The Video Recording Room at the Belk Library and Information Commons is a versatile and convenient resource for students, faculty, and staff at Appalachian State University in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains. The room is a self-service one-stop shop where users of all skill levels create professional live videos of presentations and lectures. Offering a choice of stage settings that include green screen, flat panel display, or see-through writeable lightboard, the room configures and begins recording through an intuitive touchpanel interface and shuts down automatically when recording is done. Users walk in with an idea and walk out with their video stored on a USB flash drive. The facility was designed and built by the in-house AV Technology team. They turned to Extron to supply AV switching, distribution, control, and lecture capture equipment for the Video Recording Room.
An IN1608 xi IPCP SA scaling presentation switcher with an integrated control processor is the main AV switcher and controller. Users pick recording modes via TouchLink® Pro touchpanels, automatically configuring everything - from the AV system to the on-stage curtains and lighting. Presenters, along with their presentation material shown on the display(s), are captured by the room’s two cameras, one at the stage, the other at the lightboard. Audio from mics on-stage or at the lightboard is embedded into the camera HDMI outputs, which are routed by an SW2 HD 4K HDMI switcher to an Extron StudioStation® lecture capture system. StudioStation saves the recording as an mp4 file to internal memory and to the user's flash drive for "capture and carry" portability. A tap on a TouchPanel "Reset Room" button turns everything off automatically.
To read the full ASU Belk Library Video Recording Room case study and watch the associated demo video, click here:
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