Astera is a Match for the Titans

Titan Fitness is an independently-owned fitness studio in Coogee, NSW, which prides itself on being a unique experience with a dedicated team of instructors and experts plus state-of-the-art facilities focussed on offering the highest standards of equipment and inspiration to its members. The fully-equipped 4-floor facility has been open since 2009, and its Spin Studio…

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Do you understand? Intelligibility

INSTALLATION by Simon Byrne. Obviously an audience needs to be able to understand what is spoken or sung. That is, the performance must be intelligible. Therefore well implemented PA systems combined with acceptable acoustics are crucial for this to be achieved. This becomes a major safety issue for evacuation PA systems in buildings such as…

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Safer Trucking – Driver Monitoring Proves Itself at ATS

by Julius Grafton Australia’s largest entertainment logistics firm ATS have introduced a fleet-wide driver monitoring system called Guardian Seeing Eye that has already saved one driver within weeks of implementation. The driver-facing camera feeds a control face-and-gaze-tracking algorithm that measures the driver’s head position and eye closure and, when safety parameters are exceeded, audio alarms and…

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Inaugural Australian Festival Industry Conference

NEWS Inaugural Australian Festival Industry Conference Announces Second Round of Speakers The inaugural Australian Festival Industry Conference (AFIC) will be held across 24-25 October 2019 at Opal Cove Resort in Coffs Harbour, NSW. Founder and organiser, Carlina Ericson, has unveiled AFIC’s program of speakers, who represent some of Australia’s biggest names in festival management, consulting…

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FCTN Nightclub

INSTALLATION FCTN is a multi-purpose entertainment venue in the heart of Canberra that can host anything from concerts to club nights, exhibitions, theatre, live art, and innovative performances. Housed in an old renovated movie cinema with charismatic industrial décor, FCTN is a two-tiered basement venue that can cater for up to 1000 people. The name…

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Eventing The Future

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

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

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

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

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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