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    Independent fee paying day school in Cheshire as ICT / AV / Theatre Technician.Also do a little volunteer Am-Dram.Part time mobile DeeJay.Do volunteer 'technician' work and outside PA events for local Community Radio station.
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    Macclesfield, Cheshire
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    I like to tinker with electronic things. I have a 'thing' about LEDS :)
    Reasonably competant with auto-electics, which is handy as I'm also a past-it petrol head.
    I've fitted out my ex-minibus as a camper.

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  1. Does the ...cough... cheap basic hdmi splitter trick get round it as they do in 'other' situations?
  2. I have a UI16 that got cheap about 3/4 years ago. Don't use it much. I read about the drop outs so have an external router with the internal wifi disabled - if you leave it enabled but ignore it apparently you can still get problems. I've had no issues but then I'm never more than about 6m away... Sound quality has been perfectly fine for my use. Sometimes just 4 radio mics for kids performing songs and sometimes with a few rifle mics for picking up kids on a small stage. All that said, I'd suggest going with the Behringer due to the number of reported issues with the Soundcraft. As others have said, they are no longer being developed, the last firmware was years ago, it's fair to say they are now obsolete!
  3. I've used a couple. Generally they'll record perfectly fine. The biggest problem I've found is the file splitting. They tend to either leave a complete gap of several frames or split the video within a frame or so, but then there's several frames when the audio is muted, so when you stitch them together - you can guess! If the presentations are only like half an hour or so, then you'll probably be absolutely fine with the no-name Amazon specials, although I'd avoid the very cheapest.
  4. I've some experience of recording audio on separate devices then sync'ing in post, usually for video. Results vary between devices when it comes to synchronisation. One thing I will advise, and this is through bitter experience, is NEVER EVER record direct to mp3 format! The synchronisation drifts like crazy... I mention it because I use a couple of Tascam recorders which have an option of recording to mp3, which may be appealing due to the smaller file size / more capacity on storage. Get a bigger SD card.. I'm not even going to mention audio quality of mp3, because for some applications it is perfectly acceptable, but I'll get flamed for suggesting that! πŸ˜‰πŸ˜†
  5. Have they actually tried on of those 'in the flesh', as it were? I bought something similar from Amazon a few months back (to use as intended!) just out of interest. Rather underwhelming even when sat on my kitchen fireplace. I can't help thinking on a stage it would be rather lost, even say four of them. Might be worth getting one to play with, it can always end up in the office with scent in it πŸ™‚
  6. I've zero experience with such screens, but Sunray made me think...... What about a dual display output PC, each feeding half the wall. Put in in extended desktop and find a way of displaying the logo across the extended desktop. Then change to mirror mode for the presentation. A 'dirty' way of getting the logo over both screens would be set it as the wallpaper in 'span' and auto hide the task bar. Then while changing between extended and mirror either freeze or mute the wall (assuming the feature is available). This will obviously only work if the content is only on the PC, the ATEM couldn't really be used in this configuration.
  7. Just a thought... do you have virtualisation (or similar wording) enabled in BIOS? It may be unconnected, but I just wonder if it is enabled does Windoze add some additional drivers behind the scenes that account for the reported missing ones? It's a long shot but worth checking.
  8. Could be a s simple as a faulty 'start' switch. Could you provide a little more info, such as how you would normally start the snow? E.g. is it a wired remote with a larg-ish square switch or maybe a smaller button. Is it radio remote... etc.
  9. Interesting. I've read that article and another where the Theatre accuse the Council of 'bullying' tactics. On the face of the article above, I got the feeling that it was a bunch of airy-fairy luvies who'd had their feelings hurt 'cos someone dared say something negative - the 'If you can't say something nice' brigade. On reading further articles, there's some history with the council. There's certainly blame on the side of the Theatre for not sticking to the letter of the law (naively or otherwise), but one can sure sympathise with their situation. Councils are a law unto themselves, especially as they tend to favour who/what can bring the biggest amount of dosh in their direction.
  10. I agree with Mr Ash. It looks good on paper.... returns policy looks OK if it's proves to be bad. I can't comment on SDI as I've never knowingly clapped eyes on it 'in the flesh' never mind done anything with it! πŸ˜‚
  11. I've not had chance to try it! The rig I had in mind when I got it turned out I didn't need it... however there will be other times when it'll be put to use. I'll update when I get chance to test it out.
  12. I think it's one of those areas where a workman CAN blame his tools. Or I should say workperson / their ☺️
  13. As a side note.... I'm a bit of an 'old camera' geek myself so have also tinkered with tapeless recording. Many of the cheaper stand-alone capture boxes record at the American 640x480 rather than 728x576. For a VHS capture it's not really noticeable, but it's a chunk smaller for capture direct from a sensible camera. Something to keep in mind if capture resolution is a thing for you. I'm not entirely sure how it works with devices that take composite in but claim to record at 720 or 1080 πŸ€”
  14. This just crossed my mind.... how is connecting to both the 3pin and 5pin outlets of a desk (in effect making it inline rather than one end) different to the normal practice of looping fixtures using the male and female connections? Electrically it's identical (taking termination that may or may not be in the desk out of the equation for a moment). The obvious difference being the desk is generating data where the fixtures are receiving data, but other than that...?
  15. I think driver failure is more about use and storage conditions than age. You can find 50 year old drivers still working as good as the day they were installed, but (my example) store them in a damp garage over winter and they could easily fail within 2 years... Fair play if you have other reasons to upgrade, but as already said, age alone shouldn't come in to it. Same goes for sound engineers πŸ˜‰πŸ˜‚
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