EDUCATION
EDUCATION
City & Islington
Sixth Form College
Tapeless media skills
City & Islington Sixth Form College
prides itself on teaching excellence
and was recently awarded the
Queen’s Anniversary Prize in
recognition of its continued progress “The facility to download
and development. The college
footage straight from the
has just purchased 15 GY-HM100
card to hard drives frees up the
camcorders as part of the continuing
cameras for other students to use.”
development of its Media Department.
“The department has over 400 students continuing FireWire and tape problems major bonus, as is the facility to download
studying A-Level Media and Film,” Michael we were incurring – and that, along with footage straight from the card to our hard
Maniloff, Senior Media Technician at the our budget, narrowed the field down. drives, freeing up the cameras for other
college, comments. “We have intensive Eventually we decided on the JVC students to use. The camcorder is really
periods of filming and produce over 100 GY-HM100 because of its compatibility easy to get to grips with; we felt it was
short films each year. Our existing cameras with Final Cut Pro™ and its ease of use.
essential that our inexperienced students
were nearing the end of their lives, so We purchased fifteen back in September,
could use the ‘auto’ function and get
we spent a considerable amount of time from PEC Video, and so far they have been
excellent results, while our more proficient
researching the latest camera equipment very reliable and popular with both staff and
students had the facility to experiment.
from all the major manufacturers. We students”, Michael enthused. “The ability to
The GY-HM100 had both key points.”
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decided to go tapeless because of the record directly to SDHC cards has been a www.candi.ac.uk
Manchester Met Uni
Studio production with the KM-H mixer
Manchester Metropolitan Manchester Metropolitan University “The studio gets used for a wide variety
University recently purchased
were particularly interested in system of projects, including shooting multi-
three GY-HD251 studio cameras
integration, with a clear signal path from camera interviews, or working with the
and a KM-H2500 digital production
camera/CCU/vision mixer and out to tape Reflec Media chromatte LiteRing on
or live HD capture workstation. From
switcher for students in their
the camera for chroma keying their live
there, media stored on a dedicated
Department of Engineering and
studio projects. The students can also
SAN allows access to multiple streams
book the studio for their own projects
Technology. Stephen Sigurnjak,
for post production editing.
outside of teaching, so they have a great
a lecturer in the department,
opportunity to gain experience using a
explains how the new studio
“The JVC camera and vision mixer
professional camera. The equipment is
benefits his students.
system, supplied by Quadrant, offered
already being used on many final year
an HD studio solution with remote CCU
projects, and has met the needs of both
control at an affordable price,” Stephen
states. “The system allows great
staff and students alike.”
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flexibility, since the cameras can also be
www.mmu.ac.uk
used as ENG camcorders. As the KM-
H2500 features both HD and SD vision
mixing, it allows us to stream SD video
directly to the internet. The mixer has all
the inputs we need.
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