chupa@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Michael A Chupa) (12/08/89)
I am trying to give some advice to a friend that needs to find software to do theater lighting design. Is there anything like this that runs on a Mac? I can't seem to find anything at all in this area. Mike
ostroff@penelope.oswego.edu (Boyd Ostroff) (12/09/89)
In article <5270@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> chupa@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Michael A Chupa) writes: > > I am trying to give some advice to a friend that needs to find >software to do theater lighting design. Is there anything like this that >runs on a Mac? I can't seem to find anything at all in this area. ROSCO sells a program called "Candlepower" which purports to do this. They gave me a free demo disk for the asking (actually, its just the HyperCard stack which serves as the "help file"). Contact them at (914) 937-1300 or (800) 431-2338, or ask your local theatre supply house. The "Great American Market" also sells a program for IBM-PC's called ShowPlot, and claimed to be porting this to the Mac. Try calling Joe Tawill at (213) 461-0200 to find out the current status. DISCLAIMER: we were "not impressed" with the Candlepower stack, but haven't used the real program. ROSCO sells several IBM programs (Stagelights and ALD-Pro) which would appear to do a little more, but my exposure to them is minimal. Perhaps someone else can comment... I saw the Showplot system a couple years ago running on a PC, and, while it did draw light plots, it was slow (written in BASIC), buggy, had a terrible user-interface, etc. The people who bought it (at SUNY Oneonta, I think) were frustrated by the lack of knowledgeable support, had been told conflicting things about what hardware to buy, ran into copy-protection problems, etc. ... but maybe things have improved since then :-) BTW, I'm teaching a "Computer Applications for Theatre" class next semester, and would greatly appreciate hearing about anyone else's experiences in this area. -Boyd ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Boyd Ostroff, Technical Director ||||||| System Administrator, "The CallBoard" Theatre Department, SUNY Oswego ||||||| Serving the performing arts since 1986 (315) 341-2987 ||||||| (315) 947-6414 300/1200/2400 baud 8N1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ostroff@oswego.Oswego.EDU ...!rutgers!rochester!kodak!gizzmo!cboard!ostroff
hgw@julia.math.ucla.edu (Harold Wong) (12/13/89)
In article <5270@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> chupa@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Michael A Chupa) writes: > > I am trying to give some advice to a friend that needs to find >software to do theater lighting design. Is there anything like this that >runs on a Mac? I can't seem to find anything at all in this area. > Mike Along the same line of thoughts, are there theatrical lighting controllers that run on MIDI? Thanks ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Harold Wong (213) 825-9040 UCLA-Mathnet; 3915F MSA; 405 Hilgard Ave.; Los Angeles, CA 90024-1555 ARPA: hgw@math.ucla.edu BITNET: hgw%math.ucla.edu@INTERBIT