facilities

Students who major in Cinema have access to University-owned media equipment. Generally, Cinema students may borrow audio, video & filmmaking equipment to complete classroom assignments. The loan period is normally 3-7 days.

In addition, students are strongly encouraged (but not required) to purchase basic sound/image gathering & editing tools. Useful equipment includes: DV camcorder with external handheld microphone & firewire cable, headphones, handheld light meter, Apple Mac computer with video editing software, and other software as appropriate to support their area of interest. Cinema technical staff can help recommend equipment and software for incoming students. (Call 607-777-6345)

Facilities

MEDIA EQUIPPED CLASSROOMS (16mm theatrical projection in 90 seat cinema,
video & data projection, 16mm interlock film projection, small screening classrooms)

ARTMAKING STUDIO & PERFORMANCE SPACES (rear projection screen, lighting, background/set materials, sound isolation, blue-screen)

DIGITAL NON-LINEAR AUDIO & VIDEO EDITING LABS (Computer image manipulation & DVD creation using Mac G5 Quad and Dual core computers with a variety of software including: Apple Final Cut Pro HD, DVD Studio Pro, Soundtrack Pro, Digidesign ProTools, Adobe Photoshop, After Effects, Motion. Lab equipped with HD monitor, video monitors, IEEE 1394 VCRs, Epson photo/negative/slide scanners, Wacom drawing tablets)

FILM EDITING (16mm and Super 8 film bench setups with film viewers and splicers, as well as 16mm Steenbeck 6-plate film editing flatbeds and light tables)

FILM PROCESSING LAB (student training lab for b/w motion picture developing)

IMAGE TRANSFER (transfer technology between different media types)

ANIMATION (film and computer animation)

OPTICAL PRINTING (JK Optical Printers, K-105, K103 Meritex controllers, 16/8 gates)

SOUND STUDIO (Digidesign ProTools & Apple Soundtrack Pro software, 16-channel Soundcraft audio mixer, analog & digital sound processing equipment, Marantz PMD-650 MiniDisc, Nagra, turntable, cassette, CD, 16mm Magnatech interlock dubbers)

DIGITAL STILL PHOTO LAB (Adobe Photoshop, Nikon Coolscan 5000 slide scanner, Epson R1800 & R800 color printers, Epson 4490 scanner)

equipment