Media Services, as part of Northern State University, manages two state of the art production studios housed in the Technology Center. The productions studios are primarily used for producing shows for distribution on NSU’s channel 12. Shows include Inside NSU, which is hosted by President Schloss and Tracking the Wolves hosted by Coach Olson. In addition to programming for channel 12, the studios are also used for recording digital audio and video for use in online courses and class presentations.

The studios utilize state of the art digital and analog recording equipment including DPS Velocity, Toaster, Avid Liquid and Final Cut Pro. To take full advantage of the technologies currently available Media Services has invested in high definition (HD) technology and has the capability to produce content in full HD.

Staging in the studio includes a NUNS unit, which is a multi-configurable desk and back drop. The back drop can be chroma-keyed and allows any form of digital content to be inserted in real time during a recording.

All of the recording equipment used in the studios is wired back to a central control room for production purposes and to Digi-Central, which is our centralized monitoring room for live web streaming. This allows content that is being produced in our studios to be streamed live over the Internet in real-time during an event’s production.