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Virtual Events/Panel Discussions – The Cure For Conference Cancellations
Concerns about the spread of the Coronovirus are causing travel restrictions and conference cancellations everywhere. Thankfully, there’s a solution.
We can stream to your website, YouTube channel, Facebook page or even Twitter (if you have an account with your own rep.). Soon, we’ll also add LinkedIn Live to the list. We can also stream in complete privacy using one of your streaming services or ours. We can also add in-room and online audience interactivity with polling, surveys and moderated audiences questions.
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We can integrate many live cameras, multiple computers (running PowerPoint or other software), hundreds of graphics and layered, multi-image video layouts and add up to eight remote participants from all over the world. We can playback pre-recorded video and integrate live online elements too.
Combining simultaneous live events in multiple cities is also possible. And, thanks to the ongoing growth of Internet bandwidth, we can do this without the need for satellite trucks – all in high definition (1920×1080) video.
Multi-Camera Video Production
The description that our clients seem to appreciate most is “flexible.” With 4K/HD cameras, robotic PTZ cameras, mixed-format, computer-based production switching, easy integration of (lots of) graphics, in-camera, in-computer and independent iso-recording and much more, we’ve been known to accommodate some seriously complex requests. We can also make it ridiculously simple; whatever satisfies the need.
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Podium presentations with panel discussions & audience Q&A is a minimalist description of what often becomes a much larger effort – with hidden complexity at every turn. We understand that. We know the right questions to ask, the time needed to prepare and the right tools to employ.
We also know how to make the best use of budgets. How do we shoot with six or seven cameras and only one camera person? How to we make two cameras (and one camera operator) look like six? Expertly.
Virtual Round Table Discussions
If you’re a fan of cable news, you’re likely familiar with the “round table” panel discussion. You might have seen the moderator and as few as one other participant in the studio – and everyone else is at other locations – often worldwide. We can achieve this look, complete with multiple re-sizing and re-positioning on-screen participant-filled boxes, without any studio. And we can be anywhere in the world managing the “control room.”
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We call this a virtual panel discussion (learn more about why this is the cure for conference cancelations). We can do this completely internet-based (no satellite needed) – with up to 8 remote participants. We can control what each participant sees and hears and insure that each doesn’t hear him/herself in their ears; a technique called “mix-minus audio.”
The key to this is testing with each participant to insure that lighting and sound are properly set-up on the remote end. The cost and time commitment of travel to a single location is no longer a barrier to participation.
Supplemental Audio and Lighting
Most hotel and conference facilities can support basic needs for public address (PA) and ambient lighting. It often becomes challenging for them – and sometimes very costly – when you exceed their basic in-house capabilities. TV cameras require light; the more available the better. When stages with podiums and panel tables aren’t lit well, the video suffers – add a bright projected image, Read More
such as PowerPoint on a white background and the challenge is increased. The foreground (people) need to be as bright as the background. We can provide supplemental lighting to insure that the video looks as good as expected.
Audio needs can become similarly complex. Small speakers in the ceiling aren’t known for their natural sound or quality. We can bring in free-standing amplified speakers to improve sound and intelligibility. Capturing sound for an online audience and dealing with transitions, video playback and remote participants that all come through our systems means that placing all audio control in our hands rather than a house-mix engineer often makes more sense. We can make recommendations on the best path and work with facility personnel as needed.
Event Management “Proxy” Services
If you’re planning to run an event in the Greater Philadelphia area and you’re not based nearby, we can interface with the facility team, in-person, on your behalf – acting as your on-site proxy.
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technical side. We can include you in site visits, live, via video chat and take photos and provide other services as needed.
If you need us to work outside of our home region for you, we can do that too. Being in the New York City to Washington DC (NE Corridor) means easy day trips from Philadelphia.
Podcasts & Other Production Services
You can think of full scale, live video production as the super-set of production related services. That means that everything else can be thought of as sub-sets. Included in these sub-sets are pre-production services like site surveys, meetings, graphic elements creation (including titles, lower thirds, animated transitions and PowerPoint prep), set/staging consultation, remote participant preparation, Read More
landing page creation, social media integration, video package development and general organizing.The
post-production services side often includes editing (including creating short excerpts for social media, repackaging of individual presentations as stand-alone videos, pulling audio for audio podcasts) and posting of this content to your website and social media platforms.
Video for podcasts is often produced in an environment like a radio show studio (everyone on mics and wearing headphones in a round-table-like discussion) or a direct-to-camera presentation; more like a TV news style. Live event video can be packaged as a video (or audio) podcast if it’s a regularly occurring event.
Greater Philadelphia Area
Posted on November 4, 2019 at 7:34 pm