Multi-Media Design offers a one stop production solution to our clients.

When new high quality Digital Video Cameras became available, MMD embraced these new units as a way of bringing broadcast quality video to clients with a greatly reduced burden and overhead and resulting cost savings, which are passed on to our clients.

MMD is digital video from capture through post production insuring our clients the highest quality product. Output can be to VHS,S-VHS, 8mm DV, CD-Video, MPEG, AVI, DVD and all streaming formats.

But to best illustrate our capabilities, let's examine an actual case study.

Question; How do you video tape a 20 Ton roll of steel traveling 30 miles per hour straight at you? That was exactly the problem presented by our client who had invented a new product for securing roll steel to flat bed trucks. The project requirement included video taping a 20 ton roll of steel as it broke free of the tie down chains and slid along the bed of the trailer, towards the camera! The tests also had to be video taped from the back of the trailer and from an observation point on the ground.

There were a few additional requirements. The shoot was to take place during the demonstration of the product for industry leaders, federal regulators and an odd US Senator or two. The time frame of the test was set and we had exactly 1 hour to set up before the tests started. There would be no chance for a second run of any of the 4 scheduled test runs. You miss the shot, too bad! Oh, and one other small detail, we had 14 days lead time from when we were first contacted until the test date!

From Top Left (Counter Clockwise) Federal DOT Officials watch as AK Steel Employees load a 40,000 lb. roll of steel
(2) MMD's Bob Heard is seen on back of trailer inspecting remote aft camera head and custom fabricated anti-vibration mounting.
(3) This is what 20 tons of steel looks like when it breaks its holding chains. The object in the air to the right of the coil is the wood decking of the truck which tore out when the chains ripped through the steel I-Beam holding them.
(4) Officials inspect for roll damage between tests.

In two weeks, MMD's Bob Heard designed and tested two vibration dampening mounting systems for CCD color camera heads to be mounted on the truck. Remote recorders were then mounted on the trailer, hopefully away from flying chains. A third camera was mounted on an elevated platform in the emergency stop area.

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Following the successful shoot, 2 days were spent post production recording the narration, editing the video and adding post production effects including window in window and titles. Following the clients approval, 100 duplicates of the tape were produced.

Additional 2001 projects have included coverage of the 2001 USA Track & Field 15k National Championship Racewalk, live fire demonstration of new fire suppression system and forensic video taping of sunken cabin cruiser. During 2001 we also converted a large number of television commercialsto streaming format for the Department of Defense.

Multimedia Design
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