Discussion of Art in Education - Round 2

So this is just a quick post, while I'm in a computer lab, working on a FinalCut project. I think it's so important to have these labs around - because otherwise, a class like my computer graphics class, would not have the ability to continue. I'm working a project with a program called FinalCut, and for the project, we have to take still images or illustrations (from Photoshop or Illustrator) and create a three minute animation. Don't know if you anyone reading this has any idea how much time it takes to create a three minute movie from still images - but trust me on this one, it takes a long time, even after getting used to the very-fickle program.

Obviously the computers in my classroom for computer graphics, come equipped with all these Adobe programs and FinalCut (as well as others that we may need to use), but in order to work on all of our projects out of class, we either need to have the funds to shell out possibly thousands of dollars for a full Adobe Suite or we need access to labs like the one I'm sitting in now.