High School Video Productions Teacher Help!

I teacher a high school video productions class, and we just upgraded to two iMacs and one macbook pro. How would I go about purchasing final cut x, compressor, and motion just once and be able to have it on all three machines ?

As a teacher you would contact Apple and get Educator status with them. Then inquire about those programs with a site license. You could start here:
http://www.apple.com/contact/

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I am a high school teacher. My district purchased the entire CC Suite. Where can I find a tutorial in book form to learn how to use your products? Do you all provide free book samples to teachers?

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Good day!
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In addition to what Ken said, I would suggest that you give Edge Animate a shot as well.
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These kids will be the tech crew for our popular Rock School program now in its 12th year. The crew kids will learn to run sound, live recording, lighting, stage set up, video production, culminating in the big concert every 3 months where they will run the show. They will shoot the video, record the sound, and after, edit the video with the audio track recorded and mixed from 24 track recorder. We are a bit new to video and need help with the best way to go about this......software.....curriculum. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

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Besides your contact with Adobe Customer Service as SG is suggesting, have you check out Adobe Education
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and the following Contact link within the above link might provide some telephone number for inquiry specific to your program choice.
At first glance, the above looks like it targets the higher end products. But, there may be Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements opportunities in there also.
Contact | Adobe
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Welcome to the forums.
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Head: Manfrotto 701HDV Fluid Head (just purchased)
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nice device.. not the latest, but a good 'working horse', esp. the pro-connector XLR for an ext. mic.
iMHD6 =fine, iMovie08/09 = no good..
iM08/09 has an odd behavior handling interlaced input.. to make it short: in usual use, resolution will drop by half on export ..
*FCE learning curve* = steem! but manageable and, with the little help of a book of FC-mastermind Tom Wolfsky (amazon..) you are a pro within weeks..
with some skills and imagination, you can give your projects some 'pro attitude' - but, be warned: FCE is NO 'one click done' solution as iM! no templates, themes, ready-mades ..
*better DVD software?* - DVDSP, part of FCP=$$$$ .. but better for your needs? may I recommend my own site about 'modding' iDVD-menus: http://sites.google.com/site/idvdmodding/
*superdrive wear-out?* yes, yes, YES! these slot-ins are not meant for 'mass production'. get any ext. DVD-burner - done.
we read reports, Verbatim disks work perfectly with 4x (some say 8x) speed ..
*catching noise* - rule#1 in audio-recording: you never can come too close.. consider 'poor man's 2nd unit': get any cheap miniDV-camcorder with a good/excellent ext-mic; put this as 'audio recorder' as close as possible to subjects; use the audio-track only of that device ..
professional solution: mics attached to each performer, mixer.. = $$$$

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