Video Services

Special events video

Although CITES provides no special events video services, the campus data network -- UIUCnet -- can be used to transport digital video across campus or to television networks in Chicago.

VideoWorks at WILL-TV provides full-service, high-quality video production on a time and services basis. VideoWorks will script, shoot, edit, and duplicate your video project. VideoWorks also coordinates live or taped video feeds to national television networks, such as CNN, Fox News, ESPN, and more, via a fiberoptic system with nodes in Urbana and Chicago. For more information, contact VideoWorks Senior Producer John Paul (johnpaul@uiuc.edu; 265-5370).

Videoconferencing

Videoconferencing requires significant bandwidth to achieve good quality. CITES has recently upgraded the campus backbone network to 10 Gb/s and is in the process of upgrading all campus buildings to 1 Gb/s connections to that backbone. The Campus Network Upgrade is two years into the five-year project. For more information the upgrades, please see About the Campus Network Upgrade Project.

Although there is no central videoconferencing service on campus at this time, the College of ACES has videoconferencing facilities throughout the state and is in the process of upgrading videoconferencing facilities on campus. For more information about ACES videoconferencing, audioconferencing, or dataconferencing services, see Audio and Computer Conferencing or contact Jim Hamilton (jamesham@uiuc.edu; 333-7118).

Academic Outreach in the Office of Continuing Education also has a conference room set up for videoconferencing that may be rented by other units. For more information on the space, please see the online brochure Videoconferencing Center and Services or contact Academic Outreach (oce-video@ad.uiuc.edu; 244-7722).

Streaming video

CITES holds a campuswide site license for RealAudio’s Helix streaming video server software. The Helix server software can stream Real, Windows Media, and QuickTime formats. There are one-time and recurring costs to participate in the campus license. For more information, contact the University of Illinois WebStore (webstore@uiuc.edu; 265-6346). 

The UIUC Educational Media Group, a campus user group, has formed to develop and share best practices and standards for streaming media. To learn more or to get involved with the group, contact Jack Brighton (jackb@uiuc.edu; 333-0850), visit the Educational Media Resources web site, or subscribe to their listserv (edmedia-l@listserv.illinois.edu).