How Do You Set up a Backup Lighting Console? Should Your Backup be Live all the Time?

Why are Backup Consoles Important and what are the different ways we can implement a backup into our show.

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00:00 Introduction
01:07 How often does it happen that you lose control of your lighting rig?
01:41 What would we have a backup lighting console for?
03:02 How do we back things up to avoid these failures?
03:13 How does the console you use affect the way you do this?
03:58 A tip for anyone doing shows
04:41 Should I use active/tracking backups?
05:56 The Pros and Cons of Active/Tracking Backups
07:37 A 3rd form of Backup
08:18 How to think about backups
10:05 Closing