LIGHT TALK Episode 74 - "The Eureka Moment - Interview with Sarah Clausen and Anne Valentino"

Published: Sept. 8, 2018, 5 a.m.

In this episode of LIGHT TALK, the Lumen Brothers interview Sarah Clausen and Anne Valentino, Controls Product Managers for Electronic Theatre Controls. Join Anne, David, Sarah, Stan, and Steve as they pontificate about: What goes into\xa0designing a lighting controller,\xa0Listening and Interpreting, How do your buttons feel?, A Faster Horse, Introducing crucial new features that we thought we would never use, Magic Sheets and the Color System,\xa0The\xa0Journey from Kliegl to Strand to ETC to Varilite to ETC, Making the first\xa0decisions, Understanding the DNA and logic of a control system, Understanding Data Management,\xa0Why we hate HTP, Living and designing in a modular world of\xa0software, Knowing when to start over, How to get students to read the manual, The six concepts in understanding how a lighting control system works, Sarah's work on the new Hog 4 platform for High End Systems, and What was the first console to have a Rem-Dim\xa0button?\xa0

Nothing is Taboo, Nothing is Sacred, and Very Little Makes Sense.