Studio Equipment
There are two Spacevidcast studios. One is the live studio where NASA TV HD as well as Spacevidcast Live originate from located in Watertown, Minnesota. The other is the home studio in Eden Prairie, Minnesota where all SpacePods and season 4 interviews originate from. Each studio is set up with different equipment optimized for the task it is designed for. Spacevidcast uses two studios as the Eden Prairie location is unable to get a C-Band downlink from NASA due to city ordinance and an obstructed line of sight for the satellite dish due to trees.
While each studio has a fair amount of equipment, there is still a B&H Wishlist for additional equipment to help replace some of the older gear that has been around for 5 to 10 years and needs replacing. At the beginning of 2010 this list was well over $25,000 in items. Thanks to a sponsorship by Perforce Software and additional purchases by Benjamin this list is now down to around $12,000 as of January, 2011.
[edit] Eden Prairie Studio
- Canon 7D camera
- Tokina 12 to 24mm Lens
- Bogen Monfrotto tripod with 501 head
- Zoom H4N audio recorder
- Sennheiser 500 series G2 wireless mic kit (no longer made)
- Two Lowel Pro 250 watt lights
- One Lowel Tota 500 watt light with softbox and grid
- 36 2x2 pieces of brown sound foam
- MacBook Pro with Final Cut Studio
- iPad with ProPromter
- iPhone 4 to control ProPrompter
- Four Bogen Avenger stands for lights and Prompter
[edit] Watertown Studio
- Camera switches between Canon XHA1 and HVX200
- Bogen Monfrotto tripod with 501 head
- 6 Lowel Pro lights with 250 watt lamps
- (not yet installed) 2 Lowel Tota 500 watt lights with softbox and grid
- Two Sennheiser 500 series G2 wireless mic kits (no longer made)
- 12 core MacPro with ATI Radeon HD 5870 GPU, purchased by Perforce Software
- CamTwist Studio used for live switching
- Wirecast 4 used for live recording and broadcasting
- Flash Media Live Encoder used for live broadcasting
- 6TB RAID for recording in ProRes when needed
- Three BlackMagic Intensity Pro Boards for HD video capture
- iMac for NASA TV HD broadcast and recordings
- Fire DTV S2 Firewire Satellite receiver
- EyeTV for viewing and recording NASA TV HD
- DVI to HDMI adapter to bring video out of iMac and in to 12-core Mac Pro
- 8 core MacPro for live recordings (about to be phased out, if possible)
- Final Cut Studio
- One BlackMagic Intensity Pro card for video recording
- Behringer XENYX X2222USB Audio Mixer
- HDMI to Composite adapter for Skype guest calls and host monitor
- Two entry level Samsung HDTVs for the back of the set
