Services & Support

Digital Studio - F115

The Digital Media Lab provides facilities for interactive design, sound, video, digtal imaging, 3D modelling and animation. Access to this laboratory is available to students of the College who are enrolled in formal computing programs courses. 24 x 7 hour access is automatically available to all postgraduate Master of Digital Media students. For support call 93850692.

This lab consists of 21 workstations including one demonstration computer attached to a data projector. All computers in this lab are PM G5 Towers with 2GB RAM, superdrives, and 17" Sony flatscreen monitors. In addition to this each computer is fitted with a ProTools Mbox for digital audio production.

All computers in this lab are connected to the COFA network via fast ethernet (100mbps). This network connection provides for quick access to email and internet services as well as quick access to the COFA colour printers and the student file server.

Associated Hardware

• 3 x Spirit Mixers (4mono/2 st.)
• 3 x DAT recorders
• 1 x DVCAM recorder
• 1 x VHS recorder
• 3 x Analogue audio cassette
• 1 x Pro Video monitor
• USB midi keyboards
• Flatbed scanners
• a range of AV and midi gear is also available for loan from the resource centre
  

Software includes:

3D
Maya, VectorWorks
Audio
iTunes, Soundtrack pro, ProTools, Reactor, plus a wide range of plugins
Authoring/Burn
Toast Titanium, iDVD, DVD Studio Pro
Graphic
Illustrator, Indesign, Photoshop, iPhoto, Scanning software, Capture One, Painter Classic
Multimedia
Director, Flash, Media Cleaner, Dreamweaver
Network
Compression utilities, BBedit lite, browsers, dreamweaver
Video
Final Cut Pro, After Effects,  DVD player,  iMovie, Media Cleaner, Quicktime Pro, Boris FX, Motion, Cinema Tools, LiveType, Compressor

NOTE: No individual, who has a medical condition that may give rise to a lifethreatening situation, may work after hours or alone without notifying his or her supervisor of the condition.

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