My CTS and CTS-I have been renewed as of Oct 31, 2023. I’m good for another three years in a professional AV career. Whew!
AVIXA CTS-I Renewal
Category Archives: Creative Arts/Media Ministry
Networking Technology 2023
This is a thorough course on all things networking – worth 22 RU credits! It’s the second time I’ve completed this course with the first being in 2015. Infocomm allows retakes every two years since technology changes so frequently.
Q-Sys Architect Training
This was an in person training conducted at Windy City Wire. QSC is about QSC Architect.
Building Q-SYS Room Solutions for Microsoft Teams Rooms
This was an in person training conducted at Windy City Wire. QSC is offering solutions for Microsoft Teams Rooms.
Enterprise IT Power Hour: Video Compression Technology
Attended a webinare about networked video compression. It covered several compression types for broadcast and other. jpg2000, DCT discrete cosine transform, AV1 competes with H.264.
SDVoE Developer Certification – Level 1
The SDVoE Certified Developer Program features a basic qualification course consisting of seven modules followed by an exam. Once you successfully complete the training you’ll become a certified SDVoE Developer and obtain access to additional resources. Detailed online documentation and advanced training walk developers through the more complex features of the SDVoE API including multiview, video wall and more.
Assistive Listening and ADA & CBC Compliance offered by Listen Technologies Corporation
This webinare covered Assistive Listening and ADA & CBC Compliance. With one in five Americans having some form of hearing loss, the ADA requires each assembly area to have an active listening system. This areas are where audible communications are integral to the use o the space per the ADA. Signage and loops are also required.
IGMP for AV over IP – Switch Bandwidth, Groups, Querier Status
Legrand AV hosted a course and product demostration at a local hotel where we when in depth with networking for AV over IP. It focused mostly on multicast and the tools/settings needed to analyse data.
Cisco and Audinate Networking Shorts: PTP – It’s About Time
This is a webinare about PTP in the context of Dante audio. It is a highly technical analysis of network timing synchronization. Dante is unicast but uses PTP which has multicast traffic for clocking.
Chris Lapp – Technical Solutions Architect from Cisco
Lucas Moreno – Technical Sales Engineer from Audinate
Julian Carro – Solution Sales Account Director from Audinate
Cisco and Audinate take a closer look at PTP and how it relates to Audio networking, and more specifically, Dante.
Agenda:
Media over IP review
NTP vs PTP
Sources and Applications of time
Dante and PTP
PTPv1 vs PTPv2
Best Mater Clock Algorithm
Inner workings of PTP
Time Sensitive Networks
Advanced PTP Concepts for Dante
PTP Profiles
QSC House of Worship Training
QSC overview of the basics of audio engineering for houses of worship. Covering everything from properly rolling a cable and setting up a PA system, to building monitor mixes and running sound for your service.
This also included QSC TouchMix monitoring systems, K.2 loundspeakers, CP Series and line arrays.