Avid Unity Shared Media Labs
Media labs for every media education program
Schools need cost-effective solutions that can serve a variety of academic programs: multimedia labs, campus TV stations, video, audio, animation production courses, and more. They also need to juggle increasing demand for media production courses with rapidly evolving technology and formats. Avid Unity shared media labs are priced and configured for schools that want to alleviate administrative challenges, improve classroom productivity, and prepare their students for the future. To learn more about the range of Avid Unity shared media labs or to find out which set up is right for your school, launch the animated workflow. Note: Requires Flash 8
Have more time to teach
A shared media lab frees faculty from routine tasks: distributing, managing, and recording media, as well as administering standalone systems. Because students and faculty can directly access their projects from any editing system connected to the network, shared media labs give schools greater capacity and capability while reducing the administrative burden.
- Access projects and media from any computer
- Eliminate administration of local drives
- Increase student capacity without burdening faculty, staff, or infrastructure
Give your students more attention
A shared media lab allows teachers to spend more time communicating with students, develop lesson plans, and keep up with industry trends. All students have immediate and simultaneous access to the same materials. When finished with a lesson or project, the teacher can instantly review student work over the network and add notes directly to each student’s editing timeline.
- Encourage faculty/student interaction
- Distribute and review projects and media instantly
- Project any students work easily from the teacher station in a classroom setting
- Administer storage and manage media from any computer on network
Offer a more real-world experience
A shared media lab lets schools optimize their technology resources. Media is captured once and made instantly available to hundreds of students who can work on a single piece of media simultaneously and can collaborate in real time. And the entire class can gain valuable experience working in an environment modeled on today’s collaborative post and broadcast production facilities.
- Simulate real-world collaborative environments
- Dynamically reallocate storage while the network is in use
- Teach students industry-standard, professional practices
Avid Unity LANshare LP Media Lab Bundle
Ideal for small- to mid-sized classes, campus newsrooms, and media labs, Avid Unity MediaNetwork systems are easy to install and require minimal technical support. This turnkey collaborative production environment is specially priced for schools and includes:
- Compact, all-in-one Avid Unity LANshare server and storage chassis
- 4 TB standard, expandable to 40 TB
- Expandable up to 46 real-time Mac and PC editing clients
- Bundle includes 24-port 10/100 Ethernet switch with 2 Gigabit uplinks
- Bundle includes 10 copies of Media Composer or NewsCutter XP software
To purchase, contact your Avid sales representative or local reseller.
Why Avid Unity?
The reliability of Avid Unity media networks is proven every day in over 3000 mission-critical installations around the world. An Avid Unity solution streamlines workflow and supports simultaneous sharing of media by Macintosh, Windows, Fibre Channel, and Gigabit Ethernet clients. Start with as few as two clients and 100 GB of storage or scale all the way up to 150 or more clients and 192 terabytes of storage per system. Learn more about Avid Unity media networks.
