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Dordt is on the cutting edge of technology with its new Avid lab, making it one of the premiere post-production houses in a multi-state region. Avid is the industry standard for cutting film and video, with 90 percent of what you watch on TV and in the theatres being cut on Avid. This lab offers you the opportunity to learn the art of film/video editing, ensuring that you’ll have marketable skills when you graduate.
Instead of each Avid editing system locked to one computer and hard drive, Dordt’s Avid editing stations are all tied into an Avid LANshare with 16 TB of storage space. That means you'll experience the ultimate in collaborative filmmaking. For example, if a team shoots 15 hours of raw footage, the video is saved on the LANshare, and each team member on each editing system can draw from the same footage and work on the same project at the same time. That’s how Hollywood does it, and that’s what you’ll learn at Dordt. You won’t find this technology at most major colleges and universities.
Additionally, a tech-enabled instructor’s podium is linked to ceiling-mounted HD projectors with a 14-foot screen and surround sound, allowing students seated at either PC or Macintosh workstations to watch the instructor in action. An integrated Avid Media Composer setup also offers an all-in-one solution for video and audio editing, 3D animation, visual effects, and DVD authoring, in one convenient package capable of handling both SD and High Definition projects.
All workstations are equipped with the latest software including Avid, Photoshop, InDesign, and After Effects.
