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MEDIA SOLUTIONS, OFFICE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

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[edit] Services Offered & Resources Available

Media Solutions creates Video, Websites, Web Applications, Presentations, Training or E-Learning Modules, Media Conversions, Digital Video, Digital Asset Management Integrations, Content Management Integrations, and Consultations on contract or work order for organizations on the University of Utah campus. We also serve government agencies and non-profit organizations.

We have several groups within our department, each specializing in certain areas of media design, development, and delivery. Our clients' needs often require the expertise and collaboration of more than one group, including Web Services, Video Services, UTV (Cable TV) Services, and New Media Services.


[edit] Web Services

http://www.media.utah.edu/web/index.html
Media Solutions has two web development teams: one develops campus-wide solutions for the university; the other creates websites and tools for individual departments on contract. Our designers, programmers, and developers are adept at using the latest media and technology tools to produce dynamic websites, courseware, databases, and other products. We can develop simple or high-end products, depending on your project budget and needs.
Professional Website Design and Development
Is it time for a more professional site? We’ve helped many departments promote programs and services through elegant, informative websites. Our designers craft intuitive interfaces so key information is only a click away. We create all sites using easy-to-edit Dreamweaver templates so future updates are a snap for most departments.
U of U Webmaster
Media Solutions serves as the University Webmaster and also maintains the U's search engine. As we develop your site, we can ensure it is compliant with university standards and optimized to work with the U's search engine. We will test your site on a variety of platforms and browsers to make sure it meets 508 and other compliance standards.
Flash and Other Graphic Elements
We can heighten the impact of your site by integrating multimedia elements, such as screensavers, music, video, Flash, and Quicktime movies.
Forms to Reduce Your Workload
Do you routinely use forms to gather information? If so, consider putting them online. Many departments save time and money by offering materials and services on their websites.
E-Commerce Solutions
Some departments need to sell items or accept donations on-line. We can help you navigate the steps involved to set up a secure site to conduct e-commerce at the U.
Web Trends Reporting
What do you know about your site visitors? (How did they reach your site? Which areas are most popular?) We can help you set up WebTrends reporting through the Office of Information Technology to capture key data about traffic to your site.
Web Development Support
Media Solutions supports web developers by hosting quarterly Webmaster Forums. We also maintain the U Web Resources site, which offers free graphics, tools, and information.


[edit] Video Services

http://www.media.utah.edu/video/index.html
The Video Services group offers a wide variety of video design, production and distribution options, ranging from "broadcast quality" to "fast-track" options, depending on budget and turn-around time. The team offers expertise in these areas...
Instructional Design
Presentation Design
Concept Development
Content Development
Script Development
Graphic Design, Animation & Creation
Digital Video Field Acquisition
Multi-camera Studio Production
Satellite Up-links
Satellite Teleconferencing
Linear & Non-linear Video Editing
Linear & Non-linear Audio Editing
Streaming Video
DVD Creation
Video CD-Rom Creation
Video Compression
Duplication in all Tape and Disc Formats


[edit] UTV Services (Cable TV)

http://www.media.utah.edu/utv/index.html
-University Television Services (UTV) provides cable television programming to the University of Utah's housing and residential rooms, as well as, several campus classrooms, offices, lounges, and university locations by way of a hybrid video distribution system of coaxial and fiber optic cable.
-UTV includes over 80 channels of entertainment, news, international, and educational channels that support the overall collegiate experience of students living on campus as well as the academic and educational needs of the university.
-UTV is dedicated to providing television programming services that
Supports the overall mission of the university
Provides a campus wide system for communication, educational, information, and entertainment programming that is targeted to a diverse community
Encourages faculty and student residents to participate in the selection and/or production of programming for the system
Provides cable television resources for education and instruction to faculty, staff and students.


[edit] New Media Services

http://www.media.utah.edu/newMedia/index.html
Why New Media Integration?
-When communicating ideas and messages today, your choices of media and the methods to deliver them are plentiful. Although tools for design and development are relatively inexpensive and more accessible than ever, the learning curve to master software and hardware may demand more time and effort than you have to expend. As a result, your focus may be diverted from the content to the task of mustering resources to produce and deliver new media.
-Over the years, our New Media Integration Group has helped numerous clients address a variety of media needs. Because this type of work is what we do and why we are here, we've developed quite a repertoire of skills and accumulated an impressive array of software and hardware for media creation and integration.
-Our goal is to apply our expertise for your benefit. As you begin to explore and deliver new media to your students, staff, colleagues or other audiences, let us brainstorm with you and help you design, develop and deliver your projects.
-Small jobs are usually billed at an hourly rate. Cost estimates, timelines and milestones are developed for larger, long-term efforts whose scope or complexity require more extensive project management. One distinct advantage of working with Media Solutions is our ability to "hang in there" for the long haul and to appreciate the demands already placed on your existing workloads and professional obligations.
Those Things We Do
Media Format Conversions
Whether you have still or motion media, we are able to convert from analog to digital formats, or digital to analog. It doesn't matter which computer platform you prefer; we accommodate either Windows- or Macintosh-based platforms and their file formats. Many clients use tools such as Adobe Photoshop to handle still image conversions. However, audio and video conversions require more finesse. Our division can convert analog media into QuickTime, RealMedia or Windows Media architectures and file formats. We can also dub digital media to a variety of consumer and professional level tape formats, including VHS, S-VHS, mini-DV, DVC-Pro25, DVC-Pro 50, and Broadcast Beta-SP, as well as DVD-Video Disc. As a matter of fact, in conjunction with our Video Group, we often edit source materials using computer-based non-linear editing systems such as Apple's FinalCut Pro system, allowing us to transport and transform many media formats.
PowerPoint and Keynote Presentations
Most of us have mastered the basics of creating presentations using Microsoft PowerPoint. Up until early 2003, it was about the only game in town. However, Apple has recently introduced a competing product called Keynote < http://www.apple.com/keynote >. Regardless of your software choice, as you pound out a presentation for class lectures or professional conferences, we can assist you in adding richer media to the experience. We have helped many clients integrate digital audio and video movies to enhancing the look and feel of bulleted text slides. The process of adding alternative media files to PowerPoint presentations is not always intuitive. We can help.
CD-ROMs and DVD-ROMs
Not too many years ago, burning a CD-ROM was a fairly exotic process. Today, almost any new computer comes pre-installed with a CD-R or DVD-R drive and software to manage your files. Archiving files and burning music CDs is fairly common. But what if you need a richer media experience with interactive features and links to the World Wide Web...running locally from a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM? The New Media Integration Group has extensive experience creating interactive CDs and DVDs with text, sound, digital videos and imagery, using a variety of creation tools and methods. We can duplicate small runs of CDs and DVDs in-house (about a baker's dozen), or manage the packaging, shrinkwrap and replication of CDs and DVDs if larger numbers of discs are needed. Need an HTML website written to an optical disc, but don't want all those files and folders splatted at the root directory level of the CD or DVD-R? We've devised a solution for that, too. We're also adept at making hybrid CDs and DVDs that run on both Windows- and Macintosh-based computers to appeal to a wider audience. Of course if you need a little more storage space than the 640 MegaBytes on a CD, a DVD-R can house up to 4.7 GigaBytes of data (single-sided, single-layer). We can assist you with these larger capacity optical media.
DVD-Videodiscs
Do you have research videos hanging around in storage boxes? How about event coverage or promotional materials on videotape? Assuming there is no copyright infringement or copy guard impediments, we are ready to transfer these materials to the DVD-Videodisc format...just like the feature films you buy with high quality, full-frame, full-motion playback capability. We can also manage the packaging, shrinkwrap and replication of DVD-Videodiscs if larger numbers of discs are needed.
We have three tiers of DVD-Videodisc transfers:
-Direct-to-DVD: We can encode analog or DV video directly to a DVD-R via Firewire, Composite or Component connections. Up to one hour of material can be transferred at high quality on one DVD disc; or up to two hours can be encoded at a lower, VHS quality level. The Direct-to-DVD process is real-time and offers a quick turn-around. A limited number of chapter marks can be created if we transfer several chunks of video.
-Fast-Track DVD Authoring: Using the capabilities of Apple's iDVD software, in combination with the FinalCut Pro non-linear editing tool or iMovie, we can generate the look and feel of an authored, interactive DVD. Some restrictions apply to this method and navigation of the disc is fairly structured and not totally customizable. DVD-Videodiscs created with our Fast-Track method are playable on most consumer DVD players and on most Windows-based or Macintosh-based computers and laptops with built-in DVD drives.
-Custom DVD Authoring : If you need a more feature-rich experience with sophisticated navigation through a DVD containing many stills and motion sequences, we can use our Apple DVD Studio Pro authoring software. This comprehensive package, in combination with Adobe Photoshop and QuickTime, allows us to design and develop very complex DVD-Videodiscs with custom menus and navigation. DVD-Videodiscs created with our Custom Authored method are playable on most consumer DVD players and on most Windows-based or Macintosh-based computers and laptops with built-in DVD drives. Our team would love to show you projects we've designed for various clients and provide background information on the DVD-Videodisc medium itself. If you would like to visit an ever-developing website we generated for workshops we teach on DVD design and production, point your web browser to http://stream.uen.org/medsol/dvd/home.html.
Next Generation DVDs (HD and BluRay)-- We are busy keeping track of the latest developments in the next generation of DVD-Videodisc that accommodate high density data storage as well as high definition video with layers of interactivity that far surpass anything current Standard Definition DVDs can offer. Give us a call and we are happy to update you on the state of the industry and when HD and BD media will become a reality for us all.
Resource Websites & Online Tutorials
Although our Web Development Group does most of our website design and production, the New Media Integration Group also uses the versatility of HTML as an authoring tool. Many sites we produce are reference/resource sites or are online tutorials containing media elements or learning objects from online courseware. Most often we are involved in projects that require the posting of digital audio or video media, integrated into the warp and weft of a site's content. Please visit our New Media Showcase to see examples of our work.
Interactive, Multi-Layered, Streaming Media
Long gone are the days when digital video delivered on CD-ROM or via the Internet meant watching postage stamp-sized movies at a few frames a second with limited colors. Much technological development has occurred since the first introduction of QuickTime in the mid-1990s. Access to high-speed, broadband Internet connections has greatly improved the potential of delivering rich media events over the World Wide Web or LANS and WANS. Our New Media Group works with the three major digital media architectures: QuickTime, RealMedia and Windows Media. Our specialty is in developing cross-platform compatible media playable on most contemporary Windows- or Macintosh-based computers. Most of our projects use QuickTime. It is the core of most non-linear video editing systems. In fact, it is the only major digital media architecture that can be used not only for the final distribution of media files, but also during the initial acquisition and production phases. This architecture can be used along the entire production workflow of a project. In terms of the "deliverables" which QuickTime accommodates, a QuickTime media file can be used in:
  • CD-ROM products
  • DVD-ROM products
  • Stand-alone computers
  • Kiosks
  • World Wide Web distribution
  • HTTP Progressive Download
  • RTSP True Streaming
  • Webcasting
QuickTime plays dozens of different media types and is incorporated into many hardware and software media solutions. If you wish, please visit Apple's website about the versatility of QuickTime at this URL: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/whyqt/. Our group also authors movies that are interactive, using QuickTime's "sprites" and "multiple-tracks" architecture. Visit our New Media Showcase to see examples. We are experts at creating and delivering digital movies or streaming media over the Internet. We've worked with this technique since the earliest and crudest of the original compression utilities and codecs. We are very excited about the potential of the MPEG-4 version of digital media that QuickTime has to offer. We invite you to talk with us further on this topic. If you would like to visit an ever-developing website we generated for workshops we teach on Digital Video for the Web, point your web browser to http://stream.uen.org/medsol/digvid/index.html.
Accessibility, Closed Captioning, and Subtitling
Added to our services in 2006 is the ability to create Closed Captions and Subtitling for both analog videotape programs, as well as digital video files that are distributed over the Internet, CDs, and DVDs. Because of a variety of federal laws in place, as well as general mandates to provide alternative, accessible media options for our University faculty, staff, students, administration, alumni and community partners, we think that enhancing your new media with closed captions or subtitles is a necessary and beneficial service.

[edit] Campus Address

Mailing Address
University of Utah
Eccles Broadcast Center
Media Solutions
101 S. Wasatch Drive #215
Salt Lake City, UT 84112


[edit] Contacts

E-mail Address
contact-us@media.utah.edu
Phone
(801) 581-6113
Fax
(801) 585-3584
Personnel (Managers & Staff)
http://www.media.utah.edu/site/index.html


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http://www.media.utah.edu


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