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Over the years, many different lighting companies have come up with many different ways to do color mixing of their lights, and today I’d like to pontificate about some of the different methods and their strengths and weaknesses, and how they fit into different areas of design. Flags: the mixing glass slides back and forth on tracks, moving into and out of the beam. The big strength of the flag system is the speed of the system, but what tends to happen is that as the flags ease into the beam, the gradations show up as visibly uneven coloration within the aerial beam. This isn’t always noticeable, especially during faster moves or on mixing cues where the flags move on… Read More »Some Thoughts On Color Mixing

In a recent LD@Large, John Featherstone spoke of his distaste for the trope of the lighting versus video mentality that pervades parts of our industry. Any production where IMAG is used needs to have a crew that understands the intricacies of lighting for not only the stage, but also for video. I’ve worked with tours and productions that use IMAG many times in my career, and these are some of my strategies for dealing with lighting for video from an LD’s perspective. On my current tour, I have a pretty awful scenario as far as mixed sources are concerned. I have some 700-watt wash movers, some RGB LED washlights without a white emitter, as well as some standard 1200-watt spots… Read More »Lighting With Video