We have new AV controls in the large meeting room. I’ve provided a summary below but I strongly encourage you to spend twenty minutes practicing routing video and audio on your own with a laptop and the microphones—ask YS or someone at Circ. to cover PS if you need to or come in a few minutes before your shift.
- All AV equipment in the east and west rooms (minus the screens) can be controlled from the touch panels on the north wall. This includes selecting which mics are active, controlling the volume, and powering on and off the projectors.
- Input (whether via HDMI or VGA) into any of the wall plates can be routed to any or all of the projectors. This is new. On the west panel, for example, selecting the north panel as the source will route the input to any of the west projectors that are powered on.
- Microphones are still kept in the east closet but we’ll likely be splitting them and the AV cables between the east and west coat closets.
- The three hard-wired microphone jacks on the north and west walls are now live. If it were me using it, I’d prefer a wired handheld mic over the wireless for sound quality and volume.
- The panel in the east room only controls AV in the east.
- The panel in the west room is the “master”. It controls all AV in the west and, if the rooms are “combined” (using the “combine rooms” button on the west panel), it can also control the AV in the east. Combining rooms is the only way to get speakers in both rooms to project the same sound and to have the projectors in both rooms show the same thing.
- the west projector (the one that projects to the west wall) is stubborn about turning on. Most times, it’s taken me a couple of cycles of turning it on and off to get it to work. I will contact the company about it.
- The headphone ports on the wall plates only work when there’s a computer connected to the plate via vga. It’s purpose is to allow vga PCs to project their audio. VGA PCs can be connected to the headphone jack (also called a 3.5mm jack) by connecting it’s headphone port to the wall plate via the male-to-male (that’s what it’s called) headphone cable. (We have a cable/adaptor ordered that will allow us to connect audio ports—in phones, computers, etc.—to the in-wall mic jacks to route audio to the overhead speakers via those devices without using the projectors.)