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CDIA hosts free FCP update workshops for Students and Alumni

February 16, 2010 This month, CDIA's Waltham campus is upgrading the Final Cut Studio Suite of applications from Version 6 to Version 7. According to our Digital Filmmaking faculty, powerful new features have been added to Final Cut Pro 7 - including more time saving improvements and new collaboration tools. In order to make the transition to the new version smooth and effective, CDIA will be offering 2 free workshops to help guide our community with some of the Read On...

Audio Production

Pro Tools 8 is Among Us

March 2, 2009 One of the bigger stories in the pro audio world this year has been the long-awaited release of ProTools  8, the first major upgrade to Digi’s flagship software in years. At a recent Pro Tools User Group meet at Parsons Audio (www.paudio.com) I saw a demo of the new platform. I had seen the mag articles and accompanying screenshots of the new release, but seeing it in person I was struck by the sleek new UI and, honestly, how much it r Read On...

Audio Production

More Than Just Luck of the DAW

February 9, 2009 CDIABU Audio students are lucky to be exposed to several DAWs (industry jargon for Digital Audio Workstations). Too often individuals, and even institutions, put all their eggs in one basket, choosing to focus on one particular tool to the exclusion of all others. For some people, the debate about the relative merits of different DAWs becomes passionate to the point of zealotry. Think Mac vs. PC or analog vs. digital for a sense of the strength o Read On...

3D Animation

Keeping My Website Up to Date

December 29, 2008 A common complaint among 3D artists is about our website and demo reel: “Well, my website is out of date because I haven’t had time to make new pages recently,” or “I put a demo reel together last month, and it’s already out-of-date, but I don’t want to take the time to make a new one yet.” It seems that artists’ professional representation – their website and demo reel, what other artists, en Read On...

3D Animation

Rendering with mental ray

October 30, 2008 So who likes rendering? Who likes rendering with mental ray®? Everyone’s hands went down, I know it. Okay, admittedly mental ray is not the easiest, friendliest renderer out there, but once you get to know it, it is one of the most robust, tweakable, powerful renderers (as well as one of the most prevalent) in the industry. And hey! It comes free with every copy of Maya, so it’ll also save you a few thousand bucks towa Read On...