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Elevate Your Occasion: Why Choose Repertoire Production for Live Events and AV Services

In today’s fast-paced world, live events and audiovisual (AV) services play a pivotal role in creating unforgettable experiences. Whether it’s a corporate event or a public gathering, the impact of professionally managed and delivered live performances and AV presentations cannot be understated. Among the plethora of options available, one name stands out in delivering excellence and innovation: Repertoire Production. Here’s why choosing Repertoire Production for your live events and AV services can elevate your occasion to new heights.

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San Francisco: Why Rent a Video Wall Instead of a Projector for Your Next Event

When planning an event in the vibrant city of San Francisco, creating memorable experiences is key. One significant decision that can influence the impact of your event is choosing between a LED video wall and a projector for your visual displays. While projectors have been the go-to for many years, the tide is shifting. Video walls are becoming increasingly popular for their brightness, modular design, and versatility. Here’s why you should consider renting a LED wall for your next San Francisco event.

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How to Engage Audiences and Build Community Through Streaming

In the era of digital transformation, engaging audiences and building a community through live streaming has become a cornerstone strategy for content creators, brands, and businesses alike. With the proliferation of platforms like Twitch, YouTube Live, and Facebook Gaming, the opportunity to connect and grow a dedicated following has never been more accessible. This comprehensive guide provides actionable insights and strategies to captivate your audience and foster a vibrant community through live streaming.

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Strategies for Success in the World of Silicon Valley Live Streaming

The world of Silicon Valley live streaming is a dynamic and competitive arena, where innovation and creativity are key to standing out. As more individuals and businesses turn to live streaming to connect with their audience, understanding the best strategies for success is crucial. This blog post will explore effective tactics for thriving in Silicon Valley’s live streaming landscape, from leveraging the latest technology to understanding audience engagement.

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Create a Wow Experience at Your Corporate Event With LED Wall Magic

Are you looking to make your next corporate event unforgettable? In the ever-evolving landscape of corporate events, creating an engaging and memorable experience for attendees is paramount. One innovative way to captivate your audience is through the magic of LED walls. These dynamic displays are not just tools for visual presentation; they are gateways to immersive experiences that can elevate your event from ordinary to extraordinary. In this blog post, we’ll explore how incorporating LED walls can transform your corporate event into a dazzling spectacle that leaves a lasting impression on all attendees.

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Why Rent A Video Wall instead of a Projector at your Next San Francisco Event (10x brighter, more modular and versatile, no shadows)

When planning an event in the vibrant city of San Francisco, creating memorable experiences is key. One significant decision that can influence the impact of your event is choosing to rent a video wall vs renting a projector for your visual displays. While projectors have been the go-to for many years, the tide is shifting. Video walls are becoming increasingly popular for their brightness, modular design, and versatility. Here’s why you should consider renting a video wall for your next San Francisco event.

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Top Ten Ways Live Streaming Can add Value To your Silicon Valley Event

In the dynamic landscape of Silicon Valley, where innovation and technology reign supreme, hosting events is not just about physical presence anymore. With the advent of live streaming technology, events can transcend geographical barriers and reach a global audience in real-time. Leveraging live streaming can significantly enhance the value and impact of your Silicon Valley event. Let’s delve into the top ten ways live streaming can add value to your event.

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How Renting an LED Wall Can Wow Your Guests in San Francisco

Are you tired of hosting events that are as exciting as watching paint dry? Want to inject some pizzazz into your gatherings? Look no further than the LED wall rental in San Francisco! Imagine transforming your venue into a mesmerizing spectacle that leaves your guests in awe. But wait, what’s an LED wall, you ask? Picture this: a massive, high-definition screen that can display anything from dazzling visuals to jaw-dropping videos. It’s like having your own personal Times Square, minus the New York traffic!

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How to Make a Statement with Premium Video Wall Rentals for Corporate Events & Conferences

In today’s fast-paced corporate world, making a lasting impression at events and conferences is crucial for success. One surefire way to captivate your audience and leave a memorable impact is by utilizing premium video wall rentals. These dynamic displays not only grab attention but also convey professionalism and innovation. In this guide, we’ll explore how you can leverage video walls to elevate your corporate events and conferences to new heights.

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LED Walls Leveraging Your Visual Capabilities

In today’s dynamic event landscape, captivating your audience’s attention is paramount. Whether it’s a corporate gathering, product launch, or a live performance, the visual experience plays a crucial role in leaving a lasting impression. Enter LED walls – the modern marvel transforming events into immersive spectacles. Let’s delve into how you can leverage the stunning visual capabilities of LED walls to elevate your next event to new heights.

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Renting a Video Wall will Make your San Francisco Event Incredible

Are you planning an event in San Francisco and want to leave a lasting impression on your guests? Look no further than renting a video wall. In today’s digital age, incorporating visual elements into your event can take it from ordinary to extraordinary, and a video wall can be the perfect solution to captivate your audience and create an immersive experience. Because in this case bigger is better, especially when talking video walls

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Remarkable advantages of Hybrid Events

Hybrid Events Virtual Events, All-Hands, Quarterly Meetings, Live Streaming, Product Launches & More Our Work

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Produce Engaging Videos – 10 Tips from TED.com – The Science Behind it

Why is TED the greatest event video organization ever? From our personal experience of producing these events, we’ve put together a collection of tips, tricks, and the science behind how it works. Hopefully our learnings can help you generate ideas (worth spreading), to inspire greatness in the living rooms, offices, laptops and cell phones of the people who watch the videos via livestream, or VOD after the event is concluded.

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Virtual Events-5 Awesome Advantages over in person events!

Repertoire Productions was an early adopter and innovator of using livestreaming to facilitate corporate communications. Since 2010 we have been live streaming quarterly meetings and events for such notable clients as Airbnb, Google, Square, LinkedIn, EA and more. We also continue to give back to the community by sponsoring, producing and live streaming events for TEDx, Tech Inclusion, CREDO Action Network, San Francisco Gay Mens Choir and others.

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Create Meaningful Engagement at Virtual Events

So, how do you create meaningful engagement at a virtual event? To answer the question, we interview a couple legends in the event world, Itamar Kubovy and Sherry Huss. Itamar is the Executive Producer of Pilobolus and a founder of Live Labs. Sherry Huss was a co founder of the Maker Faire (show, movement, tribe), and also a co founder of Live Labs.

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The Run Of Show, Show! A Show About Live Events, & Event Technology | Episode 1

On this week’s episode of the Run of Show, Show, we look into the question on everyone’s minds, when will live events come back? Using probabilistic thinking Bayesian Psychology we can accurately predict when live events will come back. And we’re not talking about baseball games without a live audience. I’m talking about conferences, live sporting events, and live music.

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Virtual Conference Production & Live Streaming

It’s time to look to the future of conventional Conferences & Live Events with Virtual Conference Production. CoronaVirus / COVID-19 has many people are concerned, Virtual Conference Production may be a solution. Concern has led to the cancellation of many conferences and events including Developers Conferences, Music Festivals & Weddings & more. Many companies have implemented company-wide travel bans for their employees in order to reduce their risk of exposure. Your event needs to be replaced somehow, why not give Virtual Conference Production and Live Streaming a go?

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COVID-19 Crisis Virtual Conferences… a Digital-First Approach

COVID-19 has affected populations around the world and threatens many more, there is no way to know how long the crisis will persist. Our hearts go out to all of those affected, their families and their communities. Outside of those touched directly by the tragedy, there are many knock-on effects across a range of industries, especially Conferences and Events.

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Challenges and Contingencies in the Global Events Industry

The current pandemic of COVID-19 that is spreading around the globe has been a huge challenge for many industries. Factories in China aren’t producing goods, which is resulting in a backlog for global supply chains. Airlines and the cruise ship industry have been hit hard as people cancel vacations, business trips and global events. The hospitality sector is affected as people cancel hotel and dinner reservations in favor of staying home and stocking up on dried noodles. Freeway traffic (silver lining) is at a 10 year low as businesses tell workers to stay home and remote in.

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10 steps | Produce a Conference with Video Platforms & Tech?

With the recent news regarding the CoronaVirus / COVID-19 many people are concerned with the risks associated with travel internationally and domestically. This concern has led to the cancellation of many conferences and events here in California and around the world including the Mobile World Congress, Developers Conferences and possibly SXSW. Many companies, such as Google, have implemented company wide travel bans for their employees in order to reduce their risk to exposure. A thoughtful move by these large companies, but also avoiding a potential PR nightmare.

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How to Setup Closed Captions for Live Streams with iCap (Captions Made Easy pt.1)

Live Streaming with Closed Captions today is a signature of professional broadcasting and is a must for inclusive communications. For your next live stream, consider how providing closed captions allows your content to be more accessible to a broader audience. When you exclude a community of individuals who have hearing impairments, you exclude their experiences from the over all conversation. Take a moment to see why inclusion and accessibility is important in the world of live streaming by checking out our blog Closing The Closed Caption Divide.

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Video Production on the Road

AV Production on the road, that’s right, the video production company you know and love, Repertoire takes the show on the road. We’ve been lucky enough to have the opportunity to travel with some of our close partners, to their remote offices in foreign cities and foreign countries, to produce video content.

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Effective Live Streaming

Nancy Pelosi was honored with a lifetime achievement award by the SF Democratic Party on August 21st. CREDO ACTION wanted to use Live Streaming to make sure the Speaker of the House knew exactly how much support there is for Impeachment of the current POTUS in the Bay Area. CREDO ACTION hired Repertoire Productions to cover the event and Facebook Livestream the Protest. A little over one month after Live Streaming the Protest on September 24th, an Impeachment inquiry began in the House of Representatives. BAM! Effective Live Streaming. Next!…

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Studio, Soundstage or Shooting on Location?

It’s quite tough choosing a location for a video interview or livestream company meeting, but there are a few good ways to determine if it’s time to get out of the conference room and into a studio or sound stage. Our clients often book a conference room for a video shoot or utilize their own office, since it’s convenient to reserve a space. While it’s nice to already have a spot, most conference rooms make terrible studios. No amount of a backdrops, lights, or blacking out the windows and doors can make a conference room into a great sound stage or studio space.

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Amazon, Twitch & the Bold Future of Live Streaming

Live-streaming has changed quite a bit over the years to become one of the top forms of online entertainment. Companies like Twitch, YouTube, Vimeo and others are taking advantage of the new trends in live-streaming by using video, video games, live production and others to attract an audience. The video game industry alone was a $138 billion market in 2018 and clearly there’s one live-streaming platform that’s dominating the competition, Twitch.

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Decimators, 3 Awesome ways to Decimate Your Next Show

Covered in depth for this edition of “Run of Show” (our inspirational and informative blog on all things production) we are looking at the humble Decimator. Manufactured by the good folks at Decimator Design, these handy little devices are the AV equivalent of a multi-tool for video engineers everywhere. Even so, many people find the menus hard to navigate and the product difficult to use. That is why we figured a Decimator blog might be useful. Today we will be covering the Decimator MD-HX: What it does and most importantly how to use it.

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Shooting a film in 48hrs | Film Festivals

Live Event Production is an exciting career; the job is always changing, working with and for new and interesting people certainly keeps things interesting. It can be a challenge at times; long hours with quick turnarounds & the pressure of deadlines can be stressful.

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LED Video Wall or Projection at Your Next Live Event

What is a LED Video Wall? An LED Video Walls are similar to a TV or Projection screen, but where they differ is the most important. Unlike a TV, your typical LED Walls are hundreds of assembled panels with thousands of thousands of small light-emitting-diodes (LEDs), which are essentially small individual LED lights. Projectors on the other hand, are a single source bulb projecting an image on the front or rear of a large projection screen. Either hung or mounted on a structure, a projector is a simple way to get content on a large screen.

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Secure Live Stream Production, Best Practices.

Secure Live Streaming Video is required in any number of scenarios for different purposes, most commonly Internal Communications, but by no means exclusively. If you’re responsible for producing internal meetings, business updates, or sharing confidential content within your organization and between remote offices and employees, you will need Secure Live Streaming Video. This is an especially critical step if you are producing events offsite that require livestreaming back to base into that network of locations.

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Inspiring Live Event Production & Festivals, Behind the Screens

Live Event Production is definitely an exciting career; the job is always changing, working with and for new and interesting people certainly keeps things interesting. It can also be a challenge at times; long hours followed by quick turnarounds with the pressure of deadlines breathing down your neck can be quite stressful at times.

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LED Video Walls, Bold Behind the Screens!

What is a LED Video Wall? An LED Video Wall is similar to a TV or Projection screen, but where it differs is the most important. Unlike a TV, your typical LED Walls are hundreds of assembled panels with thousands of thousands of small light-emitting-diodes (LEDs), which are essentially small individual LED lights. When these panels are assembled, they create a screen with millions of LED pixels.

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Produce Quarterly Meetings that are extraordinary and impressive!

We get it! It can be an enormous amount of pressure to produce amazing quarterly meetings, and it feels like its all on you. Booking Venues, Caterers, Travel, Event Production Teams, coordinating Executives’ Schedules, chasing Powerpoint Presentations, Videos and Speaker notes, finding Guest Speakers, preparing Business Updates and so much more. Not to mention pulling it all together on a limited budget, short timeframe, and all while handling your regular job.

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The most important trends in Live Events.

Technology, connectivity, data, and creativity have driven entirely New Concepts in Live Events. Established, proven event ideas have undergone enormously exciting changes too! Trends have emerged across the spectrum. Read on for updates on Live Streaming, Keynotes, Remote Presenters, Panel Discussions, Fireside Chats, Product Showcases, Guest Speakers, Video Presentations, Q&A, Team Building and Culture Building.

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Pickles and Biljax?!? Critical Live Event Terminology.

This definition of Slang is equally true in Live Event Production. TV production slang differs from Film Production, and the same is true about Live Event Production. New live event terms have even emerged around Live Streaming technology and production. Here are some interesting words and live event terminology that you might hear used by your live event production team or the team that is producing your Live Stream. And after you’ve read this post, you’ll never have to stop a Pre-Production meeting and ask “what does that mean?”. So hand me the pickle and let’s click-through this!

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10 Great ideas for memorable Corporate Events! Pop Culture Edition.

The highest priority for Corporate Events is Audience Engagement. In our experience, these ideas are always crowd pleasers. This article explores technical requirements and additional considerations that make these simple, cost-effective ideas work. Repertoire Productions can help you decide what will work for your Event, Conference or Live-Stream.

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Don’t forget about Post!

In the fast paced world of live events, it’s all about creating a memorable experience, nailing the show and then moving onto the next one. It’s super easy to forget that whenever you shoot an event, there is some kind of post production that will need to happen. That’s why we at Repertoire want to give all you budding event producers a couple tips to streamline what should be a fun and collaborative process.

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10 Great Reasons to Go Big on AV for your Events

Throwing an event for your company is a tried and true method of connecting people, building a brand image, and generating excitement for your products and development. Conferences hosted by multiple companies in the same field give you and your competition an opportunity to show off, push the boundaries of your abilities, and reward attendees with fun networking and stories to share.

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Stuck Between a Tricaster and a Livestream

At Repertoire Productions, live streaming is kind of our thing, and you can’t spell live streaming without Livestream. Livestream.com is the CDN of choice for many of our top enterprise clients. Large corporate clients appreciate Livestream’s reliability, scalability, and ease of use. We can also personally vouch for the fact that they have excellent customer service.

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Exciting updates in the world of live streaming!

Only a few short months ago, Facebook live streaming was only 720p resolution and paid streaming services were expensive with limited viewer hours. With the release of Facebook Live streaming in 1920 x 1080 as well as Vimeo Live, we are proud to offer our clients the same incredible streaming production for a fraction of the cost.

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Crazy AV Ideas No One Tries! And Maybe Shouldn’t?

Corporate events are prevalent in the San Francisco Bay Area. The entire peninsula is host to one large meeting after another. These meetings use roughly the same technology, AV, and designs as every other meeting. Why reinvent the wheel? It works well to have wireless microphones, large HD projection, and live streaming video. Repertoire has been serving this community with these techniques well, but in the spirit of technological advancement, disruption, IOT, art and theater, here are some crazy ideas out there no one is trying. And maybe for good reason…

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To P or not 60p

Video is one of the fastest changing technologies on the market today. Influenced by developments in everything from sensor technology to compression algorithms, video formats, frame rates, & resolutions are constantly changing. One of the exciting evolutions that is starting to gain widespread adoption is 1080 60p video. Wrapped up in this description are 3 concepts:

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How to Reach More People with Your Live Stream

You’ve heard of live streaming, you know what it’s like, but the numbers still aren’t adding up. Sure you can build a big event, produce the heck out of a show, and push quality video online, but where are all the viewers? Why is 100 viewers feel like a good day? Is this really worth the effort and cost?

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10 Great Ways to Improve Event Audio

Modern live events can take advantage of the latest technology in cameras, streaming, projection, event audio, & LED walls. Interestingly, lighting & event audio are not much different than they used to be, although strengthened by newer efficient digital electronics. Fundamentally, speakers are constructed and used in much the same way they were 20 years ago. So how do we leverage this history and technology to improve modern event audio?

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Top 10 Best Ways to Make Your Event More Interactive

An early spring morning at a yacht club in San Francisco, the event AV production crew gathers before dawn. They take a photo of the full moon reflecting off the black water of the bay, the quiet Golden Gate Bridge interactive in the foreground. Gear trucks back into place and the lift gates slam down. Twenty men, all in black, unload large heavy cases full of cable, LED panels, truss, and speakers.

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A History of Live Streaming

It is September 7th, 1927. Philo T. Farnsworth heads to his laboratory in San Francisco. “I really hope this works,” he thought to himself because today is the day he demonstrates a completely electronic television.

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10 Tips for Producing the Perfect Live Stream

So your assignment is to live stream an event and it needs to be perfect. No small feat for even the most experienced producers! Not even the giants of tech consider this a side project. Our company has had to usher several clients through the process. With so much to consider, what are the guaranteed ways to make it perfect?

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Update! Choosing The Best Live Stream Provider

One year ago, I wrote an article comparing the top live stream providers. At that time, Facebook was not an option and YouTube was relatively unused. Now, we can stream to Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, and even more, that’s a lot of live stream providers.

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Designing a Beautiful Stage for Live Stream

Live Streaming for company events is a major new feature in the business world. More companies are using this technology to keep their global audience involved now because of regularly available fast internet and the promotion through YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. With these three companies providing this service for free, it is up to the event company and its AV vendor to create a beautiful video.

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Do I need to use my hotel AV?

The short answer is no.Repertoire provides full services to hotel venues, regardless of most venue-exclusive hotel AV agreements.

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How to Record Great Event Video

Congratulations, you are planning an event! You are responsible for booking the venue, planning transportation, hiring a caterer, furnishing the space, possibly even creating the content through a carefully constructed cue to cue.

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How To Live Stream An Event

Clients approach our company with the goal of putting on a big event and rewarding their audiences with a great show.

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The Giant X at TEDx Berkeley 2016

Repertoire Productions had the honor of producing TEDxBerkeley 2016 earlier this year. While most of the project was routine (multi-camera shoot, live streaming, projection, stage engineering, stage management, wireless audio and switching presentations), we decided to tackle a creative endeavor, projection mapping on a gigantic 3D “X.”

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How To Choose A Live Streaming Provider

Live streaming has become a necessity to include with major events. This makes choosing the right Live Streaming Provider that much more important. We’re entering a world where the majority has access to fast internet, allowing them to watch high definition video live from anywhere else in the world. The renaissance of live streaming has begun, it’s very exciting to see how the ecosystem of providers will evolve to bring more services and features.

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