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Welcome to the Rogers Communications Centre About | Design | Research | Community | Technology | Quick Guide The Rogers Communications Centre is Ryerson University's flagship building for studies in converging communications and interactive media. In operation for almost twenty years, the Rogers Communications Centre has grown to become Canada's premier facility for education in digital media communications. As an integral part of Ryerson University and the Faculty of Communication and Design, the RCC houses and supports the schools of:
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- Focusing on emerging interactive digital media, the Rogers
Communications Centre has gained an international reputation for
strength in advanced research and innovation. The communication and
design programs that the Centre houses are an integral part of Ryerson
University and an important component of Canada's burgeoning media
sector. Just steps away from Yonge Street and the heart of Toronto, the
Centre is located at the core of Canada's electronic media and digital
communications culture.Click here for more information about our Centre.  Research and Innovation - Rob Carver Pioneers Blu-ray BD-Live Media for Use in Education.RTA Sessional Instructor and Masters Student Rob Carver is conducting cutting edge research on the use of the Blu-ray optical format in educational media production. Working with trial software supplied by Sony Creative Software and Ensequence, Carver is authoring instructional Blu-ray discs that utilizes Blu-ray's BD-Live interactive capabilities to enhance instruction with continually updated FAQ modules and on-line examination. Upon completing a module, students will access the Blu-ray's interactive section, which will down load a random selection of 10 multiple choice, true/false questions. Once completed, students will upload the results for instructor review and recording. The partnership with the Rogers Communications Centre occurred because of a common need to further explore Blu-ray as a mainstream medium for education, instruction and as an HDTV distribution medium. Blu-ray media in conjunction with SONY's Playstation 3 is an economical distribution medium, especially for those who chose to distribute in 24 frame. In September 2009 the Rogers Communications Centre will equip its fleet of Intel based Apple MacPro computers in both its Enclosed Colour Correction Suites and its Advanced Media Lab I with Blu-ray writers. Click here for more information on the Blu-ray research and development facility. Click here for more information on the many forms of innovation found in the Rogers Communications Centre. Design - Integral to Ryerson University's digital design culture, the Rogers Communications Centre is both home to and at the heart of many of The Faculty Of Communication and Design's Graduate and Undergraduate programs.  Click here to download the Faculty Of Communications and Design video. Click here for more design news and the many forms it takes at the Rogers Communications Centre.  Latest
News: The 2009 Summer and Fall term will see continuous improvements to the various shared facilities that are operated by the Rogers Communications Centre. With industry trends moving towards more economy in production technique, distributed design, mobile applications and new production workflow models the Rogers Communications Centre continues to evolve and to adapt to these trends. Amongst the Rogers Communications Centre's goals is to continue to focus on making the Shared Labs the most up to date, user friendly, accessible and the most flexible on campus. Recent improvements include;
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Community - The Rogers Communications Centre is an integral part of the community it serves. As a member of the Ryerson community students, faculty staff and the general public are invited to meetings of the Professional Associations that meet in the Centre. Members of the public and associations who are not GTA centric can also participate remotely through meetings held in the RCC that are streamed via the Internet and often made available following the meeting via the Internet. Here are the links to archived meetings from the various associations based from the Rogers Communications Centre.Click here for the monthly meetings of the Toronto Section of The Society Of Motion Picture and Television Engineers Click here for the monthly meetings of the Toronto Final Cut Pro Users Group Click Here for information on the monthly meetings of the Toronto Section of the Audio Engineering Society (AES) Click here for the Toronto Podcamp seminars held in February 2007 Click here for more information on the Rogers Communications Centre and its connection to the community it serves. Click here to access the archive of streamed meetings and events in the Rogers Communications Centre.  Technology
- This year FCAD students enrolled in Graduate and Undergraduate programs will have access to the newly updated Advanced Media Lab. The lab is amongst the most popular at Ryerson and in Winter 2009 students accessed it for over 5000 hours for Final Cut Pro Editing and to Access Adobe's CS4 Master suite. This fall the lab will consist primarily of new 8-core Mac Pro's that are real speed demons. The new Macs feature Intel Xeon “Nehalem” processors that support Hyper-Threading, which allows two threads to run simultaneously on each core. So an 8-core Mac Pro presents 16 virtual cores that are recognized by Mac OS X. The lab computers will also be equipped with Blu-ray recorders so students can output their finished high definition and digital cinema projects to Blu-ray. In addition to the improvements in the Advanced Media Lab, the Centre's eight Enclosed Editing Suites will all be equipped with colour correction surfaces and grading monitors. Students in FCAD's Graduate programs will be able to access these suites overnight and book them for weekends with a new automated key system currently under development by the RCC staff. Click here for more information on the outstanding technology found in the Rogers Communications Centre. New Quick Guide For Faculty And Students To RCC Labs And Services - Did you want fast access to the services and information found on the Rogers Communications Centre's website? We've added a new Quick Guide Page;
 Ryerson University - At
Ryerson a combination of theory and practices provide a relevant,
professional education. Ryerson University has approximately 21,000
full-time students, more than 52,000 registrants in its Continuing
Education Division, 700 masters and PhD students and more than 80
undergraduate and graduate programs.As a key component of Ryerson University, the media education taught and applied adds to the community through the publication of the Ryersonian, the Ryerson Review of Journalism and Student Produced Internet Radio and Television (SPIRITLive) one of the worlds first Internet radio stations.
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