Location Equipment and Recording

Camera:

Canon XF605 with proprietary batteries, power supply/charger and lens pen – in road case.

Recording Medium:

SD Card

Tripod:

Miller CX2 with quick release plate 

Sound:

Shure FP 33 Audio Mixer

Sennheiser ME66 Microphone with Shock Mount and Windsock

Headphones for Mixer

Headphones for Camera

Assorted Batteries (9V & AA) and XLR Cables

AKG MPAIII Lapel Microphone

Boom Pole

Lights:

Aputure LS60X 3 point Lighting Kit

Cineroid LED Portable

Forza 300Bii LED Lights

TV Studio Lighting 

Accessories:

Spider Dolly

Lighting Gels and Scrims

Reflectors

Power cables and power distribution boards

Safety equipment – sandbags, reflective vests.

Accessories Requiring Academic Approval:

GoPro

Jib Arm

Wally Dolly Track Kit

**To gain access to High Risk equipment will be required to attend a Safe Working Procedure OHS Compliance Workshop.

Recording Format

This is the Recording Format based on the unit and the equipment, specifically for the camera used for the assignment.

Check these settings when collecting camera equipment from the MCASI Store, and if they are different, please ask one of the technical staff or the MCASI Store for assistance in re-setting them to the above parameters.

Editing and Post- Production

Students enrolled in SPRO2000  Studio Production as part of a Screen Arts major or minor will use MAC base Adobe Premiere Pro for editing and post-production.

Data-wrangling and Importing Media

Media is data-wrangled into an appropriate folder structure on the MCASI Server using the SD card reader in each Adobe Premiere Pro editing suite, and subsequently imported into Premiere through the Project Browser Panel.

Each step in the process is detailed in the Adobe Premiere Pro Section.

Frame Rate:

25fps

Frame Size:

1920x1080 (16:9)

Pixel Aspect Ratio

Square Pixels (1.0)

Gamma Color Science Setup

BT709 (Standard) is strongly recommended. This Unit is ENG only.

Exporting (Submitting Work) SPRO2000 Studio Production

There are two export formats for Studio Production students exporting work to the completed assignments folder. 

1. Curtin MCASI Assessment Export

Use this setting to deliver production assignments for unit assessment and/or in-class screening. This low-file size, medium quality HD file is playable on all platforms.

Format:

QuickTime

Video Codec:

H.264

Quality:

100

Width:

1920

Height:

1080

Frame Rate: 

25

Field Order:

Progressive

Aspect:

Square Pixels (1.0)

Audio Codec:           

Uncompressed

Sample Rate:

48kHz

Channels:

Stereo

Sample Size:

16-bit

Audio Track Layout:

Single Track

Equipment Availability

• Maximum two day consecutive booking or over weekend loan

• Booking MUST be made at least 24hours before collection

• Access to equipment is always at the Supervising Tutor’s discretion

• Any group returning equipment later then the nominated ‘return time’, risks the action being deemed as an unauthorised extension.

To gain access to equipment students MUST complete the online Project Proposal and if requested by their tutor, the relevant Risk Assessment documentation.

Minimum Booking Duration

1 hour

Minimum Booking Duration is the minimum length of time a booking has to be made for.

Maximum Booking Notice

7 Days

A specified duration of time within which a booking can be made, this is to limit how far in the future a booking can be made.

Maximum Booking Allowance

1 booking every 12 hours

Maximum Booking Allowance per asset per user within number of hours. The system will check to see if the user has booked any of the assets in the group exceeding this Booking Allowance.