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January 25, 2021

Middle Atlantic RLNK-215

By: Richard Mitchell

Technically, this isn’t an “AV specific” piece of hardware, but the Middle Atlantic RLNK-215 makes its way to AV racks regularly and for good reason. The two-outlet “intelligent power” control device provides basic metal oxide varistor (MOV) surge protection to your AV system, network device, or server. What makes this device unique is that when […]

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January 4, 2021

Webcam/Tripod Review

By: Stephen Toback

I recently moved into a new home and my previous method of mounting my webcam wouldn’t work in my new home office. I thought I would try one of the low cost webcams offered on Amazon since it came with a tripod mount and said it featured a wide angle lens. I’m very impressed with […]

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November 16, 2020

Atlona Professional HDBaseT PTZ Camera

By: Richard Mitchell

While on a classroom technology Zoom session, a peer institution mentioned that they had installed a few Atlona cameras in a subset of their classrooms. While I was somewhat familiar with Atloma as a complete AV solutions manufacturer, our University has primarily been a Crestron/Extron/Biamp/Vaddio/Sony house, with a wide range of exceptions depending upon the […]

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September 17, 2020

HUE HD Pro

By: Richard Mitchell

In the era of Covid-19, people are scrambling to find great document camera alternatives for home and in-office use. There is a wide range of devices available, but they generally come in two flavors, cheap and problematic and expensive, full-featured, and bulky. Today, I’ll give a quick review of the HUE HD Pro, a ~$99 […]

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August 8, 2020

Help Clean Up Background Noise

By: Stephen Toback

As we’re all working with instructors that are recording at home, we can count on some of them not recording in the best surroundings for audio. We’ve tried several noise reduction plugins but I recently got the AudioDenoise 2 from CrumplePop and like its super simple interface. It has less “robotic” sound than other plug […]

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July 24, 2020

Delta’s use of FWI Digital Signage with Biometrics

By: Teresa Jennings

This is an interesting article of Delta’s use of Four Winds Interactive for improving the workplace experience using biometrics and reserving cubicles for remote workers entering the office a couple of days a week.   https://resources.fourwindsinteractive.com/case-studies/improving-the-workplace-at-delta-air-lines-hq-with-a-biometric-hoteling-solution  

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April 30, 2020

Motion Array

By: Devon Henry

I came across a pack of Adobe After Effects assets from Motion Array. They had a free trial option so I downloaded one of their title packs to see if it would work for a project I was working on. The pack I downloaded as my trial pick didn’t end up working for my needs […]

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April 21, 2020

Crestron Visits Duke, Virtually

By: Richard Mitchell

This past week, Crestron visited Duke… virtually, to highlight some new products and to provide an overview of upcoming changes to various Crestron platforms. The key takeaways were, CH5 (Crestron + HTML5) is here, and we’ll soon be able to leverage the platform for more dynamic visuals on touch panels and mobile devices. Also, the […]

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March 4, 2020

Adobe Premiere: Productions

By: Devon Henry

Adobe Premiere has been adding features that make collaborating on projects much easier. They explain the workings a bit in this video: Apparently this is being used in the editorial process in feature films, and was made following the suggestions of the teams that worked on films like the latest Terminator. It’ll be interesting to […]

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