Festival Help

Hey all,

I've done festivals, and Ive carried Hogs on tour, but I have a couple of months coming up where we'll be doing one offs and festivals intermixed.

Il probably have some led pars elation impressions and a road hog full boar.

Basically Im wondering what the best way to make a great show for my client at festivals. I understand that some festivals will be different and some may not be using HOG.

Assuming I carry a small package (some elations and LED PARs) that is set up for super fast change overs.

What, of the below, is practical or common:

1. Getting the stage plot and address sheet ahead of time and cloning fixtures and patching ahead of time? (making positions would take forever with larger stages that have 30 movers). I would need a spare DMX line to FOH then too.

2. merging my show with the festivals show on the festival console? just record their positions and colors into my pallets and (but then my playbacks wouldn't have the festivals fixtures in them.

Or is it a combination or am I way off?

Thanks
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    depending on your situation it might be beneificial to you to program your show using XYZ coordinates. if you have a tour package that stays the same and you have time to pre program a show, programming your enitre show with XYZ makes it so at the show you focus all your lights to the 4 main points of the stage. USR USL DSR DSL. so no matter what size stage your on the desk will automatically adjust your show. this is a super fast focus. this will enable you to have more time to program the festival rig. I have not done a show yet where i couldnt get a patch and plot sheet ahead of time. at that point take your festival rig and come up with a few positions and color palletes that fit your show and then merge them into your show. use your fixtures for the majority of your "BANG" and fill in with the festival rig. its always good to have some festival flash and trash as well. all of this easy to do with FX engine. just remember to save your main show seperatly from each different festival. otherwise it gets cluttered. the good news is that in our industry most lights in festivals are pretty much standards, a few festivals in you will have pretty much used the majority of the most popular lights. then when you get a new festival with similar lights then you just merge 2 shows together. i hope this helps.
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    depending on your situation it might be beneificial to you to program your show using XYZ coordinates. if you have a tour package that stays the same and you have time to pre program a show, programming your enitre show with XYZ makes it so at the show you focus all your lights to the 4 main points of the stage. USR USL DSR DSL. so no matter what size stage your on the desk will automatically adjust your show. this is a super fast focus. this will enable you to have more time to program the festival rig. I have not done a show yet where i couldnt get a patch and plot sheet ahead of time. at that point take your festival rig and come up with a few positions and color palletes that fit your show and then merge them into your show. use your fixtures for the majority of your "BANG" and fill in with the festival rig. its always good to have some festival flash and trash as well. all of this easy to do with FX engine. just remember to save your main show seperatly from each different festival. otherwise it gets cluttered. the good news is that in our industry most lights in festivals are pretty much standards, a few festivals in you will have pretty much used the majority of the most popular lights. then when you get a new festival with similar lights then you just merge 2 shows together. i hope this helps.
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