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Professional Video Production Lighting: The Complete Guide to Studio Safety, Quality & Performance

Broadcast Lighting: Production Lights | Video Studio Lighting When working on a video production set, the lighting available in the environment does not cut it. Production lights fall into different categories, each designed to meet specific production needs and technical requirements. You need reliable, high-quality video production lights to ensure your scene is well-lit and […]

How Q-SYS Automation Transforms Your Studio: Reclaim 60-90 Minutes Daily for Pure Creativity

Imagine walking into your studio at 7:00 AM, coffee in hand, knowing that by 7:15, you’ll be ready to create. No frantic adjustments. No technical scrambling. Just you, your talent, and the content that matters. This isn’t a dream—it’s the reality that Q-SYS studio automation delivers every single day. Currently, your production team arrives ready […]

PoE Lighting vs. Traditional Studio Lighting: 2025 Cost & ROI Comparison

The studio lighting landscape is experiencing a revolutionary transformation, forcing a hard look at the true PoE studio lighting cost versus traditional setups. While legacy broadcast facilities struggle with lengthy permitting processes and expensive electrical work, innovative organizations are embracing a game-changing solution that delivers a dramatically faster ROI. This transformation starts with the elegance of […]

Future-Proofing Success: The Future of Media Production

Future-Proofing Success: How Gwinnett County Public Schools Simplified Their Technology Roadmap with Ikan You didn’t get into media production to become an infrastructure expert. You chose this path to tell stories that matter, create content that moves people, shape how organizations communicate their vision to the world. Yet here you are, spending another afternoon in […]

Future-Proofing Success: The Future of Systems Integration

Future-Proofing Success: How Gwinnett County Public Schools Simplified Their Technology Roadmap with Ikan The future of systems integration isn’t about installing equipment. It’s about transforming how organizations operate. The integrators who understand this shift will own the next decade. Those who don’t will compete on price until they can’t anymore. Gwinnett County Public Schools’ 40-studio […]

Space Revolution

How Mizzou Built a Professional Studio in 5 Days (While You Were Eating Turkey) The Educational Imperative Every semester, universities face the same stark reality: students preparing for careers in media, communications, and business need hands-on experience with professional broadcast tools—the same equipment they’ll encounter at Home Depot’s headquarters, Autodesk’s global offices, or TK Elevators’ […]

Space Revolution

How This SI Completed a University Studio in 5 Days (and Still Made Margin) Transforming SI Business Models Every system integrator knows the profit erosion pattern: win the bid, start the project, then watch margins evaporate through permit delays, change orders, and finger-pointing between electrical contractors and IT teams. Meanwhile, clients demand fixed budgets and […]

Unlocking Your Studio’s Potential with Q-SYS Integration

The conference room hummed with the familiar rhythm of a quarterly board meeting when the unexpected happened.  A last-minute request came through: stream this session live to remote stakeholders while simultaneously recording for later distribution.  The IT director’s face drained of color. The conference room ran on Q-SYS—a system the team knew intimately. The broadcast […]

Calculating the ROI of Studio Automation: A Business Case

The conversation started, as they often do, with sticker shock.  “This is a significant investment” The facilities director stared at the studio automation proposal, mentally calculating how many quarters of budget it represented. “This is a significant investment,” he said carefully, the universal code for “this seems expensive.”  The systems integrator had heard this response […]

5 Common Studio Automation Myths—Debunked

The conference room fell silent as the CFO delivered her verdict.  “Studio automation sounds impressive,” she said, tapping the proposal with her pen, “but it’s clearly designed for major broadcasters with unlimited budgets, not organizations like ours.” Around the table, heads nodded in agreement. The IT director worried about complexity. The creative director feared losing […]

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