If you ever need help or ask questions about nomad, Ryan Thomas at Bolt lighting Rental took the 728 class on it and teaches workshops. He taught a few people in the Bay how to use it.
Paul, for years I've been using Chauvet Showxpress. Its a wonderful (free) program that has provided me with an easy way to design lighting/av shows for a variety of applications from concerts to theatricals. In the theatre world ETC has a pretty large following. I see IONs at more venues than any other singular console. This leaves me wanting to learn the Nomad software. Can you suggest a good starting point?
It depends what you want to do. You can build it out as a system with a touch screen surface, but for jobs that are a little more involved than the one I talk about here, it is much deeper than Luminair. For live shows it feels more stable as well. The bonus is that you learn a system that can be scaled all the way up to large consoles. Luminair is great, but I wanted something that would allow me to see all my fixtures at once and have a blind mode so I can change values without affecting the program that is running.
I am a lighting programmer for film, and yes it is far better and more capable than luminair. It is the exact software that runs on their top of the line consoles that run theatres and stage shows all over the world. I highly suggest running it on a Microsoft Surface. You lose the awkward laptop form factor and gain a touch screen.
If you ever need help or ask questions about nomad, Ryan Thomas at Bolt lighting Rental took the 728 class on it and teaches workshops. He taught a few people in the Bay how to use it.
Good to know! Thank you.
ETC Nomad is the best.
Paul, for years I've been using Chauvet Showxpress. Its a wonderful (free) program that has provided me with an easy way to design lighting/av shows for a variety of applications from concerts to theatricals. In the theatre world ETC has a pretty large following. I see IONs at more venues than any other singular console. This leaves me wanting to learn the Nomad software.
Can you suggest a good starting point?
Is that software that good? Luminaire on a tablet looks much more handy on a set. Laptop with dongle and interface seems bulky.
It depends what you want to do. You can build it out as a system with a touch screen surface, but for jobs that are a little more involved than the one I talk about here, it is much deeper than Luminair. For live shows it feels more stable as well. The bonus is that you learn a system that can be scaled all the way up to large consoles. Luminair is great, but I wanted something that would allow me to see all my fixtures at once and have a blind mode so I can change values without affecting the program that is running.
I am a lighting programmer for film, and yes it is far better and more capable than luminair. It is the exact software that runs on their top of the line consoles that run theatres and stage shows all over the world.
I highly suggest running it on a Microsoft Surface. You lose the awkward laptop form factor and gain a touch screen.