This slideshare introduces students and staff to both the booking system and how to save your work safely whilst using the Humanities Media Suite

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BOOKING SYSTEM (SISO)
Click on the link
to register
Note availability for self-
study in the Creative
Practice Lab is posted
here
Go to
https://uea.siso.co/

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Use same number from your student
card for both fields
Please use your uea email address
Fill in you current address first, then tick
use same home and contact address – this
will auto-populate the other columns with
the first address

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• Once you have submitted your registration details these will come to the Media
Suite Team to be processed, this can take up to 24 hours, you will receive an email
notification as soon as it has been activated
• Then you can return to the siso site to login and begin booking items
• https://uea.siso.co/

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EITHER BROWSE
OR SEARCH FOR
THE STOCK ITEMS
YOU NEED TO
BOOK, OR CLICK
ON FIND ROOMS
FOR EDIT SUITES,
DIGITISATION LAB
AND SOUND
ROOMS

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SPACE AVAILABILITY
• The Creative Practice Lab is primarily for taught sessions on modules, but it also has open
access times for self-study that are posted on the door of 0.20 and also available on the
home page of our booking system https://uea.siso.co/ (on a first come first served basis so
no pre-booking is required)
• All other rooms are bookable through the same system, this includes the edit suites and
recording rooms upstairs
• You will need to register on our booking system before you can access any equipment or
book any rooms

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MEDIA SUITE SPACES
• Creative Practice Lab 0.20
• 9 dedicated Edit Suites – these only have video editing software on
• Vocal Booth - upstairs
• Recording Studio – upstairs
• Digitisation Lab – with 3 scanners and a copy table

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AVAILABLE EQUIPMENT
• Video Cameras – Canon XF-100
• Tripods
• Lavalier (clip) microphones
• Boom Mics
• Macbooks
• Scanners

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SOFTWARE
• Avid Media Composer – high-end video editing software
• Full Adobe Creative Cloud - Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere Pro, etc
• Apple free software Garage Band, iMovie
• Microsoft Office
• Google Sketchup – Architectural 3D software
• Microsoft Suite – Powerpoint, Word, Excel

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USING THE MEDIA SUITE SPACES
• No eating or drinking in any of the Media Suite Rooms, bottled water only please
• Do not unplug anything to charge personal items
• If you open a window, please close it before you leave
• If using an edit suite, make sure the door is shut firmly when you leave
• Any questions or problems, just come and see us in the Media Suite Office

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SAVING DOCUMENTS
• All of the Macs are connected to the UEA Network so that you can centrally save
and retrieve files.
• This central ’My Documents’ folder is accessed through the iMac Dock.
• If you use the Finder menu you will only see your local ‘My Documents’ folder which
only exists on the machine while you are working on it
• You can also use a USB or external drive to safely save your work
Sa ving a nd a ccessing your w ork in the M edia Lab.
All of the Macs have anetworked document folder so that you can access your work from wherever you
are (providingyou have the right software) and from any computer connected to the UEA network.
Unfortunately these Macs also have alocal documents folder which you cannot access either away from the
lab or even the machine that you save your file s int o .This folder also gets wiped on a weekly basis so the
only sure way to keep your work safe is to use your networked documents folder.
Accessing your netw ork documents folder
The networked documents folder can be found in the dock (the bottom bar with all of the icons in) of the
Mac on the right hand side,it looks like alittle graphic of folders behind folders.
Right click to expand the folder and click the folder called documents, this is your networked/shared folder,
which should now pop open.
Your Networked
Documents Folder
acccessed from the data
folder within the‘dock’
Machine only
Local Documents
Folder accessed
from the‘Finder
There are now tw o w a ys of making sure you don’t lose your w ork .

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SAVING DOCUMENTS
• To make it easier to save onto your UEA network folder
we can make an alias on the desktop, which will
function like a shortcut, and we can browse to from
software save menus.
• Open the networked documents folder from the ‘data’
folder on the Dock.
• Right click and select ‘Make Alias’.
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SAVING DOCUMENTS
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desktop
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Once you have the networked
documents folder open, make a new
folder for your project, right click it,
and select ‘Make Alias’ then drag this
alia s folder onto your desktop.
This essentially makes a shortcut to your networked folder that is
available through the save menu, via the desktop.
Be aware that the alias is only created

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SAVING DOCUMENTS
• When saving files from within any of the
programs on the iMac you will now be
able to browse to your alias folder.
and select ‘Make Alias’ then drag this
alia s folder onto your desktop.
This essentially makes a shortcut to your networked folder that is
available through the save menu, via the desktop.
Be aware that the alias is only created
on the ‘local’ machine, so it will
disappear, but you can easily drag the
alias back onto the desktop the next time
you need it.