Small things can make a big difference. Such is the case with the latest equipment upgrade at Pemi-Baker Community Access Media (pbCAM).
Recently new computer equipment was purchased to allow local producers and pbCAM to tape video using a digital camcorder, capture the video to a computer and edit and produce a television program digitally and burn it to a DVD for playback.
“This is an important step for pbCAM,” stated Executive Director Jamie Cadorette.
With this upgrade pbCAM joins the growing ranks of community access media centers making the transition toward the emerging digital media.
Cadorette further added, “Our community access center spent many years trying to keep up with the bare essentials of access production. Now we are active in a young, cutting edge movement to bring our local community voice to the digital age and global environment.”
Not only does digital production afford Plymouth area residents the ability to learn video production with the ease and familiarity of computers, it also broadens the ability for them to have their message heard.
Digital production allows pbCAM to not only advance toward digital playback, a cost-saving and more efficient playback system, but also to enable local producers to save programming to digital formats that can be added to web pages and seen worldwide.
“Where community access was once about enabling the average citizen in a community to reach thousands of viewers in their community,” stated Cadorette, “we are now stepping forward and making it easy for someone in Plymouth to use the power of video to have their voice heard by millions worldwide, as well as here at home.”
The first ever digitally produced program using strictly pbCAM equipment was the DHART episode of Plymouth Today that was cablecast during the week of July 10, 2006.
For more information on pbCAM or community access media in general, you can call 536-8116 or contact us through the pbCAM contact page.