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1) Stage Lighting Basic
2) Basic Theories
3) Stage Lighting Library
4) Lighting Designer Career
5) Basic Design Discussion
6) Light Plot Deconstructed
7) Intro in to Stage Lights
8) How to Hang Stage Lights
9) How to Wrap Cables
10) Working With Lighting Gels
11) Working with Gobos
12) Color Theory
13) Intro in Electricity
14) Basic Electrical Math
15) Rigging Series
16) Truss Handling
17) programming DMX 101
18) Followspot Operation
19) Timelapse Corporate
20) Trouble Shooting an Issue
21) Timelapse Concert

 

 
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Stage Lighting Basics
"A one page tutorial explaining what stage lighting is"

A single page
text tutorial
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The Stage Lighting Library
"A website with stage lighting references and definitions"

A single page of links
that will take you to
another website
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A PDF doc created by MainLight
Lighting Theories

16 page PDF
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Learn Stage Lighting - A great website featuring many articles on basic stage lighting, lighting ideas and advanced lighting techniques.

Read Blogs Here
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Stage Lighting Primer for Students

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Walter Lutzu Independent
Programmer Blog

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Lighting Designer
"A look at this career"
9+mins video
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Describing Your Job as an LD
1+mins video
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Lighting Design Panel Hosted by Apollo Lighting

3 Videos in Series
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Light Plots. How to draft a light plot by hand. Symbols, templates, etc.
4+mins video
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Drafting a Pipe
full of Lights
3+mins video
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Drafting Light Plots - Adding Accessories
2+mins video
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Drafting Light Plots - Notations, channels, dimmers
3+mins video
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Light Plot Deconstructed
a Webinar
with Gregg Hillmar

65+mins video
Play Video

Sponsor Link
Monkey Wrench Productions
 

FREE Drafting software
LXFree

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Website
Here
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How to hang a stage light

1+mins video
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How to rig a stage light

5+mins video
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Introduction to
Stage Lighting

4 Videos in Series
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Explaining the Leko

3+mins video
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Explaining the Fresnel

1+mins video
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How to Wrap Cables

3 videos total
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Look Inside a Moving Light

3+mins video
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Dichroism
Dichroic filter technology

1+mins video
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How It's Made Lighting Gels and Camera Filters

5+mins video
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Using Gobos on the Stage

25+mins video
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The Basics of Lighting
Panel Discussion
by Apollo

2 Videos in Series
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National Theater
Stage Lighting Series

9 Videos in Series
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Lighting Design
1+mins video
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Conducting Light Part 1+2

4+mins video
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Using Layers in Stage Design
with John WeyGandt

3+mins video
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Bill Nye - Color and Light
6+mins video
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Color Theory

6 Videos
Series Link

   
The Lion King Paris
A Lighting Designers Perspective

1+mins video
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LD Pat Brannon Talks
about the recent
Bon Jovi Tour

4+mins video
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Intro to electric and
3 phase power

11 Videos in Series
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This series was removed so the videos could be improved and updated. We hope to see these available again very soon.

Created by: Greg Vinci from IATSE Local 48, Akron/Canton Stage Employees.

   

Electricity Do's and Don'ts

1+mins video
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What is 3 Phase Power?

2+mins video
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How to Make Up
a 3 Phase Panel

2+mins video
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Intro to Electricity

4+mins video
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Intro to OHMs Law

5+mins video
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How to use a Multi-Meter
10+mins video
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Multi-Meter Closeup
1+mins video
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Choosing the right
Light Meter

5+mins video
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Film TV Light meter Tutorial
6+mins video
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Advantages to using a light meter and some basics on how they work
15+mins video
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Tomcat Truss
Did You Know Series

2 Videos
Series Link

   

Tying Knots Series

10 Videos Total in Series
Series Links

   
Rigging Videos
Series

2 Videos
Series Links
   
Fall Arrest and Harness Gear
10+ mins video
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Learn to program
and use DMX 101

7 Videos in Series
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Basic DMX Console
Programming Tutorial

9+mins video
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Basic Programming on a
Chauvet Color Palette

2 Videos
Series Link

   
   
Spotlight Training
14+mins video
Play Video
Sponsor Link
Monkey Wrench Productions
 

How to Operate
a Followspot

3+mins video
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Filmmaking 101 - Three Point Lighting Tutorial
10+mins video
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Lighting & Video in Corporate Worship
21+mins video
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House of Worship Lighting
5 total videos
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Making Theatre Flats
4 total videos
Play Videos
   
Josh Selander - Intro to Show Control
20+mins video
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How UV Light Works
2+mins video
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Pocket Pickle from
Cooper Controls

2+min video
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Eurovision Song Contest 2011: Building The Stage
1+min video
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Backstage with... Sara Lee, Deputy Stage Manager
2+min video
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Wybron Autopilot II
1+min video
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Trans-Siberian Orchestra 11-13-2013 Christmas Jam - Toledo, OH
4+min video
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TSO Closer
4+min video
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Bolshoi theatre - Modern technology behind historical walls
2+mins video
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Discover Opera: Lighting Design Madama Butterfly
7+mins video
Play Video
   
CAVE Virtual
Reality Setup
3+mins video
Play Video
   

Pangolin Laser Systems Overview

6+mins video
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Lighting engineers using physics
6+mins video
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Eurovision 2013 - Lighting Designer Fredrik Jönsson
5+mins video
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Behind the Scenes - Lighting Design by Don Holder (SPIDER-MAN TURN OFF THE DARK)
2+mins video
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Theater Technology Group Training Video
15+mins video
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Church Lighting & Effects Example
8+mins video
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Backstage Pass: Following the Band
17+mins video
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Sneak Peek of STANDBY CUE 101: An Introduction to Calling Live Performances
4+mins video
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How do we see Colour? - Professor William Ayliffe
53+mins video
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How To Effectively Light Your Green Screen
9+mins video
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Electrical Math for Stagehands

17+mins video
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Rigging Series

4 videos total
Play Series

   

Lecture at PLASA 2002 on the Future of Lighting Technologies

64+mins video
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How to replace a
fog machine pump

9+mins video
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DMX LIGHTING
FOR BEGINNERS

4 Videos in Series
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LEE Filters -
How Colour Works

3+mins video
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What's Wrong With This?
Part 1

2+mins video
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What's Wrong With This?
Part 2 The Answers

3+mins video
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Florida: scissor lift collapse. Platform scaffold topples over in Port Everglades. MAR 15, 2013

1+mins video
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Aerial and Scissor Lift Operator Familiarization Training

3 Videos in Series
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Aerial & Scissor
Lift Safety

16+mins video
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Awesome Directors
Project Cinematic
Lighting Tutorial

10+mins video
Play Video

Sponsor Link
Monkey Wrench Productions
 

Buddy Rich Chews
Out His Band


Extremely foul language
But this happens so be ready!

2+mins video
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Foul Language

   

CM Lodestar
Brake Adjustment

3+mins video
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How it Works
The Chain Hoist

5+mins video
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Time Lapse Corporate Ballroom Setup

5+mins video
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Rock Concert Lighting and the Meaning of Life

7+mins video
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Automating the rigging
Royal Shakespeare Theatre

4+mins video
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Practical Theater
Training Demos

2 Videos in Series
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Creative Stage Lighting Webinars
Making Informed Lighting Decisions
97+mins video
Play Video
   
Creative Stage Lighting Webinars
Lighting 101:
The Art of Illumination
58+mins Webinar Video
Play Video
   
Creative Stage Lighting Webinars
Lighting 101
The Art of Illumination
Part 2
92+mins Webinar Video
Play Video
   

Creative Stage Lighting Webinars
Choosing a Lighting
Consoles and Movers

60+ mins Webinar
Play Video

   

Creative Stage Lighting Webinars
Green in a Concert Setting

66+ mins Webinar
Play Video

   
Basic Lighting Setup
2+mins video
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DMX Explained by Dr DMX
Doug Fleenor

2 Videos Total in Series
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What is DMX
4+mins video
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DMX Explained
Series

DMX512 cabling
4 Videos Total in Series
Series Links
   
Computer Networking 101
Series

6 Videos Total in Series
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Highly Basic, questionable language
   
Local Network Communication Made Easy

 
5+mins video
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Subnetting in 6 Easy Steps
3 Videos Total in Series
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Much better detailed of
Subnet Masking explanation

   
Behind the Scenes and the Basics of Lighting a Stage
9+mins Video
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Advanced Video Lighting Techniques
Advanced Video Lighting Techniques
2+mins video
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Green Screen Tutorial
5+mins video
Play Video
   
Shrek the Musical on Broadway
"Set and Lighting Design"
5+mins video
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Nice Corporate Show Demo Reel
1+mins video
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Behind the Scenes at a
Wal-Mart Shareholders Meeting
4+mins video
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Various Videos from
City Theatrical

21 Videos Total in Series
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Excel Spreadsheet for Calculating Source Four Beam Spreads
Excel Spreadsheet
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A website with formulas
for calculating Beam Spread

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What is Beam Spread?
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Fixing an ETC Ellipsoidal
Electrical Assembly

5+mins video
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Excel Spreadsheet for Calculating Source Four Gobo Spreads
Excel Spreadsheet
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LD Calculator
Freeware Tool for
professional lighting people
by Paul Pelletier

Download Website
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Lighting Tech Commercial
1+mins video
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Poor Quality Video

   
Trouble Shooting
a Lighting Problem
"An Adventure in
Troubleshooting"

2 Videos Total in Series
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Stage Lighting - Section 55

4 Videos
Series Link

   

Various Videos from
Apollo Design

17 Videos Total in Series
Series Links

   

Production Express Products Expo -
Time Lapse

2+mins video
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Kiss Stage Set-Up Munich -
Time Lapse

2+mins video
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Setting the Stage Time Lapse

7+mins video
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GCC Dance Stage Lighting

1+mins video
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On the Magic of Theatrical Lighting

1+mins video
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Stage Design Bloopers,
Part 1 and 2 - John Weygandt

2 Videos
Series Link
   
Clay Paky Demo
Royal Albert Hall

 

1+mins video
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"Northern Lights"
Stage Lighting Effect

 

6+mins video
Play Video

   
Truss and Rigging
Training Series

4 Videos
Series Link
   
Basic Overview of How a
Fog Machine Works

1+mins video
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Fog Machine How it Works

3+mins video
Play Video

Sponsor Link
Monkey Wrench Productions
 
Socapex Pin Check

 

1+mins video
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Hollywood Lighting Secrets
Classic Back and White Lighting

8+mins video
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2Pac Returns: CNN Used Hologram Tech but Person Needed to Be Alive
2+mins video
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First Augmented Reality Virtual Concert in Indonesia
2+mins video
Play Video
   
TEDxRotterdam - Willem-Paul Brinkman- Virtual reality will lead the future
13+mins video
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Augmented Reality on Stage Event Ferrovial - Augmented by Total Immersion and Innovae Vision
2+mins video
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Hyundai Accent 3D projection mapping making of
2+mins video
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China-top 3d Projection Mapping,3d outdoor stereographic projection,4d transform projection!
13+mins video
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Live Augmented Reality-National Geographic
2+mins video
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Disney's Haunted Mansion Ballroom -
How It's Done
7+mins video
Play Video
   
CAVE® - A Virtual Reality Theater - 1993
4+mins video
Play Video
   
The Illusions of GHOST THE MUSICAL - Featuring Master Illusionist Paul Kieve
2+mins video
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DIY Hacks & How To's: Peppers Ghost
2+mins video
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Invisibility 3D -- Mind Bending Augmented Reality app
2+mins video
Play Video
   

Sponsor Link
Monkey Wrench Productions

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