Latest News
The Graphics Workshop is going 64-bit!
We are in the process of upgrading all our PC workstations to 64-bit Windows 7. This will provide significant improvements in performance and allow us to install native 64-bit versions of Photoshop, Premiere Pro and After Effects.
New platform for Streaming Media/Podcasting Service
After six successful years being hosted on a Mac Pro, the Streaming Media and Podcasting services have been transferred to an Apple Xserve server. Located in the Computer Services machine room, the new server is equipped with a professional tape backup system. This new hardware platform will provide much improved performance, reliability and security.
The specification of the new server is as follows:
Server: Xserve with quad Xenon CPU, 6Gb of RAM, 4TB of disk space in RAID5 configuration.
Tape backup system: LT0-5 tape drive with Retrospect 8 software.
The old system will remain in service for development purposes.
Adobe Creative Suite Production Premium CS5
Now available on PC and Mac, the Production Premium suite includes the latest versions of Premiere Pro, After Effects, Encore DVD and Soundbooth.
Blu-ray writing facilites
Users can now burn Blu-ray disks of movies edited in Premiere Pro or archive up to 50GB's worth of data on dual-layer disks.
New Macintosh facilities
We now have 24" and 27" iMacs running the latest Adobe and Apple graphics software, including the Design Premium CS5 and Production Premium CS5 suites and Final Cut Express.
Adobe Creative Suite Design Premium CS5
We have just installed the Adobe Design Premium CS5 software suite, which includes:
- Photoshop CS5 Extended 64-bit
- Illustrator CS5 for drawing and illustration
- InDesign CS5 for professional document layouts
- Flash CS5 for animation and website design
- Dreamweaver and Fireworks CS5 for building web sites
- Acrobat 9 for creating and editing PDF files.
Autodesk 3ds max Design 2010
The latest version, aimed specifically at architects, of one of the most powerful integrated 3d modelling, animation, effects and rendering applications is now installed and ready for use.
Improved scanning facilities
Both Epson Expression 10000 A3 flatbed scanners are now networked, enabling convenient access from any workstation.