It’s Finally Here!

When it comes to any production, one thing I love to do with a burning passion is lighting. And since City Reach this past year, our lights haven’t worked at 2Twenty. Leaving me either to do sound (which I don’t mind), computer (which I never do but sometimes would like to do), or do nothing. And personally, I don’t like to do nothing. But finally, lights return!!!

We recently just bought an Elation DMX Operator 192 light board. This is for our Intelligent lights, which are the three old intelligent lights from APC. They are 3 American DJ AccuScan 250’s. The lights are going up the first of April. CAN’T WAIT!!!!

Software Review: Elation Elumination

Today I thought I'd start doing some software reviews. Today I'm going to start with Elation Lighting "Elumination Software". This software let's you control up to 8 groups at one time with 8 different light banks. Along with each bank, you can program up to 48 different fixtures. This software gives you the same capability as a normal light board.If you can look at the image, you can see that I have programed 2 Intelligent scanners which I can change how it moves, the gobos, color fixtures, and so much more. Also I have 8 color LED's from American DJ, and 11 LED par can lights from Elation (good for any preach or stage white lights).

Personally, I've always been the one to run lights from multiple light boards, one for intelligent lights and one for everything else (including house lights), but I like this program because I can control all that just from my laptop (and I have a small laptop [netbook]) and it's a free software. Now you maybe wondering. "Don't you need a special cord to run lights from a computer?" Yes you do, and it's cheap. All you need is a USB to DMX cable, then attach the DMX end to the other end of another DMX cable and it will work. Hope this helps! Next I'll start doing worship softwares!

Home Sick Really isn't That Fun

Today on Veterans Day, I am home sick with a fever. That gives me a chance to do a couple of things that I really need to do before the next couple of weekends.

1. 12 Disciples Video for Joe. Here's how the first try came out, so I'm redoing it.


2. Look up lights for 2Twenty. Any suggestions, let me know!!!!

The Search is On

A couple of month's ago, our light board at 2Twenty :'(
Anyway, time to move on. I am currently on the search for the following:

• New lights at 2Twenty
• PC Based Software
• Oh...and a new computer (Laptop or Desktop i don't care)

So, does anyone have any suggestions? Let me know asap!

Kidz Kaboom 2010 Production

Okay, one of my ALL TIME favorite events at Allison Park Church is Kidz Kaboom. Over 400 Kids will be taking part in High Energy Rallies, Miscellaneous camps, games, worship, and more. And over 60 Middle School and High School students will be on campus at APC to make sure this happens in an orderly fashion. Where I come into this is that once again, I will be in the Tech booth running lights again. Most likely I will be using, yet again, the DMX Operator 192 (Two of them) for Intelligent lights. Then two or three other boards after that. I can't wait for this event. I you are interested in signing up for this even if you're a middle school or high school student, Click Here.

American DJ Forum...Great ways to get Tech Questions

This afternoon, since I've been off the past 5 days, I've decided to go "OCD" on learning how to program the DMX Operator 192 for the Winter Retreat which is Pictured. I thought That I would try submiting a question on "American DJ's Forum", which is a company that sells this board. I already got one reply from a guy named Chris who sounds like he know what's he doing. My question was do I need Scenes to record chases on the board. Check out what he said.

"Yes, you need to program scenes before you program chases.

Chases are dependent on scenes being created. You could make the chases without the scenes, but your chases are going to be really really BORING since there is nothing in the scenes.

The manual is excessively clear on this fact.

Since you do have the manual, this is some advise(besides reading it):
Sit down with the DMX Operator 192 with the manual open. Go over the scene programming stuff one step at a time with the manual, going over and over it until you feel comfortable with the whole programing thing. It's not confusing, but it takes extra practice. You might also want to download the manual and print out the pages that pertain to progamming to make those extra available. I say this because that is what I do with my DMX Operator(not 192). But I don't use my DMX Operator often these days since I'm using MyDMX as my controller.

Have fun and hope your retreat goes well. It sounds like you got a fun job!"

That is really going to help me as we Prepare for the Winter Retreat.