I now have a part-time gig with my college's TV studio, helping archive and digitize their master tape library. During the winter break, we finally got the new Macs for our video editing lab, to replace the 2017 Retina 21.5" iMacs we got that year (they had 3.4 GHz quad-core i5 chips, 16 GB RAM, 256 GB SSDs, and AMD Radeon Pro 560 graphics cards with 4 GB dedicated VRAM)...
Look at that! We got them in blue and yellow, to match the school colors. We've also got Satechi USB-C hubs that we'll soon be setting up for use with them. (The other Mac lab also got one last autumn for the teacher's workstation.)
These are actually M3 iMacs, because the order was initially placed during the summer but took a long time to process for some reason. They have 24 GB of RAM and 512 GB SSDs, and as expected, they all run Mac OS 15 Sequoia. We already have the latest Adobe Creative suite installed on them, along with the current versions of Audacity, AVID Media Composer, DaVinci Resolve, Pro Tools, and the Microsoft Office suite.
Our radio/TV studio director was impressed with the Apple Silicon transition, especially when he got an M2 Max-equipped 16" MacBook Pro and saw a significant speed and horsepower increase over his 2018 Intel MacBook Pro. So of course, it seemed only natural that one of the Mac labs in this building would similarly make the switch, especially since here we try to make sure things are as up to date as possible.
Beginning next week, I will be working on digitizing their library of Video8 and Hi-8 cassettes, using my Sony Digital8 camcorder hooked up to the teacher's station iMac via the FireWire and Thunderbolt adapters. (I was working on archiving digitizing U-Matic master tapes, until our U-Matic tape deck broke, so we're going to have to outsource those.) It's already been exciting preserving the U-Matic tapes not suffering from Sticky Shed Syndrome until the deck broke down, so I can imagine this will also be neat to see! And on an Apple Silicon Mac, no less!
Look at that! We got them in blue and yellow, to match the school colors. We've also got Satechi USB-C hubs that we'll soon be setting up for use with them. (The other Mac lab also got one last autumn for the teacher's workstation.)
These are actually M3 iMacs, because the order was initially placed during the summer but took a long time to process for some reason. They have 24 GB of RAM and 512 GB SSDs, and as expected, they all run Mac OS 15 Sequoia. We already have the latest Adobe Creative suite installed on them, along with the current versions of Audacity, AVID Media Composer, DaVinci Resolve, Pro Tools, and the Microsoft Office suite.
Our radio/TV studio director was impressed with the Apple Silicon transition, especially when he got an M2 Max-equipped 16" MacBook Pro and saw a significant speed and horsepower increase over his 2018 Intel MacBook Pro. So of course, it seemed only natural that one of the Mac labs in this building would similarly make the switch, especially since here we try to make sure things are as up to date as possible.
Beginning next week, I will be working on digitizing their library of Video8 and Hi-8 cassettes, using my Sony Digital8 camcorder hooked up to the teacher's station iMac via the FireWire and Thunderbolt adapters. (I was working on archiving digitizing U-Matic master tapes, until our U-Matic tape deck broke, so we're going to have to outsource those.) It's already been exciting preserving the U-Matic tapes not suffering from Sticky Shed Syndrome until the deck broke down, so I can imagine this will also be neat to see! And on an Apple Silicon Mac, no less!