AV News 200 - May 2015
E d ito rial
Jill K Bunting CPAGB & John Smith APAGB CPAGB
Well we finally made it - this is the 200th
edition of AV News!!
When we were each 'persuaded'
seven years ago to take on the Joint
Editorship of the magazine issue 174
was our first issue. Never in our wildest
dreams did we think that we could stay
the course and still be in the job when
issue 200 came around. Surprisingly,
despite all the trials and tribulations, we
are still here.....for now!
We have decided that issue 201 will
be our last as we would have then produced 28 issues - around 1500 pages!!
Sadly a number of our other commitments were having to take a back seat and
so we have therefore advised the AV Group Committee of our intention to
stand down at the AV Group AGM in September.
This is where you come in!! There must surely be a number of budding
Editors out there amongst the readership, willing to get involved and with new
fresh ideas? If so the Chairman of the Group, Howard Bagshaw will be keen to
hear from you.
This decision is not something we have taken lightly and we still intend to
continue with the AV News website and the AV Links newsletter (which sadly
we have not been able to devote as much time to recently) .... provided of
course that, as well as sending things to the new Editor(s) of AV News
magazine, people are prepared to still send us their news of forthcoming
events, subsequent reports of these events and all the competition results.
Many things are changing within the AV world - a newly formed Nationals
Committee made up mostly from members of the AV Group Committee is busy
formulating this year's event taking place in Stafford from the 4th - 6th
September - details of this can be found on Page 34. They deserve your thanks
and support. We have also heard of the recent retirement, after many years of
service, of the RPS Internationals Committee.
These events don't happen by magic and there is now a great need for
others to come forward and help out. Again if you feel you can spare the time
then we urge you to get involved and have a word with Howard or any other
member of the Committee. When we, along with Henry and Jean Mullarkey
and Roy Appleby, took on the organising of the Great Northern Festival
weekend we had to learn things very rapidly. See Page 33 for details of this
year's event, we hope to see you there.
It is with great pleasure that we welcome a new writer to this edition of the
magazine - Andrew Chadwick with an excellent instructional article on 'Audio
in PicturesToExe'. See Page 4, many thanks Andrew.
Time to celebrate the 200th and break out the wine gums!!
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