Chapman University and DI

[Lucas Wilson]

Hi all,

I've forgotten whether this was on DVXUser or REDUser, but there was a thread awhile back about DI and what universities are doing what. I mentioned that Chapman University in Orange County, CA had installed two lab's worth of SCRATCH. This is for teaching students color correction, datacentric workflow, and really... the new direction of post production.

Today, one of our guys went down to OC and got their labs up and running so that classes can start next semester. I've attached a photo of one of the labs with all the computers running SCRATCH.

Just a proud day for me and wanted to share. :)

Cheers,

Lucas
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ASSIMILATE, Inc.
Los Angeles

[Tom Lowe]

Beautiful. Chapman is top rate.

[Michael Schrengohst]

I want to go back to college!

[Jeff Kilgroe]

And to think that when I was in college, the computer lab with the CD writer was the coolest place on earth. Then again, I was the envy of all my dorm mates with my 17" NEC monitor. :D

[Brook Willard]

It's finally up and running? That'd good news... I'm currently one of maybe 5 students who knows SCRATCH here.

Luki, do you know if the whole workflow [from the Spirit onwards...] is functional at this point? And whether or not they calibrated those monitors in the lab?

[Lucas Wilson]

It's finally up and running? That'd good news... I'm currently one of maybe 5 students who knows SCRATCH here.

Luki, do you know if the whole workflow [from the Spirit onwards...] is functional at this point? And whether or not they calibrated those monitors in the lab?

Hi Brook... SCRATCH definitely is up and running in both labs on all machines. I honestly don't know if the whole workflow is operational - I'm not the Chief Engineer there. :)

Monitors in the lab - don't know.

Best,

Lucas

[Brook Willard]

Hey, Lucas... they're all not licensed! I'm in the lab right now... ;)

[Simon Blackledge]

where are all the crt's!??!!!!! ;) very nice, well done.

[GlennChan]

Holy crap, and they have a Spirit 2K too...

[Brook Willard]

Yeah, we do. It doesn't work, though.

[Simon Blackledge]

someone spill the coffee again :biggrin:

[Thomas Mathai]

who runs all this equipment? Are students running the 2k Spirit?

[Brook Willard]

We have a tech who will handle threading and such [when it works]. We have a recent grad who handles dalies and each individual DP will handle their color in SCRATCH. It's unfortunate that we chose an inexperienced grad over a colorist with decades in the industry [many offered to work at the school...], but at least students will have a very hands-on approach.

As it stands, there are only about five students who have a handle on the workflow and who get into our main mix bays for color work.

[Lucas Wilson]

We have a tech who will handle threading and such [when it works]. We have a recent grad who handles dalies and each individual DP will handle their color in SCRATCH. It's unfortunate that we chose an inexperienced grad over a colorist with decades in the industry [many offered to work at the school...], but at least students will have a very hands-on approach.

As it stands, there are only about five students who have a handle on the workflow and who get into our main mix bays for color work.

Brook, A couple of things:

1) Talk to Todd. He has all the licenses, just may not have distributed them yet.

2) You have a Spirit4K, not a Spirit2K. BIG difference!

3) Cut your school a little slack. They have taken a HUGE step that - honestly - no other school in the world has done right now. Might take a semester or two to work out the kinks. But I know they are serious about it and serious about making it work. :)

Lucas
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ASSIMILATE, Inc.
Los Angeles

[Scott Webster]

Mother of God a school has a Spirit 4k and room full of Scratch work stations...

Brook, New Zealand professional post houses would give up limbs to access that hardware!

[Brook Willard]

Brook, A couple of things:

1) Talk to Todd. He has all the licenses, just may not have distributed them yet.

2) You have a Spirit4K, not a Spirit2K. BIG difference!

3) Cut your school a little slack. They have taken a HUGE step that - honestly - no other school in the world has done right now. Might take a semester or two to work out the kinks. But I know they are serious about it and serious about making it work. :)

Lucas
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ASSIMILATE, Inc.
Los Angeles

I'll talk to Todd today, thanks for the heads up.

Of course it's a 4K, don't worry, I'm aware. :) We just only have the pipes in place for 2K. It'll be great in the future when they upgrade.

Trust me, I'm cutting them a lot of slack. Any sense of entitlement or bitter feelings I'm conveying essentially stem from jealousy for the newer students. I'm graduating in May, which is just about when these things will start working. Throughout the DCFMA construction we [seniors] were assured that we would have one full year of access to all of the new equipment. The Spirit and SCRATCH systems were always just a few days away from functioning properly. I've now taken four classes and shot three films that were promised a full 2K online workflow at the school. Every class as come up short thus far [never had anything scanned, only one class got us into SCRATCH] and all of the films are still negatives in a box. We haven't even seen the footage because we were told not to budget for telecine or scanning because it would all be taken care of at school.

So that's why I seem a little miffed about it. Trust me, I'm thrilled that we have access to all of these great pieces of equipment. The problem is that they don't work and the school isn't keeping their promises due to improper planning. It'll work out for all of the other students - they'll have time with the equipment. But the seniors who were promised a year on the new equipment? We'll get nothing... just higher tuition and little [if anything] in return for it. The clock is ticking for all students, it's a given. It just seems that my class's time has run out.