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Virtual Tour
| Our facilities are on the ground floor of the Richard Hagemeyer Learning Resources Center (LRC), located on CPCC's Central Campus. The elevation shown at right is the LRC (building "8" on the Central Campus map) as viewed from Elizabeth Avenue. |  |
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Entrances to our area are via the lobby of the Pease Auditorium (shown above - see "6" and "7" on the Central Campus map), and directly below (left) the main library entrance, which faces the campus quad. Enter the Visitors Parking area (Lot "9" on the Central Campus map) from inbound Elizabeth Ave. or outbound Kings Drive. The lot requires $3 to exit. |
| Most visitors come to our area due to our ability to connect "live" to classrooms and meeting rooms across the state and around the world via our videoconferencing and teleconferencing facility, which is unique among CPCC's campuses. For more information about this service, see teleconferences. |  |
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Videographers Robert Comfort (standing) and Russ Hunsinger set up one of the two Beta SX field cameras on the stage of the College's soon-to-be-opened Halton Theatre. The taping is for an edition of "Charlotte Arts", one of five ongoing interview program series currently in production. |
| This edition of "Charlotte Arts" will provide the public their first glimpse of the theatre's interior, which is an opera hall-style room with a seating capacity of 1,056. Producer/director Ilie Agopian (center) prepares theatre Director Kim Renz (seated), to be interviewed by show host, Rob Craig, CPCC Communications instructor. |
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"CPCC Snapshot" is the latest in a long string of series that have been produced in our studio, located beside the Pease Auditorium. Station Broadcast Manager David Rhew produces this program. His guests provide their insights into College programs and services. |
| Professional equipment, skilled operators, teamwork and constant attention to detail are key components in insuring the technical quality of any video production. At right, Doug Sweet, Senior Production Specialist, provides floor direction. |
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Videographer Robert Comfort acts as director during this same studio production. The Grass Valley 200-N production switcher is the technical heart of the system, providing the director multiple sources which can be switched or mixed to create professional looking productions. |
| Several roles are required to properly staff a studio production. Videographer John Branscom (right) runs the audio board (Mackie 32-8) in the studio control room. |
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Post-production for both field and studio productions takes place in one of three edit suites equipped with Avid non linear editing (NLE) workstations. Doug Sweet selects shots from a studio taping of "CPCC Snapshot". The workstations are linked to a storage area network (SAN) for shared access to a limited number of video and graphics files. |
| Finished projects are laid to Beta SP tape and sent to the station Operations and Master Control Center. Master Control Operator Clay Dunn (right) assigns identifying information for each program and prepares it for playout on the station's automated system which performs switching among video sources including tape decks, a digital video server, and satellite receivers. |  |
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Most feature-length programs remain on tape for playout in our Odetics automated broadcast system, while short-form material is transferred to a Profile video file server for playout. Other media services, including tape duplication, Teleconferencing, and videoconferencing are provided by Operations Center personnel. |
| Several of the more than 2,000 programs in our active database may be stored on a single cassette. Beginning and end points for each program are based on video time code, each of which are stored in the automated system's DOS-based database. |  |