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Show Control Systems

The entertainment design and technology industry has evolved over the years to include practices from a number of different fields. Each area brings its own unique equipment and control systems into the mix, requiring today’s practitioners to have a working vocabulary of many disparate fields and the ability to collaborate with more production members than ever before. As production technology has evolved, so has the need for simplifying methods of control across this wide range of production elements. This is the nature of show control, the method of centralizing control for a number of different production elements.

15.1 Terminology

The discussion of show control can be a confusing endeavor without a basic introduction ...

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