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Captioning live meetings seems to be the most sought after skill that our customers have asked for this past month. Some meetings are broadcast in English and some are broadcast in Spanish with English captions. We use some unique tools and tricks to allow our customers to specify font style size and color as well as the background behind the captions. It all works very smoothly with our crews at the controls, but the technical underpinnings of getting it done ...

We did a little math this month and discovered that we have produced and live streamed more government meetings for the State of California than any other contractor. Over the past two years alone that encompasses more than 300 days of broadcasts and this year isn’t over yet. We also provide indexed archives of all of these meetings to allow our customers quick access to video segments by agenda line item. That’s quite an achievement and a very large video ...

We’ve been so busy this past month that we almost forgot to update our news Flash. Well here it goes…Lacrosse, Radio, Voice over, Theaters, live sports broadcasting, remote HD Internet broadcasting, and on and on. One of the most exciting and technically difficult events that we broadcast was a professional lacrosse match in the middle of soccer fields in a rural part of Sacramento county. A video crew of nine, the 40′ broadcast production truck, scaffolding for two cameras and ...

“The days are just filled” is a comment that the creator of the comic strip Calvin and Hobbs used to offer frequently during the warm summer months. We are feeling that way ourselves. During August we were very busy. In addition to buying and outfitting another crew van for our growing on-location film and broadcast work load, we started or completed six video projects spanning the range from PSA development to Voice over work and training videos. We are also ...

Summer? Vacation? Not for us. We’ve been busy. We facilitated more than a dozen projects, mostly live Internet video broadcasts. Everything from one camera to four camera live switched broadcasts for room filling audiences requiring large public address capabilities. But we really enjoy doing this kind of work. We make it look easy. To top the month of June off we were notified that we were competitively selected to provide video, audio, streaming and film production services on a statewide ...

In May we put the finishing touches on a PSA that we volunteered to produce for an association of military veterans. The five minute PSA is intended to help raise funds for a new War Memorial for the northern California region. These folks are putting their hearts into it and we are proud to have been asked to support their efforts. We have also been engaged in meetings with the City and County of San Francisco to help define a ...

Wow we accomplished a tremendous amount last month and April is going to be just as busy. We completed all of our short form Public Service Announcements, one of which was nominated for an award we have been told. But this month we are also going to be very busy with many broadcasts in the cue including some news video work for a German television station and the coverage of a musical convention. Additionally this month is the National Association ...

March is going to be very busy for us here at VideoSSC. We have more than 12 live broadcasts to produce in more than three different cities across California. We will keep several of our live broadcast crews busy. We have also completed some projects that were started in the fall to great reviews from our clients. We have been retained to produce two more Public Service Announcements (PSA) for cities in the region. We agreed with one of our ...

In January, we sent a crew to Memphis, TN to broadcast four days and nights of live music from for the International Blues Competition. More than 70 blues bands competed. A good time was had by all. Long days, long nights working several of the most popular venues in Memphis. We also completed several remote broadcasts for commerical and government customers throughout the western US and produced and broadcast several live sports events for television. With more than 16 days ...