iPhone App for Theatre and Film Industry

By Michael S Zinman:

PocketLD v2.0

Pocket LD is a photometric database and calculation tool for theatrical and TV/Film lighting professionals. Trusted and counted on by many award-winning cinematographers, broadway lighting designers and was recently featured in ICG magazine (January 2010) as one of the top five apps for filmmakers & cinematographers.

ML Finder PRo

ML Finder PRO is a complete list of parameters and channel assignments for over 500 lights, LEDs and media servers. For the tech addressing a light plot, a designer determining the functionality of a moving light, or a programmer building a profile for their lighting console.

Genielux

Genielux is a user-friendly application that helps you find the exact model of lighting, audio, video, or other production gear that you need. It searches local vendors inventory for rent or purchase and returns a list of results based on your current GPS location.

GelCalc

GelCalc is an iPhone/iPod touch app for stage lighting designers, electricians and stage hands. Quickly calculate number of sheets of gel, best cutting direction to yield the most frames per/sheet and pricing

iSwitchDMX

iSwitch DMX is an easy to use binary DIP switch utility for stage lighting electricians, technicians and programmers.

By West Side Systems:

PowerCalc

A calculator for power law, resistance, inductance and other useful stage lighting stuff. Although you could do these sums on the iPhones standard calculator, this little app makes life easier. Requires the iPhone 2.0 software upgrade and is only a few pennies

Beam Calc

Calculate photometrics and geometry for stage lighting fixtures.

DMX Calc

DMXCalc helps you with all basic DMX address arithmetic for entertainment lighting system setup.

By Daniel Murfin:

ShowTool LD Comprehensive suite of Lighting Design and Electrics utilities for theatre and film.

ShowTool SM Simple. Powerful. Comprehensive suite of Stage Management utilities for theatre and performing arts.

Lightings, Console and Handbook:

Luminair (DMX lighting control)  iPhone | iPad  By Synthe FX

Lighting control that fits in your pocket...

Luminair is revolutionary DMX lighting control software that allows users to wirelessly control lighting fixtures, dimmers, consoles, and media servers all via a Wi-Fi connection. Luminair works by transmitting and receiving DMX data using the Art-Net protocol, so it's compatible out of the box with lots of existing equipment on the market. It works great for controlling color-mixable LED fixtures, studio lighting, moving lights, and any other DMX enabled equipment. Use Luminair as the ultimate remote focus tool, for advanced architectural lighting, or simply as the centerpiece of your DMX lighting rig.

GrandMA Remote By MA Lighting Technology GmbH

MAXRemote By Martin Professional A/S

Lighting HandBook By Andrew Derrington

Lighting Handbook is a new app for the iPhone and iPod Touch, it provides detailed information about Moving lights, LED fixtures, Scrollers, Dimmers, and more DMX fixtures.

By Wybron Inc:

i Swatch Gel iPhone | iPad

Browse, search, and compare over 1,000 GAM, Lee, Apollo and Rosco gel colors with Wybron’s Gel Swatch Library™ for the iPhone and iPod touch.

Moire Gobo Library Lets users browse, search, and experiment with 3,300 A-size gobos from Apollo, GAM, InLight, and Lee.

CXI Color Calculator for iPhone/iPod touch

RIGGING:

Bridle the innovative bridle creation app for the entertainment rigging industry with a fresh perspective to the ancient craft of calculating bridles.

iBridle By iBridle for use within the events rigging industry. It can accurately calculate bridle leg lengths, apex angles and load distribution. There are no set measuring units, so regardless of whether you work to metric or imperial standards you will always get the answer you need.

iRigging By J.R. Clancy, Inc iRigging provides tools and reference data for many areas of rigging, including wire rope, battens, arbors, sheaves, stage ropes, motors, curtains, and fleet angles.