AV system integration that can be permitted, not just installed.
Design, installation and commissioning across Greater Los Angeles under California contractor licence #1063528 (class General B). AVIXA CTS on the design, NovaStar NCE on the LED control, both in-house.
PixelPro Productions is a licensed audio visual systems integrator serving Greater Los Angeles from Anaheim, California, in practice since 2001. We design, install and commission LED video walls, audio, videoconferencing and control systems under CSLB licence #1063528 (class General B, General Building), with AVIXA CTS certified design and NovaStar NCE certified commissioning carried out by our own staff. Projects range from a single conference room to arena-scale LED, delivered in English or Mandarin.
Scope
What we integrate.
Integration is the part between an equipment list and a room that works. These are the systems we take responsibility for end to end, rather than supply and leave.
LED video walls
Fine-pitch indoor and outdoor LED, from meeting-room canvases to stage and arena scale. NovaStar control, mapped and calibrated in-house.
Audio systems
Speech reinforcement, distributed audio and DSP for spaces where intelligibility is the requirement rather than loudness.
Videoconferencing
Rooms that have to work on the platform your organisation already runs, with camera, audio and control behaving as one system.
Control and automation
One interface for the room. The measure of a good control system is that nobody needs to be trained twice.
Power and signal distribution
The layer that decides whether an install is still serviceable in three years. Distribution, cable paths and labelling, specified rather than improvised.
Commissioning and handover
Verification against the design intent, as-built documentation, and training for the people who will actually operate the room.
The distinction
Most AV vendors are not contractors.
It is the difference between a company that can deliver equipment to your site and one that can be named on the permit for it.
An LED video wall is not an appliance. It hangs off the building, it draws line-voltage power, and in most jurisdictions it needs a permit — which makes it construction work, and California requires a licensed contractor to perform construction work. A great many AV suppliers are not licensed, and resolve this by subcontracting the parts they cannot legally do. That can work perfectly well. It also splits responsibility for the install across companies at exactly the point where something is most likely to go wrong.
We hold the licence ourselves, which changes what you are buying: one contract, one party accountable for structure, power and signal together, and a name that can go on the permit application without a subcontractor having to be found first.
Verify before you award
Licence #1063528 is a public record — classification, status, bond and workers' compensation are all published by the state. We link to the record rather than ask you to take our word for it. Every licence and certification →
How a project runs
Phases, and what you receive.
Written as deliverables rather than activities, because a deliverable is something you can hold us to and an activity is not.
Design
- Needs analysis
- Written scope: what the room must do, and what it must not cost
- System design
- Signal flow, equipment schedule, rack and mounting detail
- Coordination
- Structural and electrical requirements issued to the other trades
- Budget
- Itemised, with the alternates priced rather than described
Build and handover
- Procurement
- Equipment ordered, or drawn from Los Angeles stock
- Installation
- Under CSLB #1063528, permitted where the work requires it
- Commissioning
- Configuration, calibration and verification against the design
- Handover
- As-built documentation, operator training, warranty and support path
FAQ
Before you brief us.
The questions facilities managers and procurement teams ask before awarding AV work in California.
Do I need a licensed contractor to install an LED wall or AV system in California?
For most permanent installations, yes. California requires a Contractors State License Board licence for construction work where labour and materials together come to $500 or more, and work that attaches to the building structure, runs line-voltage power, or needs a permit falls squarely inside that. An LED video wall usually involves all three at once, which is why it is General B (General Building) work rather than a single specialty trade. PixelPro Productions holds CSLB licence #1063528, class B. Ask any AV vendor for their licence number before award — it is a public record and it takes thirty seconds to check.
What does an AV system integration project actually include?
Needs analysis and system design, equipment specification and procurement, structural and electrical coordination, installation, configuration and commissioning, verification against the design intent, and handover with documentation and training. On LED projects, commissioning also covers receiving-card mapping, calibration and controller configuration. We hold AVIXA CTS for the design side and NovaStar NCE for the LED control side in-house, so one team carries a project from drawing to sign-off without a handoff to a third party.
Do you handle permits, inspections and the electrical work?
Yes, and that is the practical reason to engage a licensed General B contractor rather than an AV supplier. A permit application has to name a licensed contractor, and inspection sign-off is against that licence. We coordinate structural attachment and line-voltage power as part of the project rather than leaving you to contract it separately and sequence it yourself.
How long does an installation take?
The install itself is rarely what sets the date. Three things outside the room usually drive the schedule: equipment lead time, any structural review needed for the mounting, and the local inspection calendar. We can compress the first — controllers and cable for the systems we supply are stocked in Los Angeles rather than ordered in from a distributor. Give us the site, the mounting surface and the required in-service date and we will tell you which of the three is your binding constraint before you commit to it.
Will you work with equipment we already own, or with brands you do not sell?
Yes. Integration means making a room work, which routinely means keeping displays, DSPs or codecs that are still serviceable and building around them. We are an authorised NovaStar dealer and that is where our deepest product knowledge sits, but specifying a product we sell into a room that did not need it is how integrators lose clients. If the right answer is to reuse what you have, that is the recommendation you will get.
Can the project run in Mandarin as well as English?
Yes, throughout — not a translator brought in for meetings. Design review, site coordination, commissioning and handover documentation can all run bilingually, which is why international brands entering North America are a significant part of the practice. Engineering vocabulary is the part that usually breaks in translation, and it is the part our team does not have to translate.