USC School of Cinema-Television Reaches Milestone With Opening of Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts.Business, Lifestyle & Entertainment Editors LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 1, 2001 Country's First and Only Fully Digital Training Facility Made Possible Through Generous Support of Hollywood Community One of the most ambitious projects in the USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. School of Cinema- Television's history will culminate with the March 1 opening of the state-of-the-art Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts. Launched by a generous gift from alumnus ALUMNUS, civil law. A child which one has nursed; a foster child. Dig. 40, 2, 14. and Academy Award(TM)- winning director Robert Zemeckis, the center is the country's first and only fully digital training center. The 35,000-square-foot facility, located across from the Shrine Auditorium The Shrine Auditorium is a landmark large-event venue in Los Angeles, California, USA. It is also the headquarters of the Al Malaikah Temple, a division of the Shriners. in downtown Los Angeles' revitalized Figueroa Corridor, houses the latest in nonlinear production and post-production equipment, as well as production stages, a 50-seat screening room and the USC student-run television station, Trojan Vision. "The opening of the Zemeckis Center is a milestone in the School of Cinema-Television's evolution, further enriching the curriculum with the most advanced tools in digital filmmaking," said Dean Elizabeth Daley. "We are deeply grateful to Robert Zemeckis and all of our donors for ensuring that our students stay ahead of the curve in the new technology of storytelling." Designed to offer students hands-on experience with the latest industry-standard technology, the center is highlighted by an expansive digital editing laboratory with 60 of Avid's recently released Xpress DV systems. The new Xpress system features a high-performance IBM IntelliStation M-Pro workstation with Avid video editing software Video editing software is application software which handles the editing of video sequences on a computer. It usually includes the ability to import and export video, cut and paste sections of a video clip, and add special effects and transitions; and it sometimes includes the and digital distribution options for publishing to the Internet, CD and DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. . Joining Avid, other corporate contributors to the Zemeckis Center include Alias Wavefront Noun 1. wavefront - (physics) an imaginary surface joining all points in space that are reached at the same instant by a wave propagating through a medium wave front , Apple, Canopus Corp., Digital Theater Systems Inc., Intel Corp., Kodak, Lucent Technologies, Niagara Broadband, Philips Broadcast, Pinnacle Systems, Quantel, Rorke Data, Softopia, Silicon Graphics, Sony Corp., Ultimatte, Vicon and Zuma Networks. "I am thrilled to share in the first educational venture to embrace all aspects of digital production, leading filmmakers from concept through completion," said Zemeckis. "Our goal is to offer the next generation of USC Cinema-Television students a new palette of technical tools with which to enhance the vision and scope of their storytelling." The Zemeckis Center also boasts an impressive array of visual effects equipment, including blue and green screen technology, digital stages with motion control computers, CGI CGI in full Common Gateway Interface. Specification by which a Web server passes data between itself and an application program. Typically, a Web user will make a request of the Web server, which in turn passes the request to a CGI application program. classrooms and digital compositing equipment, such as a Quantel Edit Box special effects workstation. Among the other state-of-the-art features are: five studio-quality sound stages; nonlinear digital shooting systems; multimedia cable connections; a screening room with 16mm, 35mm and digital production capabilities and a THX A design system that provides realistic sound playback for movie and home theater from THX, Ltd., San Rafael, CA (www.thx.com), an independent spin-off from Lucasfilm, Ltd. The THX Sound System was developed during the production of the Return of the Jedi in 1982 and named after George sound system; and a Pro Tools station for audio editing. In addition, the Zemeckis Center is home to the Trojan Vision programming and production offices, which include two sound stages, a broadcast-quality control booth, suites for digital sound and picture editing, and more. Following Zemeckis' lead, fellow alumnus George Lucas contributed funds toward the Akira Kurosawa digital sound stage, as well as a CGI/advanced media classroom. Steven Spielberg helped fund both a digital studio honoring Stanley Kubrick and an additional CGI/advanced media classroom. Other notable contributions include a multicamera sound stage funded by David Geffen; the Universal Studios Motion Control and Performance Capture Library; the Ron Howard Screening Room; the John Wells Advanced Media Classroom; the David Kirschner Family Visual Effects Studio; the Warner Bros BROS Brothers BROS Benefits and Retirement Operations Section (King County, Washington) BROS Barnes and Richmond Operatic Society (London, UK) . Advanced Media Classroom; the 20th Century Fox Conference Room and Lounge; the Creative Artists Agency Creative Artists Agency (CAA) is a talent and literary agency which represents a vast array of actors, musicians, writers, directors, and athletes, as well as a variety of companies and their products. Reception Center; the William Morris Agency Founded in 1898, the William Morris Agency is the largest diversified talent and literary agency in the world, with offices in New York City, Beverly Hills, Nashville, Miami, London, and Shanghai. Green Room; the Scott Sassa Family Television Control Room; the Stone Stanley Entertainment Stone Stanley Entertainment was an American television production company founded by TV producers David G. Stanley and Scott A. Stone, who both began their careers working at Lorimar-Telepictures (then Telepictures) in the 1980s. Patio; and the Tokyo University of Technology Digital Systems Laboratory. As the top-rated school for cinema and television in the country ranked by US News and World Report, USC offers degrees in five areas: animation and digital arts, critical studies, film and television production, producing and writing. The School of Cinema-Television is the oldest of its kind, founded in 1929 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and continues to maintain close ties to the industry. Other prominent alumni include Conrad Hall, Michelle Manning, Bill Mechanic, Gary Rydstrom, Neal Moritz, John Singleton, David Wolper and Laura Ziskin. |
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