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SiPA Invites Industry to Sustainability Webinar

The Sustainability in Production Alliance (SiPA), is joining forces with the Association of British Technicians (ABTT) and The United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT), to stage a free webinar on Wednesday 29 July, where a panel of experts will discuss how the industry can use the current hiatus to create a more sustainable approach to its work.

SiPA’s Carol Scott, Principal Advocate for Sustainability at TAIT and SiPA, will be joined by a host of respected live production industry and environment leaders to discuss how we shape the future of touring and performance to reflect the climate emergency the world is facing.

Alongside Carol Scott will be Jon Bausor – multi-award-winning international Stage Designer and Creative Director; Spike Brant – CEO of Nimblist and a designer and advocator of sustainability; Ian Garrett - USITT Member and designer with Toasterlab; Huntly Christie – CEO of Christie Lites based in the USA, Canada and the United Kingdom; and Dr Chris Jones, Research Fellow at University of Manchester who is currently examining the key impact areas of the music industry on the environment.

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Drumeo Uses Wirecast Pro to Livestream Drum Lessons

Telestream, a global leader in file-based media workflow orchestration, media streaming and delivery technologies, today announced that Drumeo, the world’s largest online drumming tutorial site, is using Wirecast Pro to livestream drum lessons to its over 3.5 million online subscribers.

Produced by Musora Media, Inc., in Abbotsford, B.C., Canada, Drumeo provides premium live and on-demand drumming videos and podcasts to paid subscribers via its website, drumeo.com, as well as a video library on social media. Drumeo is one of three music education brands under the Musora Music umbrella, along with Pianote for piano and Guitareo for guitar. All three share a production model that livestreams video-based instrument lessons—conducted by top instructors and musicians—directly into each respective brands’ website and social media channels.

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Visionary Solutions Helps BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha to Connect in New Assembly Hall in Kampala Uganda

Founded more than a century ago, the Bochasanwasi Shri Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha (BAPS) is a global socio-spiritual organization based upon the Hindu teachings of Bhagwan Swaminarayan. The organization’s global network includes its headquarters in Ahmedabad, India, as well as locations across Europe, North America, Asia Pacific, the Middle East, and Africa.

The recent opening of the new assembly hall at the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in Kampala, Uganda - which took place in the presence of the current spiritual leader of BAPS, His Holiness Mahant Swami Maharaj - was one of the more interesting and challenging projects, explains Kaivalyamurti “KV” Swami, BAPS Technology Overseer. The multi-room facility, designed from the ground up, includes a high-tech audio and video system including Dante based connectivity, employing Symetrix DSP, Renkus-Heinz loudspeakers, and video over IP via Visionary Solutions PacketAV Encoders and Decoders, all riding on an Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise network.

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House of Worship (HoW) Applications

In this Pliant Technologies hosted webinar, the Pliant sales team will discuss different applications for the specific needs for House of Worship communications. We'll also look at the different communication requirements and budgets for smaller facilities (under 200 people), options available for medium-sized facilities (200-1000 people), and larger facilities that provide full video production and may even have multiple sites in 1 or more buildings.

July 22nd, 2020 - Register here

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SpinetiX ARYA Enterprise – The Digital Signage Cloud for AV Integrators

End users are demanding cloud-based digital signage. With SpinetiX ARYA Enterprise, you can deliver a professional, self-service cloud system without the complexity of combining different brands. News, weather, sample templates, drag-and-drop scheduling, alerts, tagging and more are all presented in a user-friendly interface, with tutorial video and even live chat support all included. Every SpinetiX player on the market today comes with SpinetiX ARYA included. For customers on tight budgets, there’s even a free version at $0 a month, unlimited devices. The power of our fully-featured software, SpinetiX Elementi, including Office 365 and Social Media connections, videowalls, live streaming and 250 widgets is fully compatible with SpinetiX ARYA Enterprise. So new customers and existing SpinetiX installations can all benefit. In this session you’ll see a quick demo of everything SpinetiX ARYA has to offer, along with how to get started, request a demo account and meet the team who can help you win opportunities.

July 23rd 1pm EDT - Register here

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TVU Networks’ New Feature for Social Production Enables Real-time Virtual Communication and Interaction Among Production Crew and Talent

TVU Networks, a technology and market leader in IP and cloud based live video solutions, today announced the introduction of Partyline, a groundbreaking development for social production. With Partyline, call participants can achieve a unique level of communication and interaction from remote locations as though they were in the same physical studio while producing live and pre-recorded programming. Partyline enables production personnel, talent and tools to collaborate remotely in real time with full HD video quality and perfectly synchronized audio and video. Partyline is making its debut as an integrated part of award-winning TVU Producer, a simple and scalable cloud-based solution for broadcast quality production and will also be incorporated within the TVU ecosystem for use with other TVU solutions.

The recorded  webinar introducing Partyline as a part of TVU Producer and demonstrating its capabilities is availabkle at the TVU website.

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How Many Mixers Does Your Church Need?

As a church grows, it can be difficult for leadership to know when the purchase of a new mixer is justified and necessary. After all, as a church expands, events and ministries tend to grow in number and frequency, as well.

The answer to how many mixers your church needs is: it depends. If you’re a small church (500 or less), you can probably get away with one mixer in your sanctuary (we call it FOH for front of house) and perhaps a mobile system that can be setup in the fellowship hall or outside for the church picnic, etc.

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Vox Church Holds Drive-In Worship with dBTechnologies

As a response to the 2020 Covid-19 Pandemic, New Haven Connecticut-based Vox Church recently held three drive-in worship services using dBTechnologies DVA K5 Active Line Arrays and SUB 18H powered subwoofers. A growing church with seven locations, Vox has standardized on these dBTechnologies models for most of their needs and uses them for “load-in/load-out” services in several locations. This simplifies crew training, speeds setup and makes it easy to configure systems for large events like this.

The drive-in system, used for all three services, consisted of left and right arrays of 11 DVA K5s and a 3x3 end-fire cardioid array of SUB 18H subwoofers. Vox Church FOH engineer, Eugene Mulcahy used dBTechnologies Composer software to design and optimize the DVA arrays. “I did everything Composer told me to do,” he said. “And the predictions were right on. We had good audio out to at least 200 feet.”

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NewTek Launches Official Product Training And Certification; Online, OnDemand, 24/7

NewTek, the leader in IP-based video technology and part of the Vizrt Group, today announced exclusive learning and certification opportunities through NewTek University. Available to resellers and end users alike, NewTek University courses range from operating guides to classes on selling NewTek solutions.

All learning materials are available online and on-demand, connecting users with an unparalleled learning opportunity no matter their location or time zone. New team members can be brought right up to speed in no time with new content being added to the existing library throughout the rest of 2020.

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News from Clear-Com: FreeSpeak Edge is Now Shipping!

Clear-Com® is excited to announce FreeSpeak Edge™ is now shipping, following extensive field tests and final engineering testing to ensure the most robust and capable product possible. The latest addition to the industry leading FreeSpeak™ family of digital wireless intercom solutions, FreeSpeak Edge is the most advanced wireless intercom system, delivering the best audio quality and enhanced performance in some of the most exacting live performance environments. The system gives users more control and configuration options, thanks to advanced frequency coordination capabilities and intuitive design features in the system’s transceivers and beltpacks.

Built from the ground up, FreeSpeak Edge is the result of extensive feedback from existing FreeSpeak II® power users and exhaustive field tests across applications including sports stadiums, live events, military installations and broadcast facilities. Final testing efforts resulted in an impressive IP54 rating for the beltpack, ensuring that it could withstand harsh production environments.

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