I'm doing some pro-bono work for a community theater, and I'm looking for a cheaper alternative to the RDL D-D2. Anyone have an alternative vendor? I'm looking to buy 18 of them, so a few dollars per device does make a bit of a difference.

Same volunteer AV team as the fellowship hall. We have a 65 inch Samsung commercial display in the lobby and I made a 90 second welcome and announcements loop in vidione, exported as 1080p MP4. Played from a USB stick through the display's media player, it freezes for about two seconds at the end of each loop and sometimes shows the file name. Is it worth getting a small media player like a BrightSign, or is there a setting or export format that fixes the gap? Budget is small, around $300.

I volunteer on the AV team at our church. The fellowship hall has two Shure BLX handheld mics and one lavalier going into a Yamaha MG12 mixer. When the speaker walks toward the back wall, near the kitchen pass through, the audio cuts out for a second or two. The receivers sit in a closet at the front of the room behind a closed wooden door. We already changed batteries and scanned for open frequencies. Would moving the receivers or adding remote antennas fix this, or should we look at interference from the kitchen first?

graduated from college with communications in media degree and am trying to break into full-time commercial AV.

Experience includes: university AV support (as a student, part-time job), setting up and operating equipment for events, troubleshooting issues, and working with Crestron systems, displays, projectors, switchers, microphones, and Yamaha mixers.

I also do freelance AV work, but the hours can be inconsistent. Ideally, I'd like to get into an on-site AV technician role at a corporate office or campus, focusing on conference room systems, troubleshooting, and keeping things running smoothly.

My main question is: With the experience I already have, what's the best way to get my foot in the door? I feel like I’m running out of options because I’m not getting past first round interviews and idk where else to go. I feel like I’ve applied to almost every av position I could

Any advice from anyone in the industry who who’s been in a similar position would be greatly appreciated!

Hi Guys,

Has anyone experience with Stuff like the "Wishcolor Super Cuelight" clones of the Perfect Cue? Currently researching with what to upgrade from using Logitech Clickers coming from small Shows to medium sized Venues.
Legal usability is another big Factor (posting from Germany), can't find anything on how precise you can dial in the RF Frequency. The DSAN is fixed on a Frequency that's most probably legal to use for us.

We know that saving some Money this way can cost a lot more if something fails in the long run; I'm just curious about the Quality of these Units.

Thank you for any Infos :)

Programmer here. I’ve been working AI into my daily workflow this past year, and it’s crazy good at nearly everything I throw at it. It’s saving so much time, turning what used to be days of work into mere minutes.

I know of some customers that are ‘vibe coding’ their own codebase as well, and just having an integrator commission it.

What’s everyone’s take on AI and AV programming? Are we cooked, or does our workflow just pivot towards becoming ‘AI managers’?

Edit to say that I get we’re all using it in various ways and that the results are generally good…I’m mainly polling opinions on the future of our careers.

Hi there, I have a NV-21-HU device that's connected to a EPSON projector that shows this blue screen that says "no signal detected" after the MTR PC goes to to sleep for a long time. What I would normally do to wake the MTR PC up, is by going to the touch panel refresh it. But it seems to not work after it goes to sleep for a long time. Any chance I need to check the NV-21-HU device in Designer or add an EDID HDMI emulator at the projector?

I am never ordering muxlab devices again as last year and yesterday there is now php vulnrability issue and muxlab still has not provided any update or even emergency patch to help users.

i sent an email last year and no reponse and now there is anothe php isuse and muxlab still hasnt provided any update.

i am going to through these in trash.. now security team put these devices on quarentine...

i asked them for an update and its now been 24 hours and still no response from them.

We rejoiced initially when we discovered we can add a ONVIF-conformant network/IP camera to Windows 11: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows-hardware/drivers/stream/network-cameras

We now could now add an axis camera we had in the room to the Teams Room device and use it in a multi-cam setup. Except. It's flakey. In our experience the network camera drops out after about 10 minutes and mutes the local camera as well when it does. Sometimes it comes back, sometimes not so much so. We've tested this in other configurations and it seems it might just be that Windows 11 doesn't handle this type of camera well. What are other people's experiences?

Need help

I'm a stationary engineer at a Client facility, A/A background but now working with BAS. My client asked me for leads to find a company who can (their words)

"Bring and Setup AV gear in a rented venue and provide production for rehersal and presentation for a corporate function "

No idea on venue size, what they mean by "presentation" , i'm assuming it's a recorded Bord of directors message to Stake holders... no idea. It could be a live re-creation of the Aristocracat's ... who knows

Can ya'll suggest some SF Bay area production companies that do rental and production work?

Any industry terms that i can use to narrow the search. Recording and editing.

At least laugh at the situation that the client put me in, and how thinking asking on reddit is a good idea.

TIA

Hey there!

I'm here looking for advice and experiences from people who have worked in AV in another country.

I'm currently working as an Audiovisual Project Coordinator at a congress center in France. I manage technical projects and handle the maintenance of video, audio, lighting, and AV network equipment. I also provide technical support to stage managers and ensure the proper functioning of security systems.

I’m Dante Level 2 certified, i have a licence in AV Network (Artnet, MaNet, NDI, Dante & more) and experienced with Luminex, Arista, and Netgear networking equipment. I also have worked as a sound technician and theatre systems installer.

I'd like to try working in this field in another country to gain experience and experience living abroad for the first time.

However, it seems difficult to make it happen as a non-native English speaker, regardless of my English level. The limited number of opportunities in the AV industry at the moment doesn't make it any easier either.

If anyone has experience in a similar position, or has any advice or experiences to share, I'd really appreciate it!

Has anyone run into USB recording issues on an Allen & Heath dLive C1500? I’ve bought five different USB drives without luck, while my older 8 GB drive works fine in the same port.

With the newer drives, the console gets stuck on “Building record folder,” “Formatting,” or “Arming.” Sometimes switching back to the working drive also hangs until I reboot the surface.

The system is a C1500 with a DM0, both running firmware V2.03. I’ve tried FAT32 with 32 KB allocation units and an MBR partition table, formatting through the console, and manually creating the recording folders.

Allen & Heath support said I’ve already tried everything they would suggest and recommended trying other drives. They’re also raising it with their software team.

Has anyone found a fix for this? What specific USB flash drive models larger than 8 GB have you used reliably for recording on a dLive? Exact model numbers and capacities would help before I buy a sixth one.

During a move, I managed to snap off the EPO “fuse” from the back of a Wattbox UPS model WB-OVRC-OLUPS-1500-1, which completely bricks the unit. I should have waited for a second pair of hands when removing it from the rack, but mistakes do happen, and I figured it wasn’t a big deal since it‘s an easily replaceable part. Boy was I wrong. Not only does Wattbox not maintain skus for replacement parts, requiring me to go through their rma process rather than place a quick order, they had no estimate at all of the timeline and I have now been out of service for over two weeks.

First, this is the worst customer support I have experienced from any manufacturer in this industry, where uptime is obviously valuable. Second, the fact that they don’t have a bucket full of these <$1 parts on hand indicates that they are probably another bogus drop-shipper dressed in a manufacturer trench coat. Because the only explanation I can imagine for their level of uncertainty is that they are waiting for their overseas partner to supply the part. Even worse, it points towards them having very little access to the real manufacturer, who should be able to ship me a fuse from anywhere in the world within two weeks. Third, which engineer had the bright idea to have a fragile part that cripples the device poke out of the back of a 50lbs UPS? It’s an extremely poor design that I have not seen from any other manufacturer.

Posting this here because they have zero online presence and no suppliers that host reviews. I wonder why…

I feel like every variant of wireless streaming device with a proprietary driver suite mostly over promises and under delivers, but I'm curious if anyone has experience with Biamp Modena in an install working well? These were specified by a consultant on a job we installed and it has been about a year with nothing but issues.

Random reboots, where we come in and simply find the devices are off and we have to unplug and reconnect power to get them to turn on, dropping USB audio and camera accessories at random, frequently the Modena device will say everything is fine but then trying to use the camera in a Teams call with the Modena driver fails, Teams will randomly drop the Modena accessories mid call, it has been a constant struggle.

I don't think there is a setting we haven't tried to change, I've tried automatic updates, I've tried no updates, I've tried automatic reboots overnight, no automatic reboots... it has just been an absolute nightmare of a customer service situation for this end user and I'm hating the lack of reliability in what ought to be the simplest rooms in their system.

Is there anything I am missing? Does anyone actually like this hardware? Outside of this product line I've never had a complaint about anything Biamp sells, but this has been a mess.

Looking for inexpensive DSP processor suggestions for a small, single room gym. They already have an amplifier and a wireless mic, I'm looking to provide something with 2 line sources, 1 mic input, and 1 line output, with a remote volume control. Need some ducking capability of music for a instructor's mic. As inexpensive as possible. Will be locked in a rack.
Xilica, Audac, Symetrix 761 come to mind, what am I missing?

Hello,

I am preparing for my CTS exam first time, I'm particularly worried about the Math section - I have been seeing suggestions regarding memorizing the formulas. But what about the unit of conversions? Will they provide the conversion table in the exam for reference or do you just memorize it along with the formula?

Also, can you please share your experience on what part should I mostly focus on and statistically has higher chances of appearing in the exam. I also took Premium membership for Avixa but the courses and path don't seem to be in Coursera like format to understand the sequence and weightage. Please let me know how did you prepare for your exam, and how was your experience, andy tips and tricks will be appreciated.

Thank you!

For those who install Draper screens all the time, is the 12V trigger a 2.5mm or a 3.5mm jack? I remember that one of the two is smaller, but Draper isn't consistent in which one they show as smaller in the diagram, and they don't call it out anywhere that I can find.

I use old Qlab 4 for event screens, has been messy when I have to put fadeins and fadeouts for everything, takes a lot of time for just simple crossfades between videos and images. Usually I build the tech and prepare QLab at the same day. Right now doing a gala with 40 video/pic cues. Didn't have time to do the crossfades so I go to black with esc button and then launch the next cue with a cut.

I need a software that just launches videos/pics with a crossfade (and stops the previous cue after CF). Old QLab is too complicated for this. Any ideas?

Got a bunch of old DTP HDMI receivers and the boss said keep them if they support 4K. Looking on the Extron website and Google there appears to only have ever been the DTP HDMI 4K 230 Rx - except none of the units I have are marked 4K and even the photos of the item on the Extron site doesn't have 4K marked on it.

I don't have enough kit to hand to be able to test if these support 4K - does anyone know? Has DTP always been able to support 4K?

My parents hand-me-down Smart tv died last week and I have started looking for something that won't sell my data. Ideally the display will be higher than 60hz but I understand that might be hard to find, 65" class, and backlit. Roast me if that's unreasonable for the price but I genuinely don't know where to look and compare. Thanks!

Hi all,

I have just left my company and want to buy my own personal laptop as i have a 2017 mac which is just a pain in the arse to use.

What do you recommend? I am thinking of going for a refurbished Elitebook or Zbook as i dont mind HP and it would need to run fairly light stuff like VS code, Toolbox, construct, 1 million versions of q-sys designer etc etc nothing too heavy.

Love to hear your thoughts, thanks !