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Question on setting up school lab.
I’m going to be graduating in May with a degree in Technology Education. I’m doing my student teaching in a videography classroom which is strictly Mac/FCP so it’s really all I have experience with as far as editing goes besides playing with Premiere Pro here at home. Eventually I want to teach videography/digital photography. Problem is, I’m more or less a PC guy (I worked in IT throughout high school for Penndot), and thus I will probably want to stay with PCs (I’m simply more comfortable with them, I’m not bashing Macs at all). I would, however, like to set up a lab that’s as high end as possible, giving the students an introduction to programs and skills they can use if they want to enter the industry. However, it seems Premiere simply isn’t an industry used software whereas FCP and Avid are. Avid seems like it may be too overwhelming for students and have a larger learning curve. I do like FCP’s ease of use, but I feel premiere pro is very similar. I guess my question to those of you here, if you were going to teach students from a very introduction to hopefully a third level class (that they can take after successfully completing the first and second levels), what would you do? Go with FCP and a Mac lab or a pc lab and premiere pro or avid? I like that the integration of Premiere with the rest of the creative suite (I’m pretty strong in Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign), and I would most likely be teaching a desktop publishing class (or web development) class as well, so who knows. I’m not bashing Macs, as I think OSX is great, but I feel the price is a bit steep and I like being able to make individual upgrades and customizations to the systems (if I went with a PC lab, I would build it myself). Btw, this is a great site.
Thanks.
Matt
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[Matth_pa] “Eventually I want to teach videography/digital photography”
What grade level of students are you going to be teaching? There is a difference between teaching basics and high level NLEs
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Yeah sorry for leaving that out. It would be 10th-12th grade.
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Your next step maybe to rough out a syllabus each semmester of the grade ranges taking into consideration of people leaving an elective course, like starting with basic Photo/Video and then working up to producing a Public Access program for the school in upper grades, I would be more concerned with teaching good basics vice locking in to one NLE.
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Which NLE really does not make much of a difference. Learning either one will shorten the learning curve on the other by 80%. The challenge is to make the most of your budget for hardware,software and instruction
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Example; I recently was contracted to teach 14 high school teachers Premiere and camera basics (XL2). I was not consulted on purchases prior (done deal).
Hardware;
Dell dual Xeon 3.2, 4gb RAM, 1 TB HD space Media Centers.
DUAL Dell 23″ monitors!
Top of line work station bench
Canon XL2
Dazzle thingy @#$#@
Nice wireless mics
Addition shotgun mic
No extra batteries or tapes or discsSoftware;
Adobe Production Studio
Big box of royalty free music and jump backsHardware and software= about $300K!
Instructor= $3K
Result;
Basics skills in using the XL2 and Premiere. No knowledge of Photoshop, Encore, After Effects, Audition, Flash, Camtasia, Dreamweaver.It does not take much imagination to substitute a Sony FX1, a more generic PC, one 21″ monitor for a lot more instruction plus some supplies.
These teachers must spend their own money for chalk, erasers and construction paper and now who buys tape, discs, cables, connectors, etc?
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