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Entertainment in Production Books Available as e-Books

Written By: Justin Lang on April 30, 2010

I just heard from my good friend and fellow console connoisseur, Rob Halliday that his books, Entertainment In Production, Volume 1 & 2 have been made available as e-books through Amazon. While I am all about getting the books as e-books, I am still a little miffed that they are only available for the Kindle [...]

FocusTrack Now Includes PowerTrack

Written By: Justin Lang on April 22, 2010

I have mentioned FocusTrack in the past here and here. It seems like the software is getting more and more powerful. Rob Halliday sent me a message about FocusTrack and it’s integration of PowerTrack function for calculating the power usage of a show. Here is more from the Press Release: PowerTrack takes the information about [...]

iSquint Podcast: Episode 7 – Finding Your Next Lighting Desk

Written By: Justin Lang on March 2, 2010

It is that time of year, the trade show season is about to begin. Visitors from around the country and around the world visit trade shows to see some of the latest products and services available to our beloved industry. One of the most talked about and sometimes confusing product to compare is lighting control [...]

Love Never Dies – A Glimps Into the Design Process

Written By: Justin Lang on January 27, 2010

Rob Halliday, a new friend and fellow Lighting Design and writer let me in on a little known web site yesterday. The site is a journal of Mrs. Paule Constable, a leading lighting designer out of the UK. You may remember Mrs. Constable winning the 2009 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Lighting Design for her [...]

FocusTrack 2.100, Available Now with QuickFocus

Written By: Justin Lang on January 18, 2010

FocusTrack, the software that tracks the position and movement of your lights through your show has just recently been updated to include QuickFocus within the software. FocusTrack adds QuickFocus, for quick manual documentation of focuses and creation of cue-by-cue focus summaries. More from the Press Release: Continuing to respond to the needs of lighting professionals, [...]

New Software: SpotTrack Followspot Cue Software

Written By: Justin Lang on October 15, 2009

Rob Halliday, the creator of the FocusTrack software has announced the release of a new tracking software package called SpotTrack. SpotTrack is a new program for making and managing followspot cue sheets – something that has traditionally been done in Excel or Word using ad-hoc documents created from scratch as required. SpotTrack, by contrast, has [...]