Need help remembering your lines? Use a teleprompter! The FMVD Equipment Room now has a teleprompter kit available to all Cinema & Television students.

PromptDog is a professional telemprompter software program that allows you to control the speed of your scrolling text and make on the spot edits. PromptDog also works with all external monitors and you can save your projects for later.

Kit includes a laptop with PromptDog installed, external monitor, and all necessary cables. Ask the Equipment Room for more details. You can learn more about PromptDog here.

 It’s 1969. A group of young women sue Newsweek Magazine for sex discrimination and the revolution is on. Meet Lynn Povich: one of those women, and the author whose book inspired the new Amazon TV series. There will be a book signing after the event.

Thursday, November 17th at 7pm
URBN Annex Screening Room
3401 Filbert Street

Today is the last info session for Drexel in L.A. 2017. If you don’t know what DiLA is, this is where you find out how you can spend a summer career building in California! All Sophomores are strongly advised to be there. Freshmen are recommended to attend as well. For Juniors & Seniors who have already done DiLA, please come and share your experiences.

When: TONIGHT, November 10, 7-9 pm
Where: UCROSS 028 (Large Screening Room)

RSVP to Jackie Mendoza (cinetv@drexel.edu). If you have any questions please contact Ian Abrams, ina22@drexel.edu.

Screenwriting & Playwriting Program Director Matt Kaufhold will be presenting a featured talk as part of the Pennoni Symposium entitled “Water in Film: A Conversation with Professor Matt Kaufhold” Tuesday, November 15th from 4:00PM to 500PM. Light refreshments will be provided! Space is limited so if you would like to sign up, please email Kevin Egan at kde25@drexel.edu. Be sure to check it out!

Please note that with .0 release, we strongly encourage everyone to hold off on upgrading until all the critical bugs can be patched.  That being said, the computer labs within Westphal College will remain at Adobe Creative Cloud 2014 for the reminder of the summer.  We will, however, upgrade to Adobe Creative Cloud 2015 if/ where possible in the computer labs for the Fall quarter.  In order to maintain compatibility with the computer labs, and to avoid encounter bugs, we would recommend home computers remain at Adobe Creative Cloud 2014 until the Fall quarter.  If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Westphal IT via support.westphal@drexel.edu

Drone Demo at URBN 125. Thursday, May 21st at 6:30pm

In a joint Television Management and Digital Media presentation, Professors Nick Jushchyshyn and Al Tedesco will demonstrate DIGMs Phantom drone in the URBN Center, Room 125 on Thursday, May 21st at 6:30pm. The event is open to all, so stop by and check it out.

Hello Students,

I want to inform you that as of 5pm yesterday, Adobe CC 2014.1 has been installed in the Advanced Editing Lab on systems 89-017-01E and 89-017-02E. This is for the students who had updated software on their home system a few weeks into the term and are now having back compatibility issues. The rest of the lab machines will be updated over break as originally scheduled.

If you do not have Adobe CC at home to work on and have been using the lab machines to start and edit your projects, PLEASE DON’T USE THESE MACHINES until winter term begins. You may encounter back compatibility issues when you go to use any of the other 30 lab machines in the building.

Going forward, I will post the versions of the major software that can be found on the machines on the Production Hub at the beginning of each term. It is recommended that you don’t update your personal software past what versions are being used in the labs. If a company like Avid or Adobe updates software in the middle of the term, it is standard operating procedure to wait until the next break to roll out the newest update. This is not just SOP here, but any facility you will work in after you graduate. If you’re working on a feature film, you don’t upgrade your software in the middle of the show. You never know what new software components will break other aspects of integrated software, plugins, operating systems, etc., and you don’t want to find that out in the middle of a project.

Thank you for your cooperation and understanding.

We’ve had a couple students who have had issues opening certain Adobe Premiere project files that they have been working on since the old PC systems before Adobe CC 2014. It is giving the following error:

It is unclear why this is happening to select sequences but one of the students found a work-around that I would like to share in case anyone else comes across this. If you open a new project or even a project that opens fine in Adobe CC 2014 you can IMPORT a sequence from the project that won’t work for you and bring it into the current open project to work on it. It’s a bit of a pain, but it is unclear if this issue is an Adobe licensing issue, a cross-platform project issue, or possibly some corrupt data in the project, so this should at least keep you working. Please ticket this issue if you come across it so we can track it to see how often it occurs and if there is a common thread to when it happens. Thank you and good luck!

You may not recognize the labs from last term as we have been very busy replacing the HP machines with all new iMac and Mac Pro workstations: What’s New:

• One very important change is that we now delete all user profiles upon logout. This means if you leave a document on your desktop and log out it will not be there the next time you log in. So make sure you have all of your data on an external drive. If you need to save something to your specific system, there is a 1TB “Student Work” drive that you can use, but this volume can be erased without notice if a problem should arise and will be reformatted at the end of each term, so please backup your work. One result of deleting profiles will be that it will take a little bit longer for the log in procedure to take place, so please be patient when logging in. This will help maintain the system drives throughout the term.
• Many of you will need to migrate your work from a PC formatted drive to one that can be read by a Mac. You can format a drive to be seen by both systems. The standard FAT(32) format can be used by both platforms but has limitations regarding file count and file size so exFAT is the best option to format a drive to if you need to use it across platforms. These new Macs have Thunderbolt connections so feel free to pick up a Thunderbolt drive to take advantage of the high speed throughput.
• All lab systems will soon have breakout cables on them so you can access USB, Thunderbolt, and headphone outputs without having to mess around with the back of the systems.
• To access AWExpress on the new Macs, make sure you are in finder and press cmd+K or from the menu, navigate to Go->Connect to server. A window will open where you type in “cifs://awexpress.westphal.drexel.edu” (there should also be a bookmark for it). After it connects, it will ask for you for your credentials. When your username and password has been successfully entered, you can access the cinetv_students volume.
• Another change this year will be that you must sign out one of the four iLoks to use Pro Tools in the intermediate or advanced editing labs (017, 032). Pro Tools is loaded on all machines now so you don’t have to wait for one of four systems that have the iLok strapped to it.

Some Reminders:

• Network storage (awexpress) is provided as a conveyance and although it is running on redundant hardware it is still susceptible to outages; so make sure to backup your data
• The network storage devices are available for your use but be warned that they can be cleaned up at the end of each quarter. Also they fill up often so if you can delete any of your old data during the term we would appreciate it.
• Remember that the Westphal Print Center is here to serve you, see http://printcenter.westphal.drexel.edu for more information; get stuff printed at a very, very lost cost
• This website is our primary mode of communication with students; i.e. please make sure to read it and check it often for updates.
• Finally, if you run into any problems, please make sure to let us know!