News/Events
Design Majors featured on CNN.com
Georgia State students from Stan Anderson's Advanced Typography course are being featured on CNN.com as part of this historical election with their typographical presidential portraits. Take a look! Many of these were created at the Digital Aquarium using our Graphic Design Tablets along with our Adobe Illustrator training and support.
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Join the Digital Aquarium's Facebook Group
Please join the Digital Aquarium Facebook Group, and invite GSU students, staff and faculty to do the same. We will use the Facebook Group to send out monthly announcements, such as our workshop schedules and event notices. It will also be a good way for media producers to network and collaborate on campus. You will need to be a member of the Georgia State University Group to be able to join.
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Podcasting Workshops now available
Into to Podcasting workshops are now available. Training will be provided for both Mac and PC platforms. See Schedule for more information
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New to the Digital Aquarium in Fall 2008 is a new external BluRay burner, Digi003 Audio contol board in our Audio Suite and 8 new powerful Mac Pros. Installed on each machine will be new software including; Roxio Titanium Toast 9 for burning discs and authoring DVDS, Reason 4 to program MIDI music, and Adobe After Effects CS3 used to generate motion graphics.
BluRay Burner Now Available
A new external BluRay burner drive is now available for student use within the lab. A BluRay disc can hold up to 25 gigabytes of information and can play high-definition content on an HD display or TV. Students must bring their own BluRay recordable discs.
Video Projectors Now Available
Students can now checkout video and PC projectors from the Digital Aquarium, for no charge. Students can check out a projector twice per month, for two days at a time. Projectors can be used on and off campus. Projectors are SVGA, not High Def. We suggest making reservations far in advance, as there are limited supplies.
New Epson Photo Printers
The Digital Aquarium has made available two Epson Ink Jet Photo printers for students. The Epson RS1800 and RS800 printers can handle up to 13"x19" paper, labels, transparencies, and other unique formats. Students must provide their own paper and or media. Students must bring the paper in its original packaging, so that we can verify its compatibility with the printer. There is no charge to use the printers. Limit 10 prints per student per day.
Nikon D-80 Now Available
For those students who are looking for advanced photo cameras, the Digital Aquarium now offers Nikon D-80 camera kits. The Nikon D-80 is a digital SLR camera, featuring a removable lens, manual exposure and focus controls, 25MB Raw resolution and 10MB JPEG. Students must take the Advanced Photo (D-80) workshop, before they can reserve the camera. Students can still checkout Sony Cybershot 10MB basic digital photo cameras, without a workshop from the Digital Aquarium. There are no charges to checkout cameras from the Digital Aquarium.
Sony High Definition Video Cameras Now Available
The Digital Aquarium has expanded its extremely successful camera checkout program by acquiring more Basic video cameras and adding new workshops on High Definition (HD) video production. The latest cameras are the Sony A1U HDV cameras, which are capable of shooting in both 1440x1080 HD and 720x480 standard definition (SD). The A1U cameras also have advanced built-in features, such as microphone inputs, manual exposure controls, and professional timecode controls.
Students interested in checking out the SONY A1U HDV cameras, must first attend the Digital Video 1 workshop, which covers the Canon GL2 camera, tripods and microphones. Then students can sign-up to take the HD workshop, titled Digital Video 3. The Digital Aquarium will continue to offer Digital Video 2 workshops for Canon XL1 training, though DV2 is not required to take DV3.