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Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Elios Society Hellenic Ball: Exceptional Charity Event Production by VIP Audio Visual

The Elios Society Hellenic Charity Ball, a prestigious celebration of Greek heritage and a cornerstone fundraiser supporting the organization’s mission in Northern California, was elevated to new heights through the expertise of VIP Audio Visual Company. Our team delivered a seamless, high-end pr...

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Thursday, February 27, 2020

Getting an AV quote: What we need to know

If you have spent any time at all reading our content, you know that VIP Audio Visual can create amazing experiences for your next corporate event. The events we handle range from super basic, to completely over the top. Our entire team is dedicated to providing the best possible experience for e...

Wednesday, February 05, 2020

Why we recommend the gear we do

We can “do” AV at a lot of different levels. At VIP Audio Visual, we work with every client to understand the scope of their event, and the level of the show that they want to produce. When we provide a quote, we do our best to match the equipment we're providing to the client's need...

Monday, January 13, 2020

Producing Creative Events with LED Walls

Corporate events tend to follow the same general mold. Two projection screens in a dark room with black or gray pipe and drape behind them. LED uplights coloring the drape, maybe a couple of banners here and there, and you’ve got yourself an event. Most of the time this is by design. Video proje...

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...