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RCC-230 - Enclosed Non Linear Editing Suites Enclosed Non Linear Suites Schedule This Month - |RCC-236B|RCC-236C|RCC-232E|RCC-236D| |RCC-234B|RCC-234C|RCC-234D|RCC-234E| Next Month - |RCC-236B|RCC-236C|RCC-232E|RCC-236D| |RCC-234B|RCC-234C|RCC-234D|RCC-234E| Click Here for lab closedown list Click Here for a complete lab software list that includes version numbers  Enclosed Non Linear Editing Suites (RCC-230) - The Rogers Communications Centre operates eight enclosed Apple Final Cut Studio 2 non linear editing suites. Located in inside RCC-230 all of the the rooms, including the standard enclosed non linear editing suites, are equipped with state-of-the art technology and are made available for advanced courses undertaken by students in the Faculty of communications and design. Five of these enclosed suites have been specifically equipped with advanced Colour Correction technology and are comprised of the latest generation eight core Intel Apple Mac Pro's and JL Cooper's Eclipse Color Grading Control Surfaces. The colour correction surfaces tie directly to Apple's Final Cut Studio's Color software and together they provide an advanced Colour Correction environment. For monitoring the Colour Correction suites are equipped with individual grading monitors that consist of Matrox MXO scan converters that turn the rooms Apple's 23-inch Cinema HD Display into an artifact-free, true-color video display that provides for a vertical refresh rate of 59.94 Hz. With 24 frame RAW based digital cinema media on the horizon from companies such as RED Digital and Canon Inc., the colour correction process becomes an important and essential part of video and film production workflow.
Standard Non Linear Editing Suites RCC-Rooms 236B (FCP 10), RCC-236C (FCP 09) and RCC-232E (FCP 08)  All eight of our enclosed non-linear editing suites consist of advanced versions of both Apple's Final Cut Pro and ADOBE's CS3 software. Specifically the labs contain Final Cut Studio 2, QuickTime Pro 7.5, LiveType, SoundTrack Pro, Final Cut Studio 2 Audio Content 1-3, Compressor, Cinema Tools, Color, DVD Studio Pro 4, Motion, Adobe Photoshop CS3 and Adobe After Effects CS3. In addition all the suites have iLife'08 that includes iDVD, iMovie HD, iPhoto, iWeb and GarageBand. For those working off site on their own laptops specific versions of each of these packages can be found at http://www.rcc.ryerson.ca/media/rccsoftwarefall08win09.pdf.Hardware in the three standard suites includes a Dual G5 2.3 GHz Apple Power Mac G5 with four gigs of RAM, two 400 GB SATA drives, an ATI X800XT 256MB graphics card, a Sony Q28A DL Super drive 16X, 10/100/1000 BaseTX Ethernet, one AJA Kona LS PCI Board and a Apple 20" Cinema Display. Hardware
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Colour Correction Non Linear Editing Suites RCC-236D (FCP 03), RCC-234B (FCP 11), RCC-234C (FCP 12), RCC-234D (FCP 13) and RCC-234E (FCP 14)  Like our standard suites the software in our five enclosed Colour Correction non-linear editing suites consist of advanced versions of both Apple's Final Cut Pro and ADOBE's CS3 software. Specifically the labs contain Final Cut Studio 2, QuickTime Pro 7.5, LiveType, SoundTrack Pro, Final Cut Studio 2 Audio Content 1-3, Compressor, Cinema Tools, Color, DVD Studio Pro 4, Motion, Adobe Photoshop CS3 and Adobe After Effects CS3. In addition all the suites have iLife'08 that includes iDVD, iMovie HD, iPhoto, iWeb and GarageBand. Again, for those working off site on their own laptops specific versions of each of these packages can be found at http://www.rcc.ryerson.ca/media/rccsoftwarefall08win09.pdf.Hardware in each Colour Correction suite includes a dual 2.8GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon (8-core) Mac Pro equipped with one 16x SuperDrive, 4GB of RAM, two 500GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s and one 320GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s hard drives, one Dual Channel 4Gb Fibre Channel PCI Express Card for X-SAN interconnectivity, one ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT 256MB complete with two dual-link DVI connections and a Apple Cinema 30" HD Display for operating Final Cut Studio 2. 
Specific to the suites are JL Cooper's Eclipse Color Grading Control Surfaces. These surfaces tie directly to Apple's Final Cut Studio's Color software and together they provide an advanced Colour Correction control environment. For monitoring the Colour Correction suites are equipped with additional grading monitors that consist of Matrox MXO scan converters that turn the rooms second Apple's 23-inch Cinema HD Display into an artifact-free, true-color video display that provides for a vertical refresh rate of 59.94 Hz. Hardware
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