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DIY
Multimedia at UC Davis
February 3, 2004
You’re a closet artist
right? You’re producing a genius film in your head, right?
You’d be a rock star if you only had the expensive production
equipment. Meyer Media Lab (located in 1154 Meyer Hall) features
12 Macintosh G4 Tower Workstations and five Dell Workstations
with an array of do-it-yourself multimedia equipment.
Make a movie
- Apple Final Cut Pro- this digital editing system is professional
grade—many top filmmakers use it.
- Apple Media 100-a consumer-use digital video editing program.
- Apple iMovie-the simplest to use of the Meyer digital video
editors, this program is perfect for the novice filmmaker.
- Analog-to-digital converting stations-enable you to use
the above systems to edit video shot with a standard (non-digital)
video camera.
- Apple iDVD-create your own DVDs.
- VHS editing room-convert DVD to VHS.
- 35 mm film recorder-burns images onto film.
Record and produce music
- Check out the sound-dampened audio room, which includes
Digital Performer 4 (an audio recording/editing program),
a keyboard, mixer, monitor speakers, microphones and headphones
for check-out, and a rack with a CD burner, digital audio
tape machine, and an audiotape recorder/player
- Apple Soundtrack-professional quality music production
system
- Coming soon: Apple GarageBand, the latest user-friendly
multi-track recording system
Create a publication
- Adobe PageMaker and Quark XPress- desktop publishing programs
Make digital artwork and designs
- Adobe Photoshop-for editing and creating digital images
- Adobe Illustrator-drawing program
- Vectorworks-drafting and design program used by design,
architecture and engineering students
Design a website
- Macromedia Dreamweaver-Web page builder
- Macromedia Flash-professional web animation tool
To ensure access to workstations with specialized equipment,
call for an appointment at 752-5215. Computer Room Consultants
are available to answer basic questions, and quick-start guides
exist on most stations. In addition, instruction manuals and
tutorials are available for some software. For more information,
visit http://clm.ucdavis.edu/rooms/.
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