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| Two views of Lyons Hall, home to the Communication Studies Department. Extensively renovated in 1999/2000, the building houses the department's main office, faculty offices, a seminar room, and four labs. The building is also home to the Media Center, which features a television studio and a screening room. | ||||
Four computer labs, digital video editing stations, an audio/music production studio and a television studio/control room are available for student use in Lyons Hall.
The Lyons Hall third-floor Mac Lab, in Lyons 312, features 24 Macintosh G4 towers with CD-RW drives, 40 GB hard drives, 533 MHz processors, 768 MBs of RAM, 250 MB zip drives and 15-inch liquid crystal display (LCD) monitors
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Software available includes Adobe Illustrator CS, Imageready, Indesign, Pagemill, Photoshop CS, Apple iMovie, iTunes, Appleworks 6, Realplayer, Macromedia Director, Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks, Microsoft Office 2004, Quark Express, Protools LE, After Effects 6.5, 4D Cinema.
A scanner and a laser printer flank the room. A touch screen in an instructor's bunker controls a VCR, DVD player, and an Elmo documentation presentation system. Ports for plug-and-go setups, such as laptops and laserdisc players, are built into the bunker.
A web and imaging lab, in Lyons 325, provides two G4 Macs, an iMac with DVD burner, a Windows XP Gateway, a scanner, three drawing tablets and a high-end color printer. Software is identical to the software in LY 312.
The digital imaging lab, which is maintained by the Media Center in Lyons 413, houses: 1-Media 100 non-linear editing station (MAC); 3-Final Cut Pro non-linear editing station (MAC); 3-iMovie non-linear editing stations (MAC); 3-iMac computers for still imaging (MAC); 1-Windows XP computer (PC); 1-Scanner workstation (MAC); 1-Printer; 1-Digital Audio-ProTools LE workstation (MAC), and an audio production studio.
An additional lab, Lyons 122, features 14 G4 Macs, a laser printer and a scanner. Software includes Maya and Final Cut Pro. This computer lab is primarily used for advanced Digital Media Arts electives.
A design production lab, in Lyons 316, features mounting resources for presentations of printed digital work.
In the Media Center on the fourth floor of Lyons Hall, a 26' x 30' television studio features a hard cyclorama, lighting grid with dimmer control and three digital studio video cameras.
The control room has custom-built consoles to house the digital video switcher/ with special effects, a 16-channel audio mixing board, teleprompter, DAT audio recorder, character generator, and an intercom/FB system. The digital video-mastering format is DVCAM with BetaCam SP, S-VHS and Hi-8 video transports. Four equipment racks and consoles house the audio/video distribution, including patch panels and routers.
The studio also has the capability to send video to the campus cable RF video system. The college's Media center provides the TV studio's operational support.
Across from the TV studio, a screening room provides comfortable tiered seating, a video and DVD projector, as well as a professional sound system.
Students can also sign out equipment (various digital cameras, camcorders, etc.) from the Media Center on the 4th floor of Lyons Hall. Check out /mediacenter/equipment.asp for a complete list of available resources.
photograph courtesy of Debra More
COM461 Advanced Television (Studio) Production course, spring 2003.
Original photograph courtesy of Paul Visco
The Audio Lab recording studio in Lyons 413.
Original photo courtesy of Paul Visco
The computer lab in Lyons Hall room 122.
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