I am currently attending college for computer science. As for programming language, I have 4 months of experience in Python and about the same amount for Visual Basic. I am enrolled for c++ this Spring Semester.
I’m quite familiar with Windows PC’s, and I love to edit videos! It became a hobby in 8th grade, then later in high school I learned Vegas Pro and some Adobe programs. Up to this day I still use Vegas Pro and it’s been my main tool for expressing my creativity.
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Wonderful!
Seriously consider the field of CGI. It might be a good match with all your interests. An excellent way to find out would be to get to one of the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) conventions or Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE). The people manning the booths are quite knowledgeable and there to talk about what they’re doing. They can be great referrals to other people in their companies who could talk to you about what the work environment and requirements are like, and the conventions are a very exciting environment all on their own. Ask about internships or summer positions. The whole industry is about who you know, so collecting a Rolodex file of names can be extremely useful later.
I don’t know the conventions for animation. My interests were strictly editing in those days, so there have to be a number of professional associations more clearly directed to your interests, which I’m sure your professors know about, but conventions give a perfect place to network.
Here at home I used to work in Avid until we ran into a known problem with the system turning into molasses. Then we switched to Premier. I don’t like it as much, but at least it works. Originally, when we took early retirement from IBM Research, I worked off my husband’s handwritten edit controller.
At IBM Research my husband built a video studio around my magazine, and wrote his own edit controller and router, the latter of which he presented at SMPTE. Before that, we worked off the consoles of two 1” broadcast machines. We used to attend the conventions and I wrote a white paper on non-linear editors that got me a lot of introductions around the field and back in Hollywood. Fascinating, but not my world.
You are going to have such an amazing career ahead of you, whatever it is you choose to do!