AV (Audio Visual Services)

AMPS (Academic Media Production Services)

MIT Cable

NMC (New Media Center)

focus on capture, processing, back end
Professional Production Services:

audio recording restoration; analog to digital transfers of
various forms of media; high-end live sound production and
coordination; multi-track recordings; voiceover;

live and studio music recordings;telephone conferences with
recording and internet meetings; original music writing and creation, etc.

Space:

studio/edit room can be used as a quiet place to record an interview or conversation,
in-person, on the phone, or on the web. It can also be used to teach a class or give a
presentation from MIT to anywhere in the world where there's an internet connection.
 
Fees for the service are: 
$200.00 studio use fee
$80.00/hour for production time
Other services:


Equipment rental

Event Planning

Infinite Display

Media duplication and transfer

Presentation systems planning and installation

Preventative maintenance

Technical staff

Studio Production :
Range of cost determined by time and number of cameras: starting at  $500 up to multiple $K.
Media Link:
broadcast video feeds to external media outlets -- $100-600/hr
Custom Video production:
Story-boarding, scripting, production, concept, etc. Prices on request.
Classroom capture:
Single or multi camera production (MVP)
Level V classroom recording (DE)
Rich Media Capture of classes
Post Production:
Video capture $75/hr
Video editing $125/hr
File creation and output $100/hr
Video Duplication
Web video:
encoding - price varies according to duration and output format
rich media capture  - price varies according to duration and source recording
webcasting - live - price varies according to audience size, delivery format, and duration.
webcastnow- rapid deployment of live webcasting.

Distribution service
Video feeds --
 - direct feed from a live event
 - DVD (standard DVD playback ISO DVD)
 - other formats such as .mov. wmv. may require re-encoding (re-formatting?) at cost.
Scope:
5 channel cable TV available anywhere on campus (also 1 student controlled channel which does some broadcasting.)
Also a full commercial channel lineup: ~90 channels with news, sports, entertainment (excluding HBO, ESPN, etc).

Provides backbone infrastructure for on-campus links between filming location and post-production services.
Provides viable alternative for distribution of copyright materials (as it is a closed system).

Self-service video editing lab
- with 13 iMac computers.
- Final Cut Pro video editing software.
- part of the Athena cluster system, accessed via MIT Kerberos, available only to MIT students and staff.

SERVICES:

AMPS, AV, Cable

Molly will check on AMPS - done

Ann to follow up with Duncan K., DUSP

Ann follow up with Laurie and MIT World: who serves their back end?

AMPS:

more

MIT Cable:

only MIT campus

finished product

The "other buckets" -

organizations that are producing video but are not a service providers, per se but rather video publishers

OCW - a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content, including many course videos. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity.

MIT World - a free and open site that provides on-demand video of significant public events at MIT. Contains more that 700 videos.

MIT News Office -  publishes news articles, announcements, photos and video; assista with film crew requests, including handling all necessary permitting;

(one sentence description of what each of these entities do, when appropriate to interact and who to contact)

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  1. Elaine M Mello

    Added in some more info under the AMPS label for clarity and reference.  This probably needs to be expanded up (ie, links to the rates page on the site)