With the advent of technology, the event planning and management has seen enormous shifts over the past two decades. As technology continues to automate monotonous time-consuming work and connect the world like never before, many event planners are scrambling to keep up by incorporating the latest and greatest technology into their events. There have been quite a few game-changing technologies introduced, but we consider digital administration and mobile engagement to be the 2 primary technologies that have changed the event planning world in the last 5 years. Digital Administration Digital administration is now key when planning a new meeting. For large events, it’s not…

Arena LED Light Boards. We just wrapped up a project for Creighton University in Omaha Nebraska. We were tasked with creating several videos for Century Link’s jumbo tron as well as the Daktronics LED light boards running throughout the arena. While these LED light boards are only several pixels tall, two in-particular run the entire length of the areana’s wall. This creates a very irregular “super-wide” video resolution. Standard resolutions generally fit a 4:3 “square/standard” or 16:9 “widescreen” aspect ratio. Entry level software like iMovie, Windows Movie Maker, and others easily create and export these types of videos. However, when you…

We live in a digital world. Gone are the days when you could throw the VHS tape in the closet and archive your photos in the scrapbook for safe keeping. Instead, we accumulate gigabytes upon gigabytes of digital data and, if you are in the event business, that only increases on a daily basis. So, how do you protect those assets and archive your work? The answer is: data redundancy. Essentially, data redundancy is having duplicate copies of your data in multiple locations but there is a lot more to it. I once spoke to photographer who had purchased a “raid”…

For a long time we had toyed with the idea of large-scale edge-blended projection, or “projection mapping”. We wanted a digital canvas that we could really play with. Giant videos that covered an entire wall and presentations that interacted at the stage level rather than off stage on a separate screen. Well, this year we did it. Let me tell you a bit about the project. First, you can’t just line up 3 projectors side by side and have one continuous image. You need a display source that will combine the 3 projector outputs as one display/canvas. Then, you need to use…