#lighting control

Abuse pallets, make tons of focus, colour, beam and use presets. You going to want all your show data at your fingertips. use the hell out of the scene function so you can mark up your cues. Go to tab 4 (Direct Selects) to view banks of your pallets, for more info see this article: https://www.etcconnect.com/WebDocs/Controls/EosFamilyOnlineHelp/en/Content/10_Palettes/PALETTES.htm?tocpath=Palettes

ALSO GO TO SETUP -> DEVICE -> FACE PANEL AND DISSABLE THE GM!! You 100% do not want to hit "blackout" or nudge the fader mid show.

I mainly do this before a show: Prepare pallets before the show, for your intelligent fixtures make some basic colour pallets best to go to the colour picker in Eos (tab 27) and then select "standard colors" at which point use a group to select all of your RGB+ fixtures and the record one pallet for each colour so Red, Green, Orange, etc… best to record the fully saturated colours to save space, you should start at pallet 1 so you have access to these first, I leant this from this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOV8Vn4rewE

Group my fixtures, I mainly do this by where they are so if I had some RGB pars on LX1 I would call it "RGB Pars | LX1" etc… I would also group by fixtures depending on how quickly you need access to them. For fixtures you use a lot best to use a smaller number as to save keystrokes you don't want you most used profiles on group 100 something.

To see more info on scenes: https://www.etcconnect.com/WebDocs/Controls/EosFamilyOnlineHelp/en/Content/12_Cues_and_Cue_Lists/04_Cue_Attributes/Scenes.htm

Also update your Eos fam console to its latest version: https://www.etcconnect.com/Eos-Software/

This is a very small amount of what I do to prep for a show and everyone's programming style is different so don't take this as 100% what you should do, this is just the minimum I do for a show.

If you want anymore help please feel free to DM me.

Being trans and having a "loving family"/s. Means I want to be out of the house as much as possible and working in show businesses is great. While yes some people are ass holes and very up themselves some people are so lovely. The amount of just cool queer people I have met is one of the reasons why I keep going. I am better at socializing when it's a topic I know about so talking to people about lighting is just great!

what lighting projects are you working on rn?

also my school might offer a theater tech class next year am very excited

Hiiiiiii

Thanks for asking :3

I am being paid to re organize a venue's lighting data and power, as well as tagging & labeling everything. And then taking down my Congo Jr on another day to do an event. I am currently borrowing a very nice Peli 1510 from them.

The ETC Eos lighting console released in 2006, was named Eos after the Greek God of dawn.

I've made a custom icon for Eos. Why? Why not.

Oh Congo Jr, the love of my life