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My final project as an undergraduate was a collaborative multimedia presentation done entirely on PowerMacs. Above is one of the posters, without the lettering. The audio and the video was created, synced, and mastered on several Macintoshes by myself and the other 3 involved in the project. The piece was 30 minutes exactly. We used Adobe Premiere to construct and manipulate the video, and Opcode's Vision and StudioVision Pro to compose the audio. The images were rendered with Photoshop, Knot, Mechanisto, and many more applications. We used the built-in video output of my Mac to output Quicktime movies at 320x240 (24-bit Cinepak at 30fps) to a Hi-Fi VHS master. Much of the audio was synced to the master along with the video, but we left silent passages for live sythesizers and a grand piano.
Despite the low resolution of the stock 8500 output, the final video was beautiful once it was projected on a large screen via an Eiki LCD projector. The pixelization was actually a positive effect. Of course, the original 24-bit Quicktime files were far better viewed at 2x resolution on my computer, but we had to take what we could get.
The project detailed a life cycle starting with the initial processes of birth and evolution and moving into the growth of technology until finally integration, exhaustion, and rebirth occur. Doing the technical production work in 10 weeks was difficult, but we managed to pull it off.
The other members of the project other than myself were Jeremy Whitaker, Andy Lin, and Sandy Johnson.
