Eventing The Future

By juliusg | 2 Sep 2019

NEWS Eventing The Future Sets the Scene – Wellington conference delivers two days of value by Julius Grafton The annual ‘Eventing The Future’ conference in August ran a full house, bringing event professionals from all over NZ together for two days of sessions. Put together by Peter Burnley and his partner Anne Hindson, this 19th…

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Poor Man’s Video

By juliusg | 31 Aug 2019

LISTEN HERE Poor Man’s Video by Andy Stewart. What is that exactly – poor man’s video? Well, audio of course. In the same time period as video resolutions have increased exponentially, and consumer products have advanced like rockets off a launch pad (my 4K TV is already old news, and as for my 42-inch ‘Full…

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Arkaos Video Content Management

By juliusg | 30 Aug 2019

Video Arkaos Video Content Management by Simon Pentz, ULA Group. MediaMaster uses a library system of folders and files to help organize your content and allow for quick selection of media as required. The Library is made up of 256 folders, each of which can contain up to 255 media clips or visual effects, although…

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Comms plus ‘silent’ and live PA for 6,000

By juliusg | 28 Aug 2019

NEWS The P.A. People deliver full comms plus ‘silent’ and live PA for 6,000 seat conference At a recent international conference held in Sydney, The P.A. People provided an intricate Clear-Com system, incorporating over 30 desktop panels, 85 FreeSpeak II wireless belt packs and 20 IP transceivers supported by the venue’s fibre network, to provide…

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Video File Formats, Containers and Codecs

By juliusg | 27 Aug 2019

VIDEO Video File Formats, Containers and Codecs. Yes… it’s complicated by Simon Byrne. Video is a huge part of events, so reliable playback of video files is essential. Enter Formats, Containers and Codecs. High definition, high quality uncompressed video file sizes are massive, about 650 gigabytes per hour. That is more than 10 gigabytes a…

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The Unofficial Lighting Programmer’s Golden Rules

By juliusg | 26 Aug 2019

HOW TO The Unofficial Lighting Programmer’s Golden Rules by Alex Hughes. There seems to be some misguided ideas around what makes a well-programmed lighting show. In recent history, we have seen a rapid jump forward in the way we interact with lights in general. This has meant some of the key features introduced and designed…

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Arkaos Kling-Net

By juliusg | 23 Aug 2019

VIDEO Arkaos Kling-Net by Simon Pentz, ULA Group. The Kling-Net protocol was developed and introduced by Arkaos in 2011 to provide a quick and easy way to distribute video information to lighting fixtures over Ethernet. The protocol was specifically developed to be auto configurable so that little to no knowledge of networking protocols, and no…

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International Flavour at the ETNZ Conference

By juliusg | 22 Aug 2019

TRADESHOWS International Flavour at the ETNZ Conference by Jenny Barrett. In response to requests from membership to bring what’s happening around the rest of the world to New Zealand, ETNZ served up an array of workshops and keynote speakers with a strong international flavour, laced with a smattering of issues of local concern: health and…

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Mind Health – How Tech is Consuming our Crew Brains

By juliusg | 20 Aug 2019

OPINION Mind Health – How Tech is Consuming our Crew Brains by Julius Grafton. I love smart. I hire smart – witness Jason Allen (editor of this publication), Jimmy Den Ouden (our former tech editor), and Simon Byrne who writes here, and works with me in and outside on various ventures. Plenty more of these…

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