Console show-file data, equipment parameters and a photograph of what is actually standing on stage — in one structure, written on the phone during the focus call itself.
A revival next season, a new crew in the department, a move to another venue. Every time the light is set again — and every time it rests on someone still remembering how it looked.
Patch, presets and cues come out of the console instead of being typed in.
A frame shot during the focus call is attached to the fixture, preset or cue card.
The finished show bible goes out as PDF for print, as HTML for reading, and as the project file — for backup, handover and touring.
I · Import
grandMA and ETC Eos — the patch, the presets and the cue list come across together with timing values and the console's own text notes.
II · Pickers
Every parameter of the card has its own picker that knows the catalogue. The gel's catalogue number, the gobo's pattern and the fixture model go in ready-made — there is nothing to type by hand.
Address
channel, universe, DMX
Location
LX, FOH, side, stage
Type and model
by type, by brand, favourites
Gel
catalogue number and colour
Gobo
catalogue number and pattern
III · Camera
The photograph is taken inside the fixture, preset or cue card itself — or added from the media library. Full screen it can be cropped and corrected for colour, contrast and brightness; INFO lays the fixture card over the frame.
The frame documents the real position of the light: focus, beam edges, colour, gobo and how the light meets the set.
Walks step by step through the fixture parameters, its location, optics and the extra detail.
The fixtures, positions, gobos and gels that repeat dozens of times in this show — one tap away.
The fixture or cue you need is found by channel, name or location during the rehearsal itself.
The same set of cards reads either as a table of data or as a visual check of the result.
Records corrections and helps several people keep one current show bible.
Several project files come together into one show bible — a focus call written down in several sittings.
No accounts, no advertising, no analytics, no tracking. Productions, photographs and exported files live in the app's own folder. The only outgoing connection is the feedback you send yourself, and what it contains is shown to you on screen beforehand.
It is already inside. Leaf through the fixtures, presets, cues and the poster, then start your own.
grandMA2 and MA3 exports — patch and sequence as XML — and ETC Eos as CSV.
The .lightbook file opens with a double click and can simply be sent by email.
Public beta
iPhone through TestFlight, Android through the open test in Google Play.
TestFlight
0.13.0 adds drawings and groups. A show saved on this build opens in older versions without them — update every device you share shows with.
Google Play
The open test is with Google for review. The link goes live once it is approved — check back in a day or two.
Google Play will not install it? Become a tester first
Builds for iPhone and Android are handed out through TestFlight and Google Play — the links are on the beta page. Leave your email and we will write once, when the release is out.
To the beta page →Or write to info@lightbookshow.com
