Post Production Equipment

Complete Apple Editing System

  2 Apple Mac Pro Tower and Apple 30 inch displays

  The Mac Pro system is a fully equipped video, photo and audio editing suite. The suite is available to use in the Mobilities.Lab room in B19, Bowland North.

The suite is equipped with two dual displays: 30″ HD Apple Cinema display.

In addition to the standard audio-visual Mac software (such as iMovie, iWeb, iDVD and iWorks) the suite includes the following software:

• Final Cut Studio 3 Bundle  (see below)
• Adobe Creative Suite 4  – Dreamweaver, Flash, Photoshop Extended, Illustrator, Fireworks, Acrobat Pro, Soundbooth, Contribute, Adobe Bridge, Adobe Device Central, Version Cue. 
• Aperture 2.0 
• Roxio Toast Titanium 
• ...and many more 

The Mac Pro features include Quad-core Intel Xeon 3500 series processor. Four FireWire 800 ports (two on front panel, two on back panel). Five USB 2.0 ports (two on front panel, three on back panel). Two USB 2.0 ports on included keyboard. Front-panel headphone minijack and internal speaker. Optical digital audio input and output TOSLINK ports. Analog stereo line-level input and output minijacks. 18x SuperDrive with double-layer support (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW).

  Sofware

  Apple Final Cut Studio 3 Bundle

   Final Cut Pro 7

  With all the advancements in Final Cut Pro 7, there are now even more reasons why it’s the first choice of MKS and professional editors as well. Powerful new features and time-saving improvements help us to work faster than ever. Whether we’re working on one file or collaborating with the team, Final Cut Pro 7 gives us more creative options and technical control.

• Expanded Pro Rez Family 
• Incredible effects and transitions 
• Broad format support 
• Open, extensible architecture 
• Seamless collaboration 
• Digital cinema workflows 
• Comprehensive editing tools 

   Motion 4

  Just drag and drop to send particles exploding through space. Swing cameras around an object with breathtaking ease. Apply new, realistic shadows and reflections with a click, and animate credit rolls in seconds. With Motion 4, it’s easier than ever to create astonishing 2D and 3D motion graphics.

• Intuitive real-time design environment 
• Effortless 3D graphics 
• Easy-to-use text and titling tools 
• Breathtaking filters and effects 
• Powerful compositing 
• 3D effects in record time 

    Color 1.5

  Color 1.5 puts the power of high-end grading in your hands. Thanks to intuitive tools and deeper round-trip integration with Final Cut Pro, you can quickly improve a single scene or create a signature look for an entire sequence. Now with native workflows in high-quality formats up to 4K, Color is the ultimate finishing tool for music videos, commercials, broadcast post, and feature films.

• Intuitive task-based interface 
• Accessible toolset 
• Seamless integration with
  Final Cut Pro 7 
• Customizable color effects and signature looks 

 Compressor 3.5

  New batch templates, enhanced droplets, and convenient auto-detect settings in Compressor 3.5 minimize the time you spend encoding, so you can invest more time in editing. Best of all, you can now keep editing in Final Cut Pro while Compressor encodes and delivers your files for you in the background.

• Streamlined encoding and delivery 
• Industry-standard encoding 
• Pristine format conversions 
• Distributed encoding 

 Soundtrack Pro 3

  Soundtrack Pro 3 helps you edit and mix faster than ever, with new multitrack editing tools and easy ways to fix common audio problems. Whether you’re enhancing a single clip or crafting a feature-length soundtrack, you’ll find all the tools you need to create perfect sound for picture.

• Powerful audio editing 
• Innovative dialogue tools 
• Easy audio restoration 
• Sophisticated sound design 
• Automatic audio conform process 
• Comprehensive 5.1 surround support 
• Flexible workflows 

   DVD Studio Pro 4

  Extend your creative vision to every aspect of DVD authoring. DVD Studio Pro 4 makes it easy, with intuitive authoring tools and a comprehensive set of advanced features for navigation, playback, and mastering.

• Intuitive design environment 
• Professional authoring tools 
• Versatile DVD mastering 

• Design across media using a comprehensive, integrated creative environment; Work deeply in one discipline, such as print, web, video, or audio, and then move your skills and content to another medium efficiently
• Create eye-catching vector graphics in Adobe Illustrator CS4, produce powerful images in Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended, and lay out visually rich documents for print and digital delivery in InDesign; showcase design work in dynamic PDF Portfolios
• Prototype and create leading-edge digital experiences, including interactive websites, applications, user interfaces, presentations, and mobile device content, using Adobe Fireworks CS4, Dreamweaver CS4, Flash, and many other tools in Master Collection
• Work with a highly efficient pre- and post-production toolset to do video and audio editing, still and motion graphics, visual effects, and interactive media design, and then deliver for film, broadcast, and DVD as well as Blu-ray Disc and mobile authoring
• Use the indispensable tools in Photoshop Extended more efficiently: Pan and zoom on images smoothly, rotate canvas to any angle, and resize images without distortion using new Content-Aware Scaling; paint, composite, and animate 3D models.

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