The video is transmitted via ethernet cabling based on Kramer technology. The dmx data for the lights are transmitted via lumenradio. All lights on 100% to check whether we calculated our energy consumption correctly.
Oh… and by the way: we’re also doing the trussing and lights for the bar…Īnd YES: we are going full pro on this one.įirst impressions at night. 4 Monitors are hanging in the back truss, one is hanging at each side. Working for the company doing the stage for me as the guy for lights and visuals also means: Bringing up the complete stage! From zero. Including a never-ending amount of energy-drinks, beer and grilled food.īy the way: It’s one of the better ideas to use an extra cable only for the fridge at the foh.
We get the best support one could think of. Though the Terrassenfest is organized by volunteers it doesn’t lack professionality at all. The most important thing (the fridge) is already there. The foh (front of house) will be by new home from now on. It’s important to know that I will be meeting friends of mine there and I’m planning to play arround with different stuff so I am taking way more than I’d need to. to name just a bit of the stuff i took with me. MacBook pro, Lenovo Thinkpad, Akai APC20…. This is only the technical stuff i’m carrying: Packing my stuff for staying out of Hamburg for 5 days (sat – thur). This means every monitor gets the same input data but only displays 1/9th of the actual picture depending on the position that was set in its configuration.Ĭodec shootout based on visual impression and CPU usage. The monitors themselves are configured in 3*3 matrix mode. 6 being twisted by 90 degress, hanging overhead in the truss, 4 being packed together in a somewhat classical 2*2 matrix-style stetup. The stage-setup will contain 10 units of 42 inch monitors. I already created some footage and am working on the basic screen setup. I am in charge of lights and visuals and I will be using VDMX for the first time. Last year my former boss visited me when I was working there and told me he had been organizing this event ~25 years ago himself. This is the 38th year this event takes place. We are doing the stage for the third year now and I guess it’s the right time to go a little more into detail than the years before.
Every night there are 2 bands and a DJ afterwards. It’s an annually held 3-day event organized by volunteers of the senior technical college in the city of Osnabrück. This post will be about my third time at the Terrassenfest ( Facebook). Get there, get out your Laptop and voila! No need for building up an entire stage structure, cabling etc.Ĭontinue reading → Tagged GrandMA onPC, Midi Fighter, touchosc, vdmx This was one of those jobs I’d like to describe as a ‘Kofferjob’. Fortunately I knew about the fact that most things were already set up at the venue. I had to get from Hamburg to Osnabrück and was more than an hour late even before anything happened at all. That’s why you are there, that’s what you are paid for (mostly). It has to work and it has to work on time. Dates like these are mainly characterized by a rather fixed timetabel and a somewhat limited necessity for pure creativity and next-generation-visuals. the whole event was very professionally done so it was very much like an industrial event. But destiny seems to be on my side at the moment and so I had the chance to do the lights and visuals at the ‘Graudate’s Ball 2014’ in Osnabrück. This somehow makes my version obsolete but … people asked for it and I owe it to myself, I think.Ĭontinue reading → Tagged DMX, GrandMA onPC, Java, MA Lighting, raspberry pi, Remote CMDĭue to various reasons (and only some of them are cool) I haven’t done a lot of jobs as a lightjockey within the last 2 years. I’m a little late on that topic: Meanwhile ( meaning: a few years ago ) the GrandMA Version 2 has been released and it incorporates a native Telnet interface. It is simply faster to issue the command “fader 1.1 thru 5.10 at 0” than to manually set 90 faders to zero (or -god forbid- use a mouse to do this on the onPC-version without a touchscreen). Since it’s implemented in Java you can basically run it from every computer that you have at hand ( yes: even a Raspberry PI ). Having a command line proved to be quite handy especially when you are setting up a show from scratch. Tl dr: This program provides a remote command line to a GrandMA Version 1 lighting desk (console or onPC). Back in the days I pulled together a quick ‘n dirty version which somehow worked and caught some interest but never really became more than a proof of concept. Due to … massive … request I took the chance and did a major overhaul of my post about the GrandMA remote command line from a few years ago.