Show Control Fundamentals

One press, and four departments move at once

One press, and four departments move at once: the lights change, the video starts, the sound stings, the scenery flies. Show control is the wiring between the systems that makes that press possible, and the discipline that makes it happen the same way tomorrow night.

Inside: What Show Control Is - Cues & Sequencing - What Show Control Does in Each Department - Triggering & Protocols - Timecode & Synchronization - The Systems You Will Meet - The Logic Inside a Controller - Designing the Control Plan - Networks for Show Control - Building & Running a Show-Control Show - Interlocks, Permissives and Safety - Cue Lights, Comms and the Show Stop - Where Show Control Lives - Installed and Unattended Systems - Interactive Shows - Conduct, Handover and Where This Leads - Glossary.