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All "scanning" workstations are connected to the web and equipped with flatbed document/slide/filmstrip scanners and microphones for recording voice for presentations.
4 workstations are also equipped with Wacom digital drawing tablets for drawing and painting using pressure sensitive pens that change line width, transparency and color depending on pen pressure... much better than drawing with a "mouse"!
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NOTE: CS4 to be installed during the Winter Break ready for Spring 2009
Additional Information about the Editing Rooms:
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One workstation with Autodesk 3DS Max 9 for creating 3D animations, compositing it with a video project or exporting finished animation as animated GIFs, Flash Videos or simply video files for use in powerpoint or web presentations.
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Two workstations that are available on a first come-first serve basis. Can be used to capture video or audio directly to Windows Media formats.
Media Equipment available for playback of source materials include the following formats:
If you have a different video format, like Hi-8 or Digital 8 or a Camcorder that records to mini-DVD disks, you must bring in your camcorder with AV cables to route through our system for capture and digitizing.
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The i-MAC workstation is also equipped with a mini-DV/sVHS combo deck and an NTSC television monitor for capturing and previewing video.
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A new production area has been added to the SMS for students in American Sign Language classes to video their tests, projects and presentations directly to a CD-R as a Windows Media Video to turn-in to their instructors. It's easy: No need to learn how to operate a camcorder and no videotape to mess with or convert to digital formats.
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The new 8 mega-pixel Canon Digital SLR camera has been installed and is now ready for shooting high quality photographs of documents, maps, artwork, architectural drawings or anything too big for a flatbed scanner... even 3D objects. Complete control over exposer, shutter speed, ASA, etc. is done at the computer workstation and the photographs are saved directly to the computer's hard drive for editing or transfer to your own removable media.
The SMS just installed over 70 Gigabytes of music on a music server, making it available at all workstions for use in multimedia works for classroom and internet use and distribution under a limited licensing agreement (see below).
One of the great features of this music is the software that is used, Sonic Fire Pro. Sonic Fire Pro allows music to be "composed" from "basic" genres, styles, moods, instrumentation criteria to fit any specified playback time. It even allows the creator to generate different "moods" within a composition to allow for different types of coordination with other audio elements, like narration or sound effects or with visual elements in a move or powerpoint presentation.
AND..... most importantly....IT"S EASY TO LEARN AND USE!!
For a preview of how Sonic Fire Pro works, visit the company's demo/tutorial website at: http://www.smartsound.com/sonicfire/demos/index.html IMAGE: This is a link to another web site
Licensing Limitations:
The limited licensing does not allow use of the music for major theatrical feature films exhibited in public commercial theaters or as part of a national televised broadcast, as defined by broadcast in more than five (5) states and in more than one single major market without obtaining additional licensing. See the Licensing Agreement available in SonicFire Pro software for more detailed information.
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