Rants, ramblings, and occasional bouts of usefulness.
Or how to provide the illusion of having mapped every entertainment venue in the world. As part of my recent work on CueCam, I was asked to incorporate location metadata in the recorded images and videos. An expectation of any camera app these days, and mimicing the native iPhone Camera
This is posted because it became very annoying at Edinburgh Fringe this year and hopefully it helps others who stumble upon it. There appears to be a known issue with recent version of macOS that results in QLab (and potentially other apps) 'losing' the permissions granted for access
Since I released Zoe to the masses (well, a few people who downloaded it) I've had a lot of positive feedback and feature requests. As this was a tool I mainly wrote for a specific group, it was always fairly limited in capabilities – and this was mostly
I'm not going start an entire series of EOS Macros posts (at least I don't intend to, I'll revise this statement when I post EOS Macros Tips #29 or something!) but a few people have commented on this set I use in every show
This one is for all the MA3 fans or, specifically, a friend of mine who is an MA programmer but really missed Selection Grid when using Eos. Essentially this is a simple tool that runs on your Mac and connects to an ETC Eos based lighting console (or ETCnomad) on
"Go online or phone to buy car, home, or pet insurance" is the tagline on their Google search. The catch is right there in plain sight - to buy. Yes, Direcrt Line will happily take your money on the website, without speaking to anyone, but you cannot later cancel
Managing a theatre - even a small one - has lots of facets, and obligations, and one of those often overlooked is privacy and data protection. There's a lot to this topic of course, but since a few people have commented on it recently I wanted to share one of
As part of my ongoing development of CueCam we recently added support for timecode including Art-Net, MIDI, LTC, and ACN from ETC Response Gateways. The latter is particularly important as CueCam is used exclusively in environments with ETC Eos-based consoles and, in the professional world at least, that
I recently launched CueCam on the App Store you and the feedback I've had has been overwhelmingly positive, so thank you all. I wanted to address three criticisms I've received, some just genuinely inquisitive and one actually quite hostile accusing me of 'ripping off'
Some time ago, I built EOS Timecode Companion which transformed CSV files into instructions to Eos consoles, designed to make it easy to get timecode out of Cue Points into ETC Eos. Recently, I've revisited this app and made it more powerful. It updates your Eos showfile in
Another tool that I made for myself (or, rather, for another theatre company) that I've made available to anyone who might find it useful is Zoe Media Server . It is not, and doesn't try to be, an alternative to Disguise, Hippotizer, Avolites Ai, MediaMaster or anything
This is a tool I wrote for myself, and have improved on with others. It's now available on the App Store for download. The app is a free download, with a one-off purchase via in-app purchase (I don't really like this, but it'
... gaze in awe and record it for Instagram? I don’t know who needs to read this - and it’s probably not anyone I know - but having seen so many clips from the tragic accident at Crans-Montana in Switzerland this new year… IF THERE IS A
A few people have asked about my ETCnomad setup, so I thought i'd put a little list here (together with, shamelessly, links that may earn me a tiny amount in referrals if you buy anything you see here!) Firstly, I do still really prefer a console (ideally an
(Or, how to cope with performers that wander about without a followspot on a budget) I've been dabbling in automatic followspots for a while, trying to make my own hacky solution as I don't have the budget for the likes of ZacTrack, Blacktrax, Follow-ME etc.