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"With the file-based workflow provided by Axio and P2, I'm really quick at getting things done. I've been nicknamed 'video guru/hero/genius' by our college president. I've got the most killer workflow on the planet!" |
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At the last minute. On a tight deadline. With a shoestring budget. Sound familiar? It's business as usual for John Morgan, Presentation Media Manager II, of the Institutional Marketing & Communications department at Salt Lake Community College. Morgan is a videographer creating key institutional messages at SLCC, the sixth largest community college in the United States with 4,000 full- and part-time employees and 60,000 students. He maintains an HD shooting and editing post facility - the only HD capability among several editing suites on campus. His job is to make the institution look good; to tell its stories to legislators, donors, and potential students. He's also sought out by high schools and other public education entities to do production work for them. He's happy to oblige because these projects bring in outside dollars to his department and help fund acquisitions such as the JonyJib2 and Glidecam 4000 that he recently purchased. | |
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SLCC's video production facility is built around a Matrox Axio HD editing system and a Panasonic 3-CCD P2/DVC PRO HD camcorder, both of which Morgan discovered at NAB 2005, plus the Adobe CS3 Production Premium software applications. "I'm a total believer in file-based editing solutions and have been somewhat of a pioneer among my peers, being one of the first to edit P2 on Matrox Axio. The fact that I work in HD makes my projects stand out when compared to standard definition productions." Typical of the quick-turnaround projects Morgan undertakes was a recent Career & Technical Education piece. The two-minute promo used only existing footage. "I didn't touch the camera! That's the beauty of P2 and a large 4TB Rorke Data Galaxy HDX array. I've got 134 P2 card's worth of 720/24pN footage on it, and it's only taking up 1.2TB of space. Every show I've created in the past 20 months is still resident and editable on my system. Combining instant access to all that material with Axio's realtime capabilities - up to 7 layers in real time - is incredible!" | |
Morgan's most fun project is being shown in high schools all over the state of Utah. It was created for a partnership between SLCC, local area high schools, and Intermountain Healthcare - a large Utah-based insurance and healthcare provider. Morgan's script featured students in their biology class....obviously bored to death. One of the kids was wearing a neck brace and recounts 'since my accident, this stuff makes so much more sense.' He then goes into a daydream state and relives his skiing accident. Describing the production process, Morgan says "I'm a skier, so I took the camera on a hand-held stabilizer and went tearing down the slopes passing snowboarders like they were slalom poles. There's a large pine tree right in the middle of the run and as I approached the tree with the camera aimed at a nearby skier, I turned the camera in line with hitting the tree at the last second then pulled it out of the way as I went past at 30 mph. Next, I got out of my skis and handheld the camera right up to the tree then pulled it away quickly as I went into a spinning crash to the ground. In post, it looked like I'd hit the tree. Seconds later, a helicopter rescue ensues and I'm pulled out of the helicopter and wheeled into the ER, where a team of people are working on me. As the student is being checked out of the hospital, a narrator introduces other components of the video and various interviews follow. The show cements the idea that Biology class is the important starting point for health care careers."  View the video clip of the "accident" "With the file-based workflow provided by Axio and P2, I'm really quick at getting things done. I've been nicknamed 'video guru/hero/genius' by our college president. I've got the most killer workflow on the planet!" For more information about Salt Lake Community College visit at www.slcc.edu. |
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