[seul-edu] Video Editing in Education

["Jason Mellen" <jmellen@intellikey.com>]

As the media guru in my school's tech program, I have been given a daunting new task. The tech teacher wants me to find a way to teach digital video editing to the students. We currently have a 12 machine win98 lab.

 

Several thoughts I have had to accomplish this:

1. Run a file server with Adobe Premiere on each lab machine.

Pros: Easy. Teaches popular software.

Cons: Slower than #*$@ trying to move video files, licensing issues

 

2. Run a Linux X/File server with boot disk X-terms on each client.

Pros: Open-source, fast (on server editing)

Cons: Very little software at the moment

 

What other thoughts can anyone come up with? I would really like to work with getting Linux working for this. There isn't really and *good* software as of yet. The matterial project will have an education module built in but that is months/years away.

 

I just wanted to see if anyone else has had this issue at their schools. Look forward to your thoughts.

 

jmellen 

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Jason Mellen

Palm Bay High School

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