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Category Audio, Conferences, Entertainment, Lighting, Meetings, Video - by - on January 16, 2014

Over Christmas and New Year Resource Group was busy preparing for the One Thing Conference
for iHOPKC in Kansas City. This was their largest conference with 37,000 registrations.
Set up was extensive and started back on Dec 21st with a pre load and rig set up unloading
10 semis of equipment on the first day.

Load in at One Thing

Over the next 6 days the Kansas City Convention Center was transformed from grey concrete
to a conference ready for tens of thousands of people.

Setup at onething

The final touches being all the drapes hung from the ceilings, carpeting and house lights over
1200ft of floor space. The center is almost 300t wide and 1200ft long with lighting trusses
down the center of the whole venue and multiple Line arrays combined with 12k Christie HD
video projectors to provide the final show and event look and feel for the week of One Thing 2013.

One Thing Conference

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Resource Group AV using graphical ...

Category Audio, Concerts, Conferences, Entertainment, Lighting, Meetings, News, Staging, Technology, Video, Web - by - on September 22, 2013

Marketing changes – new staff and new ideas. You will start to see a lot more poster and pictorial ads about Resource Group AV, based on events that we have produced some recently and some over the last few years.

The idea behind the pictures was decided upon as a way to let prospective clients see the range and scope of projects that Resource Group AV has previously done and what they can do in the future.

This weekend launched the graphic below on Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin. The picture was one of a series taken at Chicago All State Arena, and shows the most moving lights up to that time, with 800 movers over the stage and over the floor area of the arena.

Stephen Brown
Production Director
Tel: 863 701 2010

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Using 16×9 video screens in ...

Category Conferences, Entertainment, Technology, Uncategorized, Video - by - on April 21, 2013

I have always liked the impressive size of having a large portrait size screen left and right of the stage for talking heads and speaker presentations and in the past we have usually had to  edge blend two projectors vertically per screen.

However the clever people at Analog Way have built into their newest machines a program as part of their new LiveCore (TM) platform that allows you to take a video camera picture and export it instead of horizontal onto a  9x16ft screen, but onto a tall portrait 16x9ft screen using only one projector.

How is this possible? Simply turn the projector onto its side and the LiveCore TM software will reformat the camera feed to fit a 9ftx16ft tall screen.

However if you have a lot of graphics and actual video footage to show you are going to need an imag screen somewhere on stage to show full size video otherwise everything will be cropped to fit and play on the portrait screens as a smaller image.

See the new Analog Way Live Core TM video below.

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20 Subcompact and Mini Line ...

Category Audio, Concerts, Conferences, Entertainment, News, Technology - by - on March 23, 2013

List of 20 Subcompact and Mini Line Arrays reviewed.

KIVA Line Array
The increase of small and subcompact line arrays today has enabled almost every space to benefit from line array technology.

When Line Array’s first came onto the market their size limited their application especially in Live sound in ballrooms, houses of worship, etc.

I remember testing the original Meyer Sound MD3 in Daytona, FL in the Ocean Center Arena and thinking what a great sound and box – but totally unsuitable for anything less than large arena’s and stadiums because of its weight and size, giving it a limited scope of usability.

Keeping with  Meyer Sound as an example; Meyer Sound now has a line array for every facility and venue, from their new Milo through to Mina.

So what else is there available? Tech Decisions recently did a list of 20 of the subcompact and mini line arrays currently in use.

Click here for the guide to 20 Subcompact and mini Line Arrays from Tech Decisions.

Steve

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Top 10 tips for great ...

Category Conferences, News, Technology, Uncategorized, Video - by - on March 19, 2013

Top 10 tips for great video projection
1 Choose the brightest projector that your budget will allow. There is a big difference between a 2500 ansi SD NTSC table top projector and a 5000 ansi HD-SDi projector, especially if you are showing video or graphics in a well lit room.

2 The size of screen(s) should be proportional to the size of audience and room size you have. A good rule of thumb is an equation of 1/10. If the room is 100ft long divide by 10 and your screen height should be approx 10ft tall. For HD that would be 9x16ft screen and for SD that would be 10.5x14ft screen

3 Check the manufacturers recommendations as to whether the projector needs to be placed level with the bottom of the screen, or whether the projector needs to be in the center of the height of the screen. This helps reduce keystone, having to lens shift too much and helps with focus on the screen edges.

4 What to do when showing graphics…

5 Type of Lenses…

6 Power type…

7 Connections to use…

8 Type of cabling…

9 Cold Stacking…

10 Lamps, lens cleaning, filters…

<- Click logo Top 10 tips for great video projection to read the full list of 10 tips for great video projection.

 

Steve

 

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