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Greenlee opens lab to aspiring Spielbergs

A Greenlee student works with the new equipment in the digital video-editing lab. Photo by Amy Wahle, Greenlee Web Team.

By Charles Roper
Greenlee Web Team writer

The Greenlee School recently acquired about $57,000 in new equipment to aid students in video production.

A digital video-editing lab has been installed in Hamilton Hall Lab 12 and it is open to all Iowa State students. The eight-computer lab opened this fall and was funded through the Liberal Arts & Sciences Computer Advisory Council.

Each Macintosh computer station features dual Sony 19-inch monitors, a videocassette recorder, microphone, DV-CAM player (DV and mini-DV), DVD writer, CD writer, as well as the latest versions of Mac OS, and video-editing software Macromedia Director and Final Cut Pro 3.

“This video-editing lab is certainly one of the most advanced computer labs of its kind on campus, if not the only one,” said Jeremy Haubrich, Greenlee School system support specialist. “Aside from its sheer power, this lab is unique also because it is open to all students at the university.”

“I had no video editing experience what-so-ever before I came to college, but I figured that I would check out the new lab and edit some of my personal videos,” said Eric Salter, an Iowa State freshman majoring in pre-business. “The entire process was fun and educational, and I’ve already made two excellent quality DVDs that I’m proud to say were totally produced by me.”

After tinkering with the equipment, this writer found the operation to be straightforward and the final production professional.

Each station ran astoundingly fast. There are shortcuts labeled on every keyboard, which simplified the headache-ridden process of navigating through the video-editing software. I recommend every student stop in to see the digital video-editing lab and take advantage of what it offers.

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