We wanted to welcome all new students to Drexel University and welcome back returning students!

We are very excited to start the new academic year and here are some new changes:

Editing Rooms Location Change:

As you can probably tell, the post production labs have changed spaces. Here are the new locations for the labs:

-UCROSS 032 Instructional Editing Lab is currently open

-UCROSS 017 = Open Editing Lab will open Tuesday, October 1 @ 9AM 

-UCROSS 017 = Pre Production Dell Machines will open Tuesday, October 1 @ 9AM 

-UCROSS 018 = Color Grading will open Tuesday, October 1 @ 9AM 

New Software

We have upgraded to the latest version of the Adobe Video products with the CC package. All editing stations will have the following:

-Adobe Prelude CC

-Adobe Premiere Pro CC

-Adobe Audition CC

-Adobe Photoshop CC

-Adobe Flash Pro CC

-Adobe After Effects CC

-Adobe Media Encoder CC

We’re working out details with Adobe to bring back Encore CS6, as Adobe has discontinued it. I’ll post more info on Encore as I recieve it

We also have upgraded to Pro Tools 11. More details coming soon on that. Expect a mid October launch.

We also updated to MS Office 2013, DaVinci Resolve 10 and more.

New Post Hardware

UCROSS 035 is being transformed into a new Mix & Edit suite, complete with Pro Tools 11, Adobe CC, Avid Media Composer 6.5 and more. The Mac Pro 1,1 was replaced with a fire breathing HP Z820 boasting 32GB ram, Quadro K4000 with 3GB VRAM, Blackmagic Video card hooked up to a 42″ TV and more. This should launch by mid October. Access will be granted by Chip Murphy and John Avarese.

We also are adding a “DIT Station” to the arsenal. Students will be able to sign out a cart, tabletop, rackmount PC in flight case, Tangent Wave control surface and more in order to bring post production to the field. The rackmount PC contains dual blackmagic decklink cards to facilitate a DaVinci Resolve Live system. This enables students to color correct footage from a camera in real-time so that the crew can see a non flat image. More details and training pertaining to this unit will be coming soon.

Need Help?

Remember, if you need computer help please email Support.Westphal@Drexel.edu. Thanks!

-Chip Murphy