even refer to them as “intelligent.” While the...

12th March, 2013

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The Next Generation of Media Servers

Written by: Vickie Claiborne From the early days of DMX-controlled media servers, something has been missing. Missing, that is, until recently. Two of the...

6th December, 2012

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Lighting Console Developments

by Michael S. Eddy Whether you are programming the lighting to playback looks at the touch of a button, running complex, multi-cued presentations, or...

20th November, 2012

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The Secret World of LED Colour

Written by: Brad Schiller The popularity of LED lighting has certainly taken ahold of our industry, and nearly every production now incorporates some form...

25th October, 2012
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