#LIGHTWRIGHT 5 MANUAL MANUAL#

Whether the orientation is from the perspective of the light or the way it falls on the floor is up to you: just be consistent and include a note on your title page showing which way you did it. The lighting instruments and parameters specified in the Vectorworks Spotlight product can be automatically sent to Lightwright versions 5 and later to perform. You can also circle either the horizontal or vertical bar or L/R or US/DS instead of drawing an arrow.

If you're focusing a PAR or other light which has an oval beam, then you draw a little arrow in next to 'Axis:' showing the orientation.

#LIGHTWRIGHT 5 MANUAL MANUAL#

If you're using a fresnel and want to indicate Spot or Flood focus, you circle Sp, Fl, or somewhere in between. The Manual may earn a commission when you buy through links on our site. If you want to indicate Soft or Hard edges, you circle Sf, Hd, or somewhere in between. If you're focusing a front-of-house light and you want to indicate a cut off masking borders overhead, you'd probably say 'TP Off Borders' instead of 'US Off Borders' just because it's more what you want to do. It depends on where the light is pointing and what would be clearer to understand. Fill in whatever parts of the chart make sense for each light, and leave the rest blank.

US, DS, TP, and BT can sometimes mean the same thing: For example, a shutter cut on the top of a light may well be the same as an upstage cut. Once the light is focused on you, the electrician locks it down and begins to make shutter cuts, which are indicated in the body of the chart below the dimensions. The stand-here-and-focus-like-this method works fine for most acting areas, but it rarely works for things like curtain warmers or template washes that streak dramatically across scenery. If you need to be sitting down or standing on something when the light is pointed at you, be sure to include that in the chart. The focus charts Lightwright prints are the kind most of the New York/Broadway designers use, and if you haven't worked there, you probably feel a little lost. If you need to stand someplace downstage of your zero line, then the US/DS distance is shown as a negative number. The electrician points the light at you there. To focus each light light, you stand wherever the chart says to.

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