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Rick Brand, Director of Technical Services
at Oregon State University’s Media Services
department, has seen his share of new
technologies that promise to make his life easier.
Some have lived up to the promises and others
have not.
For the past two years, with the emergence of
video servers, Brand and his staff have been
struggling with various videotape formats while
searching for a better way to feed the large video
projectors and other image magnification systems
inside the University’s main auditorium.
The Media Services department at OSU—of which
Technical services is a part—has recently gone
through an upgrade of its facilities and equipment;
including the installation of a new NEC 10,000
lumen projector and a Turbo™ iDDR. Put into
service literally a day after Brand took delivery of
the unit, the Turbo iDDR has already been used for
a special live Bill Cosby concert (presented as part
of the university’s Mothers Weekend celebration
in May).
Still and moving images of Cosby were shown on
large video screens before and after the actual
concert, including an animated logo, a slide show
and some video clips.
“At first we were a little tentative about using
a new device in a high visibility production,”
said Brand.
Prior to using the Turbo iDDR, Brand said he
had to make a loop of images on videotape or
constantly rewind the tape in order to repeat
desired images for a presentation. Now, with
the Turbo iDDR’s loop features, on-the-fly
presentation and production is a quick and easy
process.
The Turbo iDDR will serve as OSU Media
Services’ main presentation device, displaying
image magnification of live speakers,
PowerPoint slides and high-definition videos.
Brand said he also appreciates the Turbo
iDDR’s file management capabilities,
because now they don’t have to search
for the correct tapes among the many
formats they receive content on.
PROFILE
Name: Oregon State
University
Facility: LaSells Stewart Center
Location: Corvallis, Oregon, USA
Project Manager: Rick Brand,
Director of Technical Services,
Media Services department
Integrated Manufacturers
Equipment: Crestron controller
Grass Valley Product: Turbo iDDR
Brief Overview: With the Grass Valley
Turbo iDDR (intelligent digital disk
recorder), educators and students
at Oregon State University now have
a quick and easy way to organize and
display source material for their multimedia
video productions. The Technical Services
department is using the Turbo iDDR for a
wide variety of applications to aid in OSU’s
teaching and special events activities. Its
compact size and portability also allows them
to move the iDDR between venues on campus.
OSU REDUCES RELIANCE ON VIDEOTAPE WITH THE GRASS VALLEY TURBO iDDR
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Brand said he’s now finding all sorts of uses around the University for the
Turbo iDDR. He’s considering using it to display player headshots on the
large JumboTron™ Screen at OSU’s main football stadium during Saturday
games. Previously, they recorded digital still files of player photos onto
videotape, then dumped them into another machine before being displayed.
With the Turbo iDDR, the files can be loaded onto the server as is, saving a
lot of time and effort.
In the OSU conference center, the Turbo iDDR—linked to a Crestron
controller—will be used by professors and students to allow them to
control their HD presentations from a touch-screen panel on stage. And, a
new series of fund-raising commercials acquired and produced in HD will be
screened in the main auditorium campaign, played off the Turbo iDDR from
digital files.
New student orientations in the fall will benefit from the elimination of
videotape in the process. As each new group of students and parents
comes into the room, the Turbo can play out at predetermined times, saving
costs of having dedicated staff having to rewind or reinsert a tape.
“It’s great when a new technology can actually change your life for the
better,” Brand said. “The Grass Valley Turbo iDDR is just such a product.”
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