Media Centre Introduction
The University of Chichester’s Media Centre is a facility designed to support students and staff from across the university in working with digital media – video, audio, and graphics. Whatever your subject area or your expertise, you are welcome to use the facilities and consult our specialist experts.
We can offer access to
- Apple Mac hardware and software from Apple, Adobe and others
- specialist video editing suites based on Final Cut Pro
- a range of cameras, sound and lighting equipment available for loan
- high quality colour printing, with media up to 108 cm wide
- expert technical support for all of the above
The Centre is located in the Learning Resources Centre at the Bishop Otter Campus, with open access to the Macs and the Edit Suites whenever the LRC is open. If you need help, specialists are available during our published core hours. We’ll always try to help on a first-come-first served basis, but making a booking in advance will make sure that you get the right help when you really need it. Throughout our opening hours, the Service & Information Zone (SIZ) is available to give more general help and advice to both the Media Centre and users of our other computing facilities. When the SIZ staff can’t provide an immediate answer to your question, they’ll take the details, and arrange a booking or follow up with someone who can.
The Media Centre is provided as part of the service provision at the University of Chichester. The Centre provides both Teaching and Open Access areas with specialist technical support for students wishing to incorporate elements of creative computing in their studies. It is overseen by the Media Centre Steering Group (MCSG) which is responsible for developing and ensuring its effective usage, strategic development and its alignment with the Learning and Teaching Strategy. The group meets twice per semester and once before the start of each academic year.
To ensure the space is fully equipped to meet the needs of all courses, the Media Centre and its services are included in the resource schedules for all course approvals and re-approvals. This provides an opportunity to define specific course requirements to ensure the facilities offered are appropriate and their use accounted for.
The Media Centre is split into three sections:
- Open Access
- Teaching Area
- Video Editing Suites
The Media Centre currently offers both staff and students access to the following equipment:
- 47 networked Apple Macintosh computers (10 in Open Access, 21 in the Media Centre Teaching Area and 16 in S6 LRC)
- 7 Video Editing Suites running Final Cut Pro
- 1 Finishing Suite
- High quality large format colour and black and white printing
- Multi-format video duplication