Facilities and Equipment
Equipment List Policy for Borrowing Equipment PDF of Agreement form for students
Production Equipment for Course Work
Students enrolled in FVD classes and individual projects have access to FVD production equipment. Use of equipment by persons not currently enrolled in FVD classes or for projects that are not part of FVD course work is not permitted. See the FVD equipment policy.
Production equipment includes:
- Sync and non-sync sound 16mm film cameras
- 3 chip DV cameras and HDV cameras
- Sound recording devices such as minidisc recorders, DAT recorders, solid state recorders and a nagra.
- Microphones for various applications
- Lighting equipment: hard and soft light kits, fresnels and an HMI
- Grip and camera support equipment including fluidhead tripods, a doorway dolly and track, a jib and various camera mounts.
Production workshops for courses are frequently conducted in the Duke Recording Studios in the basement of the Bryan Center.
Other Cameras for Checkout
Students not enrolled in FVD Production courses make checkout single chip DV cameras from the circulation desk at Lilly Library.
Post-Production Facilities
Students enrolled in FVD classes have exclusive access to the FVD edit labs. These include analogue 16mm editing tables and a Moviola flatbed as well as individual digital editing project studios with digitizing decks, external NTSC production monitors and Apple G5s running Final Cut Pro Production Suite, After Effects and Photoshop. In addition, FVD maintains a dedicated digital editing lab with Final Cut Pro editing stations in the basement of the Bryan Center. Students enrolled in FVD classes are able to check out keys to these edit suites and labs, providing them 24/7 access to these facilities.
Students who take a course that meets in the Smith Arts Warehouse, near East Campus on Buchanan Avenue, have access to this state of the art multimedia center.
Other Editing Facilities on Campus
- OIT Multimedia Project Studio on West Campus (Old Chem Building 016)
- OIT Multimedia Project Studio on East Campus (Lilly Library 116)