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New England School of Communications Uses
NVISION Routers for Television Production Truck
July 24, 2008
Source: NVISION
The New England School of Communications
(NESCom) an affiliate of Husson University in Bangor, Maine
is giving its students a comprehensive education in the broad
spectrum of communications' disciplines, with concentrations
in audio engineering, a/v technology, video production, journalism,
radio, theater, web media, and marketing. Its curriculum now
includes a mobile television production facility housed in
a 32-foot truck that's equipped with NVISION's Compact Routers
and Synapse modular terminal gear.
NVISION collaborated with Rodney Verrill, Executive Director
of Video Production at NESCom, to determine the routing system
requirements for the NESCom mobile production unit. The challenge
was to meet the routing requirements with high-performance
systems on a tight budget. The solution included several NVISION
Compact Router products, including a 32x32 SD-SDI router for
the internal and external video routing, a 32x32 AES digital
audio router, and nine 32x32 remote control panels. NESCom
also has two 18-slot frames of NVISION's Synapse modular broadcast
products that are used for the audio and video signal processing
within the truck, as well as analog to digital conversion.
"NVISION has enabled us with a compact, yet rock-solid
routing infrastructure for use at remote applications. All
the NVISION compact routers and Synapse gear have worked flawlessly
in the rugged environment of a production truck," says
Verrill. "With NVISION, we were able to put together
a cost-effective and high-quality routing system that is scaleable
into the future for added functionality, such as HD and 3Gb/s."
NESCom students are gaining hands-on experience in the mobile
production unit, working side-by-side with industry professionals.
For example, last January a twelve-person NESCom crew used
their equipment to stream three games of ESPN's Hoop Hall
Class in conjunction with Grass Roots TV. The games were the
first original content produced for ESPN360, which offers
the largest collection of sports video-- highlights, analysis,
original content, and more.
Six students had key roles – technical director, replay,
audio, graphics, assistant producer – and a graduate
student was the director. ESPN provided seasoned professionals,
including a CG operator, and Grass Roots had experienced freelancers
working the event. "This type of professional-level experience
is invaluable for students," says Verrill. "They're
working with and learning from the pros, which gives a huge
boost to their confidence and resumes. There's no greater
reward than that."
Other projects for the NESCom production truck include working
along side the pros at Maine's PBS station for nation-wide
semi-finals and final coverage of twenty Maine high school
basketball tournament games which are televised for three
weeks every year. The truck is also highly used within the
Husson University campus for broadcasting basketball and football
games, as well as live one-hour broadcasts of concerts performed
at the Session at One College Circle.
Coming up this fall is a big project for Maine's Inland Fisheries
and Wildlife. It will be a live, remote production from the
L.L. Bean headquarters in Freeport, Maine, a primary sponsor
of Maine's Inland Fisheries and Wildlife events. In the works
is the revitalizing of a program for public awareness within
Maine, which will be shot in the studio and out in the field
with Maine biologists and game wardens.
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