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Notes from the venue: getting light over the network, locking to timecode, running a backup console and editing one cue instead of forty.

The first hour with a new rig: from the box to the first cue

Addressing with headroom, modes and why an 8-channel fixture is a different fixture, checking every channel one by one, and the five reasons a fixture ignores you.

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Getting started

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The first hour with a new rig: from the box to the first cue

Getting started

A phone as a console: why it helps and why the server lives inside the app

Getting started

Network and hardware

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Art-Net and sACN: why light goes over the network and where that network breaks

Network and hardware

RDM: how a console finds fixtures where brute force is impossible

Network and hardware

'Smart bulbs at the venue: where Hue helps and where it hurts'

Network and hardware

Pre-programming without a venue: Flux Lights and an external visualizer over Art-Net

Network and hardware

Flux Lights and Capture over Art-Net, step by step

Network and hardware

Synchronisation

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Timecode: how light lands on the music, and why 29.97 is a trap

Synchronisation

Light in time with the music: tap, MIDI Clock and the DJ problem

Synchronisation

Running the show

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Console redundancy: what actually has to be copied to the second computer

Running the show

Eight identical beams: why a group is not one big fixture

Running the show

Cue list tracking: why theatre writes light differently from a concert

Running the show

Pixel mapping: where light ends and video begins

Running the show