The equipment is housed in the Rice Media Center. The change in production has been dramatic, said Brian Huberman, professor of art and art history. Video projects used to require students to spend long hours tediously making changes. Waiting for the changes could take up to a week. Now, in at least one case, Huberman found himself standing over the control console of the digital equipment while a student seated at the computer made changes almost as fast as the professor suggested them.
Students can have much greater control of the image.
It is like working in a professional post-production house. Huberman credits Judith Brown, dean of the School of Humanities, as the driving force behind the acquisition of the new equipment. The equipment consists of computers, scanners, video players and editing decks capable of transforming a standard video analog signal into a digitized format that can be read and manipulated by computer software. The digital equipment is housed in two rooms in the Rice Media Center. One room is primarily for editing and digitizing video, while the second room is for media studies.