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Last-Minute Changes for Oil Spill Concert Include Floating LED Screen

Nashville Sets the Stage

Nashville's staging business is the anchor component of the increasingly-elaborate productions that chug out of Music City every year. But like the sets that the handful of companies here fabricate, the business is glossy on the part that the audience sees and less so back in the shop.

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Career Conundrums

I remember a time over 12 years ago when I was talking with a young student in an automated lighting programming class I was teaching. He said that he really wanted to work in this field, but that his parents thought there is no future in it. They would rather have him become a doctor or lawyer than a "lighting guy."

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Artistic Licence DALI to DMX Converter

Artistic Licence Rail-DALI, an all-in-one DMX/DALI converter, is being superseded by two new products: Rail-DALI-DMX and Rail-DMX-DALI. The new Rail-DALI-DMX can provide a multiple number of simulated ballasts that control DMX channels directly, or it can be used as a trigger interface.

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Chromateq LED Player 512/1024 DMX Controller

Chromateq's LED Player is an entry-level priced DMX controller that works with Mac and Windows. The software includes a Profile Editor (library) and a Live mode. It can automatically generate color and matrix effects combined with pan and tilt movement. The software is downloadable and updates are free.

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GAM Remote Relay

GAM's new Remote Relay is operated from the Go-Lite low voltage controller and can handle loads up to 4,000W. You can select AC or DC relays at 120V or 230V. The unit is housed in a steel enclosure, and it can be hung with a C-clamp or mounted to a flat surface.

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Luminair for iPad on iTunes

Synthe FX has announced the release of Luminair for iPad, its new desktop-class multi-touch DMX lighting control app for Apple's iPad. It uses the Art-Net protocol to transmit DMX data over Wi-Fi, giving users wireless control of color-mixable LED fixtures, dimmers, studio lighting, moving lights, media servers and any other DMX enabled equipment.

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Mac Version of LSC Clarity

LSC Lighting Systems has announced the release of Clarity for Mac. This first public release for the Mac has the same features as the newly released version 1.2 of the PC software. For this reason, the first Mac release of software is also labeled Version 1.2 to ensure that the PC and Mac versions track each other. The latest PC version of Clarity can also be downloaded from the LSC website.

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