Media Studio
The Digital Media Suite is a professionally designed facility providing industry standard media production and post-production tools.
Workstations are equipped with broadcast quality non-linear video editing systems (Matrox DigiSuite or Pinnacle Pro-One) and a comprehensive range of major 2D graphic, 3D graphic, compositing, web development and multimedia authoring programs from Adobe, Macromedia and Discreet.
DVDs and CD-ROMs can be burned in-house, complete with Dolby 5.1 Surround Sound encoding. The suite also shares a high-speed local area network with the Recording Studios enabling powerful distributed rendering of graphics, composite effects and intensive audio processing.
The Digital Media Suite is used for teaching purposes and can be booked by Media and Music Technology students for other projects.
Video Production Equipment
The Department also has a comprehensive range of camera, lighting and grip equipment for location production. Packages include:
- Professional DV cameras by Canon and Sony
- Lowel DP field lighting kits
- Manfrotto fluid head tripods
- A range of grip equipment by Matthews, Avenger and others