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Minneapolis-based Legacy Production Group<\/a> is a corporate production company that has built its business around live events. With the loss of in-person meetings, however, the company had to quickly pivot to corporate videoconference coverage \u2013 and relied on its FOR-A HVS-2000 <\/a>video switcher to deliver high-quality results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe haven\u2019t had a live event since February 2020,\u201d said Tom McKnight, owner and vice president. \u201cOur FOR-A switchers helped us stay relevant in our area when corporate went virtual.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Instead of multi-camera shoots, Legacy is now concentrating on presentations built around multiple Zoom feeds. Unlike the typical \u201cgallery\u201d layout that shows all the participants in a grid, Legacy uses the flexibility of the FOR-A switcher to create dynamic on-screen combinations of people and graphics that look more like newscasts than videoconferences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, by harnessing the HVS-2000\u2019s DVEs and keys, a presentation can display a PowerPoint presentation, then use an event memory or macro to move to a two-box that highlights two specific presenters. The result is that it feels like presenters are interacting with each other from the same location, even if they are across the country from each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A new trend in corporate videoconferences is to have prerecorded videos from several people, then invite the same people to call in to the meeting live for additional discussion. Unfortunately, not all presenters are always available to participate. By saving a variety of screen layouts in the FOR-A switcher, McKnight is able to accommodate the correct number of participants, even at the last minute. \u201cProducers in town are loving it,\u201d McKnight added. \u201cThey sell \u2018looks\u2019 to their clients that no one else can do. We have all these different looks programmed. I\u2019m busier than ever.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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