I’m currently enrolled in a CAMS production class, how can I get Adobe Creative Cloud, including Premiere Pro?
Please follow installation instructions and email helpdesk@carleton.edu for assistance with Creative Cloud licensing and installation.
Install on your computer the same version of Premiere as is in the computer labs. If you install a version of Premiere on your own machine newer than what’s on lab computers, and your computer breaks, you won’t be able to resume editing on lab machines.
What headphones/hard drive/SD cards do you recommend for purchasing?
We’ve written an article on exactly this topic, which can be found on our CAMS Wiki: Recommendations for Purchases
Where can I watch videos made by CAMS students?
Visit the Carleton CAMS Vimeo channel to watch videos that have been produced by students in CAMS production classes since Fall 2011.
Do I have OneCard access in the Weitz?
The Weitz is accessible by OneCard to all students, faculty, and staff on campus from 7:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m. (midnight) on a daily basis. Students in CAMS Production Classes have additional access to the following spaces:
- All production students: The Computer Lab (Weitz 138)
- Advanced production students and senior majors: Advanced Edit (Weitz 134)
- All students in CAMS classes with cinema screenings: The cinema during screening times.
I can’t remember how to use a certain piece of equipment/software!
Carleton maintains an unlimited license to LinkedIn Learning (formerly known as lynda.com), free for current students, staff, and faculty. Tutorials are available for Adobe Premiere Pro, Audition, After Effects, Photoshop, and more. Sign in with your Carleton user name and password and start learning right away!
You can also visit our new CAMS Wiki. This wiki is a resource built by Production Office and contains quick-start guides, links to manuals, and more in-depth how-to’s.
Do you have any advice about buying a personal computer?
Start by reading this ITS article, “Purchasing a Personal Computer: Advice and Resources.” If you’re wondering whether a computer will run Adobe Premiere (used extensively in CAMS production classes) consider the current Premiere Pro system requirements. Email helpdesk@carleton.edu for assistance buying a computer.
My computer is running out of storage and I need help figuring out how to manage that.
This happens easily. Drives work best with 30% or more free space. And if you’re starting a term with a production class, you’ll want more room than that. Video footage will take up around 10-15 GB of space per hour you shoot. As you review your computer’s contents, think carefully about what needs to be on your computer’s hard drive, what can be thrown away, and what deserves to be backed up.
Perhaps it’s helpful to think about final products —videos you’ve made or papers you’ve written, for instance. Do they deserve to live locally and in the cloud, each one as a backup to the other? Speak with your instructor about how long they recommend you keep raw footage.
Look critically at all the software installed —are there any applications you don’t need any longer? Use your operating system’s search tool. Look for files larger than one GB or even ten GB — dealing with the largest files first will make room quickly. Look for files such as .zip or .dmg. If you’ve got what you need from them, you might not need them any longer.
How do I log into Imagen?
Visit imagencloud.carleton.edu/site/login, look for the Organization sign in, and click the yellow “Log in with Carleton Single Sign On” button.
Watch the video Getting started in Imagen for more information.
(For faculty) How do I get my class set up to use Imagen?
1. Log into The Hub, look under “Faculty Course Resources,” and request a Google Group for each term’s section of each class for which you’d like to use Imagen. The Hub request triggers something different from making a Google Group of your own.
2. Let me or Dann know so one of us can take a few more back-end steps in Imagen.
When both of these things have happened for a given term and section of a course, students currently registered for it will automatically be added to a group in Imagen or removed from it, if they drop the course. If you want students in the course to see a piece of media on Imagen, use the Edit Record –> Privacy function to give the group permission to view that media record. The group will be named by the convention COURSE_CAMS 000.00 (Carleton Single Sign-On).
Why can’t I…
Why can’t I…
- take an SD card out of a camera or computer while it’s on?
- unplug an external hard drive from a computer?
- change lenses while a camera is on?
- plug or unplug a mic while phantom power is on?
There’s a theme here. Each of these things risks making your data unreadable, damaging the equipment, or both.
Computers have a command called Eject or Unmount that lets computer and SD card or external hard drive finish talking with one another graciously before you physically disconnect them. This way of saying goodbye protects your data and card or drive. Modern lenses have microprocessing built in. They can be damaged.
Phantom power is a tiny amount of current that flows from a camera, recorder, or audio interface to a mic. When that current is still flowing and the mic is unplugged, it can damage the mic.