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Tech Talk: LED Lights, Camera, Action!

Posted on March 8, 2013

Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET Professional. Over the past few years, we have covered a really wide range of topics. I don’t think we have ever covered video lighting.  So, with no further ado, we proudly present, [insert drum roll here] … lighting for video. There are a few commonalities in how […]

Tech Talk: 5 Tips on On-Site Problem Solving

Posted on February 6, 2013

Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET Professional One of my favorite lines from “The Breakfast Club” is “It’s an imperfect world. Screws fall out all the time”. Truer words have never been spoken. If you ask any seasoned show technician, they will tell you that they remember more shows that went wrong than […]

Tech Talk: How Many Languages Do You Speak?

Posted on December 27, 2012

Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET Professional As a protocol droid, C3P0 is fluent in over 6 million forms of communication. As a lighting industry professional, I feel like we need to be competitive with that number. I’m not saying that we need to be able to speak and understand so many languages, […]

Chauvet Sponsors Live Design Master Classes

Posted on December 3, 2012

Chauvet is a corporate sponsor for Live Design Magazine‘s Concert Master Classes, organized Dec. 3 and 4 in Los Angeles. One topics discussed was the deconstruction of the “Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band” tour by the tour’s Lighting Designer Jeff Ravitz, Lighting Director Todd Ricci and Programmer Jason Badger. Here are some nice photos of […]

Tech Talk: ‘Hey, That’s My Wrench in Your Bag!’

Posted on November 26, 2012

Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET Professional I can’t tell you how many times I’ve said that over the past 20 years. Too many times to count, that’s for sure. However, there are some simple and easy ways to make sure that the tools and gear you showed up with at the job […]

One-on-One with Stéphane Gressier

Posted on November 13, 2012

Stéphane Gressier is the international sales director at Chauvet and has been a member of the team for almost two years. Read on and get to know a little bit about him. 1. Where are you from? This is a question I always struggle to respond quickly to. Here is a synopsis: I was born […]

LDI 2012: Very Superstitious

Posted on October 3, 2012

Written by Mike Graham, product manager for CHAUVET Professional Superstitions surround everything that we do.  Silly as they are, *knock on wood*, we all have them. For me, I guess that I am a creature of habit more than superstitious, but at some point, those habits become superstitions. For trade shows, I have a few […]

One-on-One with Ford Sellers

Posted on September 21, 2012

Ford Sellers is the senior product manager at Chauvet and has been with the company for almost 2 ½ years. Read on and get to know a little bit about him. 1. Where are you from? I’m originally from Syracuse, N.Y. (Go ORANGE!), but I also lived 7 ½ years in Las Vegas, and another […]

Dealer Trip to Mexico: Merida, Cancun and Playa del Carmen

Posted on September 18, 2012

Our own Business Development Manager for Latin America Paula Ortiz traveled to Mexico, in the towns of Merida, Cancun and Playa del Carmen to train general managers, sales managers and salespersons of the Electronica Gonzalez retail stores, a customer of Novelties, our distributor from Mexico. Paula presented new products from CHAUVET Professional, CHAUVET DJ and TRUSST lines, shared information […]

Tech Talk: Creating Content for Video Walls — Part II

Posted on August 27, 2012

Written by Product Engineer for CHAUVET Professional Anthony Chiappone. Since video walls have become so desirable for large and medium shows, in my previous blog post, which you can read here, I explained why it is important to know when and how you should create video content. I focused on defining the resolution, the pixel […]

Tech Talk: Creating Content for Video Walls — Part I

Posted on July 24, 2012

Written by Product Engineer for CHAUVET Professional Anthony Chiappone.  Over the course of the last 18 months, LED video wall has become a necessity to large and even medium shows. With this growth, I’ve observed that video editors and video wall specifiers are struggling to keep up with the large variety of video panels in […]