Does your school have a video production studio?

[mikemodena]

I'm just interested to know how good other member's school's video studio at school is. My school is rated the top in the northeast. We have about 25 eMacs, a PowerBook, my personal iBook, extremely top of the line broadcast equipment, fiber optic connection to the cable company, 5 GL1's, 2 XL1's, quite a few budget miniDV cameras. We just found out today we were given an 8k grant to buy whatever we want. The teacher and I spent it all today. We bought 4 GL2's, a few budget cams, a few 300GB HDDs, and I'm going to have my own personal iMac Core Duo workstation next year when I get back from summer vacation. This year for my workstation I use my iBook, hooked up to a DV Deck, Soundsticks, and two 250GB HDDs (One for the morning announcements, one for the tv show we do.)

Every morning the second period class is Writing and Producing News For TV and they film the announcements. I set up a "budget" blue set a few months ago. I pretty much wiped a few fabric stores out of blue fabric. We have a 16' x 10' set that is covered with blue, along with the same on the floor. I have an independant study 3rd period (and 5th, advanced video production 6th, and work study 8th) I come in 3rd period, and edit the announcements. Every morning they are played right from the Final Cut timeline on my iBook to the school. We also have 1TB RAID server upstairs in the tech office that I use to store files back and forth.

Our former superintendant who just retired loves Apple. He has a quad with dual 30" displays, and is good enough at Flash and FCP to write a book. When he retired he moved to Cali and went to work for Apple. Last year, all the teachers in the school got iBooks and the school runs on PowerSchool, so you could imagine that the video department is his favorite and he sends us anything we want.

What is your school like?

[AliensAreFuzzy]

We um... er... have 2 gateways with Premiere 6.5... *Ducks for cover*

Yeah, it sucks right now, but next year, after my four years of convincing, we're getting 2 GL2s and an iMac with Final Cut Studio.
Unfortunately, I won't be using them as I graduate this year. *sigh*

[matperk]

We um... er... have 2 gateways with Premiere 6.5... *Ducks for cover*

Yeah, it sucks right now, but next year, after my four years of convincing, we're getting 2 GL2s and an iMac with Final Cut Studio.
Unfortunately, I won't be using them as I graduate this year. *sigh*

Hey now--don't forget about the middle school's computer. They have a nice Sony desktop. Too bad we're basically the only two people who know how to turn the damn thing on.

[AliensAreFuzzy]

Hey now--don't forget about the middle school's computer. They have a nice Sony desktop. Too bad we're basically the only two people who know how to turn the damn thing on.
Not true, Couture can turn it on, just can't do anything with it besides play games...

[mikemodena]

We um... er... have 2 gateways with Premiere 6.5... *Ducks for cover*

Yeah, it sucks right now, but next year, after my four years of convincing, we're getting 2 GL2s and an iMac with Final Cut Studio.
Unfortunately, I won't be using them as I graduate this year. *sigh*

We have 2 gateway's too... they used to run Premiere 6.5 up until last year when Dylan and I took the place over. Now everything is Mac only except for one Gateway that is Mr. Ped's computer to play poker on all day, and the other Gateway that I turned into a smaller secondary server.

[thedude110]

And so we see the disparity in education and opportunity in America.

I teach at a large public high school in Providence. Test scores are in the dumps, mostly because kids -- some of the smartest I've ever taught -- don't believe they can succeed (or simply don't care to succeed on standardized tests). Or because, smart as they are, they only have 2 or 3 years of experience with English.

We don't even have enough books for every student to have their own copy, so we definitely don't have a video studio. And when our funding gets cut because of our low test scores ... well, you see where this is going.

[mikemodena]

And so we see the disparity in education and opportunity in America.

I teach at a large public high school in Providence. Test scores are in the dumps, mostly because kids -- some of the smartest I've ever taught -- don't believe they can succeed (or simply don't care to succeed on standardized tests). Or because, smart as they are, they only have 2 or 3 years of experience with English.

We don't even have enough books for every student to have their own copy, so we definitely don't have a video studio. And when our funding gets cut because of our low test scores ... well, you see where this is going.

My school has crap test scores also. Have you heard of the CAPT test? Only 14 kids (I was one, thankfully) passed with the highest level of 5 in each of the 4 sections. I think only 30% got all 4's or better (which is passing.) In regular academics, I don't think the school is that bad, but it's the video and athletics that the school is known for.

[Macmaniac]

I go to Syracuse University, which has the Newhouse School of Public Communication, it is arguably the best Communications school in the Northeast, if not the US. As for editing equipment I need to do some exploring, but I have seen a few labs. One lab is all Powermac G5s with 20in Apple Displays. I know they use both PC and Mac, and both FCP and Avid.

[t1rider321]

we have 8 emacs running teh whole apple suite and adobe suite, 6 dells running all adobe products, 3 gl2s and 8 lower end cameras. 1 powermac daul 2 g5 with 2 20 inch lcds. all the comptuers have 2 lacie 160 gig external drives. A whole production studio with 2 high end cameras with telepromptors. back room has 5 monitors, audio swithcer, video swithcer, dv/dvd deck, cg dell, graphics dell, audio dell, light swithcer and more. our school is brand new also.

[digitdean]

Jesus, schools are supposed to have video production studios? I am getting shafted.

[RBMaraman]

What is your school like?

When I was in high school, back in the stone age ;) (1999-2001), we had several G4 Cubes, PM's, etc.

My high school is the first in the world to have a radio station. They broadcast on 88.1 FM in the greater Louisville, KY area (Total audience with access is approx. 1 million people). Along with that, our high school television station is the educational access channel for four counties in Southern Indiana (Total audience approx. 100,000 people). So, it was pretty cool to direct and produce shows that got to be seen by people outside of school.

[t1rider321]

When I was in high school, back in the stone age ;) (1999-2001),

Along with that, our high school television station is the educational access channel for four counties in Southern Indiana (Total audience approx. 100,000 people). So, it was pretty cool to direct and produce shows that got to be seen by people outside of school.

Our district has our on local cable tv station, its only in our county wich is alot of people. most of the time its a cheesy powerpoint slideshow that runs threw each school adn shows the student of the month picture, i just helped do a student of the month show thats going to be aired soon.

[mikemodena]

My school does a kid's show called A Half Hour of Sunflower Power. It's pretty much kid's dressed up in these crappy sunflower costumes. We shoot blue set, and the premise of the show is each Sunflower has their own bedroom (which I designed with the help of the friendly people at IKEA that put together kid's rooms and let me take pictures and photoshop different elements around) and in their room they do a different segment (dancing, drawing, games, music, etc.) and I set the whole thing up (live import straight from the deck to the iBook which stores it on the LaCie as it's being shot) and then I sit down and chroma key the rooms in then when every seperate segment is edited I go to Motion, AE and FCP and lay out the show for the week. I do it so the virtual camera moves about the house to the different bedrooms. Since I do so much editing and VFX I get to just relax during the filming, I just set up the computer to store footage where I want it and it's all set from there.
Before we had it this way we did it so each kid took a camera home and brought in a segment on Friday and then I took them all and put them together in FCP... It was OK but obviously inconsistent and I was tired of doing it half-assed and came up with the new plan. I went to 3 different fabric stores and cleaned them out of blue fabric.
This week's show aired today so I'm pretty much able to chill during the shooting until I start editing on Friday.

Edit: I forgot to mention we have a teacher dress up as a mailman and he answers letters on the front lawn of the sunflower house I made in Photoshop and Motion (gotta love that cloud render) and we also have another teacher who is Mellow Yellow, and he wears a turbin, a beard, and he is a floating head that tells riddles. All it takes is sitting in front of a blue screen with a piece of fabric draped around your shoulders, and you're a floating head :D

[GyroFX]

are you guys talking about HS? well...let me see...back in 1998, I was in the Media Academy at my school (Pacific Palisades High School), and my class room had 3 nonlinear Media100 editing machines running off of 266mhz G3. We had about 10 of those in our class room. We had a green screen room as well as a sound room with a powermac. There were a bunch of imacs as i can recall...and some other stuff.

[rockthecasbah]

we have 1 mac, and it's as old as some of the students. Nobody, i doubt even the librarian/techie knows how to efficiently work it. My high school is sucks in that department. Our film club relies on the at-home power of the students, such as my friend with a PB (and dad's PM) with Final Cut Pro. Every piece of tech is a dell sad to say, uploaded with the finest windows movie maker capabilities :rolleyes:

[mikemodena]

are you guys talking about HS? well...let me see...back in 1998, I was in the Media Academy at my school (Pacific Palisades High School), and my class room had 3 nonlinear Media100 editing machines running off of 266mhz G3. We had about 10 of those in our class room. We had a green screen room as well as a sound room with a powermac. There were a bunch of imacs as i can recall...and some other stuff.

Yeah we're talking about HS.. shoulda made that clear in my first post, sorry. It's funny because I'm thinking how did those old machines do that stuff, but then I realized 5 years from now I'll wonder how I ever managed with a dual G5. Technology moves sooo fast.

[mikemodena]

we have 1 mac, and it's as old as some of the students. Nobody, i doubt even the librarian/techie knows how to efficiently work it. My high school is sucks in that department. Our film club relies on the at-home power of the students, such as my friend with a PB (and dad's PM) with Final Cut Pro. Every piece of tech is a dell sad to say, uploaded with the finest windows movie maker capabilities :rolleyes:

My school is currently moving to all Mac. We have an all Mac library, all teachers have Macs, and the only thing still PC is the CyberCafe which will be Mac soon. As I said in my OP, our former superintendant loved Apple.

[panoz7]

I went to a stupid private school with lots of money so we had quite a video lab. When I left we had 45 dell (I know... our school hated apples) workstations in the video lab. They all had the adobe video suite thing with premiere, photoshop, aftereffects, etc...

I'm not sure what kind of cameras we had. I think we had about 10 of these sony things. I know they had 3ccds and sort of looked like those big canons I see around. They took pretty nice video.

I was part of our schools news show. My intrest was mostly constructing set equipment but I occasionally switched when they needed me. I think my only real lasting contributions were the teleprompters I made.... oh well. We had some pretty impressive video students so the show was pretty professional. I know some of our intros were better then then those on the local news, and we actually won a bunch of awards for them. The show streams on the internet everyday and is archived... I just can't find the link right now.

Computers overall were pretty impressive at my school... we had more computers then students. I think about 700... and out of all of those only one ran linux and it was the server for the web club. Our school was connected with SAS institute so we had quite a network with a full time IT department of about 10 people.

Its awesome to hear you get all that stuff in a public school though. Have fun with the new stuff.

[dualcore]

15 e-macs, one iBook, lots of iMove, and a very depressed high school student:mad:

[Lollypop]

15 e-macs, one iBook, lots of iMove, and a very depressed high school student:mad:

Why were u depressed??

My school was really into its sports, mostly rugby, the typical South African rugby jock doesnt really do technology (they need help tying their boots) so we didnt have any form of video production studio... :( :( :( Would have loved it though if we had!

[BakedBeans]

My school didnt even have a video PLAYEr, let alone a production suite :)

[TheMonarch]

My school had a PowerMac G5 dual 2GHz... Setup as a data transfer drive, school server, recording studio and render machine.
Poor machine never got a break :(

Rest were:

10 eMacs 700Mhz-1GHz running Final Cut express and After Effects with only 128MB or RAM :eek:

[Mr. Jones]

The school I'm going to next year has a whole bunch of goodies. For starters, it's got a 30 foot wide green screen, a sound booth, an editing booth, a photo studio as well as sever SLR's you can rent along with the entire Canon L series lens line. Computer-wise, the school has several PC labs which feature Dual Opteron's and top-end Quadro FX's. They also have several Mac labs with PowerMac Dual G5's and top-end Quadro FX's as well. Each of the machines have an ample amount of RAM and hard drive space. Also available is large-format printing, negative scanning, and some other cool stuff.

AS for my high school, we have a TV production facility, such as one you could find at a TV station, several labs featuring PowerMacs and Dell workstations. There are several presentation rooms, one featuring a screen that had to have been at least a couple hundred inches, there is also a darkroom that is open all day.

[mikemodena]

Today they gave me a 17" PowerBook G4 to use instead of my iBook :D :D 1.67 with 2 gigs of RAM. It's the rev before the high res I'm pretty sure.

[MIDI_EVIL]

We have a brand new £500,000 UK pounds, full blown Sony HD studio suite, with sound recording room, high end multi-cam and a whole arsenal of dollies and steadicams. I will never use any of it. Not my kinda thing.

We also have 4 x PowerMac G5's, 2.3 Dual Core with 4 GB of RAM and 1TB HD in each.

...and 4 x Hewlett Packard monsters with Dual Processors and 3.5 GB RAM and 980 GB HD's.

All PowerMacs have dual 20" Cinema Displays, and Final Cut Studio with Combustion and Avid DV.

All PC's have capture devices and studio monitors, Avid and a whole host of other video production programs that i've not had any time to fiddle with.

We also have a room with some eMacs and some PowerMac G4s all with iMovie and Premiere 6.5.

Rich.

[aloofman]

I went to one of the top high schools in California (1st or 2nd each year I was there) and we had no media production department of any kind. Until I got to college, I'd never even heard of a high school having that.

My video career was launched in college on U-matic SP in the mid-'90s. If we were really lucky, we managed to reserve the one 3-chip Hi8 camera they had. It was like winning the lottery.

[Littleodie914]

Hah... A video production studio? We don't have enough money to purchase the education version of Microsoft Office (OpenOffice is all we've got), I caught our (40 year old) computer administrator sharing his P2P limewire tunes across the network openly, our school has an $815,000 deficit, and many people expect it to be under in less than 5 years...

Glad I'm a senior! :cool: :D

[ac2102]

My video career was launched in college on U-matic SP in the mid-'90s.

Best way to learn, as far as i am concerned! I learned to film and edit the hard way using linear, bulky U-Matic SP and wish the rest of the pupils following me at my school had had the same opportunity. Editing is one thing, cutting video together on a computer is another, much easier task.

I found that the students i was teaching to edit at my college who followed after me picked up the computing side of it much faster than i ever did, but took twice as long to learn how to actually edit. My own experience with a non-correctable, linear U-Matic SP edit suite proved invaluable when editing on FCP as I was able to appreciate its ease while putting it to good use.

For the record, when i started at college (in the UK, 9 years ago) we had a U-matic SP edit suite, moving to a Media 100 suite, run on a g3 (similar spec to the post made above). We upgraded the computer from time to time to keep the other software (Boris Graffiti, mainly) running up to scratch. Then, when the time came for computers to run video editing software well without the need for dedicated cards, the entire suite was upgraded to Final Cut Pro. Camera wise, we used 2 sony M7's up until they were completely wasted (the image quality before compression was top notch) and then moved on to a DVCAM based system. I have since left the college and only pop back now and then to check on how it is all running and to maintain the current hardware.

I consider it a real privilege to have been at a school where we had such high end equipment, and , more importantly, where i had access to it. I don't for one minute take it for granted.

I hope that the rest of you who are attending, or about to attend high school with such brilliant (or better for that matter!) facilities will appreciate it as much as i did, while making full use of it and going on to great things.

Multo benne,

ac2102

[Photorun]

College I work at went from old big clunky editing boards to FCP on a shiny G5 PowerMacs. Looking through the glass walls into the editing bays and seeing all those G5s with 23" Cinema Displays brings tears of joy to my eyes.

[Les Kern]

We indeed have that, as well as a full TV studio. Right now they have G4's running Media 100 and a RAID server. I just made up the order for all new gear. Towers with 1TB of HD space, 4GB RAM, 20" Studios, XSan, Final Cut Studio. We have several high end studio cameras as well as top of the line video cameras for field work. All together our TV set up was about 200K. They even have personal FireWire drives, wireless sound equipment, more.

www.mchstech.net

We consider ourselves, like you, to be at the forefront of technology and education.
I'm now developing plans for a new school in 2007-2008. Check back... it's going to ROCK.

[puckhead193]

my college as a small tv studio but very new. no clue on brands and stuff just know how to use it.. I do know we have 3 sony cameras with Teleprompter, avid editing suite, no idea whats we have, but its not FCS :(

my school isn't a fan of macs....

[Sweetfeld28]

In my School of Technology building we have a Video Editing Lab. In it there are about 25 Dual 1.8 G5's. They each have a Sony or some other branded DV tape deck, a Sony TV Monitor, with a 20" Studio display, 2GB of RAM, and Final Cut Pro 4.5 HD.

The instructors desk is the only diffrent one, in that it has a 30" Cinema Display.

Oh the computer also have the Macromedia Studio 8, and Adobe CS2 on them, because this also fuctions as the Flash animation/Adobe After Effects Lab when not in use.

Overall, i would say its decent.

[OutThere]

My high school (small, private, boarding prep school in CT) has 4 DP G5s, each with ~700gb hard drive space, ~2gb ram and a cinema display.

For shooting we have a few Sony VX2000s.

For a school with only 500 kids, it's damn good. Nevermind the fact that the absurd tuition pays for it all...:rolleyes:

[mikemodena]

My high school (small, private, boarding prep school in CT) has 4 DP G5s, each with ~700gb hard drive space, ~2gb ram and a cinema display.

For shooting we have a few Sony VX2000s.

For a school with only 500 kids, it's damn good. Nevermind the fact that the absurd tuition pays for it all...:rolleyes:

Just curious as to what school if you don't mind me asking? Not Fairfield Prep is it? I think Prep is a big school so maybe not. I go to West Haven High.

[Lebowski]

hmm.... last time i checked, 4 GL-2's = about 8k.....

so how did you get a couple hard drives, consumer cams, and a duo core as well?





somethings fishy.....

[mikemodena]

hmm.... last time i checked, 4 GL-2's = about 8k.....

so how did you get a couple hard drives, consumer cams, and a duo core as well?





somethings fishy.....

We got them for 1239 each.. When school gets back from April vacation I can get the info for anyone thats interested. It's not even a discounted price. Which times 4 is 5k. Chock up an education Core Duo and we're looking at 6200ish. Stll 1800 for consumer cams and hard drives.

[ITASOR]

My high school has a brand new video studio with 3 20" iMacs and FCP. It's noting really great, but it's not bad...

[OutThere]

Just curious as to what school if you don't mind me asking? Not Fairfield Prep is it? I think Prep is a big school so maybe not. I go to West Haven High.

I'm a senior at Hotchkiss (http://hotchkiss.org/home/index_flash.asp)

Middle of nowhere NW connecticut...


Good school, it's definitely a different experience from public school, and some of our facilities are phenomenal (hey, some alumni people with waaay too much money donated it all, so I'll at least appreciate it all while I have it all), though I have a lot of trouble justifying the tuition. I would have been just fine with public school for $0/year, but whatever.


I have a bunch of friends from Fairfield county...Greenwich/Stamford/New Canaan etc, so I do have an idea of your area.

[mikemodena]

I'm a senior at Hotchkiss (http://hotchkiss.org/home/index_flash.asp)

Middle of nowhere NW connecticut...


Good school, it's definitely a different experience from public school, and some of our facilities are phenomenal (hey, some alumni people with waaay too much money donated it all, so I'll at least appreciate it all while I have it all), though I have a lot of trouble justifying the tuition. I would have been just fine with public school for $0/year, but whatever.


I have a bunch of friends from Fairfield county...Greenwich/Stamford/New Canaan etc, so I do have an idea of your area.

That's cool, I've heard of Hotchkiss. I'm not from Fairfield County, I'm from New Haven County. I just asked if it was Fairfield Prep because that's the only school I could think of at the time.:p

[Texas04]

God DAMN! lol. I thought our district had money....

In all HS we are basically limited to the same thing, we have 5 PC's running Adobe Premire Suite including Aftereffects and Photoshop. We have 1 "TV" Camera that we used to use for newscasts but we can't anymore cause we turn out green. We have a hand me down Production Thing that no one knows what it is called. We just use it for our newscasts. We started out the year horribly with 1 MiniDV camera with a mic input that would work when it pleased.
Im pleading for a few macs since the PC's will work when they wish only.. but no luck because it would be to hard to try and transition everyone over to the new platform. They are not very computer literate.. sadly..
Our Superintendents and board are sooo old that they are barely learning how to type e-mails and when they do they look like
"YEs Id o BeLiEive so"
-AsssisStaNt SuPPerINdENDTEnt

Brilliant people not computer literate

We do broadcast on our own station and at Disctrict HQ we have TV studio w/ 3 PowerMacs and a few PC's. They have all the good equipment while our school finally has 3 lil MiniDV Cameras with Mic Inputs... FINALLY!

[bigandy]

We have a brand new £500,000 UK pounds, full blown Sony HD studio suite, with sound recording room, high end multi-cam and a whole arsenal of dollies and steadicams. I will never use any of it. Not my kinda thing.

We also have 4 x PowerMac G5's, 2.3 Dual Core with 4 GB of RAM and 1TB HD in each.

...and 4 x Hewlett Packard monsters with Dual Processors and 3.5 GB RAM and 980 GB HD's.

All PowerMacs have dual 20" Cinema Displays, and Final Cut Studio with Combustion and Avid DV.

All PC's have capture devices and studio monitors, Avid and a whole host of other video production programs that i've not had any time to fiddle with.

We also have a room with some eMacs and some PowerMac G4s all with iMovie and Premiere 6.5.

Rich.


where the hell are you?

[eatrains]

Wow. Where do you guys go to school? Our whole school is run on PCs. We have one computer class, and all it is is some 80 year old teaching kids how to open Word files. If you try to log on to any of the computers around the school, all these errors pop up, and our wireless network keeps going out. The three IT people just sit in their closet watching basketball. We only have one Mac, a G5 for the yearbook designers. And the teacher who's in charge of it won't let anyone use it because he thinks it's broken because the fans come on. The one time he did allow us to use it I had to bring my own copy of FCE. You guys with 20 Macs and greenscreens and highend cameras and stuff are so incredibly lucky. I want to go to your school. :(

[ILoveiBooks]

In my old school, (which I graduated from last year) had a complete studio. We had one high end Canon camera and like a dozen MiniDV cam's. We had a whole bunch of broadcast quality equipment (switching boards, CG developers etc.). A G4 with Final Cut Pro (I didn't get to learn how to use it though :( ) a G3 with Avid Cinema that we used to do the intro with and also used for slideshows and graphics.

I was permanent crew for two years and in my last year at the school, I became executive producer and basically took over everything. I completely redesigned the slideshows, intro video (with the help of Flash) and knew how to control everything. I was also a host one time.

We broadcasted live to the local cable company ever morning at 9:05. We watched it all throughout our school, and anyone with cable in our county could see it.

Boy, do I miss that. *Sobs*

Also, we had a 25 computer eMac lab and at least 4 Macs in every class.

[OutThere]

That's cool, I've heard of Hotchkiss. I'm not from Fairfield County, I'm from New Haven County. I just asked if it was Fairfield Prep because that's the only school I could think of at the time.:p

Oopsies....my mistake, I wasn't thinking clearly, yesterday was kind of a long day. :)

[blckout20]

Just curious as to what school if you don't mind me asking? Not Fairfield Prep is it? I think Prep is a big school so maybe not. I go to West Haven High.

I was at West Haven High like two weeks ago maybe for our lacrosse game. I play at Newington, you have an amazing athletic facility set up. You seriously get to go ice skating for gym? That's so cool.


I don't really go near our schools film department. As interested in digital video as I may be, the teacher is a real jerk so I never took a photo/video class in high school and that is why I know very little about video work. I'm going to try and start learning things on my own because I want to start making movies in college.

[mikemodena]

I was at West Haven High like two weeks ago maybe for our lacrosse game. I play at Newington, you have an amazing athletic facility set up. You seriously get to go ice skating for gym? That's so cool.


I don't really go near our schools film department. As interested in digital video as I may be, the teacher is a real jerk so I never took a photo/video class in high school and that is why I know very little about video work. I'm going to try and start learning things on my own because I want to start making movies in college.

Yeah the school takes alot of pride in the Athletics. I had gym freshman and sophomore year and took ice skating. I decided not to play lacrosse this year, but I did play last year and I don't think we played Newington though.

[Malfoy]

I attend Rochester Institute of Technology and we have one of the best film programs on the East Coast. We also have some very nice video editing equipment. :)

[jesselav1108]

Well, I go to one of my local public schools. Not only am I in a small town where only two people know anything good about cinematograph, but I also attend the poorest school. We did have a small studio at one point. They did the school news on it, which was lame (this was before I got into video stuff). I guess that's one reason why I don't see why all of these schools spend so much money on that stuff. BUt I'm happy for the ones who get to use it. I mean, I can probably do just as much stuff on my Powerbook that most schools can do with a room full of editing stations. It's all in how you use it.

[DMPDX]

I didnt read the other posts, but I can guess youre from vancouver washington (something like ______ Bay High School. Because our tech teacher raves about it, and how its "the best in the NW". I go to school in portland or. We have 1 imac G5, 1 server-ized emac, and 20 public emacs. And 2 sony budget mini dv cams.
Pretty dope eh? not really, but my PB that I bring in runs FCP 5.0 well enough to get it done. But it's wierd, In middle school we had a morning show, but now in HS we dont?
-dsm

[mikemodena]

I didnt read the other posts, but I can guess youre from vancouver washington (something like ______ Bay High School. Because our tech teacher raves about it, and how its "the best in the NW". I go to school in portland or. We have 1 imac G5, 1 server-ized emac, and 20 public emacs. And 2 sony budget mini dv cams.
Pretty dope eh? not really, but my PB that I bring in runs FCP 5.0 well enough to get it done. But it's wierd, In middle school we had a morning show, but now in HS we dont?
-dsm

Are you referring to me? Because I'm from West Haven High School in West Haven, Connecticut.

[grabberslasher]

We have a single Dual 2.0 G5 (Rev A) and a 2GHz MacBook Pro. :-)