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RCC-180 Television Studio A Television Studio A Schedule Click Here For This Months Television Studio A Schedule Click Here For Next Months Television Studio A Schedule  Television Studio A - is home to Canada’s first High Definition Television Studio. It’s the largest TV studio in the Rogers Communications Centre and supports the production needs of students for the School of Radio and Television Arts. While the studio acts in a manner consistent with practice associated with broadcast production workflows, it has been uniquely designed for training with independent HDTV switching and monitoring found at the technical director, lighting control, and audio control positions. These have been installed to enhance both teaching and learning opportunities for students and teaching faculty who make use of it. Surrounded by a hard cyclorama and equipped with a fixed lighting grid, the floor of Studio A is equipped with three Panasonic AK-HC930P 1080i HDTV cameras with 8” colour viewfinders and QTV teleprompter heads. The studio cameras are mounted to Osprey Elite and Quattro-S four stage pedestals employing Vinten’s Vector 60 pan and tilt heads. This combination not only provides the outstanding camera support required for HDTV shooting, it also makes it the best studio in Canada to learn and develop camera movement skills. To control lighting the studio is equipped with external Electronic Theatre Controls (ETC) dimmers and an ETC Microvision FX lighting controller. The studio's floor space is 40 feet long and 28 feet wide, totaling 1120 square feet. To enhance the teaching process instructors can select between the switched program output emanating from the Ross HDTV switcher or select between independent cameras sources for display on the 45” HDTV LCD floor monitor. Studio A’s control room, which overlooks the studio floor, boasts ground breaking technology including a Ross Video Synergy 2 Multi-Definition Switcher, an Inscriber Inca Studio High Definition Character Generator, a monitor wall consisting of two Ikegami 20” CRT HDTV monitors and two 45” Sharp LCD monitors. These large LCD monitors have been sub-divided into a multi input monitor wall using four Avitech Media Command Centers. For HDTV recording, the control room contains two SONY HDCAM VTRs, along with a technical evaluation area that includes its own independent HDTV switching, a 15” Ikegami HDTV monitor and a Tektronix HDTV waveform rasterizer. Other Control Room features include the ability to remotely update high definition images in the Ross switcher’s internal still-store, up-conversion and aspect ratio conversion from standard definition composite, component and SDI video signals, connectivity to all of the Rogers Communications Centre’s TV studios and Production Trunkline System, a Torpey clock system that includes a Torpey Up/Down Timer for use as a production timer and a teleprompter computer to control the BDL teleprompter production software. A fully compliant broadcast RTS Intercom system connects the control room to the studio as well as locations external to the studio when required for remote production. The audio control room for Television Studio A contains a thirty-two channel Tascam audio mixing board, VegasPro audio for video software and it’s own independent HDTV switching system and HDTV monitor that is equipped with audio level indicators. The studio connects to the rest of the Centre through both a second floor entrance to the studio control room and the first level via a set of double doors. Hardware
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