Introduction

The entertainment industry is an ever-expanding combination of several different areas (scenery, costumes, lighting, sound, integrated media, automation, etc.). All of these areas work together for the sole purpose of creating new and interesting ways to tell stories and entertain our audiences. As technologies for all these separate areas expand, though, it becomes increasingly important to find ways of unifying control of these areas while keeping the flexibility for each area to function as a unique component of the whole. This need is the driving force behind programs like QLab, which allow for the integration of several different production systems into one centralized control interface.

ENTERTAINMENT CONTROL SYSTEMS

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