We recently completed designing and integrating a brand-new studio and control room at Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio. They wanted a state of the art system that would be used for lecture capture, online course distribution and several other productions. They wanted the ability to stream their production and to record each camera individually. The media captured would be edited with Adobe in multiple locations across campus.
The university brought us in at the very beginning of the project to attend meetings with the architect, contractors, and representatives of the faculty who wanted to be sure that the end product was flexible enough for their needs. We helped them to develop their budget, and were able to navigate them towards the ideal studio environment. We worked with their project manager who coordinated the renovation and our integration schedule.
The system was built around Sony PXW400 triax cameras and a NewTek TriCaster 8000 production switcher. It also features a Clear-Com FreeSpeak II wireless intercom system, EditShare media storage and LTO 7 archiving. We helped to design a custom podium with built in touchscreen monitors that feed into their switcher and to multiple displays within in the studio. The system is flexible enough to be operated by a single user or a team of faculty and students. The university uses the system as a teaching environment and to create high quality productions of many different formats.
