hi everyone
im a new member of photolexicon and have got alot of advice from here already.
just to introduce myself i started out wanting to be a lighting engineer but never managed to get trained in it. i then started working with a mobile dj and bought a substantial amount of dmx lighting. including yokes scanners and moonflower effects. i then bought my first laser which was a 5mw chauvet laser. this was not very powerful at all and im was slightly disappointed. after using it for a while i got bored and wanted something alot more powerful. i then bought a red and green sik 4 head system with combined power of 260mw.
i was very impressed at first but slowly got bored of it as all the patterns were a bit the same. then i bought a set of 4 shinp dl11 50mw lasers and these are great for adding to other more controlled laser effect but on there own are not fantastic as they use stepper motors.
i then decided to go all out and buy a big dipper f2000 rgb 10k scanner 400mw combined laser. i was amazed with it but its just not bright enough the green is ok but the red is very dim as so is the blue.
then i bought a me lighting 200mw green ilda laser and interface and absolutly love it its so contolled and as it has close to 30k scanners in them and are very bright (for what i need anyway) i like them so much i have bought another one.
thats me and i hope thank anyone for there advice ahead of time.
this is my question anyway
i have started using a laser sofware called i show this used ild shows. i was looking for some advice on how to create a laser show as i am finding it very hard to do very simple ones.
i need a tutorial of how to do this and any ways to make it easier to do this.
i am wondering if every frame has to be drawn cause i want to make 3-4 minute shows and drawing every frame will take me about 10 years to this. pls help me
thanks in advance