
It compares favorably to the paid editions of Capture Nexum, with only the following limitations: The Student Edition, which is free, may be used for any purpose, educational or not. The simulation uses a lighting visualizer called Capture Nexum Student Edition.Ĭapture Nexum is a fully featured cross-platform lighting visualizer that accepts Art-Net input and displays a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) simulation on-screen.

It includes a complete set of working files to simulate a theatrical production lit by 35 generic lighting instruments with old school scrollers, and four moving lights. This chapter is not a lighting design tutorial but, as the chapter title suggests, a ready-built playground designed for teaching yourself (or others) how lighting works in QLab.

This tutorial demonstrates how to use a software lighting visualizer that is reasonably detailed, fun to use, and free! If you don’t have access to a lighting rig to experiment with the lighting capabilities of QLab 4 or QLab 5, it really helps to have a simulation of one.
