Brookings is a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy organization in Washington, DC, founded in 1916. Falk Auditorium is its main stage for policymakers and public officials from both parties, alongside scholars, to present and discuss their work in depth, with events broadcast live beyond the room.
The brief
Falk needed a broadcast-grade room that could serve an audience on site while a production team handled the live program. Camera coverage, presentation sources, microphones and remote participation had to work together across the stage and control room. ITI integrated the approved AV design in 2025, handling installation, programming and commissioning, with AV consulting and design by Pershing Technologies.
Direct view LED for Falk Auditorium
An ATS Pro 1.2 mm direct view LED wall by Taylor LED provides the presentation image at the front of Falk Auditorium. Samsung displays extend the installation into the prefunction and adjacent spaces. Chauvet fixtures provide stage lighting under ETC control for presentations and camera production.
Analog Way switching and Panasonic camera production
Panasonic 4K PTZ cameras work with Analog Way Aquilon C production switching and an AJA KUMO router. The production team operates the cameras from a controller and switches between camera views and presentation material. Blackmagic recorders preserve the event alongside its live broadcast.
Shure wireless microphones, Teams and Zoom rooms
Shure ULX-D wireless microphones provide handheld, bodypack and gooseneck options for speakers and discussions. Q-SYS processes the room audio. Crestron Flex kits support Microsoft Teams and Zoom, giving the auditorium a way to include remote participants as part of its event production.
The result
Falk now produces its live program from one control room, with camera operation, switching, recording and remote guests handled together. ITI continues to provide event and remote support under a maintenance agreement.
- Location
- Washington, DC
- Sector
- Nonprofit public policy; events and broadcast
- ITI scope
- Systems integration: installation, programming, commissioning; event and remote support
- Design
- Pershing Technologies
- Systems
- Direct view LED, broadcast production, network video, wireless audio, Teams Rooms, Zoom Rooms
- Systems integration
- ITI Systems
- AV consulting & design
- Pershing Technologies
Systems installed
- Direct view LED
- ATS Pro 1.2 mm direct view LED wall by Taylor LED, installed in 2025: 64 flip-chip COB panels forming a 4800 by 2700 mm image at 3840 by 2160 resolution.
- Camera production
- Five Panasonic AW-UE160 4K 60p PTZ cameras with 20x optical zoom on Panasonic FEC-160 wall mounts, operated from one Panasonic AW-RP150 touchscreen remote camera controller.
- Production switching and routing
- Analog Way Aquilon C with 12 NDI/SDI inputs, four HDMI 2.0 inputs, eight HDMI 2.0 outputs and four 12G-SDI outputs; AJA KUMO 64x64 SDI router; 10 Decimator 12G-SDI cross converters.
- Recording
- Two Blackmagic HyperDeck Extreme 4K HDR recorders.
- Audio processing and amplification
- Two Q-SYS Core 610 processors in a primary and redundant pair, with a LEA Connect 168D eight-channel 70 V Dante amplifier.
- Loudspeakers
- 18 QSC AD-C6T-HC ceiling loudspeakers, four QSC AD-C6T-LPZB and two QSC AD-C4T-LPZB-WH low-profile ceiling loudspeakers, plus two EAW AC6 powered column loudspeakers.
- Wireless microphones
- Shure ULX-D with six ULXD4Q four-channel receivers for 24 channels, 16 ULXD1 bodypacks, eight ULXD2/B58 handhelds and 14 ULXD8 gooseneck bases with MX410LP goosenecks; six UA864 antennas through a UA845 distribution system and an RF Venue 4ZONE combiner.
- Network video
- Supplied: 60 Q-SYS NV-21-HU network video endpoints and three Cisco Catalyst 9300 48-port switches.
- Conferencing
- Crestron Flex UC-C100-T Microsoft Teams Rooms kit and Crestron Flex UC-C100-Z Zoom Rooms kit, with Crestron TS-1070 touch screens.
- Additional displays
- 13 Samsung 4K displays across the auditorium, prefunction and adjacent spaces: two 85-inch QM85C, five 55-inch QM55C and six 50-inch QM50C.
- Production lighting
- Six Chauvet COLORado 2 Solo VW LED wash fixtures and five Chauvet onAir Panel 2 IP soft lights, controlled from an ETC Nomad console through ETC Response Mk2 DMX gateways.