June '08 Social
Event
On Saturday, June 21st, our new
chapter President-Elect Rick Davis hosted a
swim party and cookout at his home near the Dayton
Mall. Everyone who came had a great time -
the food was delicious and the pool was wonderful
- a refreshing and fun way to spend an early
summer Saturday afternoon! Many thanks to
Rick for hosting our summer social event, and to
our June Sponsor of the Month
Panasonic.
May '08 Meeting
Every May, we take a virtual tour
of the giant NAB Tradeshow that's held in Las
Vegas in April. This year, our NAB Review
was held at the offices of ROSCOR Ohio in
Sharonville. After enjoying food graciously
provided by our host, Rich LaRue presented
his famous slide show of his and MVCC associate
Carl Suchomel's trip to NAB. Rich's
slideshow and commentary are the next best way to
experience NAB without being there, and a whole
lot easier on the feet!
After the slide show, ROSCOR Ohio president and
our host Tom Navaro made a few introductory
remarks, which were followed by presentations by
reps from three major equipment suppliers.
Tom Shirilla of JVC, Tom Parrish of
Panasonic and Jim Bales of Sony talked
about their companys' new products, which featured
a number of new lower-priced HD cameras and
related equipment. Following the three
manufacturer presentation, Tom Navaro led a lively
discussion about the NAB show and some topics from
the attendees, including 2K vs. 4K video and the
future of videotape in the evolving digital world.
Many thanks to Tom and his staff at ROSCOR Ohio for
hosting our NAB Review meeting, and thanks to
Industrial
Video Corporation who was our May
Sponsor of the Month.
Meeting Drawing - WE HAVE A WINNER!
Neil Sharrow from the University of
Cincinnati RWC was in attendance when his name was
drawn from the "golden bag of fortune" - and he
pocketed a cool $110 just for attending the
May meeting.
Congratulations, Neil!
April '08 Meeting
We welcomed the arrival of Spring by taking a
road trip up to
the SW Ohio countryside to visit Cedarville
University.
There, Production Services Group Director Dave Winn
gave us an overview of the well-equipped media
facilities of this leading Baptist university.
His groud oversees the IMAG video support in the
main chapel, video and audio production, and
staging of large events such as commencement.
Although not in his group, WCDR-FM radio has a
number of repeater transmitters to cover much of
southern Ohio and surrounding states with their
Christian programming.
Dave mentioned
during his introductory presentation that
Cedarville has a four year plant to replace and
update all their major A-V equipment. Dave
took our MCA-I group into the huge 3500-seat
chapel, which has multi-camera IMAG coverage with
2 large video projection screens. We saw the
open audio control area in the balcony with a
large audio board and wireless mikes, and then
went up to the video control room which houses the
video control gear for the chapel IMAG system, as
well as video editing system with Adobe Premiere.
Dave's production group also operates a full
recording studio, but it was in use during our
meeting and unavailable to tour. Dave
manages the staging of many large events, and has
a 20' gib arm for breathtaking shots of
commencements and other ceremonies.
Many thanks to Dave Winn of Cedarville University for hosting our
April meeting and for providing the delicious food
from Qdoba, and thanks to
Tape
Central who was our April
Sponsor of the Month.
March '08 Meeting
In March, we visited
Media Bridges - an award-winning public media and cable access
facility in downtown Cincinnati.
Christian Appleby, Non-Profit Services
Coordinator talked about all of the services
that Media Bridges provides the community,
including several public access CATV channels,
video production for community-based programming,
an on-line radio station (soon to add low-power
broadcasting), and a bunch of Mac computers that
can be used by community residents to access the
internet.
After Christian's presentation, we took a tour of
the facility, which is built in an old 4-story
automobile dealership building which is owned by
an architecture firm. We saw the main TV
studio and its control room, the edit and graphics
carrels, the administrative offices, and a really
cool outdoor patio on the third floor that
overlooks downtown Cincinnati.
Many thanks to
Christian for the presentation and tour of the
impressive Media Bridges facility, and thanks to
Panasonic,
our March
Sponsor of the Month.
February '08
Meeting
With the big switchover to digital TV coming in
a year (Feb. 19, 2009), we got an inside look at
the issue by visiting WHIO-TV in Dayton (Channel
7). Chief Engineer Chuck Eastman
gave an extremely enlightening presentation
about the impending switch from analog to
digital broadcasting. Chuck talked about
the basics of digital TV (DTV), what you need to
receive DTV off the air, multicasting on the DTV
channels, the pros and cons of digital-to-analog
converter boxes, and answered many questions
from the meeting attendees in a lively
discussion of DTV broadcasting.
After Chuck's presentation, we were treated to
an extensive tour of the WHIO-TV facilities,
including a visit to the news set in the main
studio, the fully-automated news control room,
the newsroom and its recently-upgraded video
editing cubicles.
Thanks to
our meeting host Morgan Howard of WHIO-TV,
presenter Chuck Eastman, and to our February
Sponsor of the Month
Audio-Rabius for providing the meeting food and
drinks.
January '08 Meeting
We
started off 2008 by visiting the home of Norm
Kern and Kern Video Productions in the
Dayton suburb of Centerville. KVP has
recently installed a new video post production
system based on Adobe Production Studio Premium,
which centers on the editing software Adobe
Premiere. What makes this system so powerful
is that Premiere can seamlessly interface with the
other industry-standard Adobe programs like
Photoshop, Illustrator and After Effects.
Norm showed how Photoshop files can be placed on
the Premiere editing timeline and manipulated as
individual layers. Also, vector graphics
files created in Illustrator place on the timeline
and rasterize to video on the fly while
maintaining the image quality.
When the
video project is complete, Production Studio Pro
makes it easy to create a variety of video files
as well as burn DVDs without leaving the system.
Norm runs the software on a powerful new dual
processor, dual core AMD computer equipped with
Matrox Axio LE hardware subsystem and drivers.
Norm showed some samples of productions done on
the Adobe system, including an industrial
training video and some TV spots. Everyone in
the audience was able to see what Norm was doing
on the system thanks to a huge 60" Pioneer
plasma video display brought in for the meeting
by Dayton Media Technologies.
Thanks to
Norm Kern and Richard Penner of KVP for their
presentation, and to Mike Makenzie of
Dayton
Media Technologies for bringing the large
video display. Also thanks to our January
Sponsor of the Month
Tape
Central for providing the meeting food and
drinks.
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