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Wednesday, June 26, 2024

Project Profile: GameChangers Awards

We were thrilled to partner again with our client for The 2024 GameChangers Awards, hosted by Innovation Tri-Valley Leadership Group, celebrating innovation in the Tri-Valley region. The 2024 ceremony was held at Goal Line Studios in Pleasanton. The client wanted to use Goal Line Studios' high-r...

Tags: large events| presentation| new tech| graphics

Monday, November 18, 2019

Great Sound Starts With Great Microphones

Ever been at an event where you feel like the presenter is standing an arm’s length away, speaking directly to you? Even with a couple thousand people in the room, a properly dialed audio rig creates a presence that can make any venue seem intimate and inviting. Good sound requires quality equip...

Tuesday, October 15, 2019

Audio Visual for Conventions

Conventions are a bit of a niche market in the A/V field, bringing a specific set of challenges that a lot of A/V companies aren’t prepared for. Supporting dozens or hundreds of rooms across a large facility - most of which all begin and end on the same set schedule - requires a lot of organizati...

Wednesday, September 04, 2019

Conducting a Successful Site Visit

If you’re an event planner, you’ve got a million things to look at when you do a site visit. In the audio/visual world, we’ve got some very specific things that we like to know before we walk into a venue. If we have the opportunity we always like to do our own site visit, but t...

Thursday, August 22, 2019

Filling Dead Air on Your Live Stream

A few years ago, live streaming was new and exciting. Now it’s basically expected. Whether it’s an internal event being broadcast to employees worldwide, or a public event targeted at customers or partners, live stream opportunities have become an essential part of the corporate communications wo...

Tuesday, August 20, 2019

What can you do with LED walls?

The Way Things Are Projection and imaging have been used in corporate presentations for decades. From slide projectors and overhead transparencies, the industry moved to early CRT projectors - massive, 100-200lb behemoths that required expert technicians to converge color tubes every time they we...

Tuesday, June 25, 2019

Passing the Baton: Planning Effective Handoffs Between Presenters

It seems like it should be an easy thing, but in our experience the most-often bungled part of a presentation is the handoff from one presenter to the next. There have been countless scenarios where we’ve seen a speaker finish their talk and just walk offstage, leaving awkward dead air whil...

Monday, May 27, 2019

Videos in Presentations

We’ve all sat in the presentations where the speaker builds up to their awesome video, clicks the button… and nothing. I can’t even begin to count how many times a presenter has told me “I took all the videos out of my presentations because they cause too many problems.” Or at the other extreme t...

Sunday, April 28, 2019

Meet the Crew: C. Landon Griggs

Landon Griggs joined VIP Audio Visual Company as Project Manager in September 2018. Highly organized and detail-oriented, he keeps projects moving on schedule and does everything he can to support the VIP AV Team. His responsibilities vary from day to day and include managing project schedules, ...

Tuesday, April 09, 2019

Renting Audio Visual Equipment from a Local Supplier

While VIP Audio Visual specializes in creating exceptional A/V experiences for our customers, not every event involves a large crew and complex tech setups. When you need a projector for the photo montage at a wedding, or a small sound system for an office party, VIP Audio Visual can provide prof...

Thursday, March 28, 2019

Painting Your Venue with Light

Whether it’s a Rembrandt masterpiece, an Ansel Adams landscape, or the venue for your next meeting, there’s no scene that isn’t made better with proper use of light. Good lighting is the simplest and cheapest way to transform a room. Whether you’re working in a 5-star hot...