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The Twins FX - but as Tom says, radio gear is not cheap, plus the motors and control. That said - your local model aircraft club have the radio experience, and the rest depends on the size. How big is it? Second hand or death bed disabled scooters are great sources of batteries, wheels and drive components. If it's much smaller then model racing clubs who race those big wheel things might work, like robot wars.

Still less than a happy meal?

For me, HDMI and HDMI converted to SDI is always a punt. Even worse, so many computer monitors are locked to very precise frame rates, and TV's that have HDMI inputs are much better at producing a picture. You grab a camera, it says 1980x1080 and you discover it has SDI out, so grab the blackmagic converter and stuff a short (because they're more reliable than long)HDMI cable in to the monitor, and get a framerate mismatch message, or worse, nothing. You plug a camera with HDMI out into a monitor with HDMI and it doesn't work - maybe 1080i not p, or maybe the length of the HDMI is just a tad too long? I've never found the answer, but it's infuriating.

Over the panto season I made a series of youtube videos, and I picked one to share - somebody asked me what I put in my show reports. Might be interesting to newcomers, and old lags too!

Over the panto season I made a series of youtube videos, and I picked one to share - somebody asked me what I put in my show reports. Might be interesting to newcomers, and lags too!

'Takes' sort of works, but we'd also use clips - but using your example, if I'd recorded them I'd probably describe them as Capture 1 close, capture 1 medium or capture 1 distant, or capture 1 position A etc. Describing them I would be happy with "listening to clip 3, distant perspective" or Clip 14, position 6 ..." Personally, I'd probably use clip or capture almost interchangeably In my head, I'd use 'take' for clips that are re-recorded over and over again - so take 3 would be the third attempt. I have 'capture' more as a good word for a process, so the microphone in the recorder would capture the sound in the room, and stick into a number of audio clips that can be collated and used later? So for me 'capture' would be really a verb? Does that help? Other may well have other terms they'd use. As it's all digital nowadays a file could be a good description, but I don't think I'd use in in your context? 'Takes' sort of works, but we'd also use clips - but using your example, if I'd recorded them I'd probably describe them as Capture 1 close, capture 1 medium or capture 1 distant, or capture 1 position A etc. Describing them I would be happy with "listening to clip 3, distant perspective" or Clip 14, position 6 ..." Personally, I'd probably use clip or capture almost interchangeably In my head, I'd use 'take' for clips that are re-recorded over and over again - so take 3 would be the third attempt. I have 'capture' more as a good word for a process, so the microphone in the recorder would capture the sound in the room, and stick into a number of audio clips that can be collated and used later? So for me 'capture' would be really a verb? Does that help? Other may well have other terms they'd use. As it's all digital nowadays a file could be a good description, but I don't think I'd use in in your context?

None of my expensive or cheap LED gear flickers - a thing of the past really. Garden or workshop floods are hardly that useful for event lighting - but most of those are flicker proof on video now.

None of my expensive or cheap LED gear flickers - a thing of the past really. Garden or workshop floods are hardly that useful for event lighting - but most of those are flicker proof on video now.

I guess a Lee swatchbook and thumb through or an RGB LED and white screen and experiment.

Yep - get the other things, but such a shame that theatre is one of the three most impossible areas for young people to work in. I even tried to enable it for a university student, and discovered that while old enough to be outside the Childrens Act blanket ban, the insurance in place did know about the legal issue and had determined that any student required serious paperwork with responsible persons having to supervise and sign off - and I could not, as a visitor too, be that person. Clearly theatres are far too risky places, full of iniquity and danger.

Pantone Reflex Blue seems to be the colour, but apparently this is very difficult to match to both RGB LED or Gel colours as it's one of those colours that isn't quite what is seems and attempts to create it only get close. Just one of the colours that works as subtractive in reflection, but doesn't work by illumination. Like Lee 126 violet - where to the eye the colour of the gel is obvious but when you look through it red and yellow get sort of reversed. I suspect it will be a torch and swatch book - because the look up calculators fail on this one - producing a purple that is not in the flag version.

Sadly, this will probably be a non-starter in any theatre who know the law. There are three places where it is illegal for people in school, so up to 16, to work. Abatoirs - I get this one Nightclubs - this too really, but Theatres. My local theatre were approached by the council for a work experience placement. I mentioned the law, they laughed and said don't worry - but then in five minutes, discovered it was accurate. It even applies to amateur theatre - unless chaperones and licences are done. Of course you might find somewhere where they don't know ....... but what if there's an accident? TV is OK, but theatres are on th naughty list.

Having seen a few, the real killer is toppling - the audiences are very excitable - so anything tall has to be stopped from falling over. It's not cheap to do this properly and safely. The simplest and most stable one I saw was 4 lengths of ladder truss - the two chord stuff that was a square about a metre bigger than the ring on all sides - suspended on 4 wind up stands. They hung lights, then four people wound it up and it seemed pretty stable and solid.

That sounds a bit like sales blurb Steve, they're not exactly cheap!

No, the wrap is simply to get enough friction - if the cable is now a bit short. a few less turns will be fine. The killer is always that you must work out where the travel starts, and of course no joins at the winch end during the travel. What usually happens is you run out of good cable and discover you can only open partially. They're just fiddly.