Book description
Now in its third edition, Automated Lighting: The Art and Science of Moving and Color-Changing Lights has been fully updated to reflect the vast changes in stage and studio luminaries including LEDs, switch-mode power supplies, optics, networking, Ethernet-based protocols like Art-Net and sACN, wireless DMX, and much more.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- SECTION 1: Introduction
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SECTION 2: Electricity and Electronics
- Chapter 4 Circuits
- Chapter 5 Electrical Planning and Preparation
- Chapter 6 Power Supplies
- Chapter 7 Overcurrent, Overvoltage, and Overtemperature Protection
- Chapter 8 Digital Electronics
- Chapter 9 Digital Hardware and Software
- SECTION 3: Electromechanical and Mechanical Systems
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SECTION 4: Optical Systems
- Chapter 12 Light Sources
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Chapter 13 The Optical Path
- Specular Reflection
- LED Primary Optics
- Conventional Reflector Geometry
- Reflector Materials
- Ultraviolet and Infrared Filters
- Optical Thin-Film Filters
- Color Wheels
- Subtractive Color Mixing
- Additive Color Mixing
- Color Temperature Correction
- Gobos
- Diffusion
- Iris
- Animation Effects
- Beam Shapers
- Framing Shutters
- Effects
- Secondary Lenses
- Anti-Reflective Coatings
- First Surface Mirrors
- SECTION 5: Communications
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SECTION 6: Maintenance, Troubleshooting, and Repair
- Chapter 17 Maintenance, Troubleshooting, and Repair
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SECTION 7: Lighting Console Programming
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Chapter 18 Lighting Console and FOH Setup
- Power Requirements
- Uninterruptable Power Supplies
- Physical Configuration
- Console Configuration Settings
- Setting Up a DMX System
- Setting Up the Network
- Configuring the Console
- Setting Up an Ethernet Network
- Testing the Network
- Setting Up a Console for Art-Net Output
- Casting
- Setting Up a Console to Output sACN
- Port Monitoring
- Backup and Tracking
- MIDI and MSC
- Timecode
- Chapter 19 Lighting Console Programming
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Chapter 20 Lighting Design Software
- CAD
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Data and Attributes
- Instrument Type
- Power Consumption in Watts
- Purpose
- Position
- Unit Number
- Color
- Dimmer
- Channel
- DMX Universe
- DMX Address
- Circuit Number
- Circuit Name
- Number of Channels
- Frame Size
- Field Angles
- Beam Angles
- Luminous Flux
- Center Beam Luminous Intensity
- Weight
- Accessories
- Protocol
- DMX Mode or Personality
- IP Address
- Subnet Mask
- Art-Net Net
- Art-Net Subnet
- Lighting Paperwork
- Software Applications
- Rendering
- Off-Line Editors
- Visualization
- Fly-Throughs
- Workflow
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Chapter 18 Lighting Console and FOH Setup
- SECTION 8: Convergence of Lighting and Video
- Index
Product information
- Title: Automated Lighting, 3rd Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: November 2017
- Publisher(s): Routledge
- ISBN: 9781317531111
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