The Media Production Center provides students and faculty with state-of-the-art video and audio production facilities, tools, and support. The MPC houses a three-camera television studio, the Ed Bliss Broadcast Newsroom, the Production Equipment Room, Final Cut Pro and Avid video editing suites, and radio production suites. The MPC is open 24/7.
Media Production Center Overview:
- Thirteen private, digital video editing suites
- Three digital radio production suites
- Two multi-format AV-enabled classrooms
- A computer-based newsroom featuring Associated Press' ENPS
- Six Windows-based Avid Newscutter editing systems
- Six Apple G5 Mac-based computer DV editing suites
- One Avid Media Composer – Adrenaline editing suite
- A 40 x 40 sq. ft. three-camera television studio
- A fully provisioned media production equipment checkout room (ER)
MEDIA PRODUCTION CENTER - TECHNOLOGY STAFF SUPPORT HOURS
Mon: 9:30 a.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Tue: 9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Wed: 8:30 a.m. - 9:45 p.m.
Thu: 9:30 a.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Fri: 9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
*Sat: 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
*(Weekend hours vary according to class schedules)
To reserve time in the media editing suites, please book your time with the MPC staff at the front desk or call them at ext. 8338.
MEDIA PRODUCTION CENTER OVERVIEW
- Thirteen private, digital video editing suites
- Three digital radio production suites
- Two multi-format AV-enabled classrooms
- A computer-based newsroom featuring Associated Press' ENPS
- Six Windows-based Avid Newscutter editing systems
- Six Apple G5 Mac-based computer DV editing suites
- One Avid Media Composer – Adrenaline editing suite
- A 40 x 40 sq. ft. three-camera television studio
- A fully provisioned media production equipment checkout room (ER)
ED BLISS BROADCAST NEWSROOM
The Edward Bliss Broadcast Newsroom is the nerve center for radio and television production in broadcast journalism. This broadcast news lab is configured with AP’s newest Electronic News Production Service, a cutting edge newswire application, and 19 networked Pentium computers. Students build rundowns and scripts for both radio and television programs.The Bliss Newsroom has everything for researching facts, producing digital media, or writing news articles and stories. Networked printing is available.
AVID NEWSCUTTER EDITING SUITES
Broadcast journalism students learn to edit video packages using MPC's six state-of-the-art Avid Newscutter editing suites. Each room is equipped with a high-end Windows computer, Sony HDV VTR, NTSC video monitor, speakers, and an CNN Video Newsfeed.
RADIO EDITING SUITES
There are three professional digital audio editing suites that students and faculty of the broadcast journalism program use to produce standard radio packages, actualities, and news stories. Each suite is equipped with a Windows-based audio workstation, running Adobe's Audacity, along with professional-quality microphones, both analog and digital playback machines, and a profesional radio mixing board.
AVID MEDIA COMPOSER – ADRENALINE SUITE
Avid Media Composer--Adrenaline Suite is an expert-level, high-end finishing editing software for film and media arts students.
Avid Adrenaline hardware offers accelerated effects processing with real-time, 10-bit SDI and 96 kHz audio I/O. Avid Adrenaline hardware offers a 10-bit, SDI component, S-Video, composite I/O, DV I/O with real-time, analog-to-DV and DV-to-analog conversion, to help students create a wide range of projects and formats. It has advanced correction and is configured to output to MiniDV, Betacam SP, and DVCam tape. Avid Adrenaline also provides advanced, automated, color correction 2-D effects and 3-D animated Marquee titles.
The Apple 8-Core Intel MacPro Editing Suites
These digital video editing suites contain two separate, nonlinear editing software applications, Apple's Final Cut Pro and Avid's Media Composer, as well as a wide array of other digital media production applications. Each suite is outfitted with an NTSC monitor, speakers, and a Sony HDV VTR.
Software applications available on the Mac G5s:
