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Georgia State University celebrated Homecoming Weekend with a ribbon-cutting ceremony yesterday marking the debut of the schools $22.5 million, world-class media center, the Creative Media Industries Institute (CMII). Panasonic Media Entertainment Company (PMEC) will play an integral role in CMII through the provision of a broad array of professional video and display equipment, and through the companys sponsorship of a marquee seminar series, Bursts of Excellence, featuring the filmmaking industrys top above-and-below-the-line talent.
With a multi-million-dollar grant from the Woodruff Foundation, CMII is being established to supplement GSU arts and media programs that are today training more than 4000 undergraduate majors anticipating careers in the entertainment and information industries. More than 1000 of these students are film and television production majors, with GSU offering the oldest, largest, and widest-ranging training model in Georgia.
CMII will be equipped with premier Panasonic cinema cameras, including theAU-EVA1 5.7K handheld cameras and VariCam LT 4K cameras, both fully capable of High Dynamic Range (HDR) capture. Other 4K and HD acquisition gear includes AG-UX180 UHD handhelds, AG-DVX200 4K 4/3-inch handhelds, and AJ-HPX380 AVC-ULTRA shoulder-mounts that, along with the AV-HS450N multi-format switcher, will be configured in flypack systems to cover the Bursts of Excellence seminars.
Additional Panasonic gear includes 65-inch 1080p LCD displays strategically placed throughout the building, and the PT-RZ970WU 10K lumen laser projector, which will operate in CMIIs 150-seat screening room.
Our relationship with GSUs spectacular CMII affords us the opportunity to work with some of the countrys best and brightest filmmaking students, and is emblematic of Panasonics commitment to the explosive Georgia production community and its educational institutes, said Carter Hoskins, Director, PMEC.
GSU Professor of Practice Herb Kossover explained that, beyond the core craft training that has long been a strength of the universitys arts and media programming, the CMII model is to organize faculty-led teams that put advanced students to work on contracted work. CMII is like a beehive full of maker space, where students can augment their classroom experience with self-directed film projects, or actually work for local businesses that will be renting out these spaces complete with Panasonic cameras, he said. The corporate or nonprofit organization receives a professional work product and students gain invaluable real-world experience.
Kossover, a veteran Director/Director of Photography who has worked on high-profile, award-winning projects with several VariCam models, added, My experience with the current generation of VariCams, with their dual native ISOs (also a feature of the EVA1), is that the lighting package is simpler and the workflow quicker.
I anticipate our students can learn more about eye, composition and real filmmaking with the VariCam LTs and EVA1s than with any other cameras on the market.
For more information about GeorgiaState Universitys CMII, whose other core disciplines include virtual reality, augmented reality and animation, visit CMII.gsu.edu.
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About the AU-EVA1
The AU-EVA1 5.7K handheld cinema camera boasts a newly-designed sensor that is Super-35 sized (24.60mm x 12.97mm) with 5.7K resolution, delivering more than 17.25 million photosites, nearly double the 8.8 million for 4K DCI . The EVA1's Dual Native ISOs of 800/2500 allow cinematographers to shoot in almost any lighting environment. The camera delivers 14-stops of Dynamic Range, enabling fine gradation in exposure from bright to dark, and features full V-Log/V-Gamut capture to best utilize high dynamic range and broad colors. Weighing only 2.65-lbs (1.2Kg, body-only) with a compact form factor (6.69 H x 5.31 W x 5.23 D) and a removable handgrip, the EVA1 can be used for efficient handheld shooting applications. The camera utilizes a native EF-mount, giving shooters access to the broad EF lens ecosystem, including dozens of cinema-style prime and zoom lenses.
About the VariCam LT
The VariCam LT camcorder inherits the same super 35mm sensor and superb imaging capabilities that distinguish the award-winning VariCam 35, but with significant reductions in size, weight and price. Incorporating this identical imaging DNA in a more compact rendition, the VariCam LT delivers 14+ stops of dynamic range with V-Log, and the esteemed cinematic VariCam image quality and color science, as well as the VariCam 35s breakout innovation, dual native ISOs of 800/5000. Weighing just under six pounds and having superior capability to similar sized cameras, the VariCam LT is the ideal camera for handheld, SteadiCam, jib, crane, drone, gimbal and overall cinema verit work. The VariCam LT offers a host of new features including an EF lens mount, hot swappable batteries, IR shooting capability, a 23.98 PsF output, cinema style file naming, and image presets such as scene files. For more information about Panasonic professional video products, visit http://business.panasonic.com/products-professionalvideo, or contact Panasonic at 877-803-8492.
Panasonic Media Entertainment Company
Panasonic Media Entertainment Company specializes in creating technology solutions for the entertainment, integrated resorts, sports, and professional AV markets including house of worship, education, broadcast and cinema. The company's customized systems and technologies incorporate high-performance projectors and professional displays; large screen LED video displays; broadcast, cinema and pro video equipment; professional audio systems, and energy-saving lighting equipment. A division of Panasonic Corporation of North America, Panasonic Media Entertainment Company is based in Newark, NJ, with offices in D
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