Equipment and Facilities

Adobe Creative Cloud

 

Adobe Creative Cloud desktop applications have been deployed on all Film Production Lab and Capstone Editing Suite workstations. All users are encouraged to upgrade their current Premiere Pro CS6 projects to Premiere Pro CC projects if they are not also using CS6 on their home computers to edit their projects. This can be easily done by opening their CS6 project files in Premiere Pro CC and following the prompts (when asked, be sure to make a back up of your CS6 project file before doing this, just incase there is a migration error). Premiere Pro CC is now the default application for all .prproj files, so double clicking a project file will always open the project in CC. If you do not wish to upgrade your project file to work in CC at this time, just cancel out of the conversion process.

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Production Lab Update

Apple 27" iMac Editing Workstations The Jonathan Mednick Production Lab received an upgrade of state-of-the-art 27" iMac computers. These new workstations are equipped with 3.4Ghz Core i7 processors, 16GB of DDR 3 RAM, a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 775M graphics processor with 2GB of GDDR5 memory, 2560x1440 LED Retina display, USB 3.0 &…

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ADR / Foley Suite Upgrades

Improvements to the ADR / Foley Suite

In our continuing efforts to modernize and streamline department equipment and facilities, we have completed several upgrades to the ADR / Foley Suite | NSC-172B. The new layout and workflow is covered in the updated Instructional Outline.These updates included four key ingredients:

POWER – Apple Mac Pro with Twin 2.4GHz Xeon Quad-Core Processors & 8Gb of RAM

The strength behind any Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) is at its core- the CPU! This new computer has the raw horse power to deal with the rendering challenges we lay before it today, and many years to come. Also, the forward facing Firewire and USB ports will make it easier for users to hook up their external drives. A silly point to make, perhaps, but the constant spinning of past iMac workstations (to access data ports) have wrecked havoc on the connectors.

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Lab, ADR Suite, & Cap Suites Closed for Updates

Spring break is here and we’re taking the time to do some house keeping. The Jonathan Mednick Production Lab | NSC-172, the ADR / Foley Suite | NSC-172B, and the Capstone Editing Suites | NSC-182, 184, 185, & 186 will be closed for software updates on Thursday, March 10th at 9:00AM and will reopen at 5:00PM. These are just standard updates with one exception: An installation of Adobe CS5 Production Premium will be installed in Capstone Editing Suite 1 | NSC-182.

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Showbiz Budgeting

Out with the old and in with the new. UCF Film has acquired support from Showbiz Software by providing us with copies of their amazing Budgeting & Actualization 8 production software. A great tool for all stages of your production:

  • From Prep: Create any type of budget from commercials, music video, feature film, TV, corporate video, post production, and still photography.
  • To Shoot: Showbiz Budgeting keeps working as well. Its built-in actualization tool lets you track purchase orders, petty cash envelopes, payroll and more.
  • To Wrap: Showbiz Budgeting delivers the reports you need to make your wrap package look sharp.

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Graduate Production Offices

The effort marches on! Remodeled Graduate Production Offices (GPOs) roll off the assembly line to provide a base of operations for our MFA thesis feature films!

It's FILM production that will win us the war!

Graduate Production Office | CEM-132E is now finalized and will serve as the homebase to Alex Bowser’s MFA thesis feature film “Bad Pixels.” This is the first of three offices being permanently assembled as a graduate workspace. GPO | CEM-132D is on track to come online Friday, June 26th to house Marcos Casilli’s MFA thesis feature film “The Last Two Years of David Brachman,” and GPO | CEM-132B will be available for occupancy the first week of July.

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Scenechronize

The future is now- UCF Film has acquired support from a radically new, cloud-based production scheduling software called Scenechronize. Instead of trying to put to words how amazing this software is, and what it can mean for our productions, check out the video below:

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