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Had fun directing cameras for the University of Maryland Symphony at their beautiful Clarice Smith Center for the Performing Arts. 2 Sony HSC 100r's with long glass and a couple Marshall POV cameras strategically placed made the show entertaining for the crowd watching from home via web stream.

Providing Vmix rental and operation for another virtual event from the EventEQ HQ. Zooming into Vmix with our fancy "make zoom look good" key!

This year the National Cherry Blossom Festival went virtual thanks to COVID. We pre recorded some of the segments at the Lincoln Theater in Washington DC. Levine Engineering has been part of this event for several years and it was an honor to be involved again despite the lack of live performances and live audience. I acted as director and floor manager this year.

Rented my Vmix Virtual Studio Package to EventEQ for a virtual event. For this show we dressed up a boring zoom meeting with Vmix by keying out the ugly grey background from the Zoom and overlayed it on a custom background. We also added lower thirds. The client wanted to keep it very simple allowing the presenters to give presentations using the screen share feature in Zoom. The keyed solution in Vmix worked great! This allowed remote guests to utilize a platform they were comfortable with and when they turned on their camera, they would magically appear on the screen in a proper multi box look. We streamed this show to the Clover platform and also had a pre roll video and slide loop to make it seem more like a show than a typical zoom meeting.

Working at the EventEQ warehouse as EIC for a MJM show for end client TD Bank. We set up a master control room complete with 8 inbound remote feeds (custom style zoom), many graphics and playback machines and remote lines tied into a studio in NY. We used a Carbonite Black switcher to run the magic. For this show we had a guest director who brought in his own Technical Director who I must say, was a wizard at building boxes and effects on the Carbonite.

My biggest challenge on this one was converting a .mov file into a usable wipe with alpha and audio that could be triggered in the Carbonite to transition between segments. I used Vmix media converter to create an image sequence from the .mov then added a .wav to the sequence maintaining the proper naming scheme. Then loaded it into one of the Carbonite media player channels. Audio needed to wire up a cable to get the AES output to work and boom... Wipe with alpha and an audio "swoosh" could be triggered via macro that the TD built.

Once everything was wired, patched, configured and the bumper transition was loaded, it was time for me to relax and enjoy the Tour de France!

Working on a pretty simple event this evening in DC for EventEQ. I have one Sony robo camera and one monitor for a virtual board meeting dinner for Intel. The view however, is spectacular!