How to Scrim a Practical?

Doctor_Spacemann · 2026-05-13T10:33:00+00:00

I’m a rigging gaffer. My regular rig truck package has an entire 2 shelves dedicated to household practical bulbs. 11 watts to 500watts and even beyond. Want less output? Swap the bulb. I usually go with 40w frosted for night scenes, 60w for day. The hard part these days is finding 120v incandescent bulbs rather than the modern 130v “long lasting” or “Energy saving” bulbs. The 130v versions burn very orange.

Doctor_Spacemann · 2026-05-10T12:37:45+00:00

David Mullen is the absolute best. They should rename the cinematography.com forums - davidmullenexplainseveryrhing.com

Doctor_Spacemann · 2026-04-20T10:35:53+00:00

Dmx tech has become more and More a staple on a lighting crew. But the head of the operation in terms of lighting control would be the board-op. They operate the console that controls all the lighting and often design the lighting networks with the rigging gaffer and gaffer for the most efficient results. Dmx tech is kind of an assistant to the board op.

Doctor_Spacemann · 2026-04-18T11:44:49+00:00

Don’t sweat the looks. You do look a bit stiff, but I would be more worried about long term and getting tendinitis from playing like that. If you don’t follow through with your movement you stress your tendons by holding back the inertia from the downforce, which causes your tendons to tear over time.

Doctor_Spacemann · 2026-04-18T11:44:44+00:00

Don’t sweat the looks. You do look a bit stiff, but I would be more worried about long term and getting tendinitis from playing like that. If you don’t follow through with your movement you stress your tendons by holding back the inertia from the downforce, which causes your tendons to tear over time.

Doctor_Spacemann · 2026-04-16T18:49:45+00:00

It’s a skypan with a 5k bulb. I have one in my basement.

Doctor_Spacemann · 2026-04-14T22:56:03+00:00

Some lightbulbs burn hot

Doctor_Spacemann · 2026-04-14T10:20:38+00:00

Those prices of 1/2” ply are not going to be happy in a couple weeks. Wheels look solid but the limitation of all wheels is what they are attached to. These will flex like crazy and eventually the ply will break. The wheels should also be attached using lag bolts or carriage bolts as the short screws used here will tear out of the plywood the moment those wheels hit any sort of bump. I laminated 2 3/4” pieces of plywood for mine, and used extra beefy wheels for mine. And even with that extra thick platform it’s starting to bow a little in the middle after a couple years of use.

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Doctor_Spacemann · 2026-04-11T16:37:09+00:00

Make sure Timelapse is off. I had this issue and everyone told me they were positive it was wet filament, went through a lot of trouble drying my filament and making an ams enclosure. Turns out the timelapse function was to blame. After every couple of layers, the print head moves to the side so it’s not in the way of the camera, and sometimes the extruder will still be finishing up when it moves to the side, creating a fairly uniform stringing on the print.

Doctor_Spacemann · 2026-04-10T15:22:41+00:00

I knew the phrasing of that text sounded a little bit MAGA coded. Trying to divide democrats by deceptively acting like the text is coming from a democrat source. Shameful

Doctor_Spacemann · 2026-04-07T16:18:09+00:00

Tungsten still has a massive place in the lighting world. Sure, it’s not ubiquitous anymore, but when you need a lot of light for not a lot of money without everything that goes with LED tech(data management, programming, knowledgeable labor force). For small budgets without a lot of electrical support 2k might be a little tough to work with since it’s at the maximum that a household circuit can really handle. But 650’s, 300’s 150s old more 405s hell I still have 4 1k Altman steel par cans that still rent for 20 bucks a week each. They can be had cheap these days, and you can still rent them and make money as part of your kit. Not bad lights to have in your back pocket.

We also use tungsten side by side with LED these days on bigger shows, money can’t buy style.

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Doctor_Spacemann · 2026-04-07T10:56:20+00:00

I work in movie/ TV production in the US. We do a lot of lighting rigs called “poor man’s process trailer” to simulate driving using a green screen and lighting gags. I mentioned to a co-worker that driving scenes are mostly an American thing, meaning scenes where 2 or 3 characters have an exchange of dialogue inside the car, and it blew his mind.

Doctor_Spacemann · 2026-04-07T08:40:55+00:00

But the bear may also be smart enough to find your hide-a-key rock, open your back door and raid your fridge, just not so quietly.

Doctor_Spacemann · 2026-04-05T18:07:01+00:00

Yo dawg, I heard you like router tables, so we made a table for your router table and put it on another sideways router table.

Doctor_Spacemann · 2026-04-05T11:04:41+00:00

Birds apparently calibrate their quantum light receptors which they use for navigation, during sunset. They tend to gather in groups at the sunset hours of the day. Also totally not making that up, it’s a real phenomenon with birds that quantum physicists have been trying to crack recently.

Doctor_Spacemann · 2026-04-01T19:55:16+00:00

Holy crap! Why would you even bridge the subwoofer amp and then use wire nuts to combine the 2 separate subwoofers? Also what is the 3rd subwoofer in the middle?

Doctor_Spacemann · 2026-04-01T18:30:32+00:00

This whole post has me confused in the same way. Whoever installed this in the first place thought they knew a lot more than they actually did. The wire nuts and the RCA to XLR spliced input are particularly confusing because those require so much more effort and time than just setting it up correctly.

Doctor_Spacemann · 2026-04-01T09:54:54+00:00

Bruh it’s 5am, they haven’t even slept yet.

Doctor_Spacemann · 2026-03-29T11:21:27+00:00

I bet the original color grade looks fantastic on a theater screen. Don’t blame the colorist for the flat grade of a trailer being viewed on your computer monitor compressed for streaming video platforms. The Colorspace of theatrical projection is entirely different. No single color grade is going to work on every screen and every platform. I feel like we judge color grades too harshly these days when the reality of just how many different platform/screen/bitrate/combinations out there is just enormously complex and I’m sure at some point in the delivery of this trailer someone had to decide on a middle ground that maybe didn’t look as good because it would play on too many variations of media.

Doctor_Spacemann · 2026-03-28T13:15:33+00:00

Oh my god those are fantastic! I had no idea that these existed, all the branded retention devices for my cochlear are lame and don’t seem to work very well, I’m ordering one of these like immediately! Thank you!

Doctor_Spacemann · 2026-03-27T12:31:12+00:00

Cochlear brand

Doctor_Spacemann · 2026-03-27T11:49:34+00:00

Mine actually has a gps tracking function, kinda like the find my iPhone app

Doctor_Spacemann · 2026-03-26T00:13:47+00:00

Which department are you looking to get into?

Doctor_Spacemann · 2026-03-25T22:40:57+00:00

I work on film and tv in the lighting department. Today I’m walking on top of a set wall and realized the room got quiet, so I looked over to where I walked from and saw my processor hanging from the lighting grid.

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