Downton Abbey gig

Last night was a random one-off in Providence, RI. It was a white-tie affair – dinner for big PBS donors, followed by a sneak preview of the first hour of the final season of Downton Abbey.

I don’t have a copy of the show, so please don’t ask. 🙂 But this was quite a fabulous location, with great food, at the Roger Williams casino. I was the video lead and had a great seat.

I am a major gear head, so it was quite ironic that I wished I could have replaced the rather large pile of gear that went into a single screen and two PA speakers for a single computer to projector connection. Realizing that PBS might not have wanted to provide a video file for the screening to cut down on piracy options, I wrote some scripts in Qlab (of course) during my dinner break to use the DVD player application and control the full screen options, etc, and run that all in a cue list. You know, should I ever run into this kind of situation again… Would have been so much simpler and less poking at things that don’t work the first time.

-brian