DIGITAL MEDIA PRODUCTION
Facilities
With its brand new Avid lab, Dordt has one of the premiere post-production houses in a multi-state region. Avid is the industry standard for cutting and editing film and video; ninety percent of what you watch on TV and in the theaters is cut on Avid.
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, providing the ultimate in collaborative film making. For example, if a team shoots 15 hours of raw footage, the video is saved on the LANshare, and each team member on each Avid editing system can draw from the same footage and all work on the same project at the same time. That's how Hollywood does it, and that's how you'll learn at Dordt. This is a learning experience that you can't get at most major colleges and universities.
In addition, 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.
