michael.gjesdal@sdstate.edu
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Reply to A/V: What Scheduling And Inventory Platforms Are You Using?
Our student tech staff fluctuates between 12-16 people. Shifts is quite limited so I only use it to communicate the shift name, when the shift is and what type of shift if it. We do green for load in, B]blue for event, red for load out and purple for other – meetings, shop, office, training. The students have all found their preferred way…
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Reply to A/V: What Scheduling And Inventory Platforms Are You Using?
Sounds like we have had a lot of the same/similar experiences. I have consolidated to two ecosystems – neither are perfect but its the best compromise Ive found. EMS acts as the actual reservation for events. We have a generic version of our A/V inventory in EMS and do estimates, bill, and generic customer communication through EMS. Then I…
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Reply to Stage Recommendations
Under the idea of buy once, cry once- Im going to recommend the SC90 from Sightline.? When we purchased ours 20 years ago, it was owned by Staging Concepts.? I dont believe there has been a dip in quality- though im not 100% on that.? We bought a huge inventory of them and we can build large stages between 12″ and 54″ high.? They are…
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Reply to Event Production Model
Hey Michael.? I oversee our “State Tech” Student AV technicians here at SDState.? ?We operate our own mini AV production company that is housed in our Student Union. This is not something we transitioned to recently as this group has been established since the 80’s.? I joined State Tech as a student in 2007.? I graduated, worked AV in other…
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Reply to Pricing for A/V Rentals and Last Minute Requests
Here at South Dakota State University, we are also working on updating our pricing as well as our pricing for our AV services, packages as everything is just out of date/obsolete. So, I too am looking to hear what others are doing.??
Current Pricing…
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Reply to Crestron vs. AV over IP
Chris is 100% spot on.? I’ll add that we are currently in the works of updating our main venue as well.? It’s a divisible ballroom that is getting some good upgrades.? Control and Video distribution will be Crestron/NVX, live streaming is NDI and audio is mostly Dante with a splash of QLAN.? All of which will be on the campus network… Read more
