Elements and Performance Criteria
- Determine production requirements
- Connect and format advanced fixtures to control system
- Check console fixture library to ensure correct inventory exists and is operational
- Connect console to advanced fixtures through appropriate control protocol and check to ensure designer's control requirements can be achieved
- Use experimentation to test the capabilities of advanced fixtures
- Set up softpatch required for production to ensure advanced fixtures are connected to appropriate control surfaces
- Format presets for advanced fixtures in accordance with requirements of designer
- Accurately maintain electronic and paper plots in accordance with changes to original setup
- Program console to receive pre-recorded material from an external source
- Assess protocol, program type and connectivity of external source material for compatibility with main console
- Complete appropriate back-ups of external source material prior to transfer to main console
- Make appropriate assessment of the need for any changes to source material to address venue system and correctly determine whether changes can be made on external device of main console
- Correctly set up main console and external device and use appropriate techniques to transfer material
- Make appropriate checks to ensure successful transfer and take action accordingly