Riedel Further Expands APAC Footprint with Two New Appointments

By juliusg | 11 Sep 2019

NEWS With the recent opening of its Beijing office, Riedel Communications’ presence in the Asia-Pacific region now spans across Japan, China, Singapore, and Australia. Riedel’s ongoing efforts to establish a regional framework for supporting a growing Asia-Pacific customer base will now see the company providing tailored customer service, system design, training, and sales functions. “We…

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Collarts – Reference Monitoring and Immersive Mixing

By juliusg | 10 Sep 2019

INSTALLATION by Jason Allen. Collarts (Australian College of the Arts Pty Ltd) is an independent tertiary college specialising in degrees and diplomas in the creative industries, including audio engineering and music production. With four campuses all in the Melbourne hipster havens of Collingwood and Fitzroy, Collarts starts their audio students’ careers right with groundings in…

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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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Biamp Announces Acquisition of Community Loudspeakers and Apart Audio

By juliusg | 28 Aug 2019

NEWS Biamp Announces Acquisition of Community Loudspeakers and Apart Audio Biamp have announced the acquisition of Audioprof Group International, parent company of Community Loudspeakers based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Apart Audio based in Antwerp, Belgium from 3d Investors of Gent, Belgium. Founded in 1968 by speaker design pioneer Bruce Howze, Community Loudspeakers has a long…

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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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