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New Sony Language Lab at Plymouth Business School

After an extensive tender programme where all the major language technologies were evaluated The University of Plymouth Business School has elected to install SONY Virtuoso language lab software across its PC network. Link to the article on Plymouth Business School Website

Digitising a video cassette using the video transfer box

In this video we use the Pinnacle video transfer box and practically demonstrate digitising a VHS cassette to MPEG-4.

Digitising Analogue Video to MPEG-4

For many years people have used the VCR/DVD trolley in their classrooms. But now with all of the new technologies that exist and particularly interactive whiteboards and student mobile devices teachers now need to digitise their VHS cassettes to make them available through these mediums.

The feedback from our clients has to date been that this is a slow arduous process that only a few schools have seen to tackle entirely. Its a case of , "too technical", "too time consuming", or that IT Departments have been elected to do this job and therefore that with the pressures on them to keep school IT systems running that this is a slow job.

The Pinnacle Video Transfer box goes some way to solving these problems and empowering more teachers to get their videos available digitally. The simple box plugs into your analogue video source and records it straight to memory stick. Then you can just copy and paste your MPEG-4 from the memory stick to wherever you want.

Please take a look at the video below and see how useful this can be.

Sony Soloist- Creating an ACR Exercise

In this video we explain how an Automatic Comparative Recording (ACR) Exercise is created. It is a means by which a set of pre-recorded questions can be played to the student, an answer recorded and then saved them for further reference.

Sony Soloist- What is an ACR?

In this video we explain what an Automatic Comparative Recording (ACR) Exercise is. It is a means by which a set of pre-recorded questions can be played to the student, an answer recorded and then saved them for further reference.

Sony Soloist- Basic Use of Video

Many of our clients are now moving away from the traditional language laboratory model with Sony Virtuoso to a more multimedia rich experience. For example with Sony Soloist (the student digital comparative recording software) the student can finitely interrogate a video file. Have a look at this 6 minute presentation on how at its most basic Sony Soloist can manipulate video files.