Blog Posts

Flicker Effect Tip- Separate Your Incandescent and LED

Flicker effects (also known as flame effects, fire effects, etc) are seemingly very important in film. I’ve done period pieces ...

ART 7- Super Useful CRMX Solution

Relatively early in my film programming career, I bought my own Astera ART7. The biggest reason I did that is ...

Faders for Nomad- but Cheaper

A while ago when I did a tutorial about using Showcockpit to connect a Nanokontrol2 to Nomad, a reader messaged ...

Tiny Tip: OSC Go Command

I have been using my portable setup on a small movie I’m working on.  (Click HERE for the walkthrough on ...

Quick Tip: Randomized Wave Forms

Recently, the patterns in the wave form edit area was slightly revised.  As a programmer who loves random elements, I ...

Troubleshooting Button Stations and Your Console

“Why can’t I pan my lights in one direction when my house lights are on?” I was doing a training/troubleshooting ...

Top List of LDI 2023- All Networking

I attended LDI this week, and as usual it was a great time. Lots of great people and gear. For ...

Aerial Lighting for Beginners

My favorite thing to light is aerial. The artists do super heroic moves in real time, the work invites expressive ...

Preserve Native

A function I have never used, but have always been curious about, is Preserve Native.  It’s located in Patch on ...

Hide and Seek Parameters

True confession- sometimes I write tutorials as a way of forcing myself to memorize something I forget within the console ...