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One Button Studio
A new learning environment and
new state-of-the-art equipment
will soon be utilized at the E. Perrin
Edmunds Library at NMCC. A
$10,000 grant will fund a One Button
Studio, a video-recording setup
capable of creating professionalquality videos. The design of the
studio will allow students and faculty
to create polished video projects
without having to know anything
about lights and cameras. All that’s
needed is a flash drive and the push
of a single button.
“Video is becoming an
increasingly common medium
for student assignments in
many disciplines,” explains Gail
Roy, Assistant Dean of Learning
Resources. “Faculty can record
presentations or lectures and
students can practice speeches or
create videos for class projects. We
also plan to make the One Button
facility available to the public.”
IT professionals at Penn State
University developed the software
which bundles all the attractions
of a professional production studio
-- green screen, lighting, audio and
cutting-edge camera equipment -into a single set up for less than the
cost of a high-end video camera. The
University has started to share this
concept with the higher-education
community.
In contrast to a traditional studio
which requires users to setup and
operate a camera, position lighting
and microphones, record content,
then compress and save the file –
One Button only requires the user
to plug in the thumb drive to initiate
the pre-set camera, microphone and
lighting. The press of a single button
starts the recording. When the video
is complete, it’s s