Blog Posts

Flicker Effect

I love the fact that ETC added the flicker waveform to Eos a while ago. However, I don’t really appreciate ...

Make your Profile Your Own

I’m still quite new to film, so there are certain things that surprise me.  One of them is how often ...

Tiny Tip: What’s in a Label Name?

I’m back on a film again, and as I’m still pretty new to the industry, I continue to learn. One ...

Eos Tiny Tip: Go(to Shift) Home

Context: you are programming furiously, you are 3/4 of the way through act one, and it’s time for a meal ...

Tiny Tip: Fade(r) to White

I lit a rather famous dance orchestra recently. I was hired by the venue to light the concert in a ...

A Color Reference Light

When I started as a programmer, we would make color palettes by setting up an incandescent fixture and putting the ...

Query: Removing Data from Unpatched Channels

A colleague, who is a designer rather than a programmer, asked me how to select all unpatched channels with cue ...

Manual Time Fader

If you don’t already know, it is possible to key in a command as fast as your fingers can fly ...

Tiny Tip: Recording Effects into Presets

I just learned you could record effects into Presets. I honestly don’t know if this didn’t used to be possible, ...

MVR Import/Export

If you’ve never worked with MVR (My Virtual Rig), it’s amazing.  It’s an open protocol created by Vectorworks, MA Lighting ...