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If you have any questions, contact SOC Techline at soctechline@american.edu or call the Tech line at 202-885-3570.
REQUIRED
Adobe Premiere Pro: Sign up with your american.edu email address for the student discount.
RECOMMENDED
Storage:
Hard drives are used throughout the program, especially in production and editing courses. To start, it’s a good idea to have a 2 to 4 TB drive. SSD’s are preferred over regular hard drives because they are faster and more durable. For Bootcamp in the summer a small drive is all you need.
When you get into production in the fall, you will want to follow professional best practices. You’ll want at least two places to store your original media. That can be on two hard drives, a hard drive and the cloud, or just the cloud so long as you are sure that cloud storage is guaranteed. A third source (hard drive) will be used for editing your projects. That one should be the fastest SSD that you can afford.
Laptops:
Laptops for in-class and home use are recommended. We are a MacBook Pro house, but Adobe’s apps are great on PCs and Macs. There are several things to keep in mind when looking at laptops:
*Additional information: We have editing labs in McKinley that you can use for editing and other Adobe Suite apps. We also have editing suites in MPC (Media Production Center).
If you have any questions, contact SOC Techline at soctechline@american.edu or call the Tech line at 202-885-3570.