www.avinteractive.com: Jason Rudolph, an Emmy Award-winning screens producer with Aeon Point – which conceptualises, designs and produces experiences for live events – was tasked with controlling and operating the screens in Chicago’s United Center, which hosted the four-day event.
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It is very impressive to see large systems of technology be used to put on large events like this one. The thought and planning behind them are on a scale that I have never designed before. The accurate documentation that follows the systems in place from Analog Way are also very important to know and be able to account for the technology you are going to use before the load in. It is definitely a fault from other manufacturers to not provide more detailed latency calculations. It reminds me of other products that are marketed to consumers and not companies that specialize in entertainment production because the consumers would not know the difference between a speaker’s watt rating and its frequency response chart. I would be very interested in the paperwork that goes into the production of this scale and what goes into events in a stadium setting with larger audiences.
In my Sound Stagecraft class, we learned about basic terms such as sample rate, bit depth, redundancy, and more. It gives me some gratification to see that what I am learning in class has vital applications to events as large as the Democratic National Convention. This inspires me to continue learning as much as I can from the professors and upperclassmen knowing that what they can teach me will be relevant to my career for a long time afterwards. What’s more, I really liked hearing about the tech used for the DNC and what they needed in order for it to run smoothly. While there are still a lot of gaps in my lowkedge about the whole process and the gear they used to make it all happen, I want to continually fill that gap so one day I could work alongside these people and know all about the equipment they’re talking about.
Analog Way seems to be a big name - Super Bowl Half-Time show? The Oscars?? - in live events, so I’m glad I’m discovering them now. The Democratic National Convention in and of itself is a big deal, especially with this election. Eight 4K destinations is an intense ask of any system, and the Aquilon RS6 processor took it on. The Analog Way platform enabled the point-person for this task, Jason Rudolph, to map out the system and use color correction tools that are geared for 4K on the input and output. Some of the language Rudolph uses piqued my interest, so I went on a minor internet dive to find out why Analog Way was so useful for the democratic national convention and other big projects like it. Turns out, Analog Way has a ton of products (not to mention publicly accessible software simulators) for many different situations in the audiovisual industry.
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