Microsoft Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP or later
A CD-ROM drive (for installation only)
256 MB of physical RAM, 512 recommended, 1GB for very large shows
Color monitor with at least 800x600 resolution, 256 colors or better
Mouse or other pointing device
A hard drive with at least 35MB of available space

Apple Macintosh OSX 10.2 (Jaguar) or higher
A CD-ROM drive (for installation only)
256 MB of physical RAM, 512 recommended, 1GB for very large shows
Color monitor with at least 800x600 resolution, either thousands or millions of colors
A hard drive with at least 20MB of available space

Lightwright must be installed on a stand-alone PC or Macintosh. It can save and retrieve files kept on a server, but it is not network-aware. Key-server software to meter usage can be used successfully.

Both systems require registration with John McKernon Software before software can be used.

Lightwright 4 Specifications

30,000 worksheet rows per show

Channel numbers 0-32000 plus either letter prefixes or decimal or letter suffixes

6000 different hanging positions

Dimmer and Circuit numbers same as above

6000 different purposes

Unit numbers 0-16000 plus optional letter prefixes or decimal or letter suffixes

6000 different instrument types

Six user-definable number columns

6000 different colors

Wattages 0-32000w

6000 different templates

Up to six completely separate control systems

6000 different entries in each of six user-definable text categories

Up to 62 DMX universes per control system

200 different accessories

Up to 32,000 dimmers overall

External ID field to ease CAD import/export

Complete focus charts database, with up to 32,000 .gif, .jpg, or .bmp images in addition to

100 footnotes

Up to 5,000 work notes

100 different color frame sizes

Instrument types classified as Lights, Moving Lights, SFX, Power, and Other

Lightwright 4 can import and export Lightwright 2 & 3 show files and files in tab- and comma-delimited format

Beamwright Specifications

500 kinds of lights (260 provided)

Throw distances up to 200' (51 meters)

Lights categorized as Ellipsoidal, Fresnel, PAR, Follow Spot, or Other

Stored for each light: Center Beam Candlepower, Field Angle, Zoom status, lamp type

Lights can be assigned to one or more of six groups (such as Favorites, Stock, Video-Film, etc.)

Calculates Field Diameter, Beam Diameter, Throw Distance, Angle of Incidence, Center footcandles, and Preferred wash spacing