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    What should they know?

    If I could teach one thing and have it be understood it would be gain structure. Also, how gain structure still applies in broadcasting even without a PA... maybe even more so if we're being honest.
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    What should they know?

    It's that time of year again - School starts on Monday and at this time of the year I like to poll my communities for things you'd like students to learn, or things you wish you someone had taught you?I specifically teach Audio for Film and Television, but I also oversee our recording studios...
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    Stage Lighting Store files for Bankruptcy

    It looks like their website is also down? Not my top vendor over the years, but certainly not a stranger.
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    Teleprompter Software

    What's your budget and how often do you need to use it? I am of course biased by my work in Broadcasting so we use an enterprise level Prompting Solution from AutoScript, but iKan has some great entry level budget friendly options from software all the way through full hardware solutions.
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    Episode 70: How Did You Learn This Was a Thing?

    Completely by accident for me. I was on track to be an EMT and Park Ranger... Went with my sister to visit her friend at the local theater who handed me a leko and showed me the ladder to the FOH Catwalk... 20 years in for me and plan to go as long as I can.
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    Archival video distribution

    This to me looks like an add on per contract basis from the kind folks at Concord/Disney and associated partners for Jr versions of shows? Not to be confused with standard Licensing Agreements. Again, you would have to check the licensing agreement, but I believe those typically refer to non...
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    Archival video distribution

    I would double check your agreement... I very much doubt you have an agreement that says archival copies can be distributed... does it happen all the time? yes. Should it? no.I won't particularly comment much beyond that as to not implicate myself, but if you did in fact have the rights to...
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    Control/Dimming Element Cue Problems

    Out of curiosity is the show file name changing when saving at the top of the screen? It sounds to me as though you're not actually working in the show file you think you are.Save As *Show Name* (open) *Show Name*I suspect what happened was that the new show was created, but was not open...
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    Box Truss Span Length capacity

    I wanna say I would have caught it during load in... but at least now I will for sure! ;)@egilson1 you only think it's Xlite, like you would know! .... of course you know 🙃 they were great once they got the untranslated version of where this was going and what it was going to do so that we...
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    Box Truss Span Length capacity

    I know everyone has been waiting on bated breath, but the wait is over! The infamous ruckus truss is in the air! er... on the wall! It should last as long as the building and be able to handle "anything" the future can throw at it. Bonus points if you can spot the deflection that originally...
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    Pro Intercom

    well... first some questions.What Clear-Com system do you have now? 700's? 500!?'s.... is it blue or tan? The pro-intercom beltpacks are clear-com compatible in some cases... but what's prompting the change and what's the future of the system?
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    Matrix Video Switcher

    You are typically correct in a presentation/production switching being many to 1, but typically has added features of at least program/preview, if not some graphics, mix effects and some of the fun stuff for signal processing.A matrix switcher is typically a many-many solution. Where a matrix...
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    Matrix Video Switcher

    Without knowing your full system and infrastructure we can sort of only point to catalogs and go I like this one...That being said we need to separate some terminology... You have switchers, Matrix Switchers, routers and matrix routers. Related, can work together, but all separate. You...
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    Digital Audio Drop Out

    Solved... I HOPE!By luck I was on the sound board when a drop out happened and got to watch / trace it in real time and have a timecode stamp to go back and review the signal path. We run an extensive enterprise broadcast network that is governed by a master GPS clock. "seeing" the issue...
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    Would you buy a used HME DX200 Wireless Intercom for this?

    There's a couple of ways to think about this... first remove the thought of the future of the unit. If you're buying used, you don't know where it's been. You're hoping for the best and need to be prepared to deal with the worst. You've said you could potentially net the expense within 2-3...
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