Two posts in a row are ripping off Shakespeare.
We now have a new Twitter identity. Sadly, our name - 4AVNow - is already taken as a twitter account so we had to use a different ID. Strangely, it is taken by US! See, a person was hired to develop a web identity for us. She started the website and the twitter account among other things. Before she finished the process and turned over all of the information, she passed away. As a result, the twitter account is not accessible to us. As a result, 4avnow1 is our twitter ID.
What we're up to at 4AVNow...
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Alright, what does a soliloquy from Mac... - erm, The Scottish Play - have to do with audio-visual? OK, well, not much. It just seemed a fitting title to a post that mentions three different events scheduled to occur - of course - tomorrow.
Until I get to that point, however, I am going to mention today's events...
We had a site survey to kick off the day. Coming up next month, there is an event taking place at a local school's theater/auditorium (theater + the Scottish Play = another connection). The event planners (not the school) are calling on us to provide a projector and a screen for the event. As a result of the site survey, we will be using a rear-projection screen rather than shooting from the front at an extreme angle as they were originally calling for. While we have projectors that are capable of shooting from at least a 45 degree angle (as we've done in previous events), the site survey revealed that using rear projection is a much better option at this site. For this event, we'll use a 6K Sanyo projector and a Da-Lite Fast Fold screen.
After the survey, we had a quick strike of the lighting at the Simsbury Inn.
This evening, we had only one event to set, tech, and strike at Max's Tavern in Springfield, MA. This wasn't much of a set/tech/strike. All that was used was a laptop and a Logitech presenter. We hooked into the restaurant's flat screen so set and strike was really quick. Tech was relatively nonexistent but the client required that we be onsite during the presentation.
During the rest of the day, we did some (more) clean up in the workshop and had an equipment rental - a 60" flat screen, a TV stand, and some cables (VGA, HDMI, power) - picked up.
On to tomorrow... OK, thanks to my falling asleep while composing this post and waking up at 2 AM and completing it, 'tomorrow' is actually today and 'today' is officially yesterday. I am too tired to come up with a new title for this post. Besides, I like it too much to change it.
So, tomorrow morning we have an early event in New Haven. For this, we are setting up two Behringer speakers and a Countryman mic for the audio and nothing more than a screen for the video.
In the evening, we have two events one in Madison, the other in Old Saybrook. The Madison set is similar to New Haven - a screen, a Shure mic, and a QSC speaker - only this will be one speaker and a lavaliere mic. Old Saybrook only needs the video side - this one needs a projector (likely, a Panasonic) and a screen.
Fortunately, I am not the one scheduled to set the New Haven event so... back to sleep for me!
Until I get to that point, however, I am going to mention today's events...
We had a site survey to kick off the day. Coming up next month, there is an event taking place at a local school's theater/auditorium (theater + the Scottish Play = another connection). The event planners (not the school) are calling on us to provide a projector and a screen for the event. As a result of the site survey, we will be using a rear-projection screen rather than shooting from the front at an extreme angle as they were originally calling for. While we have projectors that are capable of shooting from at least a 45 degree angle (as we've done in previous events), the site survey revealed that using rear projection is a much better option at this site. For this event, we'll use a 6K Sanyo projector and a Da-Lite Fast Fold screen.
After the survey, we had a quick strike of the lighting at the Simsbury Inn.
This evening, we had only one event to set, tech, and strike at Max's Tavern in Springfield, MA. This wasn't much of a set/tech/strike. All that was used was a laptop and a Logitech presenter. We hooked into the restaurant's flat screen so set and strike was really quick. Tech was relatively nonexistent but the client required that we be onsite during the presentation.
During the rest of the day, we did some (more) clean up in the workshop and had an equipment rental - a 60" flat screen, a TV stand, and some cables (VGA, HDMI, power) - picked up.
On to tomorrow... OK, thanks to my falling asleep while composing this post and waking up at 2 AM and completing it, 'tomorrow' is actually today and 'today' is officially yesterday. I am too tired to come up with a new title for this post. Besides, I like it too much to change it.
So, tomorrow morning we have an early event in New Haven. For this, we are setting up two Behringer speakers and a Countryman mic for the audio and nothing more than a screen for the video.
In the evening, we have two events one in Madison, the other in Old Saybrook. The Madison set is similar to New Haven - a screen, a Shure mic, and a QSC speaker - only this will be one speaker and a lavaliere mic. Old Saybrook only needs the video side - this one needs a projector (likely, a Panasonic) and a screen.
Fortunately, I am not the one scheduled to set the New Haven event so... back to sleep for me!
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Pictures Don't Always Do It Justice
Yesterday looked like it was going to be a productive day in the workshop getting things straightened up. While that did turn out to be true, it was interrupted by a last minute job - setting lights at an event at the Simsbury Inn. Here are some pictures of the results:
Unfortunately, the pictures don't look as nicely as the lighting looked in person - except the first one.
Saturday, May 4, 2013
Downtime Isn't Really Down...
Yesterday and today were both relatively quiet days. We had some equipment to strike from a couple of events at the Crowne Plaza Danbury but, otherwise, there wasn't much going on. As such, we took advantage of the downtime and spent some time re-organizing the workshop. We acquired quite a bit of new cables - VGA and XLR, specifically - to accommodate all of the simultaneous events that we had going on. One of the projects that we started was to build a new rack to hold all of those cables sorted by type and length. I'll post some pictures once the rack is finished. It definitely feels great to get the workshop cleaned up and organized. Another accomplishment during this downtime was to make some DVDs from the various videos that we shot during the events.
Thursday, May 2, 2013
A Quick Post...
...and a picture post, at that.
The primary meeting room at the event we did in Baltimore (seemingly like ages ago though it was only last month!) looked like this:
The primary meeting room at the event we did in Baltimore (seemingly like ages ago though it was only last month!) looked like this:
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Too Busy to Post
I suppose that it is a good thing that we have just been too busy to update the blog!
Since my last (and only!) entry, we have had quite a variety of events...
We spent a couple of days at the Sheraton Hotel at Bradley Airport with a set, tech, and strike. Additionally, this event was recorded on video, so we also took the raw video and edited it into a viewable DVD. The event was a 4 hour session that ran two times - morning and afternoon - for two days, each time with a different group. The second day was recorded on video - both sessions. While the actually video editing - done using Final Cut Pro - didn't take too long, the conversion from the final cut to the DVD took most of a day. Fortunately, the conversion does not need constant supervision so the MacBook I use was able to do the process while we were off doing other projects.
Today marks day 2 of an event we are working with Unilever in Trumbull. "Who or what is Unilever?" you ask... Well, there is a good chance that they are responsible for at least one product in your bathroom and/or kitchen cabinet. For this event, we set up several 60" flat screen TVs on stands in conference rooms for their training sessions (pictures included).
In addition to these events, we also had the regular stream of meetings where we set anything from a screen and projector to a full boat of equipment. For one of these events, we set nothing more than a simple remote for the presenter to advance their PowerPoint slides!
A note of frustration:
That remote that I just mentioned? Well, we actually have several of those that are now useless. The item is officially called a "Presenter." Presenters consist of two pieces - one is used to transmit the signal from the person to the computer, the other is used by the computer to receive that signal. The receiver plugs into a USB port on the computer and often remains in the computer when the person packs up and leaves the event, thus rendering the Presenter useless. I contacted Targus - the manufacturer of the Presenter in question - to see if there was any way to replace the receiver. After an extended conversation - more for their benefit than mine - I learned that it is not possible. Understandably, these receivers are coded to their specific Presenter - otherwise the Presenter you are using in one room would interfere with one used in another, nearby room. That is why I was hoping Targus might be able to code a new receiver to the several Presenters that we have that are missing their receivers. No luck - and I am thus frustrated.
Since my last (and only!) entry, we have had quite a variety of events...
We spent a couple of days at the Sheraton Hotel at Bradley Airport with a set, tech, and strike. Additionally, this event was recorded on video, so we also took the raw video and edited it into a viewable DVD. The event was a 4 hour session that ran two times - morning and afternoon - for two days, each time with a different group. The second day was recorded on video - both sessions. While the actually video editing - done using Final Cut Pro - didn't take too long, the conversion from the final cut to the DVD took most of a day. Fortunately, the conversion does not need constant supervision so the MacBook I use was able to do the process while we were off doing other projects.
Today marks day 2 of an event we are working with Unilever in Trumbull. "Who or what is Unilever?" you ask... Well, there is a good chance that they are responsible for at least one product in your bathroom and/or kitchen cabinet. For this event, we set up several 60" flat screen TVs on stands in conference rooms for their training sessions (pictures included).
In addition to these events, we also had the regular stream of meetings where we set anything from a screen and projector to a full boat of equipment. For one of these events, we set nothing more than a simple remote for the presenter to advance their PowerPoint slides!
A note of frustration:
That remote that I just mentioned? Well, we actually have several of those that are now useless. The item is officially called a "Presenter." Presenters consist of two pieces - one is used to transmit the signal from the person to the computer, the other is used by the computer to receive that signal. The receiver plugs into a USB port on the computer and often remains in the computer when the person packs up and leaves the event, thus rendering the Presenter useless. I contacted Targus - the manufacturer of the Presenter in question - to see if there was any way to replace the receiver. After an extended conversation - more for their benefit than mine - I learned that it is not possible. Understandably, these receivers are coded to their specific Presenter - otherwise the Presenter you are using in one room would interfere with one used in another, nearby room. That is why I was hoping Targus might be able to code a new receiver to the several Presenters that we have that are missing their receivers. No luck - and I am thus frustrated.
Monday, April 22, 2013
Adventures in Blogging
Thus it begins... the 4AVNow blog. While I, the blogger, am not new to blogging, 4AVNow most certainly is. "Why even bother?" you might ask. The main purpose is an attempt to give you a better idea as to what we do.
Rather than run down a list of all of the things that we offer - after all, a brief summary of that is already offered elsewhere on the website - we will use the blog to update you on the 'who, what, where, when, and how' of 4AVNow.
So, to that end:
Today promised to be a relatively uneventful day. It turned out to be the opposite.
This morning, we headed over to Danbury to meet with a group holding meetings at the Crowne Plaza Danbury and finalize the setup that we started last night. Nothing major; just a projector, screen, and a Polycom conference phone.
Additionally, we went to Hartford to set up an event for tomorrow - this one at the Society Room. For this, we will be using five of our wireless Shure microphones, a Mackie mixer, two Behringer speakers, and a screen (the client will be using their own projector for this one).
Finally, we setup and ran the event and struck the equipment for an event in West Hartford at Max's Oyster Bar. Equipment used: a Panasonic projector, a Duet accordion screen, Shure wireless lavalier mic, and a QSC speaker.
Rather than run down a list of all of the things that we offer - after all, a brief summary of that is already offered elsewhere on the website - we will use the blog to update you on the 'who, what, where, when, and how' of 4AVNow.
So, to that end:
Today promised to be a relatively uneventful day. It turned out to be the opposite.
This morning, we headed over to Danbury to meet with a group holding meetings at the Crowne Plaza Danbury and finalize the setup that we started last night. Nothing major; just a projector, screen, and a Polycom conference phone.
Additionally, we went to Hartford to set up an event for tomorrow - this one at the Society Room. For this, we will be using five of our wireless Shure microphones, a Mackie mixer, two Behringer speakers, and a screen (the client will be using their own projector for this one).
Finally, we setup and ran the event and struck the equipment for an event in West Hartford at Max's Oyster Bar. Equipment used: a Panasonic projector, a Duet accordion screen, Shure wireless lavalier mic, and a QSC speaker.
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