After years of using a large riding hall, this year's production will be staged in the basement of the Ennsegg Castle. With little space to spare for front of house control positions and a hectic production schedule, technical director and lighting designer Ueli Riegg found the new PC based Nomad controller to be the solution.
Thanks to the new screen management in Eos v2.2 software, including a simple to use onscreen command keypad, Riegg was able to programme the entire show using a PC with a monitor and an X-Keys programmable keyboard. When running Eos software, the commands and operating philosophy of the Nomad are the same as on other Eos-family products, such as Eos Ti, Gio and Ion desks. An ETC Gadget USB-to-DMX converter was used to get DMX from the PC to the lighting system.
Because of the tight production schedule - just a single day to turn the basement into a theatre and one night to cue the show - Riegg depended on the Nomad running Eos software as an offline editor for pre-programming the show. "It was only possible to light this show by being able to set up and pre-cue offline as much as possible," said Riegg. "We used the Eos Magic Sheet feature to significantly speed up our programming of moving lights and LEDs." In the end, the show had approximately 140 lighting cues.
(Jim Evans)
