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AV SuperFriends

AV SuperFriends

The AV SuperFriends are AV and eLearning nerds who embrace the challenges that come with managing audiovisual systems and resources within a higher education environment. Most of us have had similar experiences and seek to find answers in an ever-changing audiovisual world. We engage the higher education audiovisual community through podcasts, videos, panel discussions, interviews, and social media to share ideas and solve problems. Our shared experiences and your own will lead to new and

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52:16

AV SuperFriends: Off the Rails - See Like a Lizard

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2022/11/14

Recorded October 28, 2022 In the news, Chris shares his thoughts from the recent CCUMC conference at UCF in Orlando. Also, CCUMC has changed their inscrutable name to the slightly more scrutable ETC. Then we’re joined by Jason Zapf from the University of Wisconsin - Green Bay to discuss how to (or how not to) provide hybrid capability in active learning environments. While the temptation is go big and expensive, we all provide alternative suggestions to keep things simple and not over

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AV SuperFriends: On Topic - AV Turkeys

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2022/11/08

Recorded October 21, 2022 For Thanksgiving, the AV SuperFriends all gathered at Marc’s house and stood around the kitchen waiting for the turkey to cook in the indoor deep-fryer. In addition to an assortment of side dishes, we all brought an AV Turkey to share. Marc reminds us of the nonsense of touchless AV control, Chris complains bitterly about wireless sharing appliances, Justin gives up on Stem Audio, Jamie rewinds to multi-cable digital video extension, and Larry despises digital signage

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AV SuperFriends: Off the Rails - Spigots and Knobs...

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2022/10/17

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AV SuperFriends: On Topic - AV Nightmares

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2022/10/08

Recorded September 28, 2022 In a change of pace, we’ve collected our scariest and creepiest tales of AV projects, equipment, customers, and support. Join the AV SuperFriends as we sit around the bonfire and share our tales of fright. Justin brings an Old Kentucky Fable, Marc recounts his end of summer waking nightmare, Larry reminds us that our worst fears can come true during the Year of Good Enough, and Chris visits the Twilight Zone to recount the Needs Analysis of Terror. Happy Halloween,

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AV SuperFriends: Off the Rails - Validified

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2022/09/27

Recorded September 16, 2022 We had a different news story selected for this week but given the recent public email exchanges between Aurora Multimedia and Crestron, we had to discuss it. Is Crestron being the bully or getting taken advantage of? Marc raises the possibility that this is all a staged act to generate publicity and we all like the idea of a Crestron - Aurora conspiracy! Then, we’re joined by Dean Heckler of Heckler Design to talk about his company’s novel approach to AV-friendly

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01:04:14

AV SuperFriends: Off the Rails - I had a logical...

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2022/09/16

Recorded September 9, 2022 The AV SuperFriends kick off Season 3 with some announcements of upcoming changes and a new show, AVSF: Live! Yes, live-- on video, that is-- but live! With video and you! We want you to join us! The link is below. Then we return to our Twitter poll from a few weeks ago to share the results. With equipment lead times continuing to be a challenge, what are other schools doing? We hash out the three most common approaches— waiting for preferred gear, looking around at

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AV SuperFriends: On Topic - I’ll meet you half-way...

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2022/09/08

This month’s topic is software AV and we couldn’t decide between software AVoIP content, software AV control, or software management platforms, so we’ll cover all three! We start with an article about a semiconductor manufacturer widening software (and hardware) support for SMPTE 2110, which gets us one step closer to HDBaseT-style interoperability… in theory. Then, it’s a whirlwind tour of software AV content, control, applications, and more. Why are we using legacy thinking when building our

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01:12:26

AV SuperFriends: Off the Rails - Do all the stuff you...

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2022/08/23

Recorded August 12, 2022 We fire up the AVSF time machine and travel back to 2010… to talk about HDBaseT. It’s all in good fun, but it’s a weird article to see in 2022. Then, what’s your threshold for standardization? That is, are you looking to broaden you AV equipment portfolio or just waiting out the on-going equipment delays? What happens if that wait becomes six, eight, 12, 16 months or more? Jamie is always game to try new gear, Chris is re-engineering systems from the ground up, Justin is

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01:01:28

AV SuperFriends: Off the Rails - Install a System...

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2022/08/13

Recorded August 5, 2022 Panopto is buying Kaltura! Sorta. The investment firm who owns Panopto also wants to own Kaltura. While this could mean we’ll see a really cool platform come from this “merger,” most likely it’ll be bad for all of us. Look for your license fees to increase dramatically. Then, what do you mean by “AV design?” What does it mean to be an AV designer? How much time are you spending doing documentation? How much is too much? Justin just wants to avoid questions, Larry would rather

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38:55

AV SuperFriends: On Topic - Take ‘em over and try to...

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2022/08/08

Recorded July 15, 2022 It’s Back to School season! What will the 2022 - 2023 school year bring? We start with an article from EdSurge about schools who put massive student CRM systems on hold and are now restarting those massive projects. Regardless of how many times we’ve all been through this process, the end result seems to be the same: a litany of complaints, nostalgic stories of the previous system, and plans for the next upgrade. Then, plans for our Fall terms to start in just a few weeks

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59:22

AV SuperFriends: Off the Rails - It’s a Buffet!

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2022/07/31

We start with an article from the Chronicle of Higher Education that asks why colleges and universities are constructing so many new buildings, but leaving older facilities to rot? We’re all guilty of focusing on the new hotness and ignoring the old and busted, but what will happen now that enrollment is set to drop? Then, active learning rooms. Do they really need all that stuff (no) or all those options (no) or all those displays (no) ? Larry explains active learning as a food analogy, Marc

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AV SuperFriends: Off the Rails - It’ll Suck Gas and...

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2022/07/16

Recorded July 8, 2022 Marc starts us off with an article about new, high resolution and AI-driven optical microphones that will never be a product, but will be in almost every audio product in five years... and probably in your phone, too. If this technology goes where we think it will, it’ll be the next version of beam-tracking & beam-steering. Then, with apologies to Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, we apply the Five Stages of Grief to delayed AV projects (which in 2022 means every project). We discuss

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AV SuperFriends: On Topic - Saying it Smart

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2022/07/08

Recorded June 22, 2022 Have y’all heard of this VR thing? It’s a thing! Or is it… We start with an article about highly customized content for highly specialized academic programs and how that just doesn’t scale. And that leads a discussion covering everything from shared standards for metaverse content to nursing simulation systems to user generated content. Then, scope creep. Have you done that thing you didn’t know about and weren’t technically responsible to do? Why does it always seem to fall

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01:08:51

AV SuperFriends: Off the Rails - Reach Out and Touch It

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2022/06/30

Recorded June 24, 2022 It’s a Christmas Miracle— all six AV SuperFriends are on the same episode together! We start with some AV news that created a minor crisis for some of us (for about 30 minutes), but as it’s about one of our “favorite” products, we’re enjoying the schadenfreude. Also, maybe if your network allows unauthenticated devices to connect directly, you deserve the lumps. Then we’re joined by Geoff Robinson from PTZOptics to discuss their recent release of MIDI camera controls. Does

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AV SuperFriends: Perspectives - Meat Sweats in Las Vegas

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2022/06/15

Recorded June 09, 2022 Chris, Larry, Rachel, and Justin were all together in Las Vegas for the largest single gathering of AV SuperFriends since 2019, so we fired up the microphones to share our general impressions of the first InfoComm since the last one! We cover products of note, the best swag on the show floor, celebrity sightings, the utter lack of VR (yea!), the sad lack of esports (boo!), fidget spinners, Justin’s drug smuggling backpack, purses vs clutches, the single best product of the

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AV SuperFriends: Perspectives - Oakland University's...

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2022/06/10

Recorded March 31, 2022 Chris and Marc were at NWMET 2022 in beautiful Coeur d’Alene, Idaho in March and set up a table in the middle of the hallway to talk with as many people as possible about AV in higher education. In this episode, we’re joined by Doug McCartney from Oakland University and Jon Loney of Whitman College to talk about the NWMET that didn’t happen in 2020, Doug’s recent election to the NWMET Hall of Fame (and his brand new car!), plans for NWMET in the future, and Doug’s reflection

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AV SuperFriends: Perspectives - LightWerks Jessica...

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2022/06/09

Recorded March 31, 2022 Chris and Marc were at NWMET 2022 in beautiful Coeur d’Alene, Idaho in March and set up a table in the middle of the hallway to talk with as many people as possible about AV in higher education. In this episode, we’re joined by Jessica Sunset from LightWerks to talk about how colleges and universities can be better partners with integrators (hint: parking!) and how integrators can be better partners with colleges and universities (stop bidding the lowest cost gear). Jessica’s

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AV SuperFriends: On Topic - InfoComm Preview and/or...

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2022/06/08

Recorded May 13, 2022 It’s our annual InfoComm Preview show! Or, if you are listening to this after the first week of June, it’s our annual InfoComm Wrap-up show! Chris, Larry, and Justin will be there in person, so come join us for presentations, tours, and interviews. Or, listen to recordings of those same presentations, tours, and interviews because InfoComm is over! We hash through what we expect to see and hear: Chris is still expecting announcements of heretofore unannounced stuff, Justin is

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AV SuperFriends: Perspectives - Kramer's Kristen Garner

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2022/06/08

Recorded March 31, 2022 Chris and Marc were at NWMET 2022 in beautiful Coeur d’Alene, Idaho in March and set up a table in the middle of the hallway to talk with as many people as possible about AV in higher education. In this episode, we’re joined by Kramer’s Kristen Garner to talk about building the relationship with higher education, updating firmware, and Kramer’s recent purchase of UC Workspace. Kristen’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/krisgarner/

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AV SuperFriends: Perspectives - Crestron's Robert Durbin

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2022/06/07

Recorded March 31, 2022 Chris and Marc were at NWMET 2022 in beautiful Coeur d’Alene, Idaho in March and set up a table in the middle of the hallway to talk with as many people as possible about AV in higher education. In this episode, we’re joined by Robert Durbin from Crestron to talk high level concepts, Crestron’s A+ program, the four flavors of DM, and using tin snips to modernize your DMPS products. Note: please don’t modify your DMPS with tin snips. Robert’s LinkedIn:

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