How to Begin with Lasers from LearnStageLighting.com!

How to Begin with Lasers from LearnStageLighting.com!
Take a look at the video David Henry of Learn Stage Lighting made to introduce lasers to beginners! Featuring safety and legal compliance, an explanation of how to use the laser, and a demonstration. Curious? Click the link below to watch his video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ-K3oJoLnY&feature=youtu.be Other useful links: https://www.learnstagelighting.com/how-to-begin-with-lasers/ LearnStageLighting YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1waxWgPLQJv7UVBe9dr5cg...

How to Create Your Own Countdown Clock in Quickshow

How to Create Your Own Countdown Clock in Quickshow
 Look no further for a how-to on creating a laser countdown for your New Year’s celebration! Check out our YouTube video for a tutorial using Pangolin’s Quickshow.   This quick and easy tutorial walks through choosing the right type of clock, adjusting the timeline to allow for effects, and scaling...

Lighting Network Essentials - Part Two, Specifying and Setting Up a Lighting Network

Lighting Network Essentials - Part Two, Specifying and Setting Up a Lighting Network
Part two of our lighting networking essentials series is now live! Specifying and Setting Up a Lighting Network.In this part of the series we cover specifying your lighting network to provide enough bandwidth, the differences in how some fixtures handle physical networking connections and how to play out your network layout. In part three we'll cover how to troubleshoot common networking issues.

FDA Annual report guide for 2019 is out

FDA Annual report guide for 2019 is out
The annual report, every laserist dreads it but there's no need to. We made a clear and simple guide to walk you through the process and help you keep your variance in good standing. Check it out at www.x-laser.com/annualreport

Part one of our stage lighting networking miniseries is out!

Part one of our stage lighting networking miniseries is out!
More and more stage lighting fixtures are controllable by Art Net and Streaming ACN than ever before. This connectivity can provide for faster load ins, simpler cabling and faster programming, all you need is to understand a bit of basic networking. We've created a three part series to introduce the essentials of networking with a focus on the elements relevant to stage lighting networks. In this first part of the series we cover the fundamentals of networking in general, covering the layers of a network, basic architecture and the components of a network. In parts two and three we'll cover how to specify and setup a stage lighting network as well as how to troubleshoot common networking issues.

Laser reflection with Smarter Every Day

If you're into lasers, you should already be following Smarter Every Day. He's got a ton of incredibly cool and educational videos and his latest is no exception. Destin does a great job of explaining internal reflection and it's relationship with angle of incidence.

How bright is a 20 watt laser?

How bright is a 20 watt laser?
How bright is a 20 watt laser on the wall? The answer as always is "it depends" but instead of just explaining it, here's a quick video to show you how much the ambient light level affects laser brightness.

GrandMA Mercury Profile Update

GrandMA Mercury Profile Update
The builders of Mercury grant lighting designers unparalleled control of lasers by direct DMX, but like any toolbox proper organization is key to efficiency and speed. We've worked with several lighting designers to make our MA profiles more intuitive and powerful! These videos will show you the changes we made.

How a laser projector works

How a laser projector works
One of the questions we get all the time at X-Laser is “How do laser projectors actually work?” so we made a short video explaining how scanning and color mixing work together to create the shapes we all love. We go through the layout and basic components common in most modern semiconductor laser light show projectors, then talk a bit about the specific signals used to control galvanometer scanners and laser diodes while showing you exactly how a circle is made.